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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadHow shall we begin? This is the story of a book called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - not an Earth book, never published on Earth and, until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen... |
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott - Puffin Books
Format: Hardcover
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Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of four sisters in a deluxe hardcover edition, with beautiful cover illustrations by Anna Bond, the artist behind world-renowned stationery brand Rifle Paper Co.Grown-up Meg, tomboyish Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. The four March sisters couldn't be more... |
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Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Format: Print book
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He is not the only young man in the world worth having.Teenage sisters Marianne and Elinor Dashwood could not be more different. Marianne is passionat Se, impetuous, and recklessly romantic. Elinor is practical, thoughtful, and completely reserved. But Marianne and Elino |
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Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
Ray Bradbury - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them... |
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte - Wilder Publications
Format: Paperback
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Jane Eyre is the story of a small, plain-faced, intelligent, and passionate English orphan. Jane is abused by her aunt and cousin and then attends a harsh charity school. Through it all she remains strong and determinedly refuses to allow a cruel world to crush her independence or her strength... |
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The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a series of vignettes - sometimes... |
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The Chocolate War
Robert Cormier - Laurel Leaf; 1st Printing September 1986 edition
Format: Paperback
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Stunned by his mother's recent death and appalled by the way his father sleepwalks through life, Jerry Renault, a New England high school student, ponders the poster in his locker-Do I dare disturb the universe?Part of his universe is Archie Costello, leader of a secret school societ-the... |
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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens - Puffin; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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Nine-year-old Oliver has spent his life in a workhouse orphanage, where he becomes notorious for daring to ask for more food. Frustrated and hungry, he runs away to London, where he falls into the company of a gang of clever pickpockets, including Fagin, Bill Sykes, and the Artful Dodger.... |
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas - Simon & Brown
Format: Print book
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DIVDIVImprisoned for a crime he didn t commit, Edmond DantxEs spendsnbsp bitter years in a dungeon. When his daring escape plan works he uses all he has learned during his incarceration to mastermind an elaborate plan of revenge that will bring punishment to those he holds responsible for his fate.... |
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The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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One of the most famous historical novels ever written, The Three Musketeers (1844) is also revered as one of the world's greatest adventure stories--its heroes Athos, Porthos and Aramis symbols for the spirit of youth, daring, and comradeship. This authoritative new edition of Dumas'... |
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Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier - Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Format: Audiobook
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Rebecca is widely regarded as Daphne du Maurier's finest novel. It tells the story of Manderley - an exquisite house with gardens down to the sea, its owner Max de Winter and his new young wife...and of course Rebecca. Abridged. |
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding - Listening Library
Format: Audiobook
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William Golding's classic novel of primitive savagery and survival is one of the most vividly realized and riveting works in modern fiction. The tale begins after a plane wreck deposits a group of English school boys, aged six to twelve on an isolated tropical island. Their struggle to survive... |
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The Outsiders
S E Hinton - Speak
Format: Paperback
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The 45th anniversary of a landmark work of teen fiction Ponyboy can count on his brothers and his friends, but not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids who get away with everything, including beating up greasers like Ponyboy. At least he knows what to expect--until... |
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Redwall (Redwall, Book 1)
Brian Jacques - Firebird
Format: Paperback
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A "New York Times" bestseller, "Redwall" is now available in a digest-sized edition. "An animal world as compelling as that of "The Wind in the Willows . . . " This epic adventure contains elements of all grand questions, with heroic archetypes that keep... |
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A Separate Peace
John Knowles - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World... |
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On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition
Jack Kerouac - Penguin Audio
Format: Paperback
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Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kerouacs classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be "beat"... |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook
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Harper Lee's classic novel of a lawyer in the deep south defending a black man charged with the rape of a white girlOne of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been translated... |
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Gone with the Wind, 75th Anniversary Edition
Margaret Mitchell - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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Since its original publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind - winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the bestselling novels of all time - has been heralded by readers everywhere as The Great American Novel.Widely considered The Great American Novel, and often remembered for its epic... |
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1984
George Orwell - New American Library
Format: Paperback
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View our feature on George Orwell's 1984.Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is more timely that ever. 1984 presents a "negative utopia," that is at once a startling... |
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Animal Farm, 50th Anniversary Edition
George Orwell - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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Animal Farm is the most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories. Its account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, can fairly be said to have become a universal drama. Orwell... |
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Hatchet
Gary Paulsen - ALADDIN
Format: Paperback(Reissue)
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
Format: Print book
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Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast... |
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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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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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley - Puffin; Reprint edition
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Scientist Victor Frankenstein learns how to create life, but his discovery goes quickly awry when he creates a monster larger and stronger than an ordinary man. As the monster uses its power to destroy everything Victor loves, the young scientist is forced to embark on a treacherous journey... |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Smith Betty - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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The American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.From the moment she entered the world, Francie needed to be made of stern... |
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Jim Hawkins has led an ordinary life as an innkeeper's son until the day he inadvertently discovers a treasure map in a trunk belonging to an old sea captain, and thus, suddenly, his ordinary life turns into the extraordinary adventure of a lifetime. Jim and his companions decide |
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Dracula
Bram Stoker - Puffin; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Jonathan Harker is sent by his law firm to Count Dracula's castle to discuss business, but he soon finds himself plunged into a nightmarish race against time to free his love and other lost souls from the Count's horrifying spells... |
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The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien - Mariner Books; 0 edition
Format: Paperback
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The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkiens three-volume epic, is set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth - home to many strange beings, and most notably hobbits, a peace-loving "little people," cheerful and shy. Since its original British publication in 1954-55, the saga... |
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The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIC OF OUR TIMEBilbo Baggins was a hobbit who wanted to be left alone in quiet comfort. But the wizard Gandalf came along with a band of homeless dwarves. Soon Bilbo was drawn into their quest, facing evil orcs, savage wolves, giant spiders, and worse unknown dangers.... |
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Format: Print book
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"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, " by Mark Twain, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted ext |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Format: Print book
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Dorian Gray, a handsome young man, receives a beautiful painting of himself from his good friend Basil Hallward. In the same moment, a new acquaintance, Lord Henry, introduces Dorian to the ideals of youthfulness and hedonism, of which Gray becomes immediately obsessed. Meanwhile, |
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Night
Elie Wiesel - Hill and Wang
Format: Print book
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A New Translation From The French By Marion WieselNight is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator,... |
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