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  Fahrenheit 451

  by Ray Bradbury

  Unlike this day and age, firemen in this book start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. She would get Montag thinking a bit. Guy Montag never really cared about his job or his wife Mildred. But one day something... (more)
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  The Storm

  by Margriet De Moor

  On the night of January 31, 1953, a mountain of water, literally piled up out of the sea by a freak winter hurricane, swept down onto the Netherlands, demolishing the dikes protecting the country and wiping a quarter of its landmass from the map. It was the worst natural disaster to strike the Netherlands in three hundred years. The morning of the storm, Armanda asks her sister, Lidy, to take her place on a visit... (more)
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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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  The Crucible

  by Arthur Miller

  Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 — one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history — and the Red Scare which gripped America in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice is a savage attack on McCarthyism that brings to light the evils of mindless... (more)
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  The Lost Steps

  by Alejo Carpentier

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  For Esme-With Love and Squalor, and Other Stories

  by J. D. Salinger

  This is a collection of nine exceptional short stories from the author of "The Catcher in the Rye", J D Salinger. The book includes two of Salinger's most famous and critically acclaimed pieces, which helped to establish him among contemporary literary greats. The title story - a soldier's recollection of his meeting with a young girl, Esme, before being sent into combat - prompted a flood of readers' letters when... (more)
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  The Adventures of Augie March

  by Saul Bellow

  Bold, expansive,and keenly humorous, The Adventures of Augie March blends street language with literary elegance to tell the story of a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Depression. A "born recruit," Augie makes himself available for hire by plungers, schemers, risk takers and operators, compiling a record of choices that is — to say the least — eccentric.
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  Junky

  by William S. Burroughs

  Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch , an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junk , his first book, a candid, eyewitness account of times and places that are now long gone. This book brings them vividly to life again; it is an unvarnished field report from the American postwar underground. For this definitive 50th-anniversary edition, eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has painstakingly re-created the... (more)
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  The Golden Apples of the Sun

  by Ray Bradbury

  Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering body of work unmatched in metaphorical power by any other American storyteller. And here, presented in a new trade edition, are thirty-two of his most famous tales--prime examples of the poignant and mysterious poetry which Bradbury uniquely uncovers in the depths of the human soul, the otherwordly portraits of ... (more)
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  Unnamable

  by Samuel Beckett

  The Unnamable is the third novel in Becket's trilogy, three remarkable prose works in which men of increasingly debilitating physical circumstances act, ponder, consider and rage against impermanence and the human condition. The Unnamable is without doubt the most uncompromising text and it is read here in startling fashion by Sean Barrett. Unabridged.
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  James Bond: Book 1

  Casino Royale

  by Ian Fleming

  In the first of Ian Fleming's tales of 007, Bond finds himself on a mission to neutralize lethal, high-rolling Russian operative called "le Chiffre."
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  The Captive Mind

  by Czesław Miłosz

  The best known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right.
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  Sleepy ABC

  by Margaret Wise Brown

  When nightime approaches, all the world is ready for sleep. The small kitten yawns at the hearth, the lambs in the field close their eyes, and a young child waits for a goodnight kiss. Margaret Wise Brown's tender rhymes and Esphyr Slobodkina's patchwork-quilt motif artwork gently and lovingly illustrate each letter of this sleepy, bedtime alphabet, first published in 1953.
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  Mara, Daughter of the Nile

  by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

  The adventures of an ingenious Egyptian slave girl who undertakes a dangerous assignment as a spy in the royal palace of Thebes, in the days when Queen Hatshepsut ruled.
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  The Go-Between

  by L. P. Hartley

  "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." Summering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of L. P. Hartley's finest novel, encounters a world of unimagined luxury. But when his friend's beautiful older sister enlists him as the unwitting messenger in her illicit love affair, the aftershocks will be felt for years.The inspiration for the brilliant... (more)
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  Miss Marple Mysteries: Book 7

  A Pocket Full of Rye

  by Agatha Christie

  In this ingeniously plotted Christie classic, a child's nursery rhyme holds three clues to finding a cunning killer when a well-to-do household becomes infested with murder.
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  The Conservative Mind

  From Burke to Eliot

  by Russell Kirk

  The book that launched the modern American conservative movement, now available in trade paperback.
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  Journey Cake, Ho!

  by Ruth Sawyer, Robert McCloskey

  Johnny is leaving the farm because of hard times when his Journey Cake leads him on a merry chase that results in a farm yard full of animals and the family all together again.
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  Beyond This Place

  by A. J. Cronin

  Beyond This Place, Novel collectible
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  Tornado! 84 Minutes, 94 Lives

  by John M. O'Toole