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ISBN 9780517534489 (0-517-53448-7, 0517534487)

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102 Favorite Paintings

by Norman Rockwell

ISBN 0517534487 (0-517-53448-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Great Coffee Table book or use prints to frame or collage [via]

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ISBN 9780517224236 (0-517-22423-2, 0517224232)

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The Annotated Walden: Walden or Life in the Woods

by Henry David Thoreau

ISBN 0517224232 (0-517-22423-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

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Walden; Or, Life in the Woods written by legendary author Henry David Thoreau is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This great classic on self reliance will surely attract a whole new generation of Henry David Thoreau readers. For many, Walden; Or, Life in the Woods is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by Henry David Thoreau is highly recommended. Published by Classic Books America and beautifully produced, Walden; Or, Life in the Woods would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library. [via]

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Black Like Me

by John Howard Griffin

ISBN 060600405X (0-606-00405-X)
Hardcover, Southgate Publishers

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The Brothers K

by David J. Duncan

ISBN 0553563149 (0-553-56314-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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ISBN 9780553378498 (0-553-37849-X, 055337849X)

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The Brothers K

by David James Duncan

ISBN 055337849X (0-553-37849-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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Finally in trade paperback, complementing Bantam's new release of River Teeth and our consistently bestselling edition of The River Why, here is The Brothers K, a lyrical and lovely novel of family. [via]

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ISBN 9780553214659 (0-553-21465-9, 0553214659)

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Common Sense: Library Edition

by Thomas Paine, Diana Gabaldon

ISBN 0553214659 (0-553-21465-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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"These are the times that try men's souls," begins Thomas Paine's first Crisis paper, the impassioned pamphlet that helped ignite the American Revolution. Published in Philadelphia in January of 1776, Common Sense sold 150,000 copies almost immediately. A powerful piece of propaganda, it attacked the idea of a hereditary monarchy, dismissed the chance for reconciliation with England, and outlined the economic benefits of independence while espousing equality of rights among citizens. Paine fanned a flame that was already burning, but many historians argue that his work unified dissenting voices and persuaded patriots that the American Revolution was not only necessary, but an epochal step in world history. [via]

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Dandelion Wine

by Ray Bradbury

ISBN 0553277537 (0-553-27753-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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ISBN 9780609608449 (0-609-60844-4, 0609608444)

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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

by Erik Larson

ISBN 0609608444 (0-609-60844-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that The Devil in the White City is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor. Burnham's challenge was immense. In a short period of time, he was forced to overcome the death of his partner and numerous other obstacles to construct the famous "White City" around which the fair was built. His efforts to complete the project, and the fair's incredible success, are skillfully related along with entertaining appearances by such notables as Buffalo Bill Cody, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Edison. The activities of the sinister Dr. Holmes, who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair, are equally remarkable. He devised and erected the World's Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims. Combining the stories of an architect and a killer in one book, mostly in alternating chapters, seems like an odd choice but it works. The magical appeal and horrifying dark side of 19th-century Chicago are both revealed through Larson's skillful writing. --John Moe [via]

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Fifty Norman Rockwell Favorites

by Norman Rockwell

ISBN 0517233584 (0-517-23358-4)
Softcover, Random House Value Pub

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ISBN 9780613501293 (0-613-50129-2, 0613501292)

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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

by Joseph J. Ellis

ISBN 0613501292 (0-613-50129-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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In retrospect, it seems as if the American Revolution was inevitable. But was it? In Founding Brothers, Joseph J. Ellis reveals that many of those truths we hold to be self-evident were actually fiercely contested in the early days of the republic.

Ellis focuses on six crucial moments in the life of the new nation, including a secret dinner at which the seat of the nation's capital was determined--in exchange for support of Hamilton's financial plan; Washington's precedent-setting Farewell Address; and the Hamilton and Burr duel. Most interesting, perhaps, is the debate (still dividing scholars today) over the meaning of the Revolution. In a fascinating chapter on the renewed friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson at the end of their lives, Ellis points out the fundamental differences between the Republicans, who saw the Revolution as a liberating act and hold the Declaration of Independence most sacred, and the Federalists, who saw the revolution as a step in the building of American nationhood and hold the Constitution most dear. Throughout the text, Ellis explains the personal, face-to-face nature of early American politics--and notes that the members of the revolutionary generation were conscious of the fact that they were establishing precedents on which future generations would rely.

