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• The Bluest Eye

  a Novel

  Morrison, Toni

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  The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lawn Boy

  a Novel

  Evison, Jonathan,

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  Mike Muñoz is a young Mexican American not too many years out of high school--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew. Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Handmaid's Tale

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  The Handmaid’s Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Kite Runner

  Hosseini, Khaled

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  The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Make Something Up

  Stories You Can't Unread

  Palahniuk, Chuck,

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  Representing work that spans several years, Make Something Up is a compilation of 21 stories and one novella (some previously published, some not) that will disturb and delight. The absurdity of both life and death are on full display; in "Zombies,"…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fifty Shades of Grey

  James, E. L.

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  When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fun Home

  a Family Tragicomic

  Bechdel, Alison, 1960-

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  Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the Fun Home. It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Persepolis

  The Story of a Childhood

  Satrapi, Marjane, 1969-

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  In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Saga. Volume One

  Vaughan, Brian K,

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  The sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the universe. When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old world.

• A Stolen Life

  a Memoir

  Dugard, Jaycee Lee, 1980-

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  The memoir of Jaycee Dugard who was kidnapped on June 10, 1991, when she was 11 years old, and was missing for over 18 years before her reappearance in 2009.

• Bless Me, Ultima

  Anaya, Rudolfo A.

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  Chronicles the story of an alienated New Mexico boy who seeks an answer to his questions about life in his relationship with Ultima, a magical healer.

• The Glass Castle

  a Memoir

  Walls, Jeannette

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  This story is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a penetrating look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant.

• Beloved

  Morrison, Toni,

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  Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.

• Brave New World

  Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963

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  Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nickel and Dimed

  on (not) Getting by in America

  Ehrenreich, Barbara

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  Liberal culturalist, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to examine the lives of women attempting to live in America on $6 or $7 an hour. She traveled from near her home in Florida through Maine to Minnesota, to see how the bottom third of wage earners live.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Sister's Keeper

  a Novel

  Picoult, Jodi, 1966-

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  Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for her sister Kate, who has fought the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. Like most teens, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is.

• Nineteen Minutes

  a Novel

  Picoult, Jodi, 1966-

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  Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens -- until the day its complacency is shattered by a shocking act of violence. In the aftermath, the town's residents must not only seek justice in order to begin healing but…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-

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  In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key... The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open? So begins a quest that takes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dreaming in Cuban

  a Novel

  Garcia, Cristina, 1958-

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  A vivid and funny first novel about three generations of a Cuban family divided by conflicting loyalties over the Cuban revolution, set in the world of Havana in the 1970s and '80s and in an emigre neighborhood of Brooklyn. It is a story of immense…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House of the Spirits

  a Novel

  Allende, Isabel,

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  The unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted and imaginative storytellers. The House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family.