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Profiles in courage

2013
Presents John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning study of men who, at a risk to themselves, stood fast for a principle, covering John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Sam Houston, Robert Taft, and others.

Johnny Panic and the Bible of dreams

short stories, prose, and diary excerpts
2008
Includes nineteen of Plath's stories, five pieces of journalism, and excerpts from her journals.

Black Boy

2008
Celebrating the centennial of Wright's birth, each deluxe classic is a special edition with French flaps, rough fronts, and covers printed on uncoated stock.

Animal liberation

the definitive classic of the animal movement
2009
An update of the 1975 publication on "speciesism," the human disregard for nonhuman animals, with discussion of the factory farms and product-testing procedures of the early twenty-first century, and a look at possible alternatives.

Joy in the morning

2010
The story of a young couple from Brooklyn who marry young, have little money, and face bitter parental opposition, but are determined to make something of their life together.

The eighth day

2006
Presents the winner of the 1968 National Book Award, in which Wilder explores the mystery surrounding the murder conviction of John Barrington Ashley and his subsequent rescue by a group of unarmed, unknown men.

The golden notebook

2008
As she falls in love with an American writer and finds herself facing insanity, Anna attempts to weave the diverse experiences of her life into one story.

To kill a mockingbird

2002
Scout Finch, the young daughter of a local attorney in the Deep South during the 1930s, tells of her father's defense of an African-American man charged with the rape of a white girl.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

2007
The author philosophizes on the positive and negative sides of nature while observing life near Tinker Creek, in a valley in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.

Selected poems

2006
Presents a collection of poems by twentieth-century African-American poet and author Gwendolyn Brooks.

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