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The lovely bones
Alice Sebold
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Sebolds mesmerizing and luminous first novel--a #1 national bestseller--builds a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, and even joy, following an unspeakable tragedy.
2002; ; isbn:0316666343 More Information |
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A tree grows in Brooklyn
Smith, Betty, 1896-1972
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The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident. The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet ...
430 p.; isbn:0060801263 More Information |
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East of Eden
John Steinbeck
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A New York Times Bestseller Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families -- the Trasks and the Hamiltons -- whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
602 p.; isbn:0670287385 More Information |
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The grapes of wrath
John Steinbeck ; with an introduction by Brad Leithauser
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1993; 578 p.; isbn:0679420401 More Information |
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The grapes of wrath and other writings, 1936-1941
John Steinbeck
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This second volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck features his acknowledged masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. Written in an incredibly compressed five-month period, the novel had an electrifying impact upon publication in 1939, unleashing a political storm with its vision of America's dispossessed struggling for ...
1996; 1067 p.; isbn:1883011159 More Information |
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Novels
John Steinbeck
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This third volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck's writings shows one of America's most enduring popular writers continuing restlessly to explore new subject matter and new approaches to storytelling.
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The adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain ; foreword, Shelley Fisher Fishkin ; introduction, E.L. Doctorow ; afterword, Albert E. Stone
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In his introduction, E.L. Doctorow rightly points out that "ever since its publication in 1876, children have been able to read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer with a sense of recognition for the feelings of childhood truly rendered: how Tom finds solace for his unjust treatment at the hands of Aunt Polly by dreaming of running away; or how he loves Becky ...
1996; 1 v.; isbn:0195101367 More Information |
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Mississippi writings
Mark Twain
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1982; 1084 p.; isbn:0940450070 More Information |
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God bless you, Mr. Rosewater: or, Pearls before swine
Kurt Vonnegut
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A rich man attempts a noble experiment with human nature. The result is an etched-in-acid portrayal of universal greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh.
1965; 275 p.; isbn:0385333471 More Information |
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Three complete novels
Kurt Vonnegut
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1995; 526 p.; isbn:051712436X |
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The color purple
Alice Walker
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Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband ...
1992; 290 p.; isbn:0151191549 More Information |
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Native son
Richard Wright ; with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad
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1998; 504 p.; isbn:0060929804 More Information |
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