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  The Twilight Saga

  Twilight / New Moon / Eclipse / Breaking Dawn

  by Stephenie Meyer

  Bella Swan moves back to Forks, Washington to live with her dad. On her first day of school she is breathless when she meets Edward Cullen, the most beautiful boy you will ever lay eyes on. Until she finds out his secret that puts her life in danger.
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  The Catcher in the Rye

  by J. D. Salinger

  Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is one of America's literary treasures.The Catcher in the Rye is a timeless tale of a teenager struggling with society and himself. Holden Caulfield is a teenager who hates his own life. He believes that every single... (more)
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  Atlas Shrugged

  by Ayn Rand

  Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957 in the United States. Rand's fourth and last novel, it was also her longest, and the one she considered to be her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing. As indicated by its working title The Strike, the book explores a dystopian United States where leading innovators, ranging from industrialists to artists, refuse to be exploited by society. The... (more)
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  The Fountainhead

  by Ayn Rand

  Howard Roark is an architect whose genius and integrity will not be comprised. He has ideas that work against conventional standards.
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  The Real Lincoln

  A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War

  by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

  A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War Most Americans consider Abraham Lincoln to be the greatest president in history. His legend as the Great Emancipator has grown to mythic proportions as hundreds of books, a national holiday, and a monument in Washington, D.C., extol his heroism and martyrdom. But what if most everything you knew about Lincoln were false? What if, instead of an... (more)
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  The Five People You Meet in Heaven

  by Mitch Albom

  A specially produced paperback edition -- with flaps -- of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, that has sold more than six million copies in hardcover. Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret. Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to... (more)
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  Left Behind: Book 1

  Left Behind

  A Novel of the Earth's Last Days

  by Tim F. LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

  Left Behind is the first book in a thirteen book series, and it is the best selling of them all. It is based on "Revalations," a chapter in the New Testament. The main character is and airline pilor, Captain Rayford Steele. Shortly after take-off, he is told there are about 100 missing seats on the plane. After panicing for a while, him and a few others decide to find the truth of what is going on.
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  Innocent Blood

  by P. D. James

  Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a long-ago murder is only the first in a series of shocking betrayals. Philippa quickly learns that those who delve into the secrets of the past must be on guard when long-buried horrors begin to stir. "As a crime novel," wrote the ... (more)
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  In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day

  How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars

  by Mark Batterson

  Your greatest regret at the end of your life will be the lions you didn't chase. You will look back longingly on risks not taken, opportunities not seized, and dreams not pursued. Stop running away from what scares you most and start chasing the God-ordained opportunities that cross your path. In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day is inspired by one of the most obscure yet courageous acts recorded in Scripture, a... (more)
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  Calvin Institutes of the Christian Religion

  by John Calvin

  The translator and his associated have taken great care to preserve the rugged strength and vividness of Calvin's writing. They have not, however, hesitated to break up overly long sentences to conform to modern English usage or, wherever possible, to render heavy Latinate theological terms in simple language. The result is a translation that achieves a high degree of accuracy and at the same time is eminently... (more)
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  If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

  by Ann Coulter

  “Uttering lines that send liberals into paroxysms of rage, otherwise known as ‘citing facts,’ is the spice of life. When I see the hot spittle flying from their mouths and the veins bulging and pulsing above their eyes, well, that’s when I feel truly alive.” So begins If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans , Ann Coulter’s funniest, most devastating, and, yes, most outrageous book to date. Coulter... (more)
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  Midsummer

  by Marcelle Clements

  A splendid Hudson River estate, complete with cook and rose garden. The landscape is inebriating, the women are in full, passionate bloom, and the men are incomprehensible. Susie-chic, smart, spacey, and no longer promiscuous- decides, at forty-five, to do what she would have done at twenty-five: invite a group of amusing friends to spend eight weekends of summer in stunning surroundings. The invitees include her... (more)