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Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
by Signet (Paperback)

The story of a man who said he would stop the motor of the world--and did. This novel is the setting for the author's philosophy of Objectivism.

Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover)
by Plume (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2005-04-26)

Anne Rice
Complete Vampire Chronicles (Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the body Thief)
by Ballantine Books (Paperback) (Release Date: 1993-09-01)

Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children: A Novel
by Random House Trade Paperbacks (Paperback) (Release Date: 2006-04-04)

Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC)
by Dutton Adult (Hardcover)

The year 2005 marks Ayn Rand’s Centennial Year. The astounding story of a man that said that he would stop the motor of the world—and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is unlike any other book you have ever read.

Anne Rice
Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana
by Knopf (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-03-04)

Anne Rice’s second book in her hugely ambitious and courageous life of Christ begins during his last winter before his baptism in the Jordan and concludes with the miracle at Cana.It is a novel in which we see Jesus—he is called Yeshua bar Joseph—during a winter of no rain, endless dust, and talk of trouble in Judea.Legends of a Virgin birth have long surrounded Yeshua, yet for decades he has lived as one among many who come to the synagogue on the Sabbath. All who know and love him find themselves waiting for some sign of the path he will eventually take.And at last we see him emerge from his baptism to confront his destiny—and the Devil. We see what happens when he takes the water of six great limestone jars, transforms it into cool red wine, is recognized as the anointed one, and urged to call all Israel to take up arms against Rome and follow him as the prophets have foretold.As with Out of Egypt, the opening novel, The Road to Cana is based on the Gospels and on the ...

Anne Rice
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt: A Novel
by Ballantine Books (Paperback) (Release Date: 2008-02-26)

Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Rice gives us now her most ambitious and courageous book, a novel about the early years of CHRIST THE LORD, based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship.The book’s power derives from the passion its author brings to the writing and the way in which she summons up the voice, the presence, the words of Jesus who tells the story.From the Hardcover edition.

Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things
by Harper Perennial (Paperback) (Release Date: 1998-05-06)

Anne Rice
Interview with the Vampire
by Ballantine Books (Paperback) (Release Date: 1997-03-18)

A. N. Roquelaure, Anne Rice
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
by Plume (Paperback)

Rice writing as A. N. Roquelaure. In the traditional folk tale "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. Anne Rice's retelling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire.

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