christmas adventures chromosome illustrated

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151 reviews
William Shakespeare, Gary Fields

Berkley Publishing Group, 1990

Best Shakespeare editions - for students and wannabe students
I'm not ashamed to admit it. I find Shakespeare difficult. I need help. The Cambridge School Shakespeare editions, with the classroom activities and assignments on each facing page, give me the focus and direction I need to finally truly enjoy the text. I thought I didn't like Shakespeare until I took a class on several of the plays. It turns out that I love Shakespeare when I'm doing close ...

The Betrayed (The Gifted Series, Book 2)

11 reviews
Lisa Tawn Bergren

Berkley Publishing Group, 2007

Great second in the series!
I totally loved the first book in this series, The Begotten. It was fabulous. The second book in this series, The Betrayed was just as good. I recommend reading the series in order. There was a point in the middle of The Betrayed when I put this book down due to other commitments, but when I picked it up again I was pulled right back into that world. The brutality the "gifted" experienced was ...

Great Expectations (Graphic Novel)

326 reviews
Charles Dickens

Berkley Publishing Group, 1990

A work of lasting skill, value, and impact, truly a classic
It is astonishing to read literature this good, such that within the first few pages you know that no matter what the author does to the characters or how he concludes the story, and whether it suits my tastes in any specific direction, you realize that here is a work of lasting skill, value, and impact, truly a classic. Now I came to this book with perhaps reduced expectations, not great ...

Moby Dick (Classics Illustrated)

318 reviews
Herman Melville, Bill Sienkiewicz

Berkley Publishing Group, 1990

"I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts"
Having reached the mid-life point, I didn't "get around to" reading MOBY-DICK until just recently. I'm certainly glad that I finally stopped putting it off. Herman Melville's work is truly one of the most amazing books I have read. As others have pointed out here, it's not always an easy read, but it is well worth devoting time to. Indeed, I approached it as if it were an artisan cheese or a ...

The Daughter of Time

134 reviews
Josephine Tey

Berkley Publishing Group, 1976

WHAT IS TRUTH
Author Elizabeth MacKintosh, wrote under the pseudonym of Josephine Tey. She died in 1952 but her unique talent continues to entertain and enlighten her readers with her unusual mystery scenarios. With Daughter of Time she invites us to join the team of a 20th century Scotland Yard inspector Alan Grant and an American researcher currently on assignment at the British Museum as they utilized ...

Chromosome 6

144 reviews
Robin Cook

The Berkley Publishing Group, 1998

One of Cook's Best!!!
This is one of my favorite Robin Cook books. This rather prophetically scary story weaves together genetic engineering and cloning in humans and primates. Given rapid advances in modern technology, a story like this not only could come true any day, but do we really have any idea whether something like this is actually happening, without general public knowledge of it??? Think about it.

A Christmas Carol (Classics Illustrated)

158 reviews
Charles Dickens, Joe Staton

Berkley Publishing Group, 1990

Nice Story
Cute book to add to my table of Christmas Stories. Will make a cute addition this Christmas.

The Count of Monte Cristo (Classics Illustrated (New York, N.Y.);, No. 7.)

384 reviews
Steven Grant, Alexandre Dumas, ...

Berkley Publishing Group, 1990

As good as it gets...
Having never read The Count of Monte Cristo and only faintly recalling a movie of some years ago, I was prepared for a swashbuckling epic of swordplay and derring-do. My expectations were entirely inadequate. The Count of Monte Cristo is rather a tale of revenge through the artifice of intrigue and cold calculation. Dumas creates a broken man, betrayed by a trio of duplicitous schemers, and ...

Wuthering Heights (Classics Illustrated)

498 reviews
Emily Bronte

Berkley Publishing Group, 1990

very intense
The outdated writing style takes a little getting used to, but once you do, it's good. It's incredible to me how the author, with her unusually limited experience of the outside world, who probably never had a boyfriend or lover in her life and lived a secluded life in a remote part of Yorkshire with her sisters and died a virgin, could have created such an incredibly realistic and well-drawn ...