In Founding Brothers, Ellis (whose American Sphinx won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 1997) has written an elegant and engaging narrative, sure to become a classic. Highly recommended. --Sunny Delaney [via]

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ISBN 9780613186698 (0-613-18669-9, 0613186699)

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Foxfire Book

by Eliot Wigginton

ISBN 0613186699 (0-613-18669-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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Hard Times

by Studs Terkel

ISBN 067150438X (0-671-50438-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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Homer Price

by Robert McCloskey

ISBN 0670377295 (0-670-37729-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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Welcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; where houses are built in a day; and where a boy named Homer Price can foil four slick bandits using nothing but his wits and a pet skunk. The comic genius of Robert McCloskey and his wry look at small-town America has kept readers in stitches for generations! [via]

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ISBN 9780679745587 (0-679-74558-0, 0679745580)

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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

by Truman Capote

ISBN 0679745580 (0-679-74558-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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"Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there." If all Truman Capote did was invent a new genre--journalism written with the language and structure of literature--this "nonfiction novel" about the brutal slaying of the Clutter family by two would-be robbers would be remembered as a trail-blazing experiment that has influenced countless writers. But Capote achieved more than that. He wrote a true masterpiece of creative nonfiction. The images of this tale continue to resonate in our minds: 16-year-old Nancy Clutter teaching a friend how to bake a cherry pie, Dick Hickock's black '49 Chevrolet sedan, Perry Smith's Gibson guitar and his dreams of gold in a tropical paradise--the blood on the walls and the final "thud-snap" of the rope-broken necks. [via]

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The Jack Tales: Folk Tales from the Southern Appalachians

by Richard Chase, Herbert Halpert, Berkeley Williams

ISBN 0618346929 (0-618-34692-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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ISBN 9780553213294 (0-553-21329-6, 0553213296)

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The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

ISBN 0553213296 (0-553-21329-6)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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"Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. "Penguin Readers" are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from "Easystarts" with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub-categories: "Contemporary", "Classics" or "Originals". At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing. Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying "Penguin Readers Factsheets" which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class. [via]

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ISBN 9780525947646 (0-525-94764-7, 0525947647)

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Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right

by Al Franken

ISBN 0525947647 (0-525-94764-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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Having previously dissected the factual inaccuracies of a single bellicose talk show host in Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, Al Franken takes his fight to a larger foe: President George W. Bush, the Bush Administration, Ann Coulter, Bill OReilly, and scores of other conservatives whom, he says, are playing loose with the facts. It's a lot of ground to cover, as evidenced by the 43 chapters in Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, but the results are often entertaining and insightful. Franken occupies a unique place in the modern political dialogue as perhaps the media's only comedy writer and performer who is also a Harvard fellow as well as a liberal political commentator. This unique and vaguely lonely position lends a charming quixotic quality to adventures such as a tense encounter with the Fox News staff at the National Press Club, a challenge to fisticuffs with National Review Editor Rich Lowry, and an oddly sweet admissions visit to ultra-conservative Bob Jones University (with a young research assistant posing as his son when Franken's real-life son refuses to participate in the charade). Less useful are comic book dramatizations of "Supply Side Jesus" and a fictitious Vietnam War story featuring the numerous righties who, Franken intimates, improperly avoided service. And Franken's criticisms of conservative talk show hosts Sean Hannity, OReilly, and columnist Coulter, while admirable in their attention to detail, fail to shed much new light on people who have built careers on broad arguments and relentless self-aggrandizement. But Franken is at his best, and most compellingly readable, when he backs off the wackiness and the personal grudges and writes about more personal matters such as the political circus surrounding the memorial service of the late Senator Paul Wellstone. But even on these more serious topics, Franken's wit is still present and, in fact, grows sharper. In a time when much political discourse is composed of rage and shouting, it's refreshing that Al Franken is able to shout in a witty manner. --John Moe [via]

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ISBN 9780590412797 (0-590-41279-5, 0590412795)

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Little Men

by Louisa May Alcott

ISBN 0590412795 (0-590-41279-5)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The classic story about young boys growing up in nineteenth-century New England. [via]

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ISBN 9780679445036 (0-679-44503-X, 067944503X)

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Little Men : Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys

by Louisa May Alcott, Frank T. Merrill

ISBN 067944503X (0-679-44503-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place. [via]

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ISBN 9780534521165 (0-534-52116-9, 0534521169)

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Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

ISBN 0534521169 (0-534-52116-9)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co

