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  To Kill a Mockingbird

  by Harper Lee

  The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, "To Kill a Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award winning film and stage production, both classics.Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving,... (more)
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  National Velvet

  by Enid Bagnold

  The timeless story of Velvet Brown and her beloved horse has thrilled generations of readers. And now the republication of this classic story in a fresh, up-to-date package will charm confirmed fans while captivating new ones. Fourteen-year-old Velvet is determined to turn her untamed horse into a champion and personally ride him to victory in the world's greatest steeplechase, the Grand National.
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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 nearly as sassy as her tongue; and white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid has... (more)
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  Little Women: Book 1

  Little Women

  by Louisa May Alcott

  Set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts. The story follows the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March. Meg is the oldest, and a beauty. She is happy to fall into the role of mother to her sisters when their mother is gone, and seeks to find a good marriage of her own. Jo is tomboyish, hot tempered, and wants little to do with the role of the 18th century woman. She... (more)
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  The Sot-Weed Factor

  by John Barth

  This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece.  This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting...to roam the world since Candide" ( Time ).
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  The Wheel on the School

  by Meindert DeJong, Maurice Sendak

  Why do the storks no longer come to the little Dutch fishing village of Shora to nest? It was Lina, one of the six schoolchildren who first asked the question, and she set the others to wondering. And sometimes when you begin to wonder, you begin to make things happen. So the children set out to bring the storks back to Shora. The force of their vision put the whole village to work until at last the dream began to... (more)
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  Promise at Dawn

  A Memoir

  by Romain Gary

  Gary, Promise at Dawn. A romantic, thrilling memoir that has become a French classic.
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  Making of the President: Book 1

  The Making of the President, 1960

  by Theodore H. White

  The book and the campaign it covered are throwbacks to an era more and more citizens, increasingly mired in sound-bites and tabloidism, are at least subconsciously desperate to resuscitate.
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  Mila 18

  by Leon Uris

  It was a time of crisis, a time of tragedy--and a time of transcendent courage and determination.  Leon Uris's blazing novel is set in the midst of the ghetto uprising that defied Nazi tyranny, as the Jews of Warsaw boldly met Wehrmacht tanks with homemade weapons and bare fists.  Here, painted on a canvas as broad as its subject matter, is the compelling of one of the most heroic struggles of modern times.
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  Whistling in the Dark: Book 2

  Good Graces

  by Lesley Kagen

  Lesley Kagen returns with the sequel to her national bestselling debut, Whistling in the Dark . Whistling in the Dark captivated readers with the story of ten-year-old Sally O'Malley and her sister, Troo, during Milwaukee's summer of 1959. The novel became a New York Times bestseller and was named a Midwest Honor Award winner. In Good Graces , it's one year later, and a heat wave has everyone in the... (more)
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  Country Girl: A Memoir

  by Edna O'Brien

  Edna O'Brien's family encouraged her to attend pharmacy school, but she left before finishing to marry an older writer, give birth to two sons, and publish, in 1960, her first novel. The Country Girls so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by the priest, her family disgraced. COUNTRY GIRL comes twenty-one books later, a rich and heady accounting of the events, people, emotions, and... (more)
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  Mystery in the Islands: Book 1

  Adrift on St. John

  by Rebecca M. Hale

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  Growing Up Absurd

  Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

  by Paul Goodman

  Includes the essay "On Paul Goodman" by Susan Sontag. Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway bestseller when it was first published in 1960 and it became one of the defining texts of the nascent New Left. Goodman, at the time well into middle age, was a maverick anarchist who broke every mold, and did it brilliantly—he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist, among a host of other things—and the... (more)
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  Avdøde Ønsket Ikke Blomster

  by Gerd Nyquist

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  The Bartender's Tale

  by Ivan Doig

  From a great American storyteller, a one-of-a-kind father and his precocious son, rocked by a time of change. Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar called The Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole and last refuge of the town of Gros Ventre, in northern Montana. Tom also has a son named Rusty, an “accident between the sheets” whose mother deserted them both years... (more)
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  Alice: Book 2

  Through the Looking-Glass

  And What Alice Found There

  by Lewis Carroll

  The 1871 sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland finds Carroll’s inquisitive heroine in a fantasy land where everything is reversed. Alice encounters talking flowers, insects, madcap kings and queens, and strange mythological characters when she becomes a pawn in a bizarre chess game. Along the way she encounters Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and other amusing nursery-rhyme characters. One of... (more)
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  Over in the Meadow

  by Ezra Jack Keats

  Welcome to a lush meadow bustling with activity, where one turtle digs, two fish swim, three bluebirds sing, and so on to ten fireflies that shine in the night. Keats's collage-style illustrations perfectly complement this classic Appalachian counting rhyme, which is also a popular song for toddlers.
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  The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales

  by Hans Christian Andersen

  Includes The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes and The Snow Queen.
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  Green Mansions

  A Romance of the Tropical Forest

  by W. H. Hudson

  Modern classic tells the compelling story of Rima, a strange birdlike girl of the jungle, and Abel, the European who falls in love with her. The book owes much of its popularity to the mystic, near-religious feeling that pervades the story and the beauty of Rima’s halting, poetic expressions. The author’s knowledge and understanding of nature, the jungle and grasslands lend special authenticity to this captivating... (more)
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  A Burnt-Out Case

  by Graham Greene

  Querry, a world-famous architect, is the victim of an attack of indifference, no longer finding meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he loses himself in work for the lepers. As he helps the lepers, so he approaches a self-cure.