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Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Saul Bellow
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A chronicle of success and failure, this work is Bellow's tale of the writer's life in America. When Humboldt dies a failure in a seedy New York hotel, Charlie Citrine coping with the tribulations of his own success, begins to realize the significance of... (read more)

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Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
by Jostein Gaarder
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One day when Sophie comes home from school, she finds two questions in her mail: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" Before she knows it, she is pondering all the great questions of Western philosophy (from the Greeks to Kant, to Marx... (read more)

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Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics)
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics)
by Willa Cather
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Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.... (read more)

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Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
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This brilliant novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman s life. Direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway's preparations for a party she is to give that evening, Woolf ultimately managed to... (read more)

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Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this... (read more)

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Scarlet Letter Norton Critical 3RD Edition
Scarlet Letter Norton Critical 3RD Edition
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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A story of love, guilt, sin and redemption played out against the stark background of Puritan New England.... (read more)

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Life After Life
Life After Life
by Jill McCorkle
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Award-winning author Jill McCorkle takes us on a splendid journey through time and memory in this, her tenth work of fiction. Life After Life is filled with a sense of wonder at our capacity for self-discovery at any age. And the residents, staff, and... (read more)

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Tortilla Flat
Tortilla Flat
by John Steinbeck
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Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a "Camelot" on a shabby hillside above Monterey on the California coast and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. As Steinbeck chronicles their thoughts and emotions... (read more)

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We Live in Water: Stories
We Live in Water: Stories
by Jess Walter
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The first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, We Live in Water is a diverse suite of stories marked by the wry wit and generosity of spirit that has made him one of America's most talked... (read more)

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Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse
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Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes... (read more)

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Lit: A Memoir (P.S.)
Lit: A Memoir (P.S.)
by Mary Karr
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The best way I can describe this work is to say that it's absolutely delicious. More than a mere memoir, this fascinating jewel contains universal truths, with delicate and elegant phrasing, and, despite the subject matter, there's no sense of frivolous... (read more)

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Her Fearful Symmetry
Her Fearful Symmetry
by Audrey Niffenegger
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After six long years, Audrey Niffenegger gives us a gem of a ghost story. Based around two sets of twins, Highgate Cemetery in London, a haunted flat, and long-buried secrets, this story proves even better than The Time Traveler's Wife. With a shocking... (read more)

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Down and Out in Paris and London
Down and Out in Paris and London
by George Orwell
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After graduating from Eton and serving five years as a member of the Imperial Police in Burma, George Orwell went slumming. Determined to overcome his inherited middle class mores, Orwell lived in abject poverty as a dishwasher and a vagrant. Down and... (read more)

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The Red Badge of Courage (Bantam Classics)
The Red Badge of Courage (Bantam Classics)
by Stephen Crane
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First published in 1895, America's greatest novel  of the Civil War was written before 21-year-old  Stephen Crane had "smelled even the powder of a  sham battle." But this powerful psychological  study of... (read more)

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The Lazarus Project
The Lazarus Project
by Aleksandar Hemon
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The Lazarus Project, Hemon's latest novel, is about storytelling, the nature of memory and reality, and America's relationship to the rest of the world, both past and present. It's blackly funny, crackling with intelligence, and populated by realistic... (read more)

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The Art Forger
The Art Forger
by B. A. Shapiro
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On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover... (read more)

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The Age of Miracles
The Age of Miracles
by Karen Thompson Walker
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As if facing the everyday insecurities and turmoil of adolescence isn't enough, 11-year-old Julia lives within the reality of a post-apocalyptic situation as the earth's rotation begins slowing by measurable degrees each day. Relationships, personal and... (read more)

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The Well and the Mine: A Novel
The Well and the Mine: A Novel
by Gin Phillips
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In 1931 Carbon Hill, Alabama, a small coal-mining town, nine-year-old Tess Moore watches a woman shove the cover off the family well and toss in a baby without a word. For the Moore family, centered on helping anyone in need during the Great Depression... (read more)

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The Lacuna (P.S.)
The Lacuna (P.S.)
by Barbara Kingsolver
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In this powerfully imagined, provocative novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is the poignant story of a man... (read more)

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Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon
Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon
by Chuck Palahniuk
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"Fugitives and Refugees is more than a book about the weird people and dark corners of Portland. Tucked surreptitiously between chapters are eleven 'postcards,' which, cobbled together, make up a sort of memoir of Palahniuk's years in his adopted city... (read more)

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