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A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
Published 1995 by W. W. Norton & Company
Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780393312836
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Anthony Burgess's modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption, reissued to include the controversial last chapter not previously published in this country, with a new introduction by the author.
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A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
Published 2007 by Square Fish
Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780312367541
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Meg's father mysteriously disappears after experimenting with the fifth dimension of time travel. Determined to rescue him, Meg and her friends must outwit the forces of evil on a heart-stopping journey through space and time. A commemorative edition with an Introduction by the author. A Newbery Medal winner.
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Annie on My Mind
by Nancy Garden
Published 2007 by Farrar Straus Giroux
Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780374400118
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This groundbreaking book, first published in 1982, is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings.
Of the author and the book, the Margaret A. Edwards Award committee said, "Nancy Garden has the distinction of being the first author for young adults to create a lesbian love story with a positive ending. Using a fluid, readable style, Garden opens a window through which readers can find courage to be true to themselves."
The 25th Anniversary Edition features a full-length interview with the author by Kathleen T. Horning, Director of the Cooperative Children's Book Center. Ms. Garden answers such revealing questions as how she knew she was gay, why she wrote the book, censorship, and the book's impact on readers - then and now.
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Blubber
by Judy Blume
Published 1986 by Yearling Books
Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780440407072
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"Blubber is a good name for her, the note from Wendy says about Linda. Jill crumples it up and leaves it on the corner of her desk. She doesn't want to think about Linda or her dumb report on the whale just now. Jill wants to think about Halloween.
But Robby grabs the note, and before Linda stops talking it has gone halfway around the room.
That's where it all starts. There's something about Linda that makes a lot of kids in her fifth-grade class want to see how far they can go -- but nobody, least of all Jill, expects the fun to end where it does.
A "New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Published 2006 by HarperCollins Publishers
Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780060850524
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Huxley's "Brave New World" is the story of a futuristic World State where all emotion, love, art, and human individuality have been replaced by social stability. An ominous warning to the world's population, this literary classic is a must-read.
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Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson
Published 2005 by HarperTrophy
Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780060734015
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One of the most celebrated Newbery Medal winners of all time gets a magical makeover in this new edition, complete with a reader's guide that's ideal for teachers, book clubs, or anyone looking for insight into this favorite book.
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The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Published 2003 by Penguin Books
Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780140424386
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With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crew of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life--from knight to nun, miller to monk--reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth century that is as robust as it is representative.
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Carrie
by Stephen King
Published 1990 by Doubleday Books
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780385086950
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El escalofriante caso de una joven en apariencia insignificante que se transformó en un ser de poderes anormales, sembrando el terror en su ciudad. Con pulo mágico para mantener la tensión a lo largo de todo el libro, Stephen King narra la atormentada adolescencia de Carrie, y nos envuelve en una atmósfera sobrecogedora cuando la muchacha realiza una seie de descubrimientos hasta llegar al terrible momento de la vengaza. esta novela fue llevada al cina y obtuvo un imenso éxito de público y de crítica. "From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Catch-22
by Joseph L. Heller
Published 1999 by Simon & Schuster
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780684865133
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This telling satire of military bureaucracy is one of the 20th century's most darkly comic works of American literature, now printed with a new Introduction by the author.
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Christine
by Stephen King
Published 1983 by Signet Book
Mass Market Paperbound, English. ISBN: 9780451160447
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Arnie Cunningham is in love with his car. Christine, the car, is in complete control. "Vintage King . . . breathtaking, awesome. Carries such momentum the reader must force himself to slow down."--"New York Times Book Review"
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Cujo
by Stephen King
Published 1982 by Signet Book
Mass Market Paperbound, English. ISBN: 9780451161352
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The #1 bestseller-for King's rabid fans. A family dog turns into a family killer in King's canine classic.
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Daddy's Roommate
by Michael Willhoite
Published 1991 by Alyson Books
Paperback, English. ISBN: 9781555831189
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This story's narrator begins with his parent's divorce and continues with the arrival of "someone new at Daddy's house". The new arrival is male. This new concept is explained to the child as "just one more kind of love". The text is suitably straightforward, and the format--single lines of copy beneath full-page illustrations--easily accessible to the intended audience.
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Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
Published 1976 by Penguin Books
Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780140481341
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The tragedy of a typical American--a salesman who at the age of sixty-three is faced with what he cannot face; defeat and disillusionment.
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The Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Published 2003 by Penguin Books
Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780140449303
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In the early summer of the year 1348, as a terrible plague ravages the city, ten charming young Florentines take refuge in country villas to tell each other stories - a hundred stories of love, adventure and surprising twists of fortune which later inspired Chaucer, Keats and Shakespeare. While Dante is a stern moralist, Boccaccio has little time for chastity, pokes fun at crafty, hypocritical clerics and celebrates the power of passion to overcome obstacles and social divisions. Like the Divine Comedy, the Decameron is a towering monument of medieval pre-Renaissance literature, and incorporates certain important elements that are not at once apparent to today's readers. In a new introduction to this revised edition, which also includes additional explanatory notes, maps, bibliography and indexes, Professor McWilliam shows us Boccaccio for what he is - one of the world's greatest masters of vivid and exciting prose fiction.
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East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
Published 2003 by Penguin Books
Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780142004234
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This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. "A strange and original work of art".--New York Times Book Review.
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Fallen Angels
by Larry Niven
Published 2004 by Baen Books
Mass Market Paperbound, English. ISBN: 9780743471817
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As the world reels under a new ice age, the lunatic fringe of the environmental movement controls the United States government. Now space colonies must replenish their air supply by scoopships diving into the atmosphere.
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