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1. Going to Meet the Man
By: James Baldwin
4.37
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
This is an older edition of ISBN 9780679761792. "There's no way not to suffer. But you try all k… read more
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"There were pauses in the music for the rushing, calling, halting piano. Everything would stop except the climbing of the soloist; he would reach a height and everything would join him, the violins fi…"-James Baldwin, Going to Meet the Man
2. The Penelopiad
By: Margaret Atwood
3.72
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making. In Homer'… read more
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"the gods often mumble"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Boys with their first beards can be a thorough pain in the neck."-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
3. The Changeling
By: Thomas Middleton , William Rowley
3.61
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume Th… read more
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- read for school
"Let me feel how thy pulses beat."-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling
"Tis time to die, when 'tis a shame to live."-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling
"She that in life and love refuses me, In death and shame my partner she shall be."-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling
"FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy."-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling
4. North and South
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston
4.15
Format: 521 pages, Paperback
When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her com… read more
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"No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. "-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
5. The Poet X
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
4.38
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New … read more
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"Pero, tú no eres fácil."-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
"Just because your father's present, doesn't mean he isn't absent."-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
"It's about any of the words that bring us together and how we can form a home in them."-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
"I close my eyes and let myself find in music what I've always searched for: a way away."-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
6. Brokeback Mountain
By: Annie Proulx
4.00
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary lite… read more
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- short stories
"I wish I knew how to quit you."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"You know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"Again the ranch is on the market and they’ve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, ‘Give them to the real estate shark, I’m out a here,"-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
7. The Scarlet Letter
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Nina Baym , Thomas E. Connolly
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entang… read more
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8. Cranford
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant thin… read more
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9. Death and the Maiden
By: Ariel Dorfman
4.08
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Ariel Dorfman's explosively provocative, award-winning drama is set in a country that has only rece… read more
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11. When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge
By: K. David Harrison
4.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now ar… read more
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12. Volpone
By: Ben Jonson
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Bitter, satiric comedy in blank verse is one of the great Elizabethan dramatist's finest plays. The… read more
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13. Harvest
By: Manjula Padmanabhan
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Om, a young man, is driven by unemployment to sell his body parts for cash. Guards arrive to make h… read more
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14. Whereas
By: Layli Long Soldier
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… read more
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15. Lost In The City
By: Edward P. Jones
3.77
Format: None pages,
A magnificent collection of short fiction focusing on the lives of African-American men and women i… read more
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- short stories
16. The Way to Rainy Mountain
By: N. Scott Momaday , Al Momaday
3.16
Format: 315 pages,
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- short stories
- read for school
17. A Small Place
By: Jamaica Kincaid
4.02
Format: None pages,
Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Placemagnifies our vision of one small place with Swifti… read more
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18. Ligeia
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.51
Format: 235 pages,
Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. read more
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19. The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
By: Maggie Stiefvater
4.05
Format: 409 pages, Hardcover
“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either y… read more
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"Above him, the stars were brutal and clear."-Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
"Is this thing safe?" "Safe as life," Gansey replied."-Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
"If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human."-Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
"People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper."-Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
20. A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more
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21. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
By: Tom Stoppard , None
3.48
Format: None pages,
Hamlettold from the worm's-eye view of two minor characters, bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenster… read more
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22. Oroonoko
By: Aphra Behn , Janet Todd
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, th… read more
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23. La española inglesa
By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
4.35
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
La espanola inglesa transcurre entre Londres, el Mediterraneo y Sevilla en una trama construida a t… read more
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24. The Fall of the House of Usher
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.87
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more
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"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
25. Othello
By: William Shakespeare
4.48
Format: None pages,
In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (betwee… read more
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26. Bodas de sangre
By: Federico García Lorca , Juan Caballero , Allen Josephs
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
El tema de esta obra surgio a raiz de una noticia aparecida en prensa: dos amantes se fugan en la v… read more
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27. Breakfast at Tiffany's
By: Truman Capote
3.83
Format: 373 pages, Paperback
In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the Am… read more
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28. Borders
By: Thomas King
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A stunning graphic-novel adaptation based on the work of one of Canada’s most revered and bestselli… read more
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29. Hills Like White Elephants
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.85
Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition
A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more
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30. The Half-Caste
By: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
3.13
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Dinah Maria Craik, nee Dinah Maria Mulock, also often credited as Miss Mulock (1826-1887) was an En… read more
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31. The Cariboo Cafe
By: Helena María Viramontes
3.55
Format: None pages, None
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