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The Book Thief

Markus Zusak - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

DON'T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK'S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF. This 10th-anniversary edition of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller features pages of bonus content, including marked-up manuscript pages, original sketches, and pages from the author's...
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The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd - Viking; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Sue Monk Kidds first novel The Secret Life of Bees, a heartwarming coming of age tale set in 1960s South Carolina, a New York Times bestseller for more than 125 weeks, and a Good Morning America Read This Book Club pickFans of The Helpwill love Sue Monk Kidds Southern coming of age tale....
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The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback

Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories--particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme With Love and Squalor--will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children....
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To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American ReadHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South - and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatredOne of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird...
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Room: A Novel

Emma Donoghue - Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up its where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.Room is home to Jack,...
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Lord of the Flies

William Golding
Format: Paperback

Before The Hunger Games there was Lord of the FliesLord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial...
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All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation...
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Carrie

Stephen King - Anchor
Format: Book

Stephen Kings legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates.Carrie White may have been unfashionable and unpopular, but she had a gift. Carrie could make things move by concentrating on them. A candle would fall. A door would lock. This was her power...
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie - Little, Brown and Co.
Format: Paperback

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other...
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As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text

William Faulkner - Vintage; Reissue edition
Format: Print book

"I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the last word would be and almost where the last period would fall." - William Faulkner on As I Lay Dying As I Lay Dying is Faulkner's harrowing account...
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