Banned Books
 Used: $4.95 Mass Market List Price $5.99 
add to wish list |
|
The Catcher in the Rye
by J D Salinger  Publisher Comments 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 truly one of America's literary treasures....
|
||||||
Used: $4.95 Mass Market List Price $7.50
add to wish list |
|
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments "Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid...
|
||||||
Used: $5.95 Trade Paper List Price $14.00
add to wish list |
|
This Boy's Life: A Memoir
by Tobias Wolff 
Publisher Comments This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are...
|
||||||
Used: $3.50 Mass Market List Price $6.99
add to wish list |
|
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee Publisher Comments The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the...
|
||||||
Used: $2.95 Mass Market List Price $7.99
add to wish list |
|
The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende Publisher Comments Here, in an astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller, is the magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave...
|
||||||
Used: $2.95 Mass Market List Price $9.99
add to wish list |
|
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
Publisher Comments William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island has become a modern classic. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long becomes furious and life on the...
|
||||||
Used: $6.95 Trade Paper List Price $15.00
add to wish list |
|
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
by Ben Mezrich
Publisher Comments The amazing inside story about a gambling ring of M.I.T. students who beat the system in Vegas — and lived to tell how. Robin Hood meets the Rat Pack when the best and the brightest of M.I.T.'s math students and engineers take up blackjack under...
|
||||||
Used: $5.95 Hardcover List Price $29.99
add to wish list |
|
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
by J K Rowling
Publisher Comments 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...
|
||||||
Used: $5.95 Trade Paper List Price $14.00
add to wish list |
|
Animal Dreams
by Barbara Kingsolver Publisher Comments "Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her...
|
||||||
Used: $3.95 Trade Paper List Price $6.50
add to wish list |
|
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
Publisher Comments This special edition of A Wrinkle in Time includes a new essay that explores the science behind the fantasy. Rediscover one of the most beloved children's books of all time: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle: Meg Murray, her little brother Charles...
|
||||||
Used: $6.95 Hardcover List Price $19.95
add to wish list |
|
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
by J. K. Rowling Synopsis When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogswart School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been unleashed on the school....
|
||||||
Used: $3.95 Trade Paper List Price $5.99
add to wish list |
|
James and the Giant Peach
by Roald Dahl
Publisher Comments Roald Dahl was a champion of the underdog and all things little — in this case, an orphaned boy oppressed by two nasty, self-centered aunts. How James escapes his miserable life with the horrible aunts and becomes a hero is a Dahlicious fantasy of...
|
||||||
Used: $3.50 Mass Market List Price $6.99
add to wish list |
|
Bless Me, Ultima
by Rudolfo Anaya Synopsis A masterpiece of Hispanic literature from "one of the nation's foremost Chicano literary artists" (Denver Post). This is the involving story of Antonio, a boy facing the conflicts in his life with the help of Ultima, a curandera who cures with herbs and...
|
||||||
Used: $2.50 Mass Market List Price $5.99
add to wish list |
|
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
Publisher Comments The moving and beautiful autobiography of a talented black woman. ." . . I have no words for this achievement, but I know that not since the days of my childhood . . . have I found myself so moved . . . Her portrait is a Biblical study of life in the...
|
||||||
Used: $3.95 Mass Market List Price $7.99
add to wish list |
|
The Outsiders
by S.E. Hinton Publisher Comments Written over forty years ago, S. E. Hintonas classic story of the struggle between the Socs and the Greasers remains as powerful today as it was the day it was written, and it is taught in schools nationwide. Now available in a great new package with an...
|
||||||
Used: $3.95 Trade Paper List Price $6.99
add to wish list |
|
Monster
by Walter Dean Myers
Publisher Comments FADE IN: INTERIOR: Early morning in CELL BLOCK D, MANHATTAN DETENTION CENTER. Steve (Voice-Over)Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can makemy own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of...
|
||||||
Used: $1.95 Mass Market List Price $7.99
add to wish list |
|
Plains of Passage Earths Children 4
by Jean Auel Publisher Comments Jean M. Auel's enthralling "Earth's Children series has become a literary phenomenon, beloved by readers around the world. In a brilliant novel as vividly authentic and entertaining as those that came before, Jean M. Auel returns us to the earliest days...
|
||||||
Used: $6.50 Hardcover List Price $25.00
add to wish list |
|
Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel Publisher Comments Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as...
|
||||||
Sale: $6.98 Trade Paper List Price $14.00
add to wish list |
|
Always Running La Vida Loca Gang Days
by Luis Rodriguez Publisher Comments This award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member is now updated with a new Introduction and reading group guide....
|
||||||
Used: $4.50 Mass Market List Price $7.99
add to wish list |
|
The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children)
by Jean M Auel Publisher Comments The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, Wolf, Whinney, and Racer, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalar's people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii...
|
||||||
