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| + | ==== #2 - THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald ==== | ||
| + | Against the glitter and recklessness of the Jazz Age, Jay Gatsby makes a desperate attempt to recapture the past and, along with it, the love of Daisy Buchanan. Amid extravagant parties at Gatsby' | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #3 - A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce ==== | ||
| + | Largely autobiographical novel portrays the Irish childhood, adolescence, | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #4 - LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov ==== | ||
| + | Incarcerated and awaiting trial, widowed middle-aged professor Humbert Humbert tells of his erotic obsession with preadolescent girls--particularly twelve-year-old Dolly Haze, whom he calls Lolita. Humbert details his fascination with Lolita and describes their bizarre road trip. Some descriptions of sex and some violence. 1955.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| ==== #5 - BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley ==== | ==== #5 - BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley ==== | ||
| A satire set in a future technocratic society in which people are rigidly classified by the state and kept happy by a government-administered drug. When two bureaucrats, | A satire set in a future technocratic society in which people are rigidly classified by the state and kept happy by a government-administered drug. When two bureaucrats, | ||
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| + | ==== #6 - THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner ==== | ||
| + | In 1928 Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #7 - CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller ==== | ||
| + | Bombardier Yossarian desperately tries to stay alive during World War II. Military rules make it impossible for anyone to achieve the combat quota necessary to quit flying. Yossarian and his buddies concoct ways to avoid the ridiculous orders of their officers. Strong language and descriptions of sex.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| ==== #8 - DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler ==== | ==== #8 - DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler ==== | ||
| Powerful novel of the Moscow trials, written from the author' | Powerful novel of the Moscow trials, written from the author' | ||
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| + | ==== #9 - SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence ==== | ||
| + | Story of Paul and William Morel, brothers who bear witness to the tensions of their working-class parents. William adopts the bitterness that his father expresses too freely. Paul, the younger, finds one woman appealing and another exciting, but can elicit for neither the sensitive feelings he has for his mother. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[BR 06785]] - 4 volumes. | ||
| + | ==== #10 - THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck ==== | ||
| + | Steinbeck' | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #11 - UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry ==== | ||
| + | Quauhnahuac, | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #12 - THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler ==== | ||
| + | Satirical portrayal by notable Victorian novelist, in a partly autobiographical piece, of the relations between Ernest Pontifex and his pious, self-righteous parents. Being the son of a middle-class English clergyman and a sanctimonious mother makes for an unhappy childhood, followed by dismal university years and an unsuitable marriage. Literature--and an aunt's bequest--become his salvation. 1903.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #13 - 1984 by George Orwell ==== | ||
| + | Satire about an alternate London under a totalitarian regime overseen by the omnipresent Big Brother. Winston Smith, a Ministry of Truth bureaucrat, attempts an intellectual rebellion against the Party while he pursues an illicit romance. His actions lead to his imprisonment, | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #14 - I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves ==== | ||
| + | Realistic story purports to be the lost autobiography of the emperor Claudius, who lived from 10 B.C. to 54 A.D. It vividly depicts the political conspiracies, | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #15 - TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf ==== | ||
| + | During summer visits to the Scottish coast, members of the Ramsey family reveal their personal challenges and innermost thoughts. Youngest child James must forfeit a yearned-for visit to the lighthouse. Ten years later, James, surviving family members, and former guests complete the long-delayed outing. Includes Eudora Welty' | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #16 - AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser ==== | ||
| + | First published in 1925 and based on an actual murder case, this classic novel depicts the dark side of the American dream in the story of a young man who will do almost anything to gain wealth and social acceptance. While he loves a poor factory worker who is carrying his child, he is dazzled by a rich woman who seems to embody all his fantasies.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #17 - THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers ==== | ||
| + | Deep South, 1930s. John Singer, who is deaf and mute, feels content until his best friend, also mute, is committed to a mental institution. Singer, who can read lips, becomes the confidante of several town residents, all of whom want answers to their problems. Some strong language. 1940.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #18 - SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut ==== | ||
| + | Billy Pilgrim, adrift in time, randomly revisits past and present manifestations: | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #19 - INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison ==== | ||
| + | Classic novel of a young black man's search for identity. Follows the unnamed protagonist from his youth in a Southern town through the depression years in Harlem, where he examines and rejects the values thrust on him by both whites and blacks. Some strong language. National Book Award 1953. 1947.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
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| + | ==== #20 - NATIVE SON by Richard Wright ==== | ||
| + | Classic work shows the plight of victimized blacks fighting against the political and social conditions of Chicago in the 1930s. A frustrated and resentful black man is driven to violence and murder.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #21 - HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow ==== | ||
| + | In his search for identity, an American millionaire travels to a remote area of Africa, where he is captured by a native tribe. His friendship with the king wins him the title of rain god, and he becomes deeply involved with the natives and participates in a strange experiment.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
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| + | ==== #22 - APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara ==== | ||
| + | Fast-moving first novel by journalist/ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
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| + