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Aesop's Fables
by Aesop, Fritz Kredel

ISBN 0448060035 (0-448-06003-5)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap

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'The story goes that a sow who had delivered a whole litter of piglets loudly accosted a lioness. "How many children do you breed?" asked the sow. "I breed only one," said the lioness, "but he is very well bred!"' The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since they were first written down nearly two millennia ago. Aesop was reputedly a tongue-tied slave who miraculously received the power of speech; from his legendary storytelling came the collections of prose and verse fables scattered throughout Greek and Roman literature. First published in English by Caxton in 1484, the fables and their morals continue to charm modern readers: who does not know the stories of the tortoise and the hare, and the boy who cried wolf? This new translation is the first to represent all the main fable collections in ancient Latin and Greek, arranged according to the fables' contents and themes. It includes 600 fables, many of which come from sources never before translated into English.
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- Aesop's Fables: ISBN 0448169681 (0-448-16968-1)
  Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
by Christopher Pick, Anne Savage

ISBN 0434982105 (0-434-98210-5)
Hardcover, Phoebe Phillips

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Animal Farm
by George Orwell

ISBN 0451521560 (0-451-52156-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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- Animal Farm: ISBN 0436350009 (0-436-35000-9)
  Hardcover, Secker and Warburg
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Anne of Avonlea
by L.M. Montgomery, Clare Sieffert

ISBN 0448400634 (0-448-40063-4)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap

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One of the most beloved books of all time, with an introduction by Jennifer L. Holm.

Anne of Green Gables is all grown up--almost. At sixteen, Anne has transformed from student to teacher, and she's the new big sister to seven-year-old twins, quiet Dora and mischievous Davy. A grumpy new neighbor has moved next door, and Anne's best friend, Diana, is falling in love.
Despite all these changes, she's still the same fun, impulsive Anne--a romantic dreamer with a redheaded temper.
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Anne of Green Gables
by L.M. Montgomery, Jody Lee

ISBN 0448060302 (0-448-06030-2)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap

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When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L.M. Montgomery's many stories. Adapter M.C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more--luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Anne of Ingleside
by Lucy Maud Montgomery

ISBN 0448025469 (0-448-02546-9)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap

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Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. And now, with a new baby on the way and insufferable Mary Maria visiting--and wearing out her welcome--Anne's life is full to bursting.

Still, Mrs. Doctor can't think of any place she'd rather be than her own beloved Ingleside. Until the day she begins to worry that her adored Gilbert doesn't love her anymore. How could that be? She may be a little older, but she's still the same irrepressible, irreplaceable redhead--the wonderful Anne of Green Gables, all grown up. She's ready to make her cherished husband fall in love with her all over again! [via]
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Anne of the Island
by L. M. Montgomery, Mark Graham

ISBN 0448403110 (0-448-40311-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Anne of Windy Poplars
by L.M. Montgomery

ISBN 0448025485 (0-448-02548-5)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap

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Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the Pringles. They're known as the royal family of Summerside--and they quickly let Anne know she is not the person they had wanted as principal of Summerside High School. But as she settles into the cozy tower room at Windy Poplars, Anne finds she has great allies in the widows Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty--and in their irrepressible housekeeper, Rebecca Dew. As Anne learns Summerside's strangest secrets, winning the support of the prickly Pringles becomes only the first of her delicious triumphs. [via]
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Cancer Ward
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

ISBN 0440310091 (0-440-31009-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Cane River
by Lalita Tademy

ISBN 0446615889 (0-446-61588-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub

