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  • Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family…

    The Gathering

    By Anne Enright Grove Press, Black Cat, December 2007 Fiction, Literary
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  • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in…

    Into the Wild

    By Jon Krakauer rating of short cover   ( 18customer ratings) Anchor, September 2009 Travel, Adventure & Literary Travel
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  • NATIONAL BESTSELLERPULITZER PRIZE WINNERNational Book Critic's Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the YearThe Boston Globe, The Christian Science…

    The Road

    By Cormac McCarthy rating of short cover   ( 139customer ratings) Vintage, March 2007 Fiction, Literary
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  • Ray Kinsella sitting on the porch of his Iowa farm one evening hears the voice of a ghostly baseball announcer. It speaks to him the famous line "If you build It he will come." Needing no further…

    Shoeless Joe

    By W.P. Kinsella RosettaBooks, December 2010
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  • The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life.

    Now with photos and new material

    Marley & Me

    By John Grogan rating of short cover   ( 5customer ratings) HarperCollins, March 2009
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  • New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn…

    My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

    By Jodi Picoult rating of short cover   ( 9customer ratings) Atria Books, April 2004 Fiction & Literature, Fiction
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  • This deluxe trade paperback edition of Alice Sebold's modern classic features French flaps and rough-cut pages.

    Once in a generation a novel comes along that taps a vein of universal human…

    The Lovely Bones

    By Alice Sebold rating of short cover   ( 217customer ratings) Little, Brown and Company, August 2002 Action Suspense, Psychological
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  • “When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary…

    Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

    By Frank McCourt rating of short cover   ( 10customer ratings) Scribner, December 1998
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  • My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life.
    "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?"
    "Because there is a war."
    "You mean, you saw people…

    A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy…

    By Ishmael Beah rating of short cover   ( 17customer ratings) Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2007
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  • A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for over thirty years, Richard Adams's Watership Down is a timeless classic and one of the most beloved novels of all time. Set in England's Downs, a once…

    Watership Down: A Novel

    By Richard Adams rating of short cover   (1customer rating) Scribner, July 2009 Fiction & Literature, Fiction
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