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Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture...
4) Native son
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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"The restored text established by the library of America, 1908/2008 Centennial edition." Includes notes, chronology, and bibliographical references (p. 578). Contents include "How "Bigger" Was Born".
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st ed.
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380 p ; 24 cm.
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English
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Story of Gregory Reeves's search for love and his attempt to reconcile his past which included poverty, neglect, war, and abusive relationships with his current strivings for success and peace of mind.
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Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
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Unabridged
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English
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Maclean writes in my family, there is no clear line between religion and fly-fishing. Nor is there a clear line between family and fly-fishing. It is the one activity where brother can connect with brother and father with son.Based on Norman Maclean's childhood experiences, A River Runs Through It has established itself as one of the most moving stories of our time; it captivates readers with vivid descriptions of life along Montana's Big Blackfoot...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
[1996], c1980
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93 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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English
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The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.
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Scribner
Pub. Date
c1929
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xiv, 522 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Eugene Gant, born in 1900 to hard-drinking stone-cutter
Oliver and entrepreneurial Eliza, grows up in small-town
America. Both lonely outsider and passionate chronicler of
American life, Eugene experiences upheaval and family
tragedy before coming to realise that he must leave his
home behind if he is to forge his own path in the world.
This is the dazzlingly rich first novel from one of the
most...
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c1999
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English
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There was a time when the world was sweeter . . . when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats. . . when something happened to a seventeen year-old boy that would change his life forever
Every April, when the wind blows in from the sea and mingles with the scent of lilacs, Landon Carter remembers his last year at Beaufort High
It was 1958, and Landon had already dated a girl or two. He even swore that he had...
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
c1998
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275 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Joan and Emma Lew, the daughters of a Hong Kong businessman who come of age in the years prior to World War II, find their ties to one another and their family provide a source of strength that sustains them as they pursue very different paths in life.
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"Barnes & Noble Classics "pulls together a constellation of influences--biographical, historical, and literary--to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Left penniless by the death of his improvident father, young Nicholas Nickleby assumes responsibility for his mother and sister and seeks help from his Scrooge-like Uncle Ralph. Instantly disliking Nicholas, Ralph sends him to teach in a school run by the stupidly sadistic Wackford...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1999
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288 p. 22 cm.
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English
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"Trevor McKinney, a twelve-year-old boy in a small California town, accepts his teacher's challenge to earn extra credit by coming up with a plan to change the world. His idea is simple: do a good deed for three people and instead of asking them to return the favor, ask them to 'pay it forward' to three others who need help"--
16) A separate peace
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English
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Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend Phineas were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school. Their friendship is marred by Finny's crippling fall, an event for which Gene is responsible and one that eventually leads to tragedy.
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Feisty Marietta Greer changes her name to "Taylor" when her car runs out of gas in Taylorville, Ill. By the time she reaches Oklahoma, this strong-willed young Kentucky native with a quick tongue and an open mind is catapulted into a surprising new life. Taylor leaves home in a beat-up '55 Volkswagen bug, on her way to nowhere in particular, savoring her freedom. But when a forlorn Cherokee woman drops a baby in Taylor's passenger seat and asks her...
18) Annie John
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Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
c1985
Physical Desc
148 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Episodes from the young life of Annie John, aged 10 to 17, as she grows up on the Caribbean island of Antigua. This is a magical coming-of-age tale, ripe with the special ambience of its tropical setting and sustained by Annie's far from naive awareness of the world around her. Death, illness, and poverty intrude on the narrator's perceptive sensilibity from time to time, but even these experiences instruct her and expand her understanding of life...
19) Sons and lovers
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English
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The Morel family, who live on the Nottinghamshire coalfields, are beset with conflict. Gertrude has become disillusioned with her inarticulate working-class husband and devotes her energies to her sons. Son Paul falls in love and seeks to escape his family ties.
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Horatio Hornblower saga volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1950
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
310 p. 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1793, a naïve seventeen-year-old English midshipman named Horatio Hornblower is ordered to board and capture a French merchant ship.
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