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Lalita Tademy's riveting family saga chronicles four generations of women born into slavery along the Cane River in Louisiana. It is also a tale about the blurring of racial boundaries: great-grandmother Elisabeth notices an unmistakable "bleaching of the line" as first her daughter Suzette, then her granddaughter Philomene, and finally her great-granddaughter Emily choose (or are forcibly persuaded) to bear the illegitimate offspring of the area's white French planters. In many cases these children are loved by their fathers, and their paternity is widely acknowledged. However, neither state law nor local custom allows them to inherit wealth or property, a fact that gives Cane River much of its narrative drive.
The author makes it clear exactly where these prohibitions came from. Plantation society was rigidly hierarchical, after all, particularly on the heels of the Civil War and the economic hardships that came with Reconstruction. The only permissible path upward for hard-working, ambitious African Americans was indirect. A meteoric rise, or too obvious an appearance of prosperity, would be swiftly punished. To enable the slow but steady advance of their clan, the black women of Cane River plot, plead, deceive, and manipulate their way through history, extracting crucial gifts of money and property along the way. In the wake of a visit from the 1880 census taker, the aged Elisabeth reflects on how far they had come.
When the census taker looked at them, he saw colored first, asking questions like single or married, trying to introduce shame where there was none. He took what he saw and foolishly put those things down on a list for others to study. Could he even understand the pride in being able to say that Emily could read and write? They could ask whatever they wanted, but what he should have been marking in the book was family, and landholder, and educated, each generation gathering momentum, adding something special to the brew.
In her introduction, Tademy explains that as a young woman, she failed to appreciate the love and reverence with which her mother and her four uncles spoke of their lively Grandma 'Tite (short for "Mademoiselle Petite"). She resented her great-grandmother's skin-color biases, which were as much a part of Tademy's memory as were her great-grandmother's trademark dance moves. But the old stories haunted the author, and armed with a couple of pages of history compiled by a distant Louisiana cousin, she began to piece together a genealogy. The result? Tademy eventually left her position as vice president of a Fortune 500 company and set to work on Cane River, in which she has deftly and movingly reconstructed the world of her ancestors. --Regina Marler [via]
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Chekhov
by Henri Troyat

ISBN 0449902811 (0-449-90281-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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The Comedy of Errors
by Harry T. Levin

ISBN 0451521633 (0-451-52163-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Cotillion
by Georgette Heyer

ISBN 0434328251 (0-434-32825-1)
Hardcover, Heinemann

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Young Kitty Charing stands to inherit a vast fortune from her irascible great-uncle Matthew--provided she marries one of her cousins. Kitty is not wholly adverse to the plan, if the right nephew proposes. Unfortunately, Kitty has set her heart on Jack Westruther, a confirmed rake, who seems to have no inclination to marry her anytime soon. In an effort to make Jack jealous, and to see a little more of the world than her isolated life on her great-uncle's estate has afforded her, Kitty devises a plan. She convinces yet another of her cousins, the honourable Freddy Standen, to pretend to be engaged to her. Her plan would bring her to London on a visit to Freddy's family and (hopefully) render the elusive Mr Westruther madly jealous. Thus begins Cotillion, arguably the funniest, most charming of Georgette Heyer's many delightful Regency romances.
No sooner does Kitty arrive in London than she becomes embroiled in the romantic difficulties of several new acquaintances. Kitty's French cousin, Camille, a professional gambler, has won the heart of her new friend, Olivia--who also happens to be the object of Jack Westruther's dishonourable intentions. Meanwhile, Kitty's doltish cousin Lord Dolphinton has fallen in love with a merchant's daughter who is embattled with his mother and needs his help. Finally, there is Kitty herself, who begins to wonder if the dandified Freddy might not be the man for her after all. As in all of Georgette Heyer's books, Cotillion transcends genre--it is, quite simply, wonderful literature. Historically accurate down to the finest details of dress, deportment and speech, Heyer was also a master at creating unforgettable, comic characters; and Kitty Charing and Freddy Standen stand out as one of her most charming romantic duos ever. --Amazon.com [via]
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Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas, Patricia C. Wrede

ISBN 0439574293 (0-439-57429-3)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks

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Edmond Dantes, a young sailor from Marseilles, soon to become captain of his own ship and married to his beloved, finds himself betrayed by spiteful enemies and condemned to lifelong imprisonment. A novel of intrigue, suspense and love now debuting as a Signet Classic. [via]
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- The Count of Monte Cristo: ISBN 0451521951 (0-451-52195-1)
  Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Count of Monte Cristo: ISBN 0439574293 (0-439-57429-3)
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The Courts of Love: The Story of Eleanor of Aquitaine
by Jean Plaidy