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Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays, pranks, letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all ages have become a part of this remarkable family and have felt the deep sadness when Meg leaves the circle of sisters to be married at the end of Part I. Part II, chronicles Meg's joys and mishaps as a young wife and mother, Jo's struggle to become a writer, Beth's tragedy, and Amy's artistic pursuits and unexpected romance. Based on Louise May Alcott's childhood, this lively portrait of nineteenth-century family life possesses a lasting vitality that has endeared it to generations of readers. [via]

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ISBN 9780670899128 (0-670-89912-7, 0670899127)

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Little Women

by Janet Allison Brown, Dinah Dryhurst

ISBN 0670899127 (0-670-89912-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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A simple retelling of the adventures of the four March sisters living in New England during the time of the Civil War. [via]

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ISBN 9780671519025 (0-671-51902-6, 0671519026)

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Little Women

by Laurie Lawlor, Louisa May Alcott

ISBN 0671519026 (0-671-51902-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

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An American classic portrays a lively family of four sisters, as they grow up--serious Meg, quiet, sweet Beth, Amy who wants everything her way, and Jo, who makes up her own mind no matter what. Reprint. Movie tie-in. [via]

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ISBN 9780679436423 (0-679-43642-1, 0679436421)

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Little Women, Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy

by Louisa May Alcott

ISBN 0679436421 (0-679-43642-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Louisa May Alcott's beloved tale about Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy is presented in a beautiful Everyman's Library Children's Classics edition. The story of the four sisters' dreams, quarrels, and romances are brought to vivid life in this edition that features full cloth binding in bold, bright colors; silk ribbon marker and headband; two-color illustrated endpapers and illustrations throughout. A brief biography of Alcott is also included. [via]

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ISBN 9780590300940 (0-590-30094-6, 0590300946)

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The Long Winter

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

ISBN 0590300946 (0-590-30094-6)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks

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Matar UN Ruisenor/to Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

ISBN 0613054490 (0-613-05449-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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ISBN 9780553213119 (0-553-21311-3, 0553213113)

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Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

ISBN 0553213113 (0-553-21311-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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Killing a sixty-ton sperm whale that could destroy a boat with a flick of its massive tail was no easy task. Whalemen of the early nineteenth century were not just hunters, they were also explorerssailing on the uncharted sea in search of some of the largest creatures on earth. The most famous whale of all? Moby Dick.
Here are Ishmael, Queequeq, Ahab, and of course, Moby Dick, rendered anew in a dynamic comic book adaptation of one of the greatest American novels ever written. The book also includes information about Herman Melville, facts about whales, and the history of the whaling industry. With all the flare and blaze of Melvilles original story, Moby Dick is sure to intrigue a new generation of readers with this fast-paced and electric portrayal of the famous battle between man and beast.

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ISBN 9780520045484 (0-520-04548-3, 0520045483)

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Moby Dick Or, the Whale

by Herman Melville

ISBN 0520045483 (0-520-04548-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]

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Monarch Notes on Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

ISBN 0671006932 (0-671-00693-2)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited

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ISBN 9780553214185 (0-553-21418-7, 0553214187)

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My Antonia

by Willa Cather

ISBN 0553214187 (0-553-21418-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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In this powerful and astonishing novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning yet thoroughly convincing heroines in American fiction. Antonia Shimerda, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants, not only survives her father's suicide, poverty, and a failed romance, she triumphs with high spirits. [via]

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Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'N' Roll Music

by Greil Marcus

ISBN 052547708X (0-525-47708-X)
Softcover, Dutton

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More than 20 years after its initial publication, Mystery Train remains one of the smartest, most provocative books ever written about rock-and-roll. Marcus puts his subjects--which include Robert Johnson, Elvis Presley, The Band, Randy Newman, and Sly Stone--into their proper context, which is the culture-at-large. He makes you understand why these musicians matter, and what they've contributed to the American imagination. In his introduction, Marcus confesses that he's no longer "capable of mulling over Elvis without thinking about Herman Melville"--to the benefit, I might add, of both parties. [via]

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The Nurturing Parent: How to Raise Creative, Loving, Responsible Children

by Alex J. Packer, John S. Dacey

ISBN 0671771450 (0-671-77145-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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ISBN 9780553278248 (0-553-27824-X, 055327824X)

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Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