Dead in Dixie (Southern Vampire Mystery, Bks. 1-3)

4 reviews
Charlaine Harris

Berkley Publishing Group, 2003

Rural Southern Vampires !
This Science Fiction Book Club Edition contains the first 3 volumes of Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire series: Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas and Club Dead. More humor than most vampire series, with a good mystery as you would expect from Charlaine Harris. If you like Laurell K Hamilton, this has a more light-hearted touch, but many similar supernatural elements. Highly recommended!

The Jungle Books

38 reviews
Rudyard Kipling

Berkley Publishing Group, 1991

Review of Jungle Book BARNES & NOBLE Version
Since it appears that Amazon is combining the reviews for several versions of this book under one, I want to stipulate that I've read the Barnes & Nobel Classic version. Actually comprised of 2 books, The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book, this is a collection of stories surrounding the jungles of India. A central character is Mowgli - a boy left in the jungle when his parents are ...

Black Rose (In the Garden Trilogy, Book 2)

102 reviews
Nora Roberts

Berkley Publishing Group, 2006

Black Rose
Roz Harper is a loving and kind, but fiercely protective of those she loves. When the Harper House resident ghost known as the Harper Bride starts terrorizing those she loves, Roz decides it is time for some answers. The Harper Bride who has never brought harm to anyone in the house before is now pulling all the stops out. Dr Mitchell Carnagie is hired to delve into history to discover what ...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Classics Illustrated (New York, N.Y.), No. 9.)

290 reviews
Michael Ploog, Mark Twain, ...

Berkley Publishing Group, 1990

Yes, it's a classic for a reason.
I somehow tragically managed to make my way to adulthood with never reading anything but the kiddie version of this book. When I found this book for super-cheap in the teachers' lounge book sale and I figured "hey, why not?" And thus I picked it up and immediately fell in love with the sheer Old-South charm that only Twain can deliver. Really, people, it is no wonder that this book is such a ...

Last of Mohicans

104 reviews
James Fenimore Cooper

Berkley Publishing Group, 1991

The Noble Savage
"The Last of the Mohicans" is a novel for the ages and its hero Hawkeye is a man who teaches life lessons with each page you turn. Many people believe that this novel has outlived its worthiness but once turn of the pages will reveal to the reader a world that is both savage and young, characters that are both civilized and savage, and a story that harkens back to the beginnings of the new world. ...

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

130 reviews
Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle

Berkley Publishing Group, 1981

Sherlock Holmes can do no wrong
This is a classic. Sherlock Holmes is my favorite detective of all time and this book will have a permanent place in my library. I do not mind the small print. I love the convenience of having all his works in one volume.

Eleventh Hour

71 reviews
Catherine Coulter

Berkley Publishing Group, 2003

hemlock bay
kept me in suspense; had to keep turning that page to see what happened next no matter how tired i was!

The Body Farm

126 reviews
Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Berkley Publishing Group, 1994

Descriptive Forensic Thriller...
This is the fifth installment in the Kay Scarpetta series. Kay and Marino are summoned to Asheville, North Carolina to evaluate the murder of a child. The characteristics of the body and the scene are similar to the previous murders by serial killer Temple Gault, who first appeared in Cruel and Unusual. This book is best enjoyed in fact if you've read Cruel and Unusual. Lucy is now working with ...

Around the World in 80 Days (Classics Illustrated)

83 reviews
Jules Verne

Berkley Publishing Group, 1992

Its hard to top a good round-the-world-on-a-bet story
"The Whole Story" edition, with marginal notes and photos to describe the story. The graphics don't always add much to the story, but never detract from the simple, straightforward telling of this round-the-world-on-a-bet story. Just enough drama, comedy, and love interest to keep the story moving at a crackling pace, without ever sidetracking the reader from the basic 80-day timetable that ...

Treasure Island (Classics Illustrated)

260 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson, Pat Boyette

Berkley Publishing Group, 1991

Tense, Readable Adventure
This is a solid condensed version of the classic search for buried treasure in the late 1700's. Author Robert Louis Stevenson draws readers in early as the Captain arrives at the Benbow Inn in Britain, focused on incoming ships, and warning young Jim Hawkins of one-legged visitors. The story picks up as Billy Bones arrives, bringing danger and discovery of the treasure map, a discovery that ...

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