ISBN 0449216578 (0-449-21657-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
by Leo Tolstoy

ISBN 0451516761 (0-451-51676-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Dicey's Song
by Cynthia Voigt

ISBN 0449701921 (0-449-70192-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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A NEWBERRY MEDAL WINNER
Keeping her family together is what thirteen-year-old Dicey does best. But now that all four Tillerman children have found a new home with their grandmother, Dicey has to learn the hard lesson of letting go. Dicey's got other problems than finding her new role in the family: she's bored with everyone and everything at school and doesn't think anyone can tell her anything she wants to know. But slowly, Dicey discovers that everyone has something to teach, and life is a lesson that doesn't get easier . . . [via]
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- Dicey's Song: ISBN 0449702766 (0-449-70276-6)
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Equiano's Travels: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African
by Olaudah Equiano, Paul Geoffrey Edwards

ISBN 0435906003 (0-435-90600-3)
Softcover, Heinemann

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This is a wonderful narrative telling of Equiano's early life in Ibo country, his days as a slave in Southern America and of his later travels. 'Equiano's book continues to be relevant well after two centuries not only because it is was competently organised and well written but also because it has behind it a strong personality whose presence is felt on every page.' Professor Ogude. [via]
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Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

ISBN 0451515005 (0-451-51500-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Firestarter
by Stephen King

ISBN 0451167805 (0-451-16780-5)
Softcover, Signet

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- Firestarter: ISBN 0451099648 (0-451-09964-8)
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett

ISBN 0439099390 (0-439-09939-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks

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Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden
by Kathy Mitchell, Frances Hodgson Burnett

ISBN 0448412500 (0-448-41250-0)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap

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Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams

ISBN 0451151704 (0-451-15170-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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Dramatic script relating the interactions of Amanda, her son, and her daughter, Laura and the very important gentleman caller. [via]
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The Guns of Cedar Creek
by Thomas A. Lewis

ISBN 044020514X (0-440-20514-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Henry V
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0451521625 (0-451-52162-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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Shakespearean Studies, Literary Studies, Classic Literature, Plays, Theatre [via]
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Hour Game
by David Baldacci

ISBN 0446616494 (0-446-61649-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub

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Two disgraced former Secret Service officers team up to solve a series of copy-cat crimes in this exciting new thriller by a master of the game. Sean King was momentarily distracted when a presidential candidate he'd been guarding was assassinated a few feet from where he stood, and Michelle Maxwell left the Service under a similar cloud when she lost a "protectee" to an ingenious kidnapping scheme, events told in Baldacci's typical terse, fast-paced style in Split Second. Now partners in a private investigation firm in a small Virginia town, they're hired to investigate a burglary at the home of a wealthy local family. But even before the chief suspect in the break-in meets his death in a gruesome slaying reminiscent of a serial killer long since caught and punished, King and Maxwell get caught up in a string of other murders, each of which copies the techniques of another madman, from San Francisco's Zodiac Killer to Chicago's infamous John Wayne Gacy. While the two protagonists aren't especially complex or well-developed, the action never stops, and Baldacci's trademark pacing keeps the reader turning pages until the denouement, which unfortunately isn't quite as satisfying as the rest of the novel. --Jane Adams

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victor Hugo

ISBN 0440226759 (0-440-22675-9)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books

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The tale of a hunchback who fights to save the life of the gypsy girl, Esmeralda. [via]
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The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde

ISBN 0435229508 (0-435-22950-8)
Softcover, Heinemann

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Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. This book includes "Lady Windermere's Fan", "Salome", "A Woman of No Importance", "An Ideal Husband", "A Florentine Tragedy" and "The Importance of Being Earnest", which appears in full with the 'Grigsby' scene which originally made up the fourth act. [via]
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Instant Spelling Dictionary
by Margaret M. Dougherty, Julia H. Fitzgerald, Donald O. Bolander