ISBN 055327824X (0-553-27824-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Nobel Prize winning author John Steinbeck, one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, offers a powerful but tragic tale in "Of Mice and Men". 'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place'. George and his large, simple-minded friend Lennie are drifters, following wherever work leads them. Arriving in California's Salinas Valley, they get work on a ranch. If they can just stay out of trouble, George promises Lennie, then one day they might be able to get some land of their own and settle down some place. But kind-hearted, childlike Lennie is a victim of his own strength. Seen by others as a threat, he finds it impossible to control his emotions. And one day not even George will be able to save him from trouble. "Of Mice and Men" is a tragic and moving story of friendship, loneliness and the dispossessed. "A thriller, a gripping tale that you will not set down until it is finished. Steinbeck has touched the quick". ("New York Times"). Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works are published by Penguin and include "Cannery Row", "The Pearl", "The Winter of Our Discontent" and "The Grapes of Wrath". [via]

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ISBN 9780520238923 (0-520-23892-3, 0520238923)

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Roughing It

by Mark Twain, Edgar Marquess Branch

ISBN 0520238923 (0-520-23892-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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There is no nicer surprise for a reader than to discover that an acknowledged classic really does deliver the goods. Mark Twain's Roughing It is just such a book. The adventure tale is a delight from start to finish and is just as engrossing today as it was 125 years ago when it first appeared.

Roughing It tells the true-ish escapades of Twain in the American West. Although he clearly "speaks with forked tongue," Roughing It is informative as well as humorous. From stagecoach travel to the etiquette of prospecting, the modern reader gains considerable insight into that much-fictionalized time and place. Do you know about sagebrush, for example?

Sage-brush is very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child, the mule. But their testimony to its nutritiousness is worth nothing, for they will eat pine knots, or anthracite coal, or brass filings, or lead pipe, or old bottles, or anything that comes handy, and then go off looking as grateful as if they had had oysters for dinner.

Roughing It is informally structured around the narrator's attempts to strike it rich. He meets a motley, colorful crew in the process; many mishaps occur, and it shouldn't surprise you that Twain does not emerge a man of means. But he withstands it all in such a relentless good humor that his misfortune inspires laughter. Roughing It is wonderful entertainment and reminds you how funny the world can be--even its grimmer districts--when you're traveling with the right writer. [via]

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ISBN 9780590065726 (0-590-06572-6, 0590065726)

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Sarah, Plain and Tall

by Patricia MacLachlan

ISBN 0590065726 (0-590-06572-6)
Softcover, Scholastic

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MacLachlan, author of Unclaimed Treasures, has written an affecting tale for children. In the late 19th century a widowed midwestern farmer with two children--Anna and Caleb--advertises for a wife. When Sarah arrives she is homesick for Maine, especially for the ocean which she misses greatly. The children fear that she will not stay, and when she goes off to town alone, young Caleb--whose mother died during childbirth--is stricken with the fear that she has gone for good. But she returns with colored pencils to illustrate for them the beauty of Maine, and to explain that, though she misses her home, "the truth of it is I would miss you more." The tale gently explores themes of abandonment, loss and love. [via]

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Sarah, Plain and Tall: ISBN 0590065726 (0-590-06572-6)
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ISBN 9780613647878 (0-613-64787-4, 0613647874)

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Seabiscuit: Library Edition

by Laura Hillenbrand

ISBN 0613647874 (0-613-64787-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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He didn't look like much. With his smallish stature, knobby knees, and slightly crooked forelegs, he looked more like a cow pony than a thoroughbred. But looks aren't everything; his quality, an admirer once wrote, "was mostly in his heart." Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of the horse who became a cultural icon in Seabiscuit: An American Legend.

Seabiscuit rose to prominence with the help of an unlikely triumvirate: owner Charles Howard, an automobile baron who once declared that "the day of the horse is past"; trainer Tom Smith, a man who "had cultivated an almost mystical communication with horses"; and jockey Red Pollard, who was down on his luck when he charmed a then-surly horse with his calm demeanor and a sugar cube. Hillenbrand details the ups and downs of "team Seabiscuit," from early training sessions to record-breaking victories, and from serious injury to "Horse of the Year"--as well as the Biscuit's fabled rivalry with War Admiral. She also describes the world of horseracing in the 1930s, from the snobbery of Eastern journalists regarding Western horses and public fascination with the great thoroughbreds to the jockeys' torturous weight-loss regimens, including saunas in rubber suits, strong purgatives, even tapeworms.

