Rudolfo Anaya

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

This coming-of-age classic and the bestselling Chicano novel of all time follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs -- now one of PBS's "100 Great American Reads." Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him, and he will discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past--a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world...and will nurture the birth of his soul. The winner of the 2015 National Humanities Medal, Rudolfo Anaya is acclaimed as the father of Chicano literature in English and for his rich and compassionate writing about the Mexican-American experience.

Bless Me, Ultima

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Natalie Babbitt

I got this from my elementary school and it was one of my favorite books at the time but I don’t read this anymore and I think that it needs to go to a better home. This book is very old but is in a fair condition for its age. It has not changed since I had received it. 

Is eternal life a blessing or a curse? It's 1880, and the members of the Tuck family (Ma, Pa, and their two sons) haven't aged since the day 80 years ago when they unknowingly drank from a magical spring.

Tuck Everlasting

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Henrik Ibsen

Texas

A Doll's House (Norwegian: Et dukkehjem; also translated as A Doll House) is a three-act play in prose by Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is significant for its critical attitude toward 19th century marriage norms. It aroused great controversy at the time, as it concludes with the protagonist, Nora, leaving her husband and children because she wants to discover herself. Ibsen was inspired by the belief that "a woman cannot be herself in modern society," since it is "an exclusively male society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors and judges who assess feminine conduct from a masculine standpoint." Its ideas can also be seen as having a wider application: Michael Meyer argued that the play's theme is not women's rights, but rather "the need of every individual to find out the kind of person he or she really is and to strive to become that person." In a speech given to the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights in 1898, Ibsen insisted that he "must disclaim the honor of having consciously worked for the women's rights movement," since he wrote "without any conscious thought of making propaganda," his task having been "the description of humanity."

A Doll's House

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#classics  it's an old copy and has water stains but is still in readable condition. None of the pages stick together or are dog eared. 

Hard Times

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Constance Garnett

Iowa

In a timeless story of justice, morality, and redemption, an impoverished Russian student murders a miserly landlady, a crime that has severe repercussions on his life and his family as he battles his conscience.

Crime and Punishment

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Upton Sinclair

Maura Spiegel

The Jungle

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#paperback #fiction #classic #youngadultfiction #jdsalinger #comingofage #school #classics #catcherintherye #holdencaulfield

Maryland

The Catcher in the Rye

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John Steinbeck

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

(Centennial Edition)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics. This Centennial edition, specially designed to commemorate one hundred years of Steinbeck, features french flaps and deckle-edged pages. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Grapes of Wrath

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

A Novel

An historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To Kill a Mockingbird. Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch—Scout—struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her. Exploring how the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird are adjusting to the turbulent events transforming mid-1950s America, Go Set a Watchman casts a fascinating new light on Harper Lee’s enduring classic. Moving, funny and compelling, it stands as a magnificent novel in its own right.

Go Set a Watchman

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Robert Cormier

"The Chocolate War is masterfully structured and rich in theme; the action is well crafted, well timed, suspenseful; complex ideas develop and unfold with darity." —The New York Times Book Review *"The characterizations of all the boys are superb...This novel [is) unique in its uncompromising portrait of human cruelty and conformity." -School Library Journal, starred review * "Vicious and violent mob cruelty in a boys' prep school is not a new theme but Cormier makes it compellingly immediate...Readers will respect the uncompromising ending.... —Kirkus Reviews, starred review "The novel is everly written with a good sense of the realistic and a good ear for dialogue, qualities which will attract any reader."

A high-school freshman who refuses to participate in the annual fund-raising chocolate sale is forced to defend his convictions.

The Chocolate War

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#hardcover #littlewomen #classicliterature #classics #literature #youngadult #fiction #classic 

California

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.

