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The Help

by Kathryn Stockett

Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...

There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is... (learn more about this book)

The Devil in the White City

by Erik Larson

Bringing Chicago circa 1893 to vivid life, Erik Larson's spellbinding bestseller intertwines the true tale of two men--the brilliant architect behind the legendary 1893 World's Fair, striving to secure America’s place in the world; and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his... (learn more about this book)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

by Hunter S. Thompson

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is a well known book by self-dubbed 'gonzo journalist', Hunter S. Thompson. This drug laden tale is a common part of many high school curriculum and was made into a motion picture starring Johnny Depp and Benecio del Torro in 1998.

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia — a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings and... (learn more about this book)

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

by John Berendt

Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques... (learn more about this book)

Little House: Book 2

Little House on the Prairie

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Meet Laura Ingalls . . .the little girl who would grow up to write the Little House books.When Pa Ingalls decides to sell the little log house, the family sets out for Indian country! They travel from Wisconsin to Kansas and when there, finally, Pa builds their little house on the prairie.... (learn more about this book)

Little House: Book 1

Little House in the Big Woods

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls's story begins in 1871 in a little log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Four-year-old Laura lives in the little house with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their trusty dog, Jack. Pioneer life is sometimes hard, since the family must grow or catch... (learn more about this book)

Under the Banner of Heaven

by Jon Krakauer

Brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty insist they were commanded to kill by God. Krakauer's investigation is a meticulously researched, bone-chilling narrative of polygamy, savage violence and unyielding faith: an incisive, gripping work of non-fiction that illuminates an otherwise confounding realm... (learn more about this book)

1776

by David G. McCullough

In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been... (learn more about this book)

John Adams

by David G. McCullough

In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- "the colossus of independence," as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his zeal for the... (learn more about this book)