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  Lord of the Flies

  by William Golding

  A classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own natures.Kind of has a story line of societyfwfgyhyalsdivgfasdlfv
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  Good-Bye to All That

  An Autobiography

  by Robert Graves

  In this autobiography, first published in 1929, poet Robert Graves traces the monumental and universal loss of innocence that occurred as a result of the First World War. Written after the war and as he was leaving his birthplace, he thought, forever, Good-Bye to All That bids farewell not only to England and his English family and friends, but also to a way of life. Tracing his upbringing from his solidly... (more)
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  The Family Arsenal

  by Paul Theroux

  Hood, a renegade American diplomat, envisions a new urban order through the opium fog of his room. His sometimes bedmate, Mayo, has stolen a Flemish painting and is negotiating for publicity with "The Times". Murf the bomb-maker leaves his mark in red whilst his girlfriend Brodie bombs Euston.
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  The Story of Art

  by E. H. Gombrich

  This text is the 16th revised and updated edition of this introduction to art, from the earliest cave paintings to experimental art. Eight new artists from the modern period have been introduced. They are: Corot, Kollwitz, Nolde, de Chirico, Brancussi, Magritte, Nicolson and Morandi. A sequence of new "endings" have been added, and the captions are now fuller, including the medium and dimension of the works... (more)
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  The Beast in Me and Other Animals

  A Collection of Pieces and Drawings about Human Beings and Less Alarming Creatures

  by James Thurber

  These twenty-three humorous stories and essays and more than one hundred illustrations find James Thurber in absolutely top form. The book concludes with a sampling of articles Thurber wrote for the New Yorker’s “The Talk of the Town,” demonstrating his often overlooked skill as a reporter.
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  Philosophy (Made Simple Books)

  by Avrum Stroll, Richard H. Popkin

  Revised and updated, this bestselling reference is a step-by-step guide through this sometimes abstract discipline. The philosophers/authors make their subject matter lively and comprehensible as they delve into such areas as Ethics, Political Philosophy, Metaphysics, and Logic.
• Seven Novels, including The Country Girls, The Girl With Green Eyes, August is a Wicked Month, Night, plus two collections of short stories

  

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  Seven Novels, including The Country Girls, The Girl With Green Eyes, August is a Wicked Month, Night, plus two collections of short stories

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  The Mongol Empire

  by Peter Ludwig Brent

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  Dictionary Of Phrase & Fable

  by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

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  Introducing Oriental art

  by Philip S. Rawson

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  Greek pottery painting; (Cameo)

  by Paolino Mingazzini

  Text: English, Italian (translation)
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  Book of Fortune Telling

  by Agnes M. Miall

  From dust jacket flap: "Fortune telling provides hours of fascination and amusement - there are so many interesting ways of reading character, casting horoscopes, predicting the future. This book shows you how it is done: how to work out, for instance, the Rising Sign and the Ruling Planet at the time of anybody's birth and what these symbols mean. If discovering what the stars fortell is too long or compicated a... (more)
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  History of the World, Updated (Unabridged)

  by J. M. Roberts

  From the evolution of Homo sapiens to the exploration of space, the vast landscape of human history appears in J.M. Roberts's History of the World. Deftly written and evocatively illustrated, this book offers an outstanding one-volume survey of the major events, developments, and personalities of the known past. In a truly remarkable work of compression and synthesis, Roberts sweeps through thousands of years... (more)