Little Women

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George Orwell

Erich Fromm

1984

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Was handed down to me but idk where they got it from. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Colorado

The Complete Works of William Shakespear 

#paperback #classics #trumancapote #fiction 

A boy matures amidst the odd characters who live in Skully's Landing

Other Voices, Other Rooms

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Борис Васильев был в истинном и самом простом смысле этого слова народный писатель. В Солнечногорск, где он жил уединенно в последние годы, к нему ездили почти как к Толстому в Ясную Поляну. И сегодня Васильева читают, Васильева любят, его слову доверяют. Далеко не всем авторам ХХI века дано создать нечто подобное по силе, искренности, проникновенности, как книги Бориса Васильева о военных и предвоенных годах, об этических вопросах любви, чувства долга и естественном ходе бытия. В настоящее издание вошли самые известные произведения Бориса Васильева.


New York

А зори здесь тихие

Эмиль Золя — один из столпов мировой реалистической литературы, предводитель и теоретик литературного движения натурализма, увлеченный исследователь повседневности, страстный правозащитник и публицист, повлиявший на все реалистическое направление литературы XX века и прежде всего — на школу «новой журналистики»: Трумена Капоте, Тома Вулфа, Нормана Мейлера. Его самый известный труд — эпохальный двадцатитомный цикл «Ругон-Маккары», распахивающий перед читателем бесконечную панораму человеческих пороков и добродетелей в декорациях Второй империи. Это энциклопедия жизни Парижа и французской провинции на материале нескольких поколений одной семьи, родившей самые странные плоды, — головокружительная в своей детальности и масштабности эпопея, где есть все: алчность и бескорыстие, любовь к ближнему и звериная страсть, возвышенные устремления и повседневная рутина, гордость, жестокость, цинизм и насилие, взлет и падение сильных и слабых мира сего. В это иллюстрированное издание вошли первые три романа цикла в том порядке, в котором его рекомендовал читать автор: здесь разветвленное семейство Ругон-Маккаров зарождается, дает и собирает обильный и тлетворный урожай, предъявляет права на власть и приводит к отчаянию и гибели своих первых жертв, чьи души не в силах противиться пагубе.

Карьера Ругонов. Его превосходительство Эжен Ругон. Добыча

Anne Rice

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Recounting his first two hundred years of life, a vampire tells of his erotic alliance with Claudia, whose passions are forever locked up in the body of a child

Interview with the Vampire

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Jane. Austen

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The novel, which is fully annotated, is followed by the two canceled chapters that comprise Persuasion's original ending.



"Backgrounds and Contexts" collects contemporary assessments of Jane Austen as well as materials relating to social issues of the period.



Included are an excerpt from William Hayley's 1785 "Essay on Old Maids"; Austen's letters to Fanny Knight, which reveal her skepticism about marriage as the key to happiness; Henry Austen's memorial tribute to his famous sister; assessments by nineteenth-century critics Julia Kavanagh and Goldwin Smith, who saw Austen as an unassuming, sheltered, "feminine," rural writer; and the perspective of Austen's biographer Geraldine Edith Mitten.



"Modern Critical Views" reflects a dramatic shift in the way that twentieth-century scholars view both Austen and Persuasion. Increasingly, the focus is on Austen's moral purposefulness and political acumen and on Persuasion's historical, social, and political implications.



A variety of perspectives are provided by A. Walton Litz, Marilyn Butler, Tony Tanner, Robert Hopkins, Ann W. Astell, Claudia L. Johnson, and Cheryl Ann Weissman.



A Selected Bibliography is also included.

Persuasion

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My Antonia 

#paperback #fiction #classics #steinbeck #annotated #oenguinclassics

The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read A Penguin Classic First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics. This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction and notes by Steinbeck scholar Robert Demott. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

#fiction #paperback #classic #steinbeck #educational #classics 

A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a flirtatious woman, nor predict the consequences of Lennie's unswerving obedience to the things George taught him. "A thriller, a gripping tale . . . that you will not set down until it is finished. Steinbeck has touched the quick." —The New York Times

Of Mice and Men

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Arthur Miller

Christopher W. E. Bigsby

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Florida

A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community A Penguin Classic "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town's most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's "witch-hunts" in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing: "Political opposition...is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Crucible

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Beautiful Dreamer

Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities

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Bless Me, Ultima

Natalie Babbitt

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Henrik Ibsen

A Doll's House

Charles Dickens

Hard Times

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1984

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John Steinbeck

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1984