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Quick view The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a vivid portrait of life and death in a turn-of-the-century American meat-packing factory. A grim indictment that led to government regulations of the food industry, The Jungle is Sinclair's extraordinary contribution to... View Details
Quick view Joy School by Elizabeth Berg Katie has relocated to Missouri with her distant, occasionally abusive father. Her much-loved mother is dead; her new school is unaccepting of her; and her only friends fall far short of ideal companions. When she accidentally falls through the ice... View Details
Quick view The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan A New York Times Bestseller In 1949 four Chinese women - drawn together by the shadow of their past - begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Nearly... View Details
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Quick view Kit's Wilderness by David Almond The Watson family moves to the old coal-mining town of Stoneygate to care for Kit's recently widowed grandfather. When Kit meets John Askew, another boy whose family had worked and died in the mines, he invites Kit to join him in playing a game called... View Details
Quick view Hush by Jeph Loeb The hottest-selling title of last year is finally collected in softcover format. In this story of murder, mystery and romance, Batman is on a mission to discover the identity of the mysterious character wreaking havoc in his life and soon finds himself... View Details
Quick view Bloodline by Katy Moran Fast-paced and full of intrigue, this debut novel set in eighth-century Britain transports readers to a time of blood and steel--a time when peace was fleeting and won at high personal cost. View Details
Quick view The Emperor of Any Place by Tim Wynne-Jones When Evan's father dies suddenly, Evan finds a hand-bound yellow book on his father's desk, a diary of a Japanese soldier stranded on a Pacific Island during World War II. What is in this account that Evan's grandfather, Griff, whom Evan has never met... View Details
Quick view Come August Come Freedom: The Bellows, the Gallows, and the Black General Gabriel by Gigi Amateau In a time of post-Revolutionary fervor in Richmond, Virginia, an imposing twenty-four-year-old slave named Gabriel, known for his courage and intellect, plotted a rebellion involving thousands of African- American freedom seekers armed with refashioned... View Details
Quick view The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M T Anderson Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age 16, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War... View Details
Quick view The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves by M T Anderson The stunning conclusion to the National Book Award winner and "New York Times" bestseller recounts Octavian's experiences as the Revolutionary War explodes around him, thrusting him into intense battles and tantalizing him with elusive visions of... View Details
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