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"Phileas Fogg's bet that he can span the world in eighty days takes him by train, ship, sled, and elephant across ninettenth-century India, China, and America in one of the wittiest, most enjoyable classics of all time."--P. [4] of cover.

In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity. Publisher description for "The road"--"A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape...

"When seventy-year-old Charlotte Perkins submits a sexy essay to the "Become a Jetsetter" contest, she dreams of reuniting her estranged children: Lee, an almost-famous actress; Cord, a handsome Manhattan venture capitalist who can't seem to find a bride; and Regan, a harried mother who took it all wrong when Charlotte bought her a Weight Watchers gift certificate for her birthday. Charlotte yearns for the years when her children were young and she...

Ron Pritchard sets off on a personal mission to the central south pacific, but inadvertently gets sidetracked into a situation where he faces a desperate struggle for survival. He later faces several dangers and certain death as he tries to save himself and his companions. A world-famous celebrity singer who is setting out to film a new music video for her new album release turns up missing, starting an international search for her rescue. She faces...

With her days of stay-at-home parenting wiling away forever, an anonymous author wonders what will come next. More years of the stale marriage that feels hopelessly stuck in habits and routine, only to add a passionless job on top? She just can't bear it. An idea comes from the ethers, a safe way to ignite her fire again without rocking the boat. Penning five books of moments and people from her past; she uses no names or way to tie the books back...

Two estranged friends embark on a cross country road trip on motorcycles. 17,764 miles, 80 days, 19 National Parks, 3 concerts, 1 bike rally, and 1 wedding. Will they make it home without killing each other?

The Aeneid, by Vergil, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies of contemporary...

A biography of Mary Fiorini-Lowell, (nee Mary Bourke), applauding her creative life. How did a young Mary - from southwest Victoria's country town of Koroit - attend a garden tea party at Buckingham Palace with the Queen, sing Waltzing Matilda at 2 am with Al Grassby, gain employment dubbing for the famous Gina Lollobrigida, perform in numerous radio plays and confidently hitchhike around Europe alone in the '50s? Born in 1925, ahead of her time,...

An uptight businessman faces disaster after disaster as he tries to get back home in time for his family's Thanksgiving dinner, and along the way is joined by an insane traveling salesman that will not leave him alone.

Bill Bryson, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail: 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular, and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, when the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek is his long-lost former friend Katz, a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer. "Nolte's...