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1984
George Orwell - Signet Classic
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...* Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The... |
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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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Beloved
Toni Morrison - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadStaring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped... |
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of:The Pulitzer PrizeThe National Book Critics Circle AwardThe Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardThe Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel PrizeA Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the YearOne of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York... |
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The Call of the Wild
Jack London
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Jack London's novels and ruggedly individual life seemed to embody American hopes, frustrations, and romantic longings in the turbulent first years of the twentieth century, years infused with the wonder and excitement of great technological and historic change. The author's re |
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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 - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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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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Charlotte's Web
E. B. White - Sundance
Format: Paperback
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This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect."Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells... |
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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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Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
E L James - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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MORE THAN 100 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDENOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREWhen literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants... |
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The Giver
Lois Lowry - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Book
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Lois Lowry’s Newbery Award-winner is about a wonderful utopian community of peace and respect. There is no war, jealousy, or murder, as far as the citizens know. Jonas, however, is soon to learn the true reality of the society he lives in.
Review by Renee, North... |
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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 75th Anniversary Edition
John Steinbeck - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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April 2014 marks the 75th anniversary of the first Viking hardcover publication of Steinbeck's crowning literary achievementFirst published in 1939, Steinbeck's 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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The Great Gatsby (Scribner Classics)
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Scribner Classics
Format: Print book
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The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925) , stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken... |
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
Format: Hardcover
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time.Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household... |
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Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
J. K. Rowling - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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A winner of England's National Book Award, the acclaimed debut novel tells the outrageously funny, fantastic adventure story of Harry Potter, who escapes a hideous foster home thanks to a scholarship to The Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. |
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The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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The first novel in the worldwide bestselling series by Suzanne Collins!Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun. . . . In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying... |
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeRalph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal,... |
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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
Format: Paperback
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In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him.... |
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Moby- Dick
Herman Melville - Signet Classics; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Moby-Dick is at once a thrilling adventure tale, a timeless allegory, and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict. At its heart is the powerful, unknowable sea—and Captain Ahab, a brooding, one-legged fanatic who has sworn vengeance on the mammoth white whale that crippled... |
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The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway - Scribner Paperback Fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Sun Also Rises was Ernest Hemingway's first big novel, and immediately established Hemingway as one of the great prose stylists, and one of the preeminent writers of his time. It is also the book that encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I generation, known as the Lost Generation.... |
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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 - Warner
Format: Paperback
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Harper 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 hatred. |
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