Henry Carter Hull

Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies...

A group of hardy Berkshire rabbits share many adventures together as they search for a safe place to establish a new warren after the destruction of their community.

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction...

First published in 1937, To Have and Have Not is one of Hemingway's most entertaining novels. This realistic adventure tale and subtle portrait of an unlikely love affair demonstrates "Hemingway's gift for dialogue, for effective understatement, and for communicating such emotions as the tough allow themselves."

While trying to avoid insurgent armies in the Central African Republic, geologist Philip Mercer uncovers nuclear secrets and aids Center for Disease Control employee Cali Stowe in her investigation into a village with a high rate of cancer and birth defects.

The second volume of "The Lord of the Rings" epic, set in the fantastic world of the Third Age of Middle-Earth.

Dave Elliot, a New York executive and former soldier, finds himself in danger one day when he discovers that his family, colleagues, and friends have hired mercenaries to find and kill him.

While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune as well as great danger.

Richard Kilmer's fiancée, Jennifer Ryan, disappears after Richard loses control of his car and the car rolls, and after neither Richard nor the police can find her, he finds that no one in his life will confirm her existence and all traces of her have disappeared.

Sam and Remi Fargo, the husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team, come upon a relic that belongs to a lost Confederate ship while scuba diving in Tanzania, but their discovery conflicts with Mexico's ruling party, the Mexica Tenochca, who wants to find the artifact and prevent a secret from destroying the party.