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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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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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The Sign of the Beaver
by Elizabeth George Speare
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At just 12 years old, Matt must face serious challenges in the Maine wilderness while awaiting his father's return to their cabin...
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Brian's Return
by Gary Paulsen
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As millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, and Brian's Winter know, Brian Robeson survived alone in the wilderness by finding solutions to extraordinary challenges.
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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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The Outsiders
by S.E. Hinton
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Ponyboy can count on his brothers. And on his friends. But not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a good time is beating up "greasers" like Ponyboy.
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Detective Fiction
by M. Lee Alexander
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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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Whale Talk
by Chris Crutcher
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There’s bad news and good news about the Cutter High School swim team. The bad news is that they don’t have a pool. The good news is that only one of them can swim anyway.
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Night
by Elie Wiesel
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Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the Congressional Gold Medal, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel offers an unforgettable account of Hitler's horrific reign of terror in Night.
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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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A Bradbury Binary: Riabouchinska and The Toynbee Convector
by Ray Bradbury
Credits: Audio Download
Two tales from the master of science fiction...
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
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At once an intimate memoir of childhood, a complicated exploration of race and poverty in the South, and a moving portrayal of uncompromising conscience, "To Kill a Mockingbird" has been called the greatest American novel of the 20th century.
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
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With over eight million copies in print, Chinua Achebe's work is perhaps the best-known novel in African literature. No other book so powerfully illuminates the African experience.
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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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The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
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In 1949, four Chinese women begin meeting in San Francisco for fun. Nearly 40years later, their daughters continue to meet as the Joy Luck Club.
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Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
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There is now no doubt that not only is Waiting for Godot the outstanding play of the 20th century, but it is also Samuel Beckett's masterpiece.
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The Bronze Bow
by Elizabeth George Speare
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The Bronze Bow won the 1962 Newberry Medal for this magnificent novel of Daniel's tormented journey from a blind, confining hatred to his acceptance and understanding of love.
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
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As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.
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Maniac Magee
by Jerry Spinelli
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He wasn't born with the name Maniac Magee. He came into this world named Jeffrey Lionel Magee, but when his parents died and his life changed, so did his name...
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Frindle
by Andrew Clements
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Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at school -- and he's always had plenty of great ideas.
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The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
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Set in a raw and unromanticized India, The White Tiger---the first-person confession of a murderer---is as compelling for its subject matter as it is for the voice of its narrator: amoral, cynical, unrepentant, yet deeply endearing.
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The Natural
by Bernard Malamud
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In The Natural, Bernard Malamud has raised all the passion and craziness and fanaticism of baseball to its ordained place in mythology.
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Milkweed
by Jerry Spinelli
Credits: Audio Download
Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli takes us to one of the most devastating settings imaginable—Nazi-occupied Warsaw of World War II—and tells a tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival through the bright eyes of a young orphan.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
The bestselling author of "The Kite Runner" returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel about the bond between two women in Afghanistan who are brought together by war, loss, and fate.
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