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Among The Barons
Among the Barons is the fourth book in Margaret Peterson Haddix's gripping, dystopian science-fiction series, The Shadow Children. Published in 2003, the series is set in a totalitarian future where the government enforces a strict Population Police law allowing families to have only two children. The story follows "third children" (illegal shadow children) who must live entirely in hiding to e…
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- 3.823.0718.B.U
Age of Shiva
At age 17, Meera falls infatuated with Dev, a charismatic but underachieving pop singer. To escape her controlling father, she marries Dev, only to find herself trapped in a bleak, suffocating marriage in a conservative household.
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- 3.823.0747.B.U
Sons and Lovers
Sons and Lovers is a semi-autobiographical masterpiece written by English author D.H. Lawrence and published in 1913. Widely regarded as one of the greatest psychological novels in the English language, it explores the destructive complexities of class struggle, familial duty, industrial poverty in a Nottinghamshire mining town, and the suffocating psychological weight of Oedipal attachment.
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- 3.823.0620.B.U
The Odyssey
The epic poem follows Odysseus, the clever king of Ithaca, as he attempts to return home after the decade-long Trojan War. Because it took him ten years to get home, his journey spans twenty years in total. The narrative is divided into three main parts: the Telemachy (the search by his son), Odysseus’s adventures and trials at sea, and his triumphant return and reclamation of his home.
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Silas Marner
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is a classic Victorian novel written by English author George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) and published in 1861. Set in the early 19th century, the novel tells the heartwarming, redemptive tale of a rebitterized, solitary weaver who loses his faith in humanity and God, only to have his soul restored through the unexpected arrival of an abandoned golden-haired orph…
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The Thirty - Nine Steps & The Power House
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) and The Power-House (1916) are two of the most famous and influential thrillers written by Scottish novelist, historian, and politician John Buchan. Featuring his iconic protagonist, Richard Hannay, these gripping novellas essentially invented the modern espionage and "man-on-the-run" thriller genre, laying the groundwork for everything from James Bond to Alfred Hit…
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Pride and Prejudice
The story revolves around the Bennet family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia. Because their estate is entailed and can only pass to a male heir (their cousin Mr. Collins), Mrs. Bennet is desperate to marry off all her daughters to secure their financial futures.
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Ethan Frome & Other Stories
Ethan Frome and Other Stories typically pairs Edith Wharton’s most famous, bleakly tragic novella, Ethan Frome (1911), with a curated selection of her finest short fiction (such as "The Triumph of Night," "The Last Asset," or "The Other Two"). While Wharton is world-renowned for her glittering, razor-sharp social satires of New York high society (like The Age of Innocence), Ethan Frome showca…
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The Last of The Mohicans
Colonel Munro’s two daughters, Cora and Alice Munro, are traveling under British escort to join their father at Fort William Henry. They are guided by Magua, a Huron scout who is secretly working for the French and holds a deep, personal grudge against Colonel Munro. Unknown to the party, Magua is leading them into a trap. They are rescued in the wilderness by Natty Bumppo (also known as H…
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The Old Curiosity Shop
The Old Curiosity Shop is a classic serialized novel written by Charles Dickens and published between 1840 and 1841. Originally released in Dickens's weekly magazine Master Humphrey's Clock, the story became a massive, unprecedented literary sensation, with contemporary readers in New York reportedly crowding the docks shouting for incoming ships to learn the fate of its beloved protagonist.c
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