Things Fall Apart
A Novel
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1994
Price: $11.00
Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo’s fall from grace with the tribal world. The second, as modern as the first is...
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The House on Mango Street
Written by Sandra Cisneros
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: April 3, 1991
Price: $11.00
Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world,
The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a series of vignettes – sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous –...
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A Christmas Carol
Written by Charles Dickens
Format: Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1986
Price: $3.95
Merry Christmas, everyone!
“Bah!” said Scrooge. “Humbug!”
With those famous words unfolds a tale that renews the joy and caring that are Christmas. Whether we read it aloud with our family and friends or open the pages on a chill winter evening to savor the story in solitude, Charles Dickens’
A Christmas...
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Lolita
Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 13, 1989
Price: $15.00
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in
Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.
Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar...
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When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Written by Harold S. Kushner
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2004
Price: $11.95
When Harold Kushner’s three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease and that he would only live until his early teens, he was faced with one of life’s most difficult questions: Why, God? Years later, Rabbi Kushner wrote this straightforward, elegant contemplation of the doubts and fears that arise when tragedy...
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Crime and Punishment
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Format: Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: October 15, 1996
Price: $6.99
A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law -- if it will ultimately...
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Wuthering Heights
Written by Emily Bronte
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1983
Price: $4.95
"My greatest thought in living is Heathcliff. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be... Nelly, I
am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure... but as my own being."
Wuthering Heights is the only novel of Emily Bronte, who died a...
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The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States
Introduction by Pauline Maier
Format: Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1998
Price: $3.99
The Declaration of Independence was the promise of a representative government; the Constitution was the fulfillment of that promise.
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress issued a unanimous declaration: the thirteen North American colonies would be the thirteen United States of America, free and independent of Great Britain. Drafted by...
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2007
Price: $14.95
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Written by Alexandre Dumas
Format: Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1984
Price: $6.95
Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas's thrilling adventure story is one of the most widely read romantic novels of all time. In it the dashing young hero, Edmond Dantès, is betrayed by his enemies and thrown into a secret dungeon in the Chateau d'If -- doomed to spend his life in a...
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