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When eighteen-year-old Charlie West finds the one person who knows what happened to him a year earlier, he learns that remembering is painful as well as dangerous, and figuring out what to do with the new knowledge may be his toughest challenge yet.

While Logan and his friends, leaders of the Markless revolution, face Chancellor Cylis's army, the Dust seeks a cure for an epidemic sweeping through the Marked, Logan's sister Lily's allegiance remains unclear, and climatic changes become ever more threatening.

In 1871, Ned, an upper-class young Connecticut man who recently did a stint as a buffalo skinner out West gets accused of setting off a bomb at a labor rally with a dance hall girl and a fourteen-year-old coal miner and flees with them across the country, becoming witnesses of a nation in transition.

The Cowboy Bebop team--a group of bounty hunters on a future world--encounters a Robin Hood brand of outlaw determined to thwart corrupt tax policies; is faced with the return of the Scorpion; and runs into more trouble when Ed messes with a police satellite.

When a huge bounty is placed on his head, Vash, a gunslinging pacifist, can't seem to get away from the double-crossing, money-grubbing, trigger-happy men who are after him.

Presents two novels by Joseph Conrad, "Heart of Darkness", in which Marlow experiences the depths of moral depravity as he travels through a dangerous jungle, and "The Secret Sharer", which recounts a young sea captain's first command through the Gulf of Siam, where he must face the demons of his unconscious mind.

Contains "Heart of Darkness" in which an English trading company sends a sea captain to find a renegade trader who has become mad with greed and power over the natives in the Congo; and includes three short stories, an introduction to author, questions, and suggestions for further reading.

After violating his parole, seventeen-year-old, semi-literate Dylan Dawson drives from California to Texas to try to see his father on death row in an attempt to figure out how his own life has gone so terribly awry.

Henry is a lonely and friendless teenager and spends most of his time watching television, reading, and day-dreaming as he keeps his emotionally fragile, long-divorced mother company.

"When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of the Third Reich, Adolf Eichmann, the operational manager of the Final Solution, shed his SS uniform and vanished.

Nine-year-old Ali, a beggar living in the Dark Lands city of al-Balat, crosses paths with exiled Logan Langly, Chancellor Cylis, and the fierce battle for power that spans reality and the virtual world.

Crater Trueblood, doubting the justice of the war he fights and the evil of enemies he was trained to hate, brings Crescent, an apparently female Crowhopper, to Moontown as his prisoner but soon both are fugitives, fleeing prejudice and cruelty in hostile territory.

Alex Sawyer has escaped his underground nightmare to discover that the whole world has become a horrible prison run by his nemesis, Alfred Furnace, and only Alex can stop him, even if that makes him the executioner.

Spike, Jet, Faye, and Ed are members of a band of interplanetary bounty hunters who will do anything for money.

Presents the account of the ten-year pursuit of bin Laden and the twilight of al-Qaeda, based on research and access to White House officials, CIA analysts, Pakistani intelligence, and the military.