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  To Kill a Mockingbird

  by Harper Lee

  Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. This is a lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this story - a black man charged with raping a white girl in the Deep South of the 1930s. To Kill a Mockingbird has become a staple of American literature and has been made into a feature-length film of the same name.
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  Harry Potter: Book 5

  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  by J. K. Rowling

  I say to you all, once again--in the light of Lord Voldemort’s return, we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort’s gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. So spoke Albus Dumbledore at the end of Harry Potter’s fourth year at Hogwarts. But as Harry enters his fifth... (more)
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  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

  An Inquiry into Values

  by Robert M. Pirsig

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  Disclosure

  by Michael Crichton

  "Expertly crafted, ingenious and absorbing." The Philadelphia Inquirer. The #1 Bestseller by the author of "Jurassic Park." As he did in "Rising Sun," Crichton focuses on a topic as close as today's newspaper headlines: sexual harassment. Tom Sanders is an up-and-coming executive at the computer firm DigiCom. When his new boss turns out to be a woman who is both his former lover and a business rival, Sanders... (more)
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  The World According to Garp

  by John Irving

  The World According to Garp is a comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation. A worldwide bestseller ...
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  The Culture of Fear

  Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things

  by Barry Glassner

  In late 2002, Barry Glassner appeared in Michael Moore's Academy Award-winning movie, Bowling for Columbine , to discuss The Culture of Fear . The reaction to Glassner's appearance, and the message of his book, were overwhelming. As Glassner describes, the American public remains fascinated by the specter of fear in their lives. Be it the proverbial dark-faced bogeyman, or a more recent epidemic of child... (more)
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  V for Vendetta

  Comic Book

  by Alan Moore, David Lloyd

  V for Vendetta is, like its author's later Watchmen, a landmark in comic-book writing. Alan Moore has led the field in intelligent, politically astute (if slightly paranoid), complex adult comic-book writing since the early 1980s. He began V back in 1981 and it constituted one of his first attempts (along with the criminally neglected but equally superb Miracleman) at writing an ongoing series. It is 1998 (which... (more)
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  Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American

  by Michael Moore

  Americans today are working harder, working longer and yet for most of us, in this time of ruthless downsizing and political cronyism, job security, a decent standard of living and a comfortable retirement are becoming harder and harder to find. In this brilliantly funny and right-on-target diatribe, irreverent everyman Michael Moore gives his own bold views on who's behind the fading of the American dream. ... (more)
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  Stupid White Men

  And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!

  by Michael Moore

  In the winter of 2002, Stupid White Men took America -- and the world -- by storm. Tired and skeptical of George W. Bush's high approval ating, frightened by the implications of the Enron scandal -- and generally just looking for a voice of honest dissent in the thick atmosphere of jingoism that followed 9/11 -- book buyers from coast to coast swiftly embraced Michael Moore's in-your-face anti-Bush-era... (more)