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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Category: Classics | Series: Flamingo Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His jo ...Show more
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
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Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken. ...Show more
Feather Boy (Essential Modern Classics) by Nicky Singer
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Category: Classics | Series: Essential Modern Classics
Robert Nobel, the school pariah, triumphs over his own fears and the school bully, in this extraordinary tale of self-empowerment, legend and death. Robert is a boy who can do anything -- or so old Edith Sorrel at the nursing home tells him. Robert doesn't think so, knowing as he does that he is the sch ...Show more
Flow: Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Category: Psychology | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. In this n ...Show more
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
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Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lo ...Show more
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.' Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide ...Show more
I, Houdini (First Modern Classics) by Lynne Reid Banks
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Category: 8-12+ Years | Series: First Modern Classics
Houdini is no ordinary hamster. He is an escapologist with an exceptional talent for getting out of cages and urge to escape leads him to all kinds of adventures...New edition published into the First Modern Classics list, fantastic stories for young readers. He may look like a small, furry pet, but rea ...Show more
In Cold Blood - A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Controversial and compelling, "In Cold Blood" reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those i ...Show more
Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Modern Classics
Along with Mother Courage, the character of Galileo is one of Brecht's greatest creations, immensely live, human and complex. Unable to resist his appetite for scientific investigation, Galileo's heretical discoveries about the solar system bring him to the attention of the Inquisition. He is scared int ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Edith Grossman (translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. No woman can replace her in his heart. But now her husband is dead. Finally - after fifty-one years, nine months and four days - Florentino has another chance to ...Show more
Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
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Category: Picture Books | Series: Usborne Modern Classics Ser.
In Caitlin's world, everything is black or white. Things are good or bad. Anything in between is confusing. That's the stuff Caitlin's older brother, Devon, has always explained. But now Devon's dead and Dad is no help at all. Caitlin wants to get over it, but as an eleven-year-old girl with Asperger's, ...Show more
Morrissey - Autobiography by Morrissey
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Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in three different decades. Achieving eleven Top 10 albums (p ...Show more