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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 –... Read more >
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 –... Read more >
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Things Fall Apart
A Novel
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1994
Price: $11.95
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... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1994
Price: $11.95
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... Read more >
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The Red Badge of Courage
Written by Stephen Crane
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1981
Price: $4.95
First published in 1895, America's greatest novel of the Civil War was written before 21-year-old Stephen Crane had "smelled even the powder of a sham battle." But this powerful psychological study of a young soldier's struggle with the horrors, both within and without, that war strikes the reader with its undeniable realism and with its masterful descriptions of... Read more >
Written by Stephen Crane
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1981
Price: $4.95
First published in 1895, America's greatest novel of the Civil War was written before 21-year-old Stephen Crane had "smelled even the powder of a sham battle." But this powerful psychological study of a young soldier's struggle with the horrors, both within and without, that war strikes the reader with its undeniable realism and with its masterful descriptions of... Read more >
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The Last of the Mohicans
Written by James Fenimore Cooper
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become... Read more >
Written by James Fenimore Cooper
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become... Read more >
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The Metamorphosis
Written by Franz Kafka
Translated by Stanley Corngold
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1972
Price: $5.95
"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his... Read more >
Written by Franz Kafka
Translated by Stanley Corngold
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1972
Price: $5.95
"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his... Read more >
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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: $12.95
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... Read more >
Written by Harold S. Kushner
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2004
Price: $12.95
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... Read more >
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Moby-Dick
Written by Herman Melville
Format: Paperback, 704 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1981
Price: $4.95
No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental Moby Dick. Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic--a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession, a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. It is the greatest sea story ever told. Far ahead... Read more >
Written by Herman Melville
Format: Paperback, 704 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1981
Price: $4.95
No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental Moby Dick. Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic--a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession, a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. It is the greatest sea story ever told. Far ahead... Read more >
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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The Bhagavad-Gita
Written by Barbara Miller
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1986
Price: $6.95
The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the... Read more >
Written by Barbara Miller
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1986
Price: $6.95
The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the... Read more >
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
Written by Mark Twain
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century... Read more >
Written by Mark Twain
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century... Read more >
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