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Brave New World (P.S.) Brave New World (P.S.)
by Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has... (read more)

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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (P.S.) A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (P.S.)
by Howard Zinn

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For anyone who sat in a high school history class feeling like there was something more going on than you were being told, this book is a revelation. As engaging as a white-knuckled novel, Zinn's astonishing record of U.S. history from the perspective of... (read more)

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Quicksilver: Baroque Cycle #01 Quicksilver: Baroque Cycle #01
by Neal Stephenson

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Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where... (read more)

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To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (P.S.) To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (P.S.)
by Arthur Herman

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To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the navy's beginnings under Henry VIII to the age of computer warfare and special ops, historian... (read more)

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Ahab's Wife (P.S.) Ahab's Wife (P.S.)
by Sena Jeter Naslund

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From the opening line — "Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last" — you will know that you are in the hands of a master storyteller and in the company of a fascinating woman hero. Inspired by a brief passage in Moby-Dick, Sena... (read more)

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The Confusion (Baroque Cycle #02) (P.S.) The Confusion (Baroque Cycle #02) (P.S.)
by Neal Stephenson

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In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of... (read more)

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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (P.S.) The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (P.S.)
by John Kelly

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La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the... (read more)

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The Bell Jar (P.S.) The Bell Jar (P.S.)
by Sylvia Plath

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

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Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar (P.S.) Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar (P.S.)
by Adam Nicolson

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For the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, Nicolson draws from a wide range of sources to investigate the battle, and the ambitions, fears and principles that drove the British fleet to such a devastating victory.... (read more)

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Unless (P.S.) Unless (P.S.)
by Carol Shields

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Reta Winters, 44-year-old successful author of light summertime fiction, has always considered herself happy, even blessed. That is, until her oldest daughter Norah mysteriously drops out of college to become a panhandler on a Toronto street corner —... (read more)

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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.) Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.)
by Laurence Bergreen

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Laurence Bergreen brings Magellan's groundbreaking circumnavigation of the globe to life in this excellent, highly readable history. Through exhaustive research, including many first person accounts previously unavailable in English, Bergreen weaves... (read more)

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Their Eyes Were Watching God (Modern Classics) (P.S.) Their Eyes Were Watching God (Modern Classics) (P.S.)
by Zora Neale Hurston

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Hurston's beloved classic--one of the most important American novels of the 20th century--follows the fortunes of Janie Crawford, a woman who was married three times and had been tried for the murder of one of her husbands in the black town of Eaton... (read more)

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The Way the Crow Flies (P.S.) The Way the Crow Flies (P.S.)
by Ann-Marie MacDonald

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Ann-Marie MacDonald writes beautifully; her words wrap around you and envelop you. The Way the Crow Flies is engaging and evocative. She captures the pure joy and pain of childhood better than anyone since Margaret Atwood. That would be enough but then... (read more)

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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (P.S.) The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (P.S.)
by Michael Chabon

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Chabon's first novel (written for his master's thesis at UC Irvine) was published when he was twenty-five, and quickly became a bestseller. Set in the steel ciy, this hilarious coming-of-age story tells the tale of Art Bechstein's... (read more)

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The Electric Michelangelo (P.S.) The Electric Michelangelo (P.S.)
by Sarah Hall

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Cy Parks is the Electric Michelangelo, an artist of extraordinary gifts whose medium happens to be the pliant, shifting canvas of the human body. Fleeing his mother's legacy — a consumptives' hotel in a fading English seaside resort — Cy... (read more)

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)
by Betty Smith

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I read this when I was around 11 years old, and it made a huge impression on me. Set in a time when Brooklyn might not have been the chic neighborhood it is now, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is about an inner-city girl seeing hope in her hard world... (read more)

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The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen & Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (P.S.) The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen & Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (P.S.)
by Trevor Corson

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In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and an eccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Revor Corson escorts the reader onto the slippery decks of fishing boats, through danger-filled scuba dives, and deep into the churning... (read more)

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Grab on to Me Tightly as If I Knew the Way (P.S.) Grab on to Me Tightly as If I Knew the Way (P.S.)
by Bryan Charles

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A wise, bighearted, and hilarious look at one teenager's life by a remarkable new voice in contemporary fiction. It's 1992, and as Vim Sweeney deals with the recent end of his high school career and the uncertainty of his future, America shares his... (read more)

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (P.S.) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (P.S.)
by Robert M. Pirsig

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One of the most influential and provocative books of its generation, "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" continues to attract and inspire readers of all ages with its intriguing blend of ancient and Eastern philosophy, cultural criticism, and... (read more)

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By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness (P.S.) By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness (P.S.)
by Paulo Coelho

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By bestselling author and international sensation Paulo Coelho, a poetic and transcendent story that reflects the mysteries of love and life. Rarely does an adolescent love reach its full potential. What happens when, after eleven years, two lovers come... (read more)

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