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1) To Kill a Mockingbird

Author

Lee, Harper

Series

To kill a mockingbird volume 1
The World's best reading
Perennial classics

Language

English

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A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet...

2) The song of the lark

Author

Cather, Willa

Series

Penguin twentieth-century classics
Kennebec Large Print perennial favorites collection
Great Plains Trilogy

Language

English

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"Conflating her own childhood experiences with those of a celebrated Wagnerian soprano of her day, Willa Cather here introduces Thea Kronborg, a Scandinavian-American singer who rises from a one-story town in Colorado to the Metropolitan Opera House. Along the way she learns her own capacity for the rigorous demands of artistic excellence, and how few of her colleagues are willing to sacrifice ordinary vanities for exacting professional standards....

3) Icy Sparks

Author

Rubio, Gwyn Hyman

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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At the age of ten, an Appalachian girl develops croaks, jerks and spasms, which leads to her explusion from school. After treatment--she has Tourette's syndrome--she learns to control herself, attends college and there is a happy ending.

4) Old Yeller

Author

Gipson, Fred

Series

Perennial library
Old Yeller

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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When a novel like Huckleberry Finn, or The Yearling, comes along it defies customary adjectives because of the intensity of the respouse it evokes in the reader. Such a book, we submit, is Old Yeller; to read this eloquently simple story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country is an unforgettable and deeply moving experience. Set in the rough wilderness of early frontier Texas, "Old Yeller" is a timeless coming-of-age tale. Travis is left to...

5) The Red pony

Author

Steinbeck, John

Series

Penguin twentieth-century classics

Language

English

Formats

Book, Large Print

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The Red pony: On cover: "The moving and beautiful story of a boy, a sorrel colt and the sun-drenched California earth." Junius Maltby: After ten years as a San Francisco accountant, Junius moves to sunny Pastures of Heaven, marries, has a son and becomes poverty stricken through laziness. When he realizes he is hurting his son, he has to make a decision.

6) Jane Eyre

Series

Barnes and Noble classics
The World's best reading

Language

English

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In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.