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The humorous epic fantasy saga the Malloreon wraps up with this fifth volume, as Garion and his friends voyage to Kell, a magically isolated and mysterious city of seers. The city's inhabitants provide Garion with the final clues to the location of the Place Which Is No More, site of the final showdown between the Child of Light and the Child of Dark. Once there, the seeress Cyradis must make a decision that will affect Garion's abducted son Geran, the very gods themselves, and the future course of the universe.

The lighthearted dialogue and high fantasy of the Malloreon continue in its fourth installment. King Belgarion of Riva (known as Garion to his friends) and his companions continue to travel deep into the heart of the vast empire of Mallorea, searching for clues that will indicate the location for their destined confrontation with Zandramas, the evil sorceress/dark priestess who kidnapped Garion's young son Prince Geran. One such clue provides Garion with some truly terrible news: he may have to kill his son in order to save the universe.

Eighner's memoir of homelessness and of his dog.

Inspired by an anecdote told to George Eliot by her aunt, ADAM BEDE is notable for its extraordinarily realistic characters and convincing depiction of English rural life, complete with the earthy Derbyshire dialect of the title character. It is the story of Hetty Sorrel, the dairymaid who spurns the working-class Adam, a carpenter, for the faithless lord of the manor, and is abandoned by him after she becomes pregnant. When it was first published, in 1859, the book earned praise for its nuanced and unflinching description of a young woman's fall from grace and for Adam's simple righteousness. But George Eliot's choice of this scandalous subject matter for her first novel also met a great deal of adverse criticism, and only reaffirmed her decision to publish her novels under a pseudonym rather than as Mary Ann Evans, her given name. ADAM BEDE has also become famous for Eliot's groundbreaking defense, in chapter 17, of realism in art: "I aspire to give no more than a faithful account of men and things as they have mirrored themselves in my mind. The mirror is doubtless defective….but I feel as much bound to tell you, as precisely as I can, what that reflection is, as if I were in the witness-box narrating my experience on oath." In this same section, she also makes a plea that her readers "tolerate, pity, and love" their fellow mortals despite their faults and sins--a sentiment that is embodied most vividly in ADAM BEDE.

George Eliot's exhaustively researched historical novel is the story of a good woman, Romola, who loves an evil man. Set in Renaissance Italy, it is also about Savanarola and his doomed efforts to bring democratic reform to the corrupt city of Florence. When Romola, disappointed on both the personal and the political levels by the failure of her ideals, falls into despair, she is redeemed by others' need of her. George Eliot said of this novel, "I began it a young woman--I finished it an old woman".

Elliot first travelled to Afghanistan as a 19-year-old college student, enchanted by the fate of its people who were then under siege by the Soviet Union. This first risky visit did not diminish his affair with the country. Ten years later, during the rise of the Taliban, he returned to the country and chronicled his visit. From Kabul to the mountains of Uzbekistan, Elliot's documentary of a country is as much history as it is a personal reportage. A winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and a New York Times Notable Book for 2001.

More than 800 years after Chaucer immortalized the pilgrims' journey to Canterbury, Alabama native Jerry Ellis reprises their travels by walking through modern-day England. Along the way, he takes shelter in small pubs and churches and imagines medieval life and the quest for God.