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  The Old Man and the Sea

  by Ernest Hemingway

  Hemingway's last work published during his lifetime remains one of his most popular and best known. A man's symbolic quest to land the catch of a lifetime engages classic themes of the human struggle against nature as well as explores the intersection of expectation and desire.The story is told in minimalist style, perfectly crafted without sentimentality or bathos. Even if "fishing" isn't your 'thing',... (more)
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  Invisible Man

  by Ralph Ellison

  Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the... (more)
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  Player Piano

  by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

  Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines. His rebellion is a wildly funny, darkly satirical look at modern society.
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  Go Tell It on the Mountain

  by James Baldwin

  "Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old... (more)
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  Charlotte's Web

  by E. B. White

  A young girl, Fern, saves a runt pig from getting killed. The pig, Wilbur, then befriends Charlotte who creates unique spider webs to show what a wonder pig Wilbur is.
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  The Borrowers: Book 1

  The Borrowers

  by Mary Norton

  Pod, Homily, and Arrietty have some adventures in the small place where they live. They are so tiny they use stuff like buttons and spools of thread for chairs and plates.They are happy and a bit sad throughout the adventure.
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  Second Treatise of Government

  by John Locke

  The central principles of what today is broadly known as political liberalism were made current in large part by Locke's "Second Treatise of Government" (1690). The principles of individual liberty, the rule of law, government by consent of the people, and the right to private property are taken for granted as fundamental to the human condition now. Most liberal theorists writing today look back to Locke as the... (more)
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  My Cousin Rachel

  by Daphne du Maurier

  Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself. But the cosy world the two construct is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. There he falls in love and marries - and there he dies suddenly. In almost no time at all, the new widow -... (more)
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  The Biggest Bear

  by Lynd Ward

  Johnny Orchard brings home a playful bear cub that soon becomes huge and a nuisance to the neighbors.
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  Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow

  by Ray Bradbury, Helen Eustis, William Sansom, Christopher Isherwood

  Ray Bradbury, Master of MiraclesStrange, haunting , bizarre, grotesque, stories to set you shivering, gasping with terror, gaping with wonder ...Timeless stories selected by Ray BradburyEach -- in the remarkable Bradbury tradition -- a vivid and unforgettable adventure into the unknown, written by one of the master storytellers of our time: Roald Dahl, Christopher Isherwood, John... (more)
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  Moccasin Trail

  by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

  A pioneer boy, brought up by Crow Indians, is reunited with his family and attempts to orient himself in the white man's culture.
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  Mauriac Reader

  by François Mauriac

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  Provinces of Night

  by William Gay

  It’s 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth is finally coming home to Ackerman’s Field, Tennessee. Itinerant banjo picker and volatile vagrant, he’s been gone ever since he gunned down a deputy thirty years before. Two of his sons won’t be home to greet him: Warren lives a life of alcoholic philandering down in Alabama, and Boyd has gone to Detroit in vengeful pursuit of his wife and the peddler she ran off with. His third... (more)
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  Red Sails to Capri

  by Ann Weil

  Red Sails to Capri is a children's historical novel by Ann Weil. It tells the story of the rediscovery of Capri's Blue Grotto in 1826.
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  Uncle Wiggily: Book 12

  Uncle Wiggily's Story Book

  by Howard Roger Garis

  Uncle Wiggily is everyone's favorite rabbit--he's funny, kind, and always comes up with a happy solution to any small problem. All children can relate to the experiences described in this amusing collection.
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  The Bears on Hemlock Mountain

  by Alice Dalgliesh

  "There are no bears on Hemlock Mountain, No bears, no bears at all..." Or so young Jonathan is told by the grown-ups as he sets out alone over Hemlock Mountain. But as Jonathan discovers on that cold winter night, grown-ups don't always know... And there are bears on Hemlock Mountain!
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  The Power of Awareness

  by Neville Goddard

  2009 Reprint of 1952 first edition. Neville Lancelot Goddard was born in Barbados in 1905. He came to the United States to study drama at the age of seventeen and whilst touring with his dance company in England he developed an interest in metaphysics, after striking up a conversation with a Scotsman who lent him a series of books on the powers of the mind. On his return he gave up the entertainment industry to... (more)
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  Uncle Wiggily Starts Off

  by Howard R. and illustrated by Mary and Wallace Stover Garis

  Read the Stories and Color the Pictures Series. 10 Stories include Uncle Wiggily.. Starts Off, Goes Fishing, and the Black Crow, and Fido Flip-Flop, Does Some Tricks, At the Party, In a Parade, In the Fountain, and the Bad Dog, and the Monkey.
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  Secret of the Andes

  by Ann Nolan Clark

  "The story of an Incan boy who lives in a hidden valley high in the mountains of Peru with old Chuto the llama herder. Unknown to Cusi, he is of royal blood and is the 'chosen one.' A compelling story."--Booklist. Newbery Award Book.
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  Liberty or Equality the Challenge of Our Times

  by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Sometime in the 18th century, the word equality gained ground as a political ideal, but the idea was always vague. In this treatise, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn argues that it reduced to one simple and very dangerous idea: equality of political power as embodied in democracy. He marshals the strongest possible case that democratic equality is the very basis not of liberty, as is commonly believed, but the total... (more)