Alice Walker

Novel, epistolary novel, domestic fivition

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Novel

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Alice Walker's iconic modern classic is now a Penguin Book. A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience. The Color Purple broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker's epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey towards redemption and love.

The Color Purple

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Missouri

A Story of Kansas

The Price of the Prairie

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Minnesota

Ignore everything mentioned about "Forgotten books" in the summary. This is a 1912 version.

Excerpt from Sally Salt It was barley dawn when Sally Salt walked across the fields. A dim, gray world still in its night-dream lay all about her. Trees and hills were colorless spaces of shadow, meadows sweeping in every direction were colorless spaces of light; and through the waiting silence of the earth - consciousness waking, but not yet sentient - the musical, monotonous ripple of the river reached her, unchanging, unhurrying, unresting - timeless. The same to-day as a million years ago, and the same through to-morrow's million years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Sally Salt (1912)

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#fiction #drama #paperback #classic #africanamericans #classicnovels #classicists #historical #southerngothicbildungsroman #classics 

Texas

To Kill a Mockingbird

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A. W. Tozer

James L. Snyder

Book has some underlined sentences with ink pen, but cover and pages are good.  

Florida

The Human Thirst for the Divine

A classic best-seller. "Lord, I must speak of Thee" wrote Tozer, "lest by my silence I offend against the generation of Thy children."

The Pursuit of God with Study Guide

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Kazuo Ishiguro

Used, shelf wear but no underlining or marginalia.

An English butler reflects--sometimes bitterly, sometimes humorously--on his service to a lord between the two world wars and discovers doubts about his master's character and about the ultimate value of his own service to humanity

The Remains of the Day

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Stephen King

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

When a little boy's pet dies, and he persuades his parents to bury it in an old Indian cemetary, reputed by legend to house restless spirits, a nightmare of death and destruction begins as deceased animals come back to life, in a new edition of the best-selling novel, featuring an introduction by the author. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Pet Sematary

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New Jersey

The Complete Serial Novel

Repackaged to tie in with Castlerock's major motion picture release of the season, starring Tom Hanks. At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen the good, the evil, the innocent, and the guilty. But he's never seen anything like new prisoner John Coffey.

The Green Mile

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Vermont

Emily Climbs

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Perhaps the most haunting and tormented love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of the troubled orphan Heathcliff and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw. #classic #romance #emilybronte

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Wuthering Heights

Natalie Babbitt

Paperback; fair condition. Some marks on the outside, but nothing major. Some corner folds on pages. 

Tuck Everlasting

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John Steinbeck

An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco. Along the way he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, the particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and the unexpected kindness of strangers.

Travels with Charley in Search of America

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Ken Kesey

An international bestseller and the basis for the hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the defining works of the 1960s.

In this classic novel, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the rules at every turn. But this defiance, which starts as a sport, soon develops into a grim struggle, an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Nurse Ratched, backed by the full power of authority, and McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will. What happens when Nurse Ratched uses her ultimate weapon against McMurphy provides the story's shocking climax.

"BRILLIANT!"--Time

"A SMASHING ACHIEVEMENT...A TRULY ORIGINAL NOVEL!"--Mark Schorer

"Mr. Kesey has created a world that is convincing, alive and glowing within its own boundaries...His is a large, robust talent, and he has written a large, robust book."--Saturday Review

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

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Richard Wright

Traces the fall of a young black man in 1930s Chicago as his life loses all hope of redemption after he kills a white woman.

Native Son

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Anthony Burgess

Presents Burgess' satire of the present inhumanity of man to man through a futuristic culture where teenagers rule with violence, and includes the final chapter deleted from the first American edition.

A Clockwork Orange

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Ray Bradbury

Pennsylvania

A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit.

Fahrenheit 451

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The book comes with #annotations #paperback #educational #shakespeare #highschool #romeoandjuliet #classic #fiction #classicists #translation

California

Reading & Language Arts

Romeo and Juliet (No Fear Shakespeare)

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Zora Neale Hurston

Book is still legible. However, I’ve had the book since middle school (over 15 years) and there are markings throughout the entire book (highlights).

Delaware

One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dreams, it is the story of fair-skinned, fiercely independent Janie Crawford, and her evolving selfhood through three marriages and a life marked by poverty, trials, and purpose. A true literary wonder, Hurston's masterwork remains as relevant and affecting today as when it was first published -- perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Massachusetts

Book has some pencil highlights and writing.

Illinois

Aldous Huxley

Does have a few highlights through it no to much that it’s distracting. 

Arizona

The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Huxley's most enduring masterpiece. Following Brave New World is the nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited, first published in 1958. It is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with the prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

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A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit, in a chilling novel of a frightening near-future world. Reissue.

Indiana

"Huxley's final word about the human condition and the possibility of the good society. . . . Island is a welcome and in many ways unique addition to the select company of books--from Plato to now--that have presented, in imaginary terms, a coherent view of what society is not but might be."  -- New York Times Book Review

The final novel from Aldous Huxley, Island is a provocative counterpoint to his worldwide classic Brave New World, in which a flourishing, ideal society located on a remote Pacific island attracts the envy of the outside world.

In the novel Huxley considered his most important, he transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and--to his amazement--give him hope.

Island

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#paperback #fiction #juvenilefiction #mystery #classic #middlegrade #youngadult #ya 

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For fans of Lemony Snicket and Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library, this first book in the bestselling, award-winning Mysterious Benedict Society Series is not to be missed!

"Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?" Dozens of children respond to this peculiar ad in the newspaper and are then put through a series of mind-bending tests, which readers take along with them. Only four children--two boys and two girls--succeed. Their challenge: to go on a secret mission that only the most intelligent and inventive children could complete. To accomplish it they will have to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules. But what they'll find in the hidden underground tunnels of the school is more than your average school supplies. So, if you're gifted, creative, or happen to know Morse Code, they could probably use your help.

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Alice Walker

The Color Purple

Margaret Hill McCarter

The Price of the Prairie

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Sally Salt (1912)

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

A. W. Tozer; James L. Snyder

The Pursuit of God with Study Guide

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day

Stephen King

Pet Sematary

Stephen King

The Green Mile

LM Montgomery

Emily Climbs

Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights

Natalie Babbitt

Tuck Everlasting

John Steinbeck

Travels with Charley in Search of America

Ken Kesey

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Richard Wright

Native Son

Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange

Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451

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Romeo and Juliet (No Fear Shakespeare)

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451

Aldous Huxley

Island

Trenton Lee Stewart; Carson Ellis (Illustrator)

The Mysterious Benedict Society