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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.
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The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho - HarperOne
Format: Paperback

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho continues to change the lives of its readers forever. With more than two million copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has established itself as a modern classic, universally admired.Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian...
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The Call of the Wild

Jack London - Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Vibrant, black-and-white illustrations complement London's classic adventure story about the relationship between humans and dogs, focusing on Buck, a dog that becomes a sled dog during the Klondike gold rush and, later, the leader of a wolf pack.
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Clan of the Cave Bear

Jean M Auel - Crown
Format: Audio CD

An all-absorbing journey into man's possible past. Jean M. Auel, a storytelling genius, weaves a compellingly readable saga of human survival; an epic that transcends time and place. It is peopled with rich and complex characters who experience the full range of human emotions. All this...
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Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift - Norton
Format: Paperback

This new edition of Swift's satiric classic is based on the 1726 text -- the edition textual scholars now consider the most authoritative. It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. "Contexts" collects materials that influenced Swift's writing of the novel,...
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Hatchet

Gary Paulsen

Haunted by his parents' divorce, Brian Robeson, sole survivor of a plane crash, must draw on his untested skills to survive in the wilderness.
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Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback

"This is the best Norton Critical Edition yet! All my students have become intensely interested in reading Conrad -- largely because of this excellent work." -- Elise F. Knapp, Western Connecticut State University This Norton Critical Edition includes: - A newly edited text based...
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Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry - Simon and Schuster
Format: Print book

Set in the late 19th century, Lonesome Dove is an adventurous story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana. The narrative centers around two friends: Augustus McCrae, a reluctant rancher who has a way with women, and W. F. Call, whose talent for leadership conceals a secret sorrow. For Gus,...
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