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True Grit tells the story of fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross. A coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. That's when Mattie fearlessly heads out to avenge her father's blood, convincing one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest U.S. marshal there is, to accompany her. But their plans run into an obstacle - namely, a Texas Ranger who is also investigating...

In this brilliant collection of stories, Stephen King takes readers down paths that only he could imagine? A supermarket becomes the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction? A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell? A woman driver finds a scary shortcut to paradise? An idyllic lake harbors a bottomless evil? And a desert island is the scene of the most terrifying struggle for survival ever waged.

Liam Devlin of "The Eagle has Landed" and the beautiful Tanya Voroninova are the only two people who can stop the assassin from completing his mission to kill the Pope within the week.

Newlyweds must deal with a new chocolate offering, seven houseguests, and murder.

Maggie the Cat fights for the lives of her damaged and drinking husband Brick, herself, and their unborn children in the revised version of the dramatization of Big Daddy's birthday and deathday party and family gathering

aConstance Chatterley, married to an aristocrat and mine owner whose war wounds have left him paralyzed and impotent, has an affair with Mellors, a gamekeeper, becomes pregnant, and considers abandoning her husband. One of the seminal class novels of the twentieth century, Lady Chatterley's Lover was considered flagrantly pornographic when it was first published in 1928.

Physicist Portia Harding believes that everything can be explained by logic and science. Then she travels to England and finds that her down-to-earth attitude is no help to Theondre North, the son of an angel who seeks Portia's help to change his fate.

The provocative title of Ayn Rand's The Virtue of Selfishness introduces an equally provocative thesis about ethics. Traditional ethics has always been suspicious of self-interest, praising acts that are selfless in intent and calling amoral or immoral acts that are motivated by self interest. Ayn Rand's view is exactly the opposite. This collection of nineteen essays is an effective summary of Ayn Rand's philosophy, which holds the value of the individual...

"The American Dream" is a satirical one-act play about a family who receive a visitor, a Young Man, who turns out to be the long-lost twin of the son they disciplined until he had died. Dubbed "the American Dream", the young man is adopted as a suitable replacement. "The Zoo Story" is an one-act play about two strangers, Peter and Jerry, who meet on a park bench in New York City's Central Park. Jerry's increasing mental instablity as he converses...