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Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385474542
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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 >
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The House on Mango Street
The House on Mango Street
Written by Sandra Cisneros
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780679734772
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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 >
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo
Written by Alexandre Dumas
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553213508
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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 >
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Written by Harold S. Kushner
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400034727
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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 >
The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis
Written by Franz Kafka, Translated by Stanley Corngold
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553213690
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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 >
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Written by George Orwell
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780679417392
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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Written by George Orwell


Format: Hardcover, 376 pages
On Sale: November 3, 1992
Price: $21.00

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Nineteen Eighty-Four revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century’s greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate: its relevance and... Read more >
The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage
Written by Stephen Crane
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553210118
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The Red Badge of Courage

Written by Stephen Crane


Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1981
Price: $3.95

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 >
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Written by Mary Shelley
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553212471
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Frankenstein

Written by Mary Shelley


Format: Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1984
Price: $4.95

"I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion." A summer evening's ghost stories... Read more >
The Light in the Forest
The Light in the Forest
Written by Conrad Richter
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781400077885
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The Light in the Forest

Written by Conrad Richter


Format: Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $6.95

When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the... Read more >
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Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick
Written by Herman Melville
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553213119
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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 >
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