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Transylvania, 1890. Mina and her allies have found the Transylvanian countryside dotted with empty villages and whispers of monsters who wear human skin. As Mina prepares for the final showdown with her fiance's abductors, the last descendants of the supernatural Draculesti family...she discovers her own shocking connection to the hidden world of vampires.

London, 1890. Mina Murray once lived an adventurous life, but after a tragedy in the forests of Transylvania, she left it all behind. Now she has settled into a quiet routine as a schoolteacher in London, engaged to the respectable solicitor Jonathan Harker, attempting to fit into the stuffy upper class London society to which he belongs. But when vampires abduct Jonathan, her dark past comes careening into her present.

A Doll's House, published in 1879, was the earliest of Ibsen's "social dramas", and the first of his works to attract attention outside of Scandinavia. The central theme of the play is a woman's right to individual self-development, and represents, as humourist Stephen Leacock observed of many Ibsen plays, "a profound problem stated but not solved".

The Waste Land by T. S Eliot is narrated by Danielle Cohen and Denis Daly. Eliot's cross-cultural epic poem, first published in 1922, remains one of the most challenging poems in the English language. It is dedicated to Eliot's mentor, Ezra Pound. Like Pound, Eliot reveled in drawing allusions and quotations from a vast body of world literature.

Considered a troublesome burden, Evelyn Talbot is banished by her family to their remote country house. Tall Chimneys is outmoded and inconvenient, but Evelyn is determined to save it from abandonment or demolition. The woman and the house shore each other up - until love comes calling, threatening to pull them asunder. Her desertion will spell its demise, but saving Tall Chimneys could mean sacrificing her hope for happiness, even sacrificing herself. A century later, a distant relative crosses the globe to find the house of his ancestors.

Making his way to a tryst with his "dark lady" near the royal palace the young playwright William Shakespeare encounters a mysterious woman in a cloak. Mistaking her for his lady friend, he accosts her in a familiar fashion, only to discover, to his dismay, that she is in fact the queen. He overcomes his initial discomfort, and takes advantage of the situation to make a petition for royal support to establish a national theatre.

In 1952, Jean Clarke arrives in a smog-drenched London to assist her brother, Harry, whose pregnant wife Phyllis has gone missing. The siblings have been estranged and, unbeknownst to Harry, Jean's offer of help hides a deeper secret: Jean had fled her marriage. Harry's search through the smog leads to an old acquaintance: a young man of sexually ambiguous nature. Harry might be more responsible for Phyllis's disappearance than he would like to admit.

Human extinction is inevitable - there is no going back. The pox spread quickly, within weeks everyone was dead - everyone except Harper McKenzie. Barely 15, Harper is an orphan, but a true survivor - life made her that way. An autistic loner, suffering years of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her alcoholic mother, Harper seems remarkably undamaged, but can anyone hope to survive a lifetime of isolation without descending into madness?

Eve of Tomorrow brings to a conclusion the story of Gabby and Dawn, two English sisters thrust into the forefront of rebellion in the new world. Set in a distant future laid waste by change and conflict, Gabby and Dawn discover their parents among the Americans and pledge to fight alongside their countrymen seeking safety and freedom. The Republic of Texas has been defeated, but its doomsday weapon has fallen into the wrong hands.

The Master has achieved her goal. Finally she has the Viking in her world. She gave them no other choice. She knew that the Viking and his companions would try to rescue James and Charlotte. The race to save them will take place in a strange and unfamiliar world. Peter, George, Granddad and the others must find their way to the Master's lair, battle new enemies and bring their friends back safely. Who lives in the strange forest? What lurks in the great cave system? Find out in Journey to the Other Side.

Sword thought it was over. She thought that when she killed the Chancellor and ended the corrupt reign of the Emperor, that everything would get better. That the suffering would end in Ansborn. That the people would be free. But now a new terror has been born. A trio of warriors who live only for vengeance, who know only hate, have set their sights on Sword and on those she holds dear. They are powerful, they are deadly, and they are impossible to kill.

She is a Dog - one of the many children and teens across the empire of Ansborn who have been sentenced to fight in the arenas. There they fight in battle after battle until they die for the sport of the people of Ansborn - an empire built atop the peaks of five mountains. But one day she picks up a knife, and everything changes. She discovers she is a Greater Gift - one of a handful of magic users with powers so great they have only two choices.

Safety is an illusion. We're back to where we started - two sisters living under a government we can't trust. The rest of our friends are either dead or missing. Texas should be our haven, our escape from the British. But what if we've traded one prison for another?

A remote island in the South Pacific plays host to a dozen strangers. One of them is a murderer. They will live together for a year, work and build a community, and film everything that happens for a documentary. Almost at once, things begin to go wrong. They are meant to be strangers, but some of them have met before. They are meant to receive regular visits by the company funding the documentary, but nobody ever comes. And their only link with the outside world - a small portable radio transmitter - is incapable of transmitting anything....

My name is Dawn Nolan, and I've grown up on the streets of military-controlled London. The one person in my life I could always count on has been taken from me. Gabby is combative, pushy, a real pain - but she's the reason I've survived this long. She's my sister. And now she's gone.

> "W & X" Things is a learning book for beginning and young listener by best-selling children's book author R. Barri Flowers. In a fun and educational manner with rhymes, this 23rd in a children's A to Z book series teaches kids about different things that begin with the letters W and X that are both a part of everyday life and not as well known.

"Z" Things is a learning book for beginning and young listeners by best-selling children's book author R. Barri Flowers. In a fun and educational manner with rhymes, this 25th in a children's A to Z book series teaches kids about different things that begin with the letter Z that are both a part of everyday life and not as well known.

"Y" Things is a learning book for beginning and young listeners by internationally best-selling children's book author R. Barri Flowers. In a fun and educational manner with rhymes, this 24th in a children's A to Z book series teaches kids about different things that begin with the letter Y that are both a part of everyday life and not as well known.

The Master's plan has been foiled, her army weakened, but her resolve hardened. The Master returns to Campbell's Cove to get revenge on those who thwarted her plans. She has Tolldruck and the fearless Shifter at her side. After saving the children of the Cove Peter and George once again face danger. Together with Peter's Granddad, and the guardians, they must battle evil once more. Will they succeed or will the Master have her revenge?

In a fun and educational manner with rhymes, this 22nd in a children's A to Z book series teaches kids about different things that begin with the letter V that are both a part of everyday life and not as well known.