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"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night. . . " Author: Bentley Little In a small Arizona town, just as summer vacation hits, the everyday routine is shattered when the beloved mailman is discovered, dead, with a shotgun in his mouth. No one knew he was suicidal. As the town mourns, the summer starts to turn strange. The peculiar new mailman, who goes by the name of John Smith, is too good to be true. Bills have stopped showing up and good news and long lost friends are popping up through the post. But this sudden change has [...]

"All men are enemies. All animals are comrades." Author: George Orwell Animal Farm is a political fable about human nature, the ultimate corruption of idealism by power. It starts with Mr. Jones, the drunken farmer hated by the animals he mistreats and uses. As Jones sleeps off another hangover in his farmhouse, the animals begin to talk, and one old pig describes a dream – a dream where animals are their own masters, where their toil produces benefits they can reap, and where all animals are equal. Soon, two other pigs, Napoleon and Snowdrop, champion transforming the dream into a reality. [...]

A Thrilling Cozy Mystery Series Start Author: Alan Bradley Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce lives in her family’s crumbling English mansion, indulging her love of chemistry and poisons, occasionally tormenting her siblings, and helping the eccentric gardener through his bouts of violent shell-shock. For Flavia, life is one exciting potion after another, until a dying man appears in the garden patch and breathes his last into her excited  face. As Flavia tries to tie the clues together and figure out who is the real killer, police start to hone in on her retiring, pillarist father, who spends his days pouring over his [...]