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  Inside Scientology

  The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion

  by Janet Reitman

  Scientology, created in 1954 by a prolific sci-fi writer named L. Ron Hubbard, claims to be the world’s fastest growing religion, with millions of members around the world and huge financial holdings. Its celebrity believers keep its profile high, and its teams of “volunteer ministers” offer aid at disaster sites such as Haiti and the World Trade Center. But Scientology is also a notably closed faith, harassing... (more)
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  Canada

  by Richard Ford

  "First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later."When fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons' parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this private cataclysm drives his life into before and after, a threshold that can never be uncrossed.His parents' arrest and imprisonment mean a threatening and uncertain... (more)
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  The World According to Garp

  by John Irving

  This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields — a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes — even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with "lunacy and sorrow;" yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. In more than thirty... (more)
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  Invisible Man

  by Ralph Ellison

  Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the... (more)
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  The Testament

  by John Grisham

  Heart of darkness...In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his will. With his death just hours away, Troy Phelan wants to send a message to his children, his ex-wives, and his minions, a message that will touch off a vicious legal battle and transform dozens of lives.Because Troy Phelan's new will names a sole surprise heir to his eleven-billion-dollar fortune:... (more)
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  The Firm

  by John Grisham

  When Mitchell McDeere qualified third in his class at Harvard, offers poured in from every law firm in America. The firm he chose was small, but well-respected. They were prepared to match, and then exceed Mitch's wildest dreams.: eighty thousand a year, a BMW and a low-interest mortgage. Soon the house, the car, and the job were his. Then the nightmares begin: the secret files, the bugs in the... (more)
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  JERRY'S RIOT: The True Story of Montana's 1959 Prison Disturbance

  by Kevin S. Giles

  Headlines called it one of America's most spectacular prison riots. Over three days in April 1959, an unblinking nation followed a story more captivating than fiction, more arresting than television drama. The riot held a small western Montana town hostage. It made news across the country and even in London. And yet, for all the publicity, the biggest story was never told. In "Jerry's Riot: The True Story of... (more)
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  Can you Hear the Nightbird Call

  by Anita Rau Badami

  Set against the tumultuous backdrop of a fragmenting Punjab and moving between Canada and India, Can you Hear the Nightbird Call? charts the interweaving stories of three Indian women – Bibi-ji, Leela and Nimmo – each in search of a resting place amid rapidly changing personal and political landscapes. The ambitious, defiant Sikh Bibi-ji, born Sharanjeet Kaur in a Punjabi village, steals her sister Kanwar’s... (more)
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  The Panic Virus

  A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear

  by Seth Mnookin

  WHO DECIDES WHICH FACTS ARE TRUE? In 1998 Andrew Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist with a history of self-promotion, published a paper with a shocking allegation: the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine might cause autism. The media seized hold of the story and, in the process, helped to launch one of the most devastating health scares ever. In the years to come Wakefield would be revealed as a profiteer in... (more)