Along the way, Hillenbrand paints wonderful images: tears in Tom Smith's eyes as his hero, legendary trainer James Fitzsimmons, asked to hold Seabiscuit's bridle while the horse was saddled; critically injured Red Pollard, whose chest was crushed in a racing accident a few weeks before, listening to the San Antonio Handicap from his hospital bed, cheering "Get going, Biscuit! Get 'em, you old devil!"; Seabiscuit happily posing for photographers for several minutes on end; other horses refusing to work out with Seabiscuit because he teased and taunted them with his blistering speed.

Though sometimes her prose takes on a distinctly purple hue ("His history had the ethereal quality of hoofprints in windblown snow"; "The California sunlight had the pewter cast of a declining season"), Hillenbrand has crafted a delightful book. Wire to wire, Seabiscuit is a winner. Highly recommended. --Sunny Delaney [via]

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Seabiscuit: Library Edition: ISBN 0613647874 (0-613-64787-4)
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Sister Carrie

by Theodore Dreiser

ISBN 0553213741 (0-553-21374-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was. First and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century America. That's impressive in and of itself, but Dreiser doesn't stop there. Digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing.

Dreiser's story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. This sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. On the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates Dreiser's intentions. If you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you'll be rewarded by Sister Carrie's last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book's central characters. Here Dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --Rebecca Gleason [via]

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ISBN 9780553348972 (0-553-34897-3, 0553348973)

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Still Life With Woodpecker

by Tom Robbins

ISBN 0553348973 (0-553-34897-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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Still Life with Woodpecker is sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, and paints a portrait of contemporary society that includes powerful Arabs, exiled royalty, and pregnant cheerleaders. It also deals with the problem of redheads. [via]

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ISBN 9780606292559 (0-606-29255-1, 0606292551)

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Summerland: Library Edition

by Michael Chabon

ISBN 0606292551 (0-606-29255-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media

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Summerland: Library Edition: ISBN 0606292551 (0-606-29255-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media

ISBN 9780553273359 (0-553-27335-3, 0553273353)

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Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History

by Fawn M. Brodie

ISBN 0553273353 (0-553-27335-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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An ambitious, perceptive portrayal of a complex man, this best-selling biography broke new ground in its exploration of Jefferson's inner life.

Here for the first time we meet Jefferson as a man of feeling and passion. With a novelist's skill and meticulous scholarship, Fawn M. Brodie shows Jefferson as he wrestled with issues of revolution, religion, power, race, and love-ambivalences that exerted a subtle but powerful influence on his political writing and his decision making. The portrait that results adds a whole new depth to those of the past. [via]

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Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History: ISBN 0553273353 (0-553-27335-3)
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To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

ISBN 0606297758 (0-606-29775-8)
Hardcover, Demco Media

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To Kill a Mockingbird: ISBN 0606297758 (0-606-29775-8)
Hardcover, Demco Media

ISBN 9780679735748 (0-679-73574-7, 0679735747)

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Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

ISBN 0679735747 (0-679-73574-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Published in association with the Walden Woods Project, this beautiful commemorative edition of Thoreau's masterpiece features spectacular color photographs that capture Walden as vividly as Thoreau's words do.

Henry David Thoreau was just a few days short of his twenty-eighth birthday when he built a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond and began one of the most famous experiments in living in American history. Originally he was not, apparently, intending to write a book about his life at the pond, but nine years later, in August of 1854, Houghton Mifflin's predecessor, Ticknor and Fields, published Walden; or, a Life in the Woods. At the time the book was largely ignored, and it took five years to sell out the first printing of two thousand copies. It was not until 1862, the year of Thoreau's death, that the book was brought back into print, and it has never been out of print since. Published in hundreds of editions and translated into virtually every modern language, it has become one of the most widely read and influential books ever written. [via]

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ISBN 9780613621694 (0-613-62169-7, 0613621697)

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Wicked

by Gregory Maguire

ISBN 0613621697 (0-613-62169-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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An astonishingly rich re-creation of the land of Oz, this book retells the story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, who wasn't so wicked after all. Taking readers past the yellow brick road and into a phantasmagoric world rich with imagination and allegory, Gregory Maguire just might change the reputation of one of the most sinister characters in literature. [via]

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ISBN 9780671727079 (0-671-72707-9, 0671727079)

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Winter's Tale

by Mark Helprin, Jane Rosenman

ISBN 0671727079 (0-671-72707-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Surreal, dazzling, fantastic in every sense of the word, this "great gift in an hour of great need" (The New York Times Book Review) depicts a time of love and laughter with master thief Peter Lake and his flying horse. Helprin is the author of A Soldier of the Great War. [via]

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Winter's Tale: ISBN 0671727079 (0-671-72707-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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