ISBN 0446360821 (0-446-36082-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing

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King Henry IV
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0451522532 (0-451-52253-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Written in 1598, hard on the heels of the massive popular success of Henry IV Part One, Henry IV Part Two takes up where the first part finished, and completes Shakespeare's portrayal of the troubled reign of Henry IV. Rebellion has apparently been quelled, but dissension still permeates the country, and Henry is disillusioned, sick and dying. After the pace and comedy of Part One., Part Two is a much more subdued and gloomy affair. The tone is set by the early appearance of Falstaff, who relishes the possibilities of easy picking in the face of more civil unrest with his sinister quip that "I will turn diseases to commodity".
The drama focuses on Henry IV's difficult relationship with his son Prince Hal, and the latter's gradual emergence as a charismatic sovereign. In the process he sheds his image as a prodigal wastrel dramatised in the first half of Part One, assuming the title of King Henry V in the closing scenes of Part Two. Perhaps the most poignant moment of the whole play remains Henry's cold-blooded rejection of Falstaff, his surrogate father for much of Part One. "I know thee not, old man" he tells the crushed Falstaff as he assumes the royal crown, preparing the audience for the type of monarch they will see in Shakeseare's subsequent dramatisation of English history, Henry V. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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King Lear
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0451519388 (0-451-51938-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables
by Jennifer Dussling, Lydia Halverson

ISBN 0448424592 (0-448-42459-2)
Softcover, Grosset & Dunlap

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When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L.M. Montgomery's many stories. Adapter M.C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more--luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Lady in the Tower
by Jean Plaidy

ISBN 0449213889 (0-449-21388-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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Last Silk Dress
by Ann Rinaldi

ISBN 0440228611 (0-440-22861-1)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books

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Les Miserables
by Victor Hugo

ISBN 0449300021 (0-449-30002-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.

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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0451521358 (0-451-52135-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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Maggie
by Stephen Crane

ISBN 0449300242 (0-449-30024-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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Stephen Crane's first novel is the tale of a pretty young slum girl driven to brutal excesses by poverty and loneliness. It was considered so sexually frank and realistic, that the book had to be privately printed at first. It and GEORGE'S MOTHER, the shorter novel that follows in this edition, were eventually hailed as the first genuine expressions of Naturalism in American letters and established their creator as the American apostle of an artistic revolution which was to alter the shape and destiny of civilization itself. [via]
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The Master of Blacktower
by Barbara Michaels

ISBN 0425149412 (0-425-14941-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Memories of Summer
by Ruth White

ISBN 0440229219 (0-440-22921-9)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books

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The Mysterious Caravan
by Franklin W. Dixon

ISBN 0448089548 (0-448-08954-8)
Hardcover, Price Stern Sloan

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One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey

ISBN 0451163966 (0-451-16396-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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An international bestseller and the basis for a hugely successful film, Ken Kesey 's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the defining works of the 1960s. A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's revolution against Big Nurse and everything she stands for quickly turns from sport to a fierce power struggle with shattering results. With One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , Kesey created a work without precedent in American literature, a novel at once comic and tragic that probes the nature of madness and sanity, authority and vitality. Greeted by unanimous acclaim when it was first published, the book has become and enduring favorite of readers. [via]
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Patriot's Dream
by Barbara Michaels

ISBN 0425133559 (0-425-13355-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Phantom Of The Opera
by Gaston Leroux, Lowell Bair

ISBN 0440227747 (0-440-22774-7)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books

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Phantom of the Opera is an enduring classic of the macabre. The masked monster known as the Phantom of the Opera lives beneath the Paris Opera House, in an opulent palace in the catacombs, where he dreams of the day that he will keep beautiful singer Christine Daae forever. Romantic and suspenseful, this thrilling tale is brought to life in a riveting performance by Academy Award-winner F. Murray Abraham. [via]
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Pocahontas
by Susan Donnell

