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Volume
1
Earliest Publication Date
2004
Graphic Novel
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Volume
2
Earliest Publication Date
2005
Graphic Novel
Not Owned
Summary
Contains adaptations of eight stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, presented in black-and-white cartoon form.
4) H. G. Wells
Volume
3
Earliest Publication Date
2005
Graphic Novel
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Summary
Adaptations of eight stories by H.G. Wells, including The War of the Worlds and The Illustrated Man, illustrated by a variety of artists.
Volume
10
Earliest Publication Date
2004
Graphic Novel
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Summary
Presents graphic-novel-style adaptations of eleven classic short horror stories by such authors as Edgar Allan Poe, W. W. Jacobs, Saki, and Jack London.
Author
Volume
13
Earliest Publication Date
2006
Graphic Novel
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Summary
Great tales of mystery, plus swashbuckling adventure with Captain Blood!"--Cover.
Volume
22
Earliest Publication Date
2011
Graphic Novel
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Summary
"Twenty-three stories and poems by America's earliest black authors, illustrated by contemporary black artists including: authors, Langston Hughes [et al.]; adaptations, Alex Simmons, Christopher Priest, Mat Johnson; illustrators, Afua Richardson [et al.]"--Cover p. [4].
Author
Earliest Publication Date
1905
Book
Checked Out
Audiobook CD
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Summary
In this classic adventure novel, first published in 1873, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a 20,000 pound wager set by his friends at the Reform Club - and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman and his manservant immediately set off.
Author
Earliest Publication Date
1980
Graphic Novel
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Summary
In London, 1872, a man named Phileas Fogg makes a bet with his friends that he can travel across the entire planet in eighty days. The wager? More than half his sizable fortune -- and the exact same amount of money that was stolen from a nearby bank a day earlier. Fogg hastily departs in the company of Passepartout, his personal attendant, on a journey that will take the two men all over the wide world by way of every known means of transportation....
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2008
Graphic Novel
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Online Content
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Summary
Presents in graphic novel format the adventures of Peter Pan, the boy who would never grew up.
14) King Lear
Earliest Publication Date
1917
Book
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eBooks
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Kindle
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Summary
Shakespeare everyone can understand-now in new DELUXE editions! Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to line-by-line translations in plain English, these popular guides make Shakespeare accessible to everyone. They introduce Shakespeare's world, significant plot points, and the key players. And now they feature expanded literature guide sections that help students study smarter, along with links to bonus content on...
15) Moby Dick
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2007
Graphic Novel
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Summary
Ishmael's dream of adventure on a whaling ship becomes a nightmare as the voyage turns into a struggle for survival. Captain Ahab, maimed by a monster whale, is obsessed with revenge. As the crew discovers, he is willing to risk everything to destroy the whale.
16) Moby Dick
Author
Earliest Publication Date
1926
Book
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Audiobook CD
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Playaway
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Summary
?Call me Ishmael? is the iconic opening line of Herman Melville?s classic American novel, Moby-Dick. Ishmael is a seaman aboard the whaling vessel, Pequod, under the vengeful captain, Ahab. Maniacally seeking retribution from the great white sperm whale called Moby-Dick--the whale responsible for the captain?s missing leg--Ahab leads the crew on a quest to kill the infamous beast.
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2013
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Summary
Native American Classics presents great stories and poems from America's earliest indigenous writers. Featured are "The Soft-Hearted Sioux" by Zitkala-Sa "On Wolf Mountain" by Charles Eastman, "How the White Race Came to America" by Handsome Lake, and seven more tales of humor and tragedy. Also eight poems, including Alex Posey's "Wildcat Bill" and E. Pauline Johnson's "The Cattle Thief." The volume is edited by Tom Pomplun, with noted Native American
...18) Peter Pan
Earliest Publication Date
1950
Book
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Board Book
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Audiobook CD
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Playaway
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eBooks
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Kindle
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Summary
Classic fiction. Neverland is home to Peter Pan, a young boy who has never grown up. On one of his visits to London, Peter makes the acquaintance of young Wendy Darling, whom he invites to travel with him to Neverland and become the mother of his gang of Lost Boys. Flying through the night sky to Neverland, Wendy and her brothers John and Michael soon become caught up in marvelous adventures with the Indian Princess Tiger Lily, the loyal fairy Tinker...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2007
Graphic Novel
Not Owned
Summary
Abandoned as a baby and raised in the cathedral of Notre Dame, the hunchback Quasimodo lives as an outcast. The arrival of the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda begins a tragic series of events marked by jealousy, betrayal, and murder.
20) The time machine
Earliest Publication Date
1964
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Audiobook CD
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Large Print
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eBooks
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Audiobook Cassette
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Summary
Man can move easily enough in the three dimensions of space - why not the fourth: Time? An intriguing after-dinner conversation takes an unexpected turn when the host produces a small machine, which promptly disappears into thin air. It has been sent into the future, he says. Or maybe the past. As his skeptical guests try to fathom what they have seen, the host unveils a full-size machine, nearing completion. At a similar gathering one week later...
