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Lies My Teacher Told Me
by James W Loewen
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Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve... ( read more)
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A Serendipity Collection: Featuring Serendipity and Her Friends (Serendipity)
by Stephen Cosgrove
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Here are seven classic tales of the Serendipity series collected in one volume. Each story is wonderfully illustrated and entertaining, and includes a moral message designed specifically for children. I remember reading and rereading these books as a... ( read more)
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
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If your only experience with Catch-22 was reading it for a class in high school — or if you haven't even read it at all — you owe it to yourself to revisit this book. It's a comic masterpiece, yes, but more than that: Catch-22 is a blast of... ( read more)
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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
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The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between... ( read more)
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
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For Whom the Bell Tolls is one of the great 20th-century war novels.
Hemingway's cast of characters are as rich and complex as you will find in
any of his works. Hemingway's portrait of Robert Jordan and his role in the Spanish Civil War is a vivid... ( read more)
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The Good Earth: Oprah Book Club #6
by Pearl S. Buck
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Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived... ( read more)
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The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
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The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin... ( read more)
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In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat
by Rick Atkinson
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With the eye of a master storyteller, a brilliant military historian puts readers right on the battlefield in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division. "In the Company of Soldiers" is a compelling, utterly fresh view of the modern American soldier in action.... ( read more)
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The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
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"Manuscripts don't burn" — that's what the man said. It's impossible to destroy the last thing that one has loved, as memory trumps death. This holds true for Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita: he burned his own copy down to nothing,... ( read more)
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Into the Blue Boldly Going Where Captain
by Tony Horwitz
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In a vivid and humorous narrative, Horwitz retraces the great voyages of James Cook. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Confederates In The Attic". "A fine piece of reporting" "Guardian".... ( read more)
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An Army at Dawn
by Rick Atkinson
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An Army at Dawn is a superbly written book on the Northern African campaign of World War II. This is a wonderful history of some of the first campaigns of the war; Atkinson maintains a balanced focus on everyone involved, from the generals down to the... ( read more)
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Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs
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On the surface Naked Lunch chronicles a junkie's journey from New York to
Tangiers, and then into the imaginary — and hellish — Interzone. The soul of the book is much deeper, presenting a surreal satire of American culture
and humanity. It... ( read more)
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers... ( read more)
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Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
by David McCullough
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Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as "a masterpiece" (John A. Gable, Newsday), it is the winner of the Los Angeles Times 1981 Book Prize for Biography and the National Book Award for Biography... ( read more)
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Living History
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor and passion about her upbringing in... ( read more)
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Evil: An Investigation
by Lance Morrow
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At the beginning of the twenty-first century, evil remains as potent and radical a force in the world as it has ever been. We all know evil when we encounter it-in the villains of history like Hitler and Stalin, in the routine brutality that makes the... ( read more)
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Robota
by Orson Scott Card and Doug Chiang
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An illustrated science fiction book from award-winning artist Doug Chiang and the popular fantasy writer Orson Scott. Review coverage in men's magazines and national newspapers. 75 colour illus.... ( read more)
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The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
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The Sun Also Rises was Ernest Hemingway's first big novel, and immediately established Hemingway as one of the great prose stylists, and one of the preeminent writers of his time. It is also the book that encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I... ( read more)
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Donald and The...
by Peter F. Neumeyer and Edward Gorey
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All of the books on which Neumeyer and Gorey collaborated are memorable. Gorey's amazing drawings and bizarre sense of humor make Donald and The... a charming book for all ages.
Recommended by Amy W.... ( read more)
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Masterpieces of Illumination
by Ingo Walther
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From The Book of Kells to Boccaccio?s Decameron and from the Vienna Genesis to Dante?s Divine Comedy - see the breathtaking originals of 167 of the greatest classics of all time. This lavishly produced book introduces the reader to the fascinating world... ( read more)
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