The Crossing
 From Amazon.com: The opening section of The Crossing, book two of the Border Trilogy, features perhaps the most perfectly realized storytelling of Cormac McCarthy's celebrated career. Like All the Pretty Horses, this volume opens with a teenager's [... more]
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The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century
From Amazon.com: Anthologies are tricky things for editors: to select a story for inclusion is to make oneself a target for readers who wonder hotly why X or Y or Z wasn't chosen. And to be so brash as to deem an anthology the best anything of the [... more]
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Penguin Classics Short Reign Of Pippin Iv
What a surprise: Someone once said "I cannot read more than ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up." It is a feeling that I share wholeheartedly. I've found the novels of his that I've read to be bleak, depressing, and punctuated with [... more]
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Of Mice and Men: Cliff Notes Ultimate Study Guide
From Amazon.com: A strong argument favors Gary Sinise's 1992 Of Mice and Men over the classic 1939 version that critics have historically preferred. As adapted by the great playwright-screenwriter Horton Foote, John Steinbeck's Depression-era masterpiece [... more]
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Modern North American discovers the reality behind his food: This is the most basic culinary detective book. In modern America, Michael Pollan wonders what to eat: "... imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, [... more]
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Montana 1948
wow: What kind of sick, twisted, evil teacher would make a student read this. This is the worst, most boring book I was ever forced to read. This includes The Pearl, by John Steinbeck, and a Separate Peace, by John Knowles, and a list of many others. [... more]
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Pearl
Author: John Steinbeck Binding: Paperback EAN: 9781405852135 ISBN: 1405852135 Number Of Pages: 76 Publication Date: 2007-04-01 [... more]
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Grapes of Wrath
Author: John Steinbeck Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 808 EAN: 9780856761522 ISBN: 0856761524 Number Of Pages: 170 Publication Date: 1991-12-31 [... more]
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Son of War
From Amazon.co.uk: Melvyn Bragg's A Son of War begins where A Soldier's Return ended. The previous novel--a moving account of the struggles, social and psychological, faced by a Burma veteran returning to Cumbrian hometown life with his wife and six-year- [... more]
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All That Is Gone
A Fine Collection of Stories, A Fine Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer is an Indonesian writer who lives in Jakarta and has garnered many prizes for his work. I was surprised to read that he is considered by some to be in a class with James Baldwin, Graham [... more]
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The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
vivid without being polemic: A collection of interrelated stories based on the author's experience as an illegal immigrant from Mexico in the late 1940s, working with his family as a migrant laborer. Exposes hardships without being didactic. Ambiguous. [... more]
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A Time to Kill
From Amazon.com: This addictive tale of a young lawyer defending a black Vietnam war hero who kills the white druggies who raped his child in tiny Clanton, Mississippi, is John Grisham's first novel, and his favorite of his first six. He polished it for [... more]
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