ISBN 0425136205 (0-425-13620-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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This bestseller was written by a direct descendant of Pocahontas. The daughter of great Chief Powhatan, Pocahontas lived a traditional life, mindful of nature and the land, and viewed the arrival of the English as an opportunity to learn. Through her indomitable spirit, she bridged the gap between her world and the colonists. [via]
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The Pride of the Peacock
by Victoria Holt

ISBN 0449213528 (0-449-21352-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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Richard II
by Kenneth Muir

ISBN 0451522176 (0-451-52217-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0451516354 (0-451-51635-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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Romeo and Juliet : The Contemporary Film, the Classic Play
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0440227127 (0-440-22712-7)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books

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Award-winning director Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom) has updated Shakespeare's classic tragedy of young love and teen suicide in a unique new film, in which the warring Capulets and Montagues are gangsters who carry guns instead of swords. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Basketball Diaries) and Claire Danes (My So-Called Life, Little Women) as the doomed lovers, the film is set in a modern city. The actors speak Shakespeare's words--but with their own American accents.

Readers can now experience this new vision of Shakespeare's violent, tragic play alongside the Bard
s original text, in a special single volume that features an introduction by the film's director. [via]
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Roots
by Alex Haley

ISBN 0440174643 (0-440-17464-3)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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Roots are important to any life. [via]
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
by Orczy

ISBN 0440402204 (0-440-40220-4)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books

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Secret for a Nightingale
by Victoria Holt

ISBN 0449212963 (0-449-21296-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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The Shivering Sands
by Victoria Holt

ISBN 0449213617 (0-449-21361-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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So Long a Letter
by Mariama Ba

ISBN 0435905554 (0-435-90555-4)
Softcover, Heinemann

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Spencer's Mountain
by Earl Hamner

ISBN 0440981808 (0-440-98180-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Ten Things I Wish I'd Known: Before I Went Out into the Real World
by Maria Shriver

ISBN 0446526126 (0-446-52612-6)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub

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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee

ISBN 0446310786 (0-446-31078-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub

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"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out."
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up.
Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout's first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children's consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout's hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0451521323 (0-451-52132-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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There is a peculiar charm about the relics found in an old home a home from which many generations of fledglings have flown. As each milestone in family history is passed some once common object of use or ornament is dropped by the way. Such interesting mementoes of past generations accumulate, and in course of time the older ones obecome curios. ii It is to create greater interest in these old-world odds and ends some of trifling value to an out- sider, others of great intrinsic worth that this book has been written. The love of possession is to some possessors the chief delight; to others knowledge of the original purposes and uses of the objects acquired affords still greater pleasure. My intention has been rather to assist the latter class of collectors than to facilitate the mere assemblage of additional stores of curiosities.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org [via]
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Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will
by William Shakespeare, Herschel Baker

ISBN 0451521293 (0-451-52129-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Villette
by Charlotte Brontë, Jerome Beaty

ISBN 0451520831 (0-451-52083-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief. Charlotte Brontë's last novel, published in 1853, has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as strikingly modern psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness. With an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallet. [via]
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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy, Ann Dunnigan

ISBN 0451521161 (0-451-52116-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. [via]
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When Will This Cruel War Be Over?
by Barry Denenberg

ISBN 0439555175 (0-439-55517-5)
Hardcover, Scholastic

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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte, F. H. Cornish, John Milne

ISBN 0435272535 (0-435-27253-5)
Softcover, Delta Systems Co Inc

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Emily Bronte's dark romance, with an introduction from best-selling author Alice HoffmanHeathcliff comes to the brooding mansion of Wuthering Heighths as an orphan child. Cathy is the daughter of the wealthy family that takes him in. They are drawn together from the moment they meet, their love consuming, destructive, and full of desire. They cannot be together, and yet they cannot stay apart. The consequences will haunt generations. This is the chilling story of two people who experience love and all its intense complications. It is a story readers will never forget. [via]
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