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One of the most respected works of Chicano literature, Rudolfo Anaya tells the story of Antonio Luna Márez, a young boy who grapples with faith, identity, and death as he comes of age in New Mexico. |
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In one of literature's most haunting denunciations of censorship, Ray Bradbury uses the materials of science fiction to tell the story of Guy Montag, a fireman forced to burn books. |
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The spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family plans to farm the untamed Nebraska land. Willa Cather's tale comes to us through the eyes of Ántonia's childhood friend, Jim Burden. |
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Told through the eyes of narrator Nick Carraway, |
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A frustrated schoolteacher in 1940s Louisiana tries to give a condemned man back his dignity before he dies. Vivid and compassionate, this novel asks: Knowing we're going to die, how should we live?
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Detective Sam Spade becomes embroiled with a mysterious client, avenges the death of his partner, and chases a priceless treasure, in this classic American private-eye novel. |
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A story of love and pain, loyalty and desertion, Ernest Hemingway's World War I novel features the tragedy of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful nurse. |
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This anthology presents a superb selection of the finest Mexican short stories ever written, and offers a glimpse into a diverse and fascinating culture. |
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Zora Neale Hurston's vibrant novel presents Janie Mae Crawford's growth from a voiceless teenage girl into a woman who takes charge of her own destiny. |
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As Harper Lee's narrator, Scout Finch, tries to draw out a reclusive neighbor, she finds herself involved in a racially charged trial that decides the fate of a man in her Alabama community. |
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In the first book of Ursula K. Le Guin's widely admired fantasy series, only the power of language can restore balance to a dangerous world. |
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Abducted from his comfortable home and sold as a sled dog, Buck battles the elements to become leader of the pack. This story of a struggle for survival is an unforgettable adventure. |
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Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's moral thriller follows a thief's quest for revenge down the boulevards and back alleys of Cairo. |
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A teenage outcast, a drunken socialist, a black doctor, and a sad café owner confess their secrets to a deaf-mute, in Carson McCullers' dramatic story of poverty and racism in a 1930s Georgia mill town. |
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Bear witness to Rosa Lublin—a mother, madwoman, and holocaust survivor. Cynthia Ozick's heartbreakingly empathic novella explores universal ideas of family and loss, denial and starting over. |
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In Marilynne Robinson's isolated, haunting landscape, can Ruth get the mothering she needs from her Aunt Sylvie, who needs almost as much care as she gives? |
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The saga of the Joad family's rough passage to California and the rougher treatment they find there, John Steinbeck's novel is tragedy and comedy, story and allegory, editorial and epic. |
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In sixteen interwoven stories, Amy Tan's characters—four Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters—struggle to connect despite the ghosts and secrets of the past. |
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Leo Tolstoy's Ivan Ilyich is a Russian judge and middle-class everyman. Suddenly stricken by a life-threatening disease at forty-five, Ivan discovers a horrifying truth: He has not lived a meaningful life. |
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Humor, trouble, and adventure follow Tom Sawyer everywhere—from the banks of the Mississippi to the brink of death and back in Mark Twain's first full novel. |
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In 1870s New York, Newland Archer and his fiancée seem the perfect match. But when the alluring Countess Ellen Olenska returns home from Europe, Newland must make the most important decision of his life. |
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At a New England prep school where keeping up appearances is everything, Tobias Wolff's youthful narrator learns the painful difference between truth and fiction. |
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©2006 - 2008 Arts Midwest