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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
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Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published more than 50 years ago.
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
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An adventure tale in its purest form. A thrilling and elegantly told account of a group of British schoolboys marooned on a tropical island.
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Daniel's Story
by Carol Matas
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Although Daniel is a fictitious character, his story was inspired by the real experiences of many of the more than one million children who died in the Holocaust.
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The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
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At once brutal and tender, despairing and rashly hopeful, "The Road" is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery, and the sometimes terrifying power of filial love.
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Sula
by Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent, written—as John Leonard said in The New York Times—in a prose "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry."
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Ordinary People
by Judith Guest
Price: Audio Download ($17.49)
The heart-wrenching book that inspired the critically-acclaimed movie. Cal and Beth Jarrett are ordinary people: a happy couple living with grocery bills, taxes, barbeque dinners, and orthodontist appointments for their two sons.
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
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Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming...
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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
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Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, "The Kite Runner" is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.
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Detective Fiction
by M. Lee Alexander
Price: Audio Download ($34.95)
From mysterious origins, through the Victorian sleuths and the "Golden Age" of the genre (the 1920s through the 1940s), and to the present day, detective fiction, mysteries, and spy thrillers have consistently topped best-seller lists around the world.
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
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Albert Camus' The Stranger is one of the most widely read novels in the world, with millions of copies sold....
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