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Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE, a best-seller when it was first published in 1969, brought Kurt Vonnegut to prominence as a major voice in American fiction. Vonnegut was a POW held in Dresden in 1945 when the city was attacked by American bombers and virtually obliterated, leaving more than 130,000 people dead. He uses that event as the climax of this ...
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The Lightning Thief
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Rick Riordan
Featuring cover art from 20th Century Fox's feature film adaptation, opening in theaters on February 12 and starring Uma Thurman and Pierce Brosnan, the first novel in the bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series is a non-stop thrill-ride and a classic of mythic proportions.
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Stranger
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Albert Camus
In this stylistically simple, first-person tale of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." Through Meursault, Camus portrays a man who rejects the beliefs and life styles imposed on him by society. The events that lead to his ...
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Harold and the Purple Crayon
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Crockett Johnson
"An ingenious and original picture story in which a small boy out for a walk--happily with crayon in hand--draws himself some wonderful adventures. A little book that will be loved".--The Horn Book. Full-color illustrations.
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Invisible Man
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Ralph Waldo Ellison
Ellison's classic 1952 novel is about a black man from the South who travels to New York City in the 1930s. He becomes involved with the Communist Party, but is soon disillusioned: the Communists see him not as a person but as a symbol of oppressed humanity, as does the Black Nationalist Group he encounters. This inability of a blind and hostile ...
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Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go
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Richard Scarry
On their way to the beach for a picnic the Pig family encounters almost every kind of transportation vehicle imaginable--and imaginary.
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Where the Red Fern Grows: The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy
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Wilson Rawls
This classic about a 10-year-old boy growing up in the Ozark mountains with his inseparable pair of coonhounds will warm the hearts of young and old alike. Great Stone Face Award.
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Alas Babylon
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Pat Frank
The classic apocalyptic novel that portrays a small town's survival after a nuclear holocaust.
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The Complete Anne of Green Gables: The Life and Adventures of the Most Beloved and Timeless Heroine in All of Fiction
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Here is a deluxe gift-box edition of L.M. Montgomery's classic stories about one of the most beloved fictional heroines of all time--Anne of Green Gables.
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Angle of Repose
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Wallace Earle Stegner
A retired, ailing history professor, Lyman Ward, has been deserted by his wife. To distract himself from pain, both physical and emotional, he embarks on the project of editing the private papers of his grandmother, an artist and writer married to a geologist. Ward recounts the story of his grandparents' life juxtaposed with his own--specifically, ...
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Pat the Bunny
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Dorothy Kunhardt
In this classic book, readers can play along as Paul and Judy pat their stuffed bunny, look in the mirror, play peek-a-boo, touch their daddy's rough whiskers, and try on their mother's wedding ring. Color illustrations accompany the text.
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The Little House Set
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Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams (Illustrator)
This rich, handsomely designed case holds nine favorite classics about the Ingalls family and their life on the prairie.
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Gravity's rainbow
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Thomas Pynchon
Tyrone Slothrop is an archetypal innocent abroad, but in the worst possible circumstances: he's an American on a mission to locate V-2 rocket-launching sites in war-torn Europe. On a larger level, the novel illustrates the struggle between those who perceive and rebel against the war, seeing it as an overt movement toward the obliteration of the ...
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Runaway Bunny
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Margaret Wise Brown
Once there was a bunny who wanted to run away. No matter how or where he decided to go, his mother was always there to look after him. By the author of "Goodnight Moon" and "Three Little Animals".
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The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
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William Faulkner
THE SOUND AND THE FURY, Faulkner's fourth novel (1929), is his first true masterpiece. Depicting the decline of the once aristocratic Compson family, the novel is composed of four stream-of-consciousness narratives, each told by a different character with his or her own way of relating events. The first is sweet, gentle Benjy Compson, who at the ...
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Great Gatsby
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F Scott Fitzgerald
When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote THE GREAT GATSBY in the early 1920s, the American Dream was already on the skids. Originally based on the idea that the pursuit of happiness involves not only material success but moral and spiritual growth, the dream had by Fitzgerald's time become increasingly focused on money and pleasure--a phenomenon the high ...
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The Chronicles of Narnia Set
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C S Lewis
Like Tolkien, C.S. Lewis has redefined the nature of fantasy, adding richness, beauty, and dimension. His Narnia Chronicles are not only breathtaking and heartlifting adventures for young and old, they are, as well, reflections of Lewis' most deeply held beliefs.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Harper Lee
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is about the crisis of human behavior and conscience arising from the racism and prejudice that exist in the small Southern town during the Depression. Scout Finch, age 8, who lives with her brother, Jem, and their lawyer father, Atticus, in Maycomb, Alabama, tells the story of her father's defense of Tom Robinson, a young ...
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Razor's Edge
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W Somerset Maugham
Maugham traces the development of six friendships in Paris and London, evoking the sense of loss, despair, and unmoored personalities just after wartime.
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Return to the Hundred Acre Wood
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David Benedictus, Mark Burgess (Illustrator)
It's been 80 years since the publication of "The House at Pooh Corner," in which Christopher Robin says good-bye to Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. Now they are all back in new adventures, for the first time approved by the Trustees of the Pooh Properties.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Mark Twain
Twain spent seven years writing HUCKLEBERRY FINN--the book Hemingway claimed is the basis for all American fiction. The story of Huck's and Jim's quest for freedom on a raft on the Mississippi provides a panoramic view of Southern society, which Twain saw as beset by greed, violence, and coldhearted brutality in the guise of virtue. At the end of ...
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Le Petit Prince
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Part fable, part fairy tale, part philosophy of life, THE LITTLE PRINCE tells the story of a pilot who crashes his airplane in the Sahara Desert, where he meets the Little Prince, a visitor from another planet. The Little Prince tells the pilot he has been traveling to many distant asteroids to get advice on how to care for his rose, the only ...
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Christmas Memory
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Truman Capote
A CHRISTMAS MEMORY is a fictional/autobiographical recollection of the author's boyhood in rural Alabama. Buddy, a seven-year-old orphan, happily prepares for the Christmas season by making fruitcakes with his eccentric cousin, Miss Sook.
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Odyssey
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Sam Homer
Perhaps the most celebrated of all Western narratives, the Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus's roundabout voyage home to Ithaca where his beloved Penelope awaits. In stories along the way, he famously encounters Circe, the Sirens, the Cyclops, and many, many others. This translation renders the classic more economically than others.
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Animal Farm
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George Orwell
Orwell's 1945 fable about the power struggles among animals on a farm parallels the situation in Russia at the time as Orwell saw it; the characters include the ruthless pig Stalin, his idealistic Trotsky-like adversary, and the simple, kindly horse who represents the common man.
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