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An angry mob kills a man after a popular rancher is murdered.

As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral island has been labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, and even a vision of the apocalypse. But above all, it has earned its place as one of...

The story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultramodern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event," a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys-radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic...

Fifth-grader Scotty Smalls has just moved into town with his parents. The local kids call him a Dork because he can't even throw a baseball. That changes when the leader of the neighborhood gang recruits him to play on the nearby sandlot field. It's the beginning of a magical summer of baseball, wild adventures, first kisses, and fearsome confrontations with the dreaded Beast and its owner who live behind the left field fence. Soon nine boys have...

Edmund Gwenn is Kris Kringle, the living Santa Claus who takes a job at Macy's during the Christmas season. He works to bring some joy to the lives of Wood and her mother O'Hara, and a happy ending is there for all.

Details the many forces, especially drugs, guns and gangs, that conspire to turn American kids into criminals. Reveals just how chronic the situation has become. Details crimes committed by kids throughout America in big cities, the suburbs and small towns.

This book focuses on fashion during the first decades of the 20th century while charting the rise of the automobile, the birth of suffragettes, and the impact of World War I on couture.

This book traces the events, trends, and important people of the 1950s, including science, technology, politics, fashion, the arts, sports, and entertainment.