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  Beloved

  by Toni Morrison

  Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the decade. "A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story . . . read it and tremble."--People.
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  Sula

  by Toni Morrison

  Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and... (more)
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  The Taming of the Shrew

  by William Shakespeare

  A Shakespeare comedy. The beautiful Bianca is courted by many suitors, but her bad-tempered sister Kate frightens young men away. Then Kate is courted by Petruchio, who begins "the taming of the shrew"...chaos ensues.
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  Lucy: A Novel

  by Jamaica Kincaid

  The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--newly available in paperback Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed couple--handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Yet, alomst at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful facade. With mingled... (more)
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  Macbeth

  by William Shakespeare

  Shakespeare's tragic play of deception, intrigue and murder. After hearing the prophecy of three witches a Scottish noble plots the murder of his king in order to obtain the throne.
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  A Midsummer Night's Dream

  by William Shakespeare

  A delightful, easily accessible comedy of misdirected attraction containing some of Shakespeare's loveliest verse.
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  Love's Executioner

  And Other Tales of Psychotherapy

  by Irvin D. Yalom

  The collection of ten absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter.  In recounting his patients' dilemmas, Yalom not only gives us a rare and enthralling glimpse into their personal desires and motivations but also tells us his own story as he struggles to reconcile his all-too human responses with his... (more)
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  Complete Plays and Poems (Everyman's Library (Paper))

  by Christopher Marlowe

  This book gathers all seven of the dramas of Christopher Marlowe, in which the lure of dark forces drives the shifting balances between weak and strong, sacred and profane. Supported by textual notes and featuring modern punctuation and spelling, they include: - Dido, Queen of Carthage - Tamburlaine the Great, Part One - Tamburlaine the Great, Part Two - The Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - ... (more)
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  Bless Me, Ultima

  by Rudolfo Anaya

  When a curandera comes to stay with a young boy, he tests the bonds that tie him to his culture and finds himself in the secrets of the past.
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  The Brothers Karamazov

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Братья Карамазовы Brat'ya Karamazovy, pronounced <ˈbratʲjə karəˈmazəvɨ>) is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880. Dostoyevsky intended it to be the first part in an epic story titled The Life of a Great... (more)
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  Interpreter of Maladies

  by Jhumpa Lahiri

  Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an... (more)
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  A Small Place

  by Jamaica Kincaid

  A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a... (more)
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  Joseph Andrews / Shamela

  by Henry Fielding

  "Shamela" is a brilliant parody of Samuel Richardson's "Pamela", in which a virtuous servant girl long resists her master's advances and is eventually 'rewarded' with marriage. Fielding's far more spirited and sexually honest heroine, by contrast, merely uses coyness and mock modesty as techniques to catch a rich husband. "Joseph Andrews", Fielding's first full-length novel, can also be seen as a response to... (more)
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  Old Times

  by Harold Pinter

  "Old Times" was first presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on 1 June 1971. It was revived at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in July 2004.
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  Earth Song, Sky Spirit

  by Clifford E. Trafzer

  Trafzer explores the roots of current Native American fiction in traditional tales in a mixture of beloved and rarely seen stories by premier Native American authors, including N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, Micahel Dorris, Leslie Marmon Silko, and others. Author reading tour.
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  Selected Satires of Lucian

  by Lucian

  "Lucian's genial mockery," writes Lionel Casson, "aimed at man's omnipresent failings, is never out of date: the jabs he gave the hypocrites, grandstanders, fakers, and boobs of the ancient world can just as appropriately be administered to their counterparts of the modern." Lucian, born in Syria in the second century C.E., came to Greece at an early age and mastered its language and literature. He took up... (more)
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  6 VOLUME SET BY BRONTE'S___ CHARLOTTE BRONTE "VILLETTE, JANE EYRE AND SHIRLEY", ANNE BRONTE "THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL AND AGNES GREY" AND EMILY BRONTE "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" BOO-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB__1990.

  by ANNE AND CHARLOTTE BRONTE EMILY

• THREE JACOBEAN TRAGEDIES , THE REVENGER'S TRAGEDY, THE WHITE DEVIL, AND THE CHANGELINGGamini (Edited By) Salgado

  

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  THREE JACOBEAN TRAGEDIES , THE REVENGER'S TRAGEDY, THE WHITE DEVIL, AND THE CHANGELING

  by Gamini (Edited By) Salgado

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  Poetical works of Wordsworth: With introductions and notes

  by William Wordsworth, Thomas Hutchinson

  This edition collects every piece of verse known to have been published by the poet himself, or of which he authorized the posthumous publication. Besides explanatory notes on the texts, the book includes the poet's own Notes to the 1849-50 edition and his Prefaces.
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  Poems and Prose

  by Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Closer to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his 'creative violence' and insistence on the sound of poetry, Gerard Manley Hopkins was no staid, conventional Victorian. On entering the Society of Jesus at the age of twenty-four, he burnt all his poetry and 'resolved to write no more, as not belonging to my profession, unless by the wishes of my superiors'. The poems, letters and journal entries selected for this... (more)