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"Threatened with destruction unless he fashions a wife for his Creature, Victor Frankenstein travels to England where he meets Mary and Kitty Bennet, the remaining unmarried sisters of the Bennet family from Pride and Prejudice. Meanwhile, the awkward Mary hopes that Victor will save her from approaching spinsterhood while wondering what dark secret he is keeping from her. [This book] fuses the gothic horror of Mary Shelley with the Regency romance of Jane Austen in a . . . novel that combines two age-old stories"--OCLC.

As he turns eleven years old, Max continues to exchange letters with his favorite author, from whom he receives some advice about writing a play and about coping with his mother's new boyfriend.

Seth drowns, and to his surprise, wakes up, in a strange, abandoned world that resembles a post-apocalyptic version of the town where he used to live.

An annotated edition of Jane Austen's novel about two sisters of opposing temperaments who share the pangs of tragic love as their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between them until true love finally triumphs.

Contains the complete text of Jane Austen's "Persuasion," in which Anne Elliot is persuaded by family and friends to send the charming and handsome Frederick Wentworth away, but regrets her decision when he returns years later with improved circumstances; along with hundreds of annotations, explanations of historical context, citations from the author's life and other writings, definitions, literary comments, and more.

In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.

Fifteen-year-old Kat schemes her way into the best boarding school, hoping to leave the thieving antics of her family behind her, but Hal, a former co-conspirator, appears on campus to tell Kat that a powerful mobster believes her father stole art from a priceless collection, and in order to save him, Kat will have to recover the paintings.

An illustrated geographic overview of England that describes its lands and waters, major cities, climate, people, transportation, wildlife, resources, and industries.

Novice wizard Harry Potter, now sixteen years old, begins his sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the midst of the battle between good and evil, which has heated up with the return of the Dark Lord Voldemort.

Thirteen-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl must join forces with his nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police, in order to save his father--one of the few people in the world Artemis loves--who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya.