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The Giver: With Related Readings
Lois Lowry
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Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. |
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The Great Gatsby
F Scott Fitzgerald
Format: Book
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The Great Gatsby is regarded as "The Great American Novel". A first edition of "The Great Gatsby" came up for auction on June 10, 2009 and was knocked down for the astounding price of $155,000. The picture in that auction catalog has been used to create the c |
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Mark Twain
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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 extras. Here are |
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book
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ONE OF TIME'S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY With its first great victory in the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, the civil rights movement gained the powerful momentum it needed to sweep forward into its crucial decade,... |
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Beloved
Toni Morrison - Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of legend... |
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown - Henry Holt & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Browns eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost... |
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Catch-22
Joseph Heller - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary.At the heart of Catch-22 resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive... |
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The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
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Anyone who has read J.D. Salingers 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. The hero-narrator of The Catcher... |
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Format: Paperback
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Internationally acclaimed with more than 5 million copies in print, Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published nearly 50 years ago.Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to st |
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway - Scribner
Format: Book
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In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International... |
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Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell - Warner Books
Format: Print book
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A monumental classic considered by many to be not only the greatest love story ever written, but also the greatest Civil War saga. |
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The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
John Steinbeck - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized - and sometimes outraged - millions of readers.First published in 1939, Steinbecks Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma... |
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In Cold Blood
Truman Capote - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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National Bestseller On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote... |
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Invisible Man (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Ralph Ellison - Modern Library
Format: Hardcover
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time * Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadInvisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance... |
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The Jungle
Upton Sinclair - Dover Publications
Format: Paperback
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An ardent activist, champion of political reform, novelist, and progressive journalist, Upton Sinclair is perhaps best known today for The Jungle - his devastating expos of the meat-packing industry. A protest novel he privately published in 1906, the book was a shocking revelation... |
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Leaves of Grass: The "Death-Bed" Edition
Walt Whitman
Format: Book
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Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's expense on |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
Format: Paperback
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Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, 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 e |
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Native Son
Richard Wright - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic.... |
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Our Bodies, Ourselves
Boston Women's Health Book Collective - Touchstone; Revised edition
Format: Paperback
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Hailed by The New York Times as a “feminist classic,” and “America’s bestselling book on women’s health,” the comprehensive guide to all aspects of women’s health and sexuality, including menopause, birth control, childbirth, sexual health, sexual... |
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The Red Badge of Courage (Scribner Illustrated Classic Series)
Stephen Crane - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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As important a book today as it was when it was first written, The Red Badge of Courage tells the story of Henry Fielding, a farm boy who sets out in search of glory by running away from home to join the Civil War, only to find himself running away from the battlefield in terror during... |
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The Scarlet Letter (The World's Best Reading)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Reader's Digest Association
Format: Hardcover
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The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 romantic work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is considered to be his magnum opus.[1] Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through... |
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A Heinlein
Format: Print book
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Valentine Michael Smith arrives from Mars, to visit Earth. His arrival sparks off all the things you'd imagine - excitement, horror and greed. A tremendous satire of human weaknesses, now expanded with up to 30,000 extra words. The author also wrote "Starman Jones" and & |
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams - Univ. of the South
Format: Paperback
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The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play -- reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible) , and Williams' essay "The World I Live In." It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have... |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel
Zora Neale Hurston - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick"A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don't know how to live properly." - Zadie SmithOne of the most important... |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee - Heinemann
Format: Print book
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A thirty-fifth anniversary edition features a new introduction by the author and an accessible hardcover format that describes the story of a young girl in 1930s Alabama whose lawyer father defends an African American accused of raping a white woman. |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Borders Classics
Format: Print book
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Like new, no rips tears or markings. Clean, Water color painting look to cover. Large cursive writing STOWE at bottom of cover. Little girl sitting next to older man on stair case of porch. 464 pages. |
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Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck - Penguin
Format: Paperback
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They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable... |
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The Chocolate War
Robert Cormier - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Reissued now in hardcover with a new introduction by the author, Cormiers chilling look at the insidious world of gang intimidation and the abuse of power in a boys boarding school is no less relevant today than it was in 1974., |
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou - Random House; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover
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Superbly told, with the poet's gift for language and observation, Angelou's autobiography of her childhood in Arkansas - a world of which most Americans are ignorant. |
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky - MTV Books
Format: Hardcover
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Read the cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory. Now a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a funny, touching, and haunting... |
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Fallen Angels
Connie Dial - The Permanent Press
Format: Hardcover
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Kirkus Best Fiction of Captain Josie Corsino has seen plenty of dead bodies during her twenty-one years with the Los Angeles Police Department, but the discovery of Hillary Denniss beautiful smiling corpse begins one of the most unusual and dangerous investigations of Josies career. The troubled... |
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The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison - Knopf
Format: Book
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The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays... |
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The Color Purple: Tenth Anniversary Editon
Alice Walker - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that tells the story of two sisters through their correspondence. With a new Preface by the author. |
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Killing Mr. Griffin
Lois Duncan - Hachette Audio
Format: Paperback
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Mr. Griffin is the strictest teacher at Del Norte High, with a penchant for endless projects and humiliating his students. Even straight-A student Susan cant believe how mean he is to the charismatic Mark Kinney. So when her crush asks Susan to help a group of students teach a lesson of their... |
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The Face on the Milk Carton
Caroline B Cooney - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book
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No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails, wearing a dress with a narrow white collar--a three-year-old who had been kidnapped twelve... |
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Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel
David Guterson
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner AwardAmerican Booksellers Association Book of the Year AwardSan Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drown |
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Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death
Kurt Vonnegut - Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
Format: Book
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Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know. |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition
Ken Kesey - Viking Adult; 50 Anv edition
Format: Hardcover
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A fiftieth-anniversary edition of Ken Kesey's searing American classic. Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Turning conventional notions of sanity and insanity... |
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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback
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The New York Times bestseller and international classic loved by millions of readers. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country... |
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A Time to Kill
John Grisham - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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Before The Firm and The Pelican Brief made him a superstar, John Grisham wrote this riveting story of retribution and justice -- at last it's available in a Doubleday hardcover edition. In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths... |
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