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Austen, Jane
Emma
As daughter of the richest, most important man in the small provincial village of Highbury, Emma Woodhouse is firmly convinced that it is her right--perhaps even her "duty"--to arrange the lives of others.
495 p. 1991
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Bronte, Charlotte
Jane Eyre
An orphaned young English woman who accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.
578 p. 2006
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Christie, Agatha
Murder On the Orient Express : a Hercule Poirot Mystery
While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board.
266 p. 2006
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Dickens, Charles
A Christmas Carol : in Prose Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
118 p. 1983
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Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Hound of the Baskervilles : Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
The gray towers of Baskerville Hall and the wild open country of Dartmoor will haunt the reader as Holmes and Watson seek to unravel the many secrets of the misty English bogs.
195 p. 2001
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Horror: Classic
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Dumas, Alexandre
The Three Musketeers
Dumas's swashbuckling epic chronicles the adventures of d'Artagnan, a brash young man from the countryside who journeys to Paris in 1625 hoping to become a musketeer and guard to King Louis XIII. Before long, he finds treachery and court intrigue--and also three boon companions, the daring swordsmen Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Together the four strive heroically to defend the honor of their queen against the powerful Cardinal Richelieu and the seductive spy Milady.
704 p. 2006
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Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
One Hundred Years of Solitude
An epic story set in the magical, mythical town of Macondo that relates the triumphs and conflicts, joys and heartbreaks of the Buendia family.
417 p. 2006
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Grimm, Jacob
The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
A new translation of 279 fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Also includes a listing of their oral and/or literary sources.
762 p. 2003
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Fantasy: Classic
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Hardy, Thomas
Tess of the D'Urbervilles : a Pure Woman
Tess is hopelessly torn between her desire for two men. Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Thomas Hardy's early work, "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is unique among his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavished upon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love.
407 p. 1999
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Scarlet Letter : a Romance
Set in the harsh Puritan community of 17th century Massachusetts, this tale of an adulterous entanglement resulting in an illegitimate birth engendered the first true heroine of American fiction.
238 p. 2003
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Lee, Harper
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lawyer Atticus Finch defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic, Puliter Prize-winning novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white woman. Through the eyes of Atticus's children, Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unanswering honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930's.
323 p. 1999
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Mitchell, Margaret
Gone with the Wind
After the Civil War sweeps away the genteel life to which she has been accustomed, Scarlett O'Hara sets about to salvage her plantation home.
959 p. 2007
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Plato
Republic
A model for the ideal state includes discussion of the nature and application of justice, the role of the philosopher in society, the goals of education, and the effects of art upon character.
475 p. 2008
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Rand, Ayn
Atlas Shrugged
"Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life - from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy - to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction - to the philosopher who becomes a pirate - to the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph - to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad - to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels." BOOK JACKET
1168 p. 1992
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Remarque, Erich Maria
All Quiet On the Western Front
Paul Baumer fights along with his comrades in the trenches of World War I Germany.
248 p. 1958
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War Stories
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
Dr. Frankenstein learns the secret of imparting life to inanimate matter. To test his theories, he collects bones from the charnel-houses to construct a "human" being, and then gives it life. The creature, endowed with supernatural size and strength, is revolting to look at, and frightens all who see it. Lonely and miserable, it comes to hate its creator.
273 p. 2007
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Smith, Betty
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Young Francie Nolan, having inherited both her father's romantic and her mother's practical nature, struggles to survive and thrive growing up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early twentieth century.
493 p. 2006
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Smith, Dodie
I Capture the Castle
The story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills. She fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries. Her journals candidly chronicle the great changes that take place within the castle's walls, and her own first descent into love.
343 p. 2003
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Tolstoy, Leo
War and Peace
Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit.
1388 p. 2004
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Verne, Jules
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The "man who invented the future," Verne created the prototype for modern science fiction. His prophetic 1870 adventure novel, featuring a bizarre underwater craft commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, predated the submarine. The crowning achievement of Verne's literary career, the book influenced H. G. Wells and later generations of writers.
463 p. 2001
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