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  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

  by Ken Kesey

  An inmate of a mental institution tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world.
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  I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

  by Joanne Greenberg, Hannah Green

  I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is the story of a sixteen-year-old who retreats from reality into the bondage of a lushly imagined but threatening kingdom, and her slow and painful journey back to sanity. It was a nightmare made real when Deborah's parents discovered their teenage daughter staring at the bloody gashes she made in her own wrists. Deborah was a schizophrenic, doomed to the... (more)
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  How I Made It to Eighteen

  A Mostly True Story

  by Tracy White

  How do you know if you’re on the verge of a nervous breakdown?  For seventeen-year-old Stacy Black, it all begins with the smashing of a window. After putting her fist through the glass, she checks into a mental hospital.  Stacy hates it there but despite herself slowly realizes she has to face the reasons for her depression to stop from self-destructing.  Based on the author’s experiences, How I Made it to... (more)
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  Shutter Island

  by Dennis Lehane

  US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to find an escaped murderer named Rachel Solando. As a killer hurricane bears down on the island, the investigation deepens and the questions mount. How has a barefoot woman escaped from a locked room? Who is leaving them clues in the form of cryptic codes? And what really goes on in Ward... (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)
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  Lilith

  by J. R. Salamanca

  Soars above the world of mundane reality and lures its readers into a world of sinister fantasy and haunting unreality.--Orville Prescott, The New York TimesR
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  A Dry White Season

  by André Brink

  As startling and powerful as when first published more than two decades ago, André Brink's classic novel, A Dry White Season , is an unflinching and unforgettable look at racial intolerance, the human condition, and the heavy price of morality. Ben Du Toit is a white schoolteacher in suburban Johannesburg in a dark time of intolerance and state-sanctioned apartheid. A simple, apolitical man, he believes in... (more)
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  From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure

  Access to Information in the Networked World

  by Christine L. Borgman

  Will the emerging global information infrastructure (GII) create a revolution in communication equivalent to that wrought by Gutenberg, or will the result be simply the evolutionary adaptation of existing behavior and institutions to new media? Will the GII improve access to information for all? Will it replace libraries and publishers? How can computers and information systems be made easier to use? What are the... (more)
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  The Reluctant Fundamentalist

  by Mohsin Hamid

  At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful meeting . . . Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by the elite "valuation" firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his infatuation with... (more)
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  The Crazy School

  by Cornelia Read

  From the acclaimed author of A FIELD OF DARKN ESS comes another compelling novel featuring the acerbic and memorable voice of ex-debutante Madeline Dare. Madeline Dare has finally escaped rust-belt Syracuse , New York , for the lush Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts . After her husband's job offer falls through, Maddie signs on as a teacher at the Santangelo Academy , a boarding school for... (more)
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  And It's Goodnight from Him...: The Autobiography of the 'Two Ronnies'

  by Ronnie Corbett

  , 322 pages with black and white and colour photographic plates, SIGNED and DEDICATED by Ronnie Corbett on the title page
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  Frankenstein

  or, The Modern Prometheus

  by Mary Shelley

  A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
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  Beyond Red and Blue: How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates

  by Peter S. Wenz

  On any given night cable TV news will tell us how polarized American politics is: Republicans are from Mars, Democrats are from Canada. But in fact, writes Peter Wenz in Beyond Red and Blue, Americans do not divide neatly into two ideological camps of red/blue, Republican/Democrat, right/left. If they did, what could explain Republicans who oppose the Patriot Act and support gay marriage, or liberals and... (more)
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  Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition

  by David Garland

  Taking us inside the world of capital punishment, this book presents a compelling picture of America's peculiar institution - its cultural meaning and symbolic force for supporters and abolitionists. Shattering current stereotypes, the book forces us to rethink our understanding of the politics of punishment in America and beyond.
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  Tamil Tigress (1 Volume Set): My Story as a Child Soldier in Sri Lanka's Bloody Civil War

  by Niromi de Soyza

  The compelling true story of a seventeen year old girl who joins the Tamil Tigers.
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  The Social Construction of Reality

  A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

  by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann

  This book reformulates the sociological  subdiscipline known as the sociology of knowledge.  Knowledge is presented as more than ideology, including as  well false consciousness, propaganda, science and  art.
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  The World Is Flat

  A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century

  by Thomas L. Friedman

  When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating... (more)