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Top 10 Most Challenged Books
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1984
George Orwell - Signet Classic
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 timelier than ever. 1984 presents a startling and haunting vision of the world, so powerful... |
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
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Originally intended as a sequel to his immensely popular Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn stands on its own as one of America's most important and beloved literary classics.For generations, young and old alike have delighted in the un |
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All quiet on the western front : a novel
Erich Maria Remarque - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Hardcover
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Now repackaged--the timeless classic of World War I Germany that speaks to generation after generation. |
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
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Lewis Carroll's timeless classic brought to life by one of the most revered children's book illustrators of our time!Suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit... |
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American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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The modern classic, the basis of a Broadway musical, and major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale, Chloe Sevigny, Jared Leto, and Reese Witherspoon, and directed by Mary Harron.In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths... |
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Animal Farm and 1984
George Orwell - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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ANIMAL FARMGeorge Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture. It is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm--a wholly democratic society built on the credo... |
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Judy Blume - Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books; 2 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pink. Shes just moved from New York City to Farbrook, New Jersey, and is anxious to fit in with her new friends -- Nancy, Gretchen, and Janie. When they form a secret club to talk about private... |
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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
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Here is the compelling tale of a spirited young Thoroughbred that captured the hearts of readers throughout Victorian England when it was first published in 1877. This masterfully illustrated classic is skillfully adapted by Newbery Award-winning author Robin McKinley and remains |
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Bridge To Terabithia
Katherine Paterson - Harper Trophy
Format: Print book
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Jess copes with tragedy by going to a secret kingdom in the woods invented by newcomer Leslie Burke. |
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THE CANTERBURY TALES
Barbara Cohen
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One spring day, the Narrator of The Canterbury Tales rents a room at the Tabard Inn before he recommences his journey to Canterbury. That evening, a group of people arrive at the inn, all of whom are also going to Canterbury to receive the blessings of "the holy blissful mart |
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Catch-22
Joseph Heller - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest - and most celebrated - novels of all time. In recent years, it has been named to "best novels" lists by Time, Newsweek, the Modern Library, and the London... |
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The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and... |
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Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life... |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
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Brimming with Quentin Blake's vibrant full-color artwork, this wonderful anniversary edition is perfect for longtime Roald Dahl fans or readers discovering him for the very first time. With its oversized pages and beautiful design, it's an ideal book for family sharing - and |
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The Color Purple: Tenth Anniversary Editon
Alice Walker - Harcourt [u.a.]
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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The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts
Arthur Miller - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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Based on historical people and real events, Arthur Miller's play uses the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence unleashed by the rumors of witchcraft as a powerful parable about McCarthyism. |
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Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
Arthur Miller - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman's deferred American dream Since it was first performed in 1949, Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about the tragic shortcomings of an American dreamer has been recognized as a milestone of the theater. Willy Loman, the protagonist... |
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The Da Vinci Code: Special Illustrated Edition
Dan Brown - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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One of the bestselling novels of all time, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has intrigued and thrilled millions of readers around the world. Now all the artwork, symbols, architecture, and historic locations—over 160 images—are beautifully compiled in this full-color collector's... |
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The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
Anne Frank - Doubleday; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The diary as Anne Frank wrote it. At last, in a new translation, this definitive edition contains entries about Anne's burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions. Anne Frank's The Diary... |
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Drama
Raina Telgemeier - Graphix/Scholastic
Format: Paperback
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From Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile and Sisters! Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon over Mississippi, she can't really sing.... |
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East of Eden
John Steinbeck - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America's most enduring authorsIn his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's... |
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Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card - T. Doherty Associates
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Hugo and Nebula AwardsIn order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic... |
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook
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The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. And he enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight... |
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Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes - Harcourt
Format: Print book
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Oscar-winning film Charly starring Cliff Robertson and Claire Bloom-a mentally challenged man receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache. |
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Fight Club: A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk - W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Chuck Palahniuk's startling and outrageous debut novel, basis of the hit movie starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton.THE FIRST RULE about fight club is you don't talk about fight club. Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with... |
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley - Penguin Classics; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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A terrifying vision of scientific progress without moral limits, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein leads the reader on an unsettling journey from the sublime beauty of the Swiss alps to the desolate waste of the arctic circle. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes... |
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George
Alex Gino - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Paperback
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When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl.George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. George really, really, REALLY... |
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The Giver
Lois Lowry - Listening Library
Format: Audio CD
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Read by Ron Rifkin4 hours, 48 minutes4 CD'sDecember is the time of the annual Ceremony at which each twelve-year-old receives a life assignment determined by the Elders. Jonas watches his friend Fiona named Caretaker of the Old and his cheerful pal Asher labeled the Assistant Director... |
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Go Ask Alice
Anonymous - Simon Pulse; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Alice COULD BE ANYONE. Alice COULD BE SOMEONE YOU KNOW. Alice USES DRUGS. With over a million copies in print, Go Ask Alice has become a classic of our time. This powerful real-life diary of a teenagers struggle with the seductive -- often fatal -- world of drugs and addiction tells... |
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Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell - Scribner
Format: Print Length
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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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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck - Penguin Classics; Revised edition
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanizedand sometimes outragedmillions 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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Hamlet
Kastan, David Scott
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Written by the author of "Surfacing", "Lady Oracle", "Life Before Man" and "Bodily Harm", this science fiction story was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and was the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction. This is a film tie-in reissue.
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J.K. Rowling - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover
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In one of the most hotly anticipated sequel in memory, J.K. Rowling takes up where she left off with Harry's second year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Old friends and new torments abound, including a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom,... |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J. K. Rowling - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Audio CD
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The magnificent final book in J. K. Rowling's seven-part saga comes to readers July 21, 2007.You'll find out July 21! |
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Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (Book 4)
J.K. Rowling - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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It's the pivotal fourth novel in the seven-part saga of a young wizard's coming of age. The thickest. The juiciest yet. Harry Potter turns fourteen. But will all his friends? Rumors have persisted that one of the characters may not see the conclusion of this novel, something the author... |
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J. K. Rowling - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover
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As the Harry Potter sequence draws to a close, Harry's most dangerous adventure yet is just beginning . . . and it starts July 16, 2005.We could tell you, but then we'd have to Obliviate your memory. |
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Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
J. K. Rowling - Scholastic Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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In his fifth year at Hogwart's, Harry faces challenges at every turn, from the dark threat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and the unreliability of the government of the magical world to the rise of Ron Weasley as the keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team. Along the way he learns about the strength... |
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Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
J.K. Rowling - Scholastic; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents deaths., |
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: The Illustrated Edition
J. K. Rowling - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover
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The beloved first book of the Harry Potter series, now fully illustrated by award-winning artist Jim Kay. For the first time, J.K. Rowling's beloved Harry Potter books will be presented in lavishly illustrated full-color editions. Kate Greenaway-award-winning artist Jim Kay has created... |
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Holes
Louis Sachar
Format: Book
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A darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment
Stanley Yelnat's family has a history of bad luck, so he isn't too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys' juvenile detention center, Camp Green Lake. There is no lake - it has been dry for over... |
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The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas - Balzer & Bray
Format: Paperback
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Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police... |
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How to Eat Fried Worms
Thomas Rockwell
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A small boy is challenged by a friend to eat fifteen worms in fifteen days for fifty dollars |
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The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you don't live to see the morning?In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps... |
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou - Random House; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover
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Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make... |
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James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl - A.A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover - Revised Ed.
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Roald Dahl's children's classic will be rediscovered with wonder and delight in this handsome gift edition with all-new black-and-white illustrations by Caldecott Honor Book artist Lane Smith (who also designed the characters for the Disney animated film). How James escapes from his miserable... |
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A Light in the Attic
Shel Silverstein
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Last night while I lay thinking here Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear And pranced and partied all night long And sang their same old Whatif song:Whatif I flunk that test?Whatif green hair grows on my chest?Whatif nobody likes me?Whatif a bol |
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
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Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pur |
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Looking for Alaska Deluxe Edition
John Green - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A gorgeous collectors edition of the critically acclaimed debut novel by John Green, #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our StarsA perfect gift for every fan, this deluxe hardcover features a stunning special edition jacket and 50 pages of all-new exclusive... |
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding - Riverhead Trade
Format: Paperback
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Lord 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 publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among... |
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Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: The NewSouth Edition
Mark Twain - NewSouth Books; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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In a radical departure from standard editions, Twain's most famous novels are published here as the continuous narrative that the author originally envisioned. More controversial will be the decision by the editor, noted Mark Twain scholar Alan Gribben, to eliminate the pejorative racial... |
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The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
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The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays.As well as the complete and unabridged text, each play in this series has an extensive range of students' notes. These include detailed and clear explan |
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Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins - Scholastic Press
Format: Print book
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Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what's worse, President Snow... |
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On the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition
Charles Darwin
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This year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. In his landmark study, Darwin theorized that populations evolve over t |
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Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
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In Depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a spread of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences. |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
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<b>An international bestseller and the basis for the hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's <i>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest</i> is one of the defining works of the 1960s.</b><p>In this classic novel, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a bois |
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The Outsiders
S E Hinton - Penguin Classics; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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Celebrate the 50th anniversary (April, 2017) of a landmark coming-of-age American novel with a Penguin Classics edition featuring an introduction by Jodi Picoult, author of My Sisters Keeper.... |
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
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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, |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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The Picture of Dorian Gray, by , 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. H |
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And Tango Makes Three: 10th Anniversary Edition
Justin Richardson - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; Anniversary Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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This tenth-anniversary edition of the bestselling, heartwarming true story of two penguins who create a nontraditional family includes an all-new authors' note and an exclusive poster.At the penguin house at the Central Park Zoo, two penguins named Roy and Silo were a little bit different... |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
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"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Throug |
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Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings
Shel Silverstein - Harper & Row
Format: Book
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Shel Silverstein, the New York Times bestselling author of The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, has created a poetry collection that is outrageously funny and deeply profound. Come in . . . for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins.... |
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A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Madeleine L'Engle's ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic, soon to be a major motion picture.It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most... |
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