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On the Road
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
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On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and... (read more)

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Bell Jar
Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
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The Bell Jarchronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity... (read more)

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The Second Sex
The Second Sex
by Simone De Beauvoir
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This triumphant and genuinely revolutionary book began as an exceptional woman's attempt to find out who and what she was. It ended up shocking, infuriating, and galvanizing millions of readers and dramatically revising the way women talk and think about... (read more)

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Coney Island of the Mind
Coney Island of the Mind
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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A new printing of Ferlinghetti's classic. The title of this vibrant collection of poems is taken from Henry Miller's Into the Night Life, and expresses the way Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950s... (read more)

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Cat's Cradle
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
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One of Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes.... (read more)

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How To Go To College Almost for Free
How To Go To College Almost for Free
by Benjamin R. Kaplan
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Hundreds of millions of dollars in scholarship prizes are waiting to be won. 23 year-old Ben Kaplan has won many of them, paying nearly $90,000 toward his Harvard education. Ben then wrote and self-published his story and methodology in How To Go To... (read more)

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Pocket Poets #04: Howl: And Other Poems
Pocket Poets #04: Howl: And Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
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"Do we need to say anything about Howl? This is, more than anything else, the book that launched the Beat movement. By turns wildly praised and bitterly reviled, it still packs a wallop today."... (read more)

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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
by Audre Lorde
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ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde's work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings... (read more)

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The Stranger
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
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Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's extraordinary first novel, The Stranger (L'Etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a... (read more)

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Will to Power
Will to Power
by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Represents a selection from Nietzche's notebooks to find out what he wrote on nihilism, art, morality, religion, and the theory of knowledge, among others.... (read more)

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The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
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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.... (read more)

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Elements of Style
Elements of Style
by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White
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You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. The revisions to the new edition are purposely kept minimal in order to... (read more)

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Ariel (65 Edition)
Ariel (65 Edition)
by Sylvia Plath
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"In these poems...Sylvia Plath becomes herself, becomes something imaginary, newly, wildly and subtly created." -- From the Introduction by Robert... (read more)

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
by Hunter S Thompson
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the... (read more)

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Complete Book of Colleges, 2003 Edition
Complete Book of Colleges, 2003 Edition
by Princeton Review
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This is the only guide you will need for a successful college search. Browse through the 2003 edition of the Complete Book of Colleges and you will find meticulously researched profiles of more than 1,600 schools. It contains the latest information for... (read more)

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Breakfast of Champions
Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut
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After Slaughterhouse Five came out in 1969, Kurt Vonnegut entered a long period of depression and swore he would never write another novel. Fortunately he was lying, and in 1973, out came Breakfast of Champions; or, Goodbye Blue Monday (the subtitle... (read more)

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The College Admissions Mystique
The College Admissions Mystique
by Bill Mayher
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In this fresh and plainspoken book, Bill Mayher demystifies the process. He covers practical issues, including discovering colleges, narrowing the search, finding financial aid, and using college counselors to the best advantage. And he deals with the... (read more)

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Beating the College Blues
Beating the College Blues
by Paul Grayson
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Beating the College Blues deals with many potential collegiate pitfalls with insightful, timely, and compassionate support. Topics covered include changing family relationships; sex, date rape, and sexual harassment; coping with anxiety, depression, and... (read more)

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Best 345 Colleges 2003
Best 345 Colleges 2003
by Princeton Review
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What makes The Best 345 Colleges the most talked-about college guide? • The authors ask students (not just admissions officers) what colleges are like. They surveyed 65,000 college students, and the revealing results are in this book. •... (read more)

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Ultimate Xmen Rev Edition
Ultimate Xmen Rev Edition
by Dk
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Following exciting new developments in the X-Men universe, this revised edition of Ultimate X-Men includes the best of the two feature films and the animated television series. Watch the evolution of the X-Men superheroes from their conception in the... (read more)

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