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Jane Austen's stories of clever women, elusive love, and social mores have struck a chord with millions of fans who consider her work compelling, heartwarming, and essential. Adapted time and again for screen and stage, these enduring classics remain as enjoyable as ever. This elegant collection includes Austen's acclaimed novels Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey. Readers will be enchanted by the specially designed spines, custom endpapers, and six brilliant stories. Just like Jane Austen's memorable characters, readers will fall in love with this set of novels on their bookshelf.

"The fantasy world of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth contains a rich assortment of people, cities, powers, and creatures—as well as a deep, intertwined history that spans thousands of years. In these specially designed volumes, best-selling author and Tolkien scholar David Day presents four decades of research and writing on the lands and inhabitants of Middle-earth. A must-have guide to the Tolkien world, this collection provides an A-to-Z dictionary of the vernacular, an atlas describing the various terra firma, histories of battles, dark powers, heroes, and the Hobbits that started it all. More than 200 black-and-white and full-color illustrations make the pages a joy to behold as you learn all you'll need to know about Tolkien's fantasy realm.This work is unofficial and is not authorized by the Tolkien Estate or HarperCollins Publishers."

There are so many adventures to choose from in this exclusively selected boxed set! Four special-edition Word Cloud Classics are included: Call of the Wild and Other Stories, The Jungle Book, Peter Pan, and Treasure Island. Readers will be proud to display these works on their bookshelf when not reading stories of the savage landscape of Yukon territory, the challenges of growing up in the jungle, flying to Neverland, and hunting for pirate treasure—and the pirate ship sailing across the spines is sure to provoke many an interesting conversation.

You'll be inspired to be the change you wish to see in the world as you read through this collection of speeches delivered by Barack Obama. These messages of hope for a more perfect union in America will appeal to readers across the political spectrum. From pre-presidential oratory to his farewell address, the former president covers issues of race, unemployment, natural disasters, public tragedies, and his legacy of health care reform. This beautiful leather-bound volume with a foil-stamped cover design will become one of your most treasured library volumes.

You won't be able to stop talking Zelda and her quest for independence. The New York Times raves, “Zelda is a marvel, a living, breathing three-dimensional character with a voice so distinctive she leaps off the page."Andrew David MacDonald's critically acclaimed debut novel, WHEN WE WERE VIKINGS is now available in paperback: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/When-We-Were-Vikings/Andrew-David-MacDonald/9781982126773?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=gallery_outlet&utm_campaign=&utm_content=youtube trailer

Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub “Catch a Rising Star” as a twenty-one-year-old college student in fall of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and saved everything. “Whenever I came up with a funny bit, whether it happened on a stage, in a conversation, or working it out on my preferred canvas, the big yellow legal pad, I kept it in one of those old school accordion folders,” Seinfeld writes. “So I have everything I thought was worth saving from forty-five years of hacking away at this for all I was worth.”For this book, Jerry Seinfeld has selected his favorite material, organized decade by decade. In page after hilarious page, one brilliantly crafted observation after another, readers will witness the evolution of one of the great comedians of our time and gain new insights into the thrilling but unforgiving art of writing stand-up comedy.

Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub “Catch a Rising Star” as a twenty-one-year-old college student in fall of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and saved everything. “Whenever I came up with a funny bit, whether it happened on a stage, in a conversation, or working it out on my preferred canvas, the big yellow legal pad, I kept it in one of those old school accordion folders,” Seinfeld writes. “So I have everything I thought was worth saving from forty-five years of hacking away at this for all I was worth.”For this book, Jerry Seinfeld has selected his favorite material, organized decade by decade. In page after hilarious page, one brilliantly crafted observation after another, readers will witness the evolution of one of the great comedians of our time and gain new insights into the thrilling but unforgiving art of writing stand-up comedy.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tiger Woods comes the definitive inside story of the New England Patriots—the greatest sports dynasty of the 21st century. Learn more in this instant New York Times bestseller.

MELANIA AND ME is an illuminating story of the dissolution of a female friendship.... It just so happens that the two friends are the first lady of the United States and the events expert brought on to help plan the presidential inauguration. From the hallways of Vogue to Trump Tower into the White House, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff shares her thrilling, funny, and heartbreaking story of her intimate friendship with Melania Trump, a woman few people truly understand.

Stephen King's #1 bestseller THE INSTITUTE is now in paperback! Young Luke Ellis has woken up in a faraway room that looks just like his own. But he soon finds that this mysterious place houses several other kids who all possess very special abilities…and the ruthless staff here is dedicated to extracting the force of their extranormal gifts. As each new victim disappears, Luke becomes desperate to somehow find a way out and get help—even though no one here has ever escaped. If you love Stranger Things, get your copy of THE INSTITUTE wherever books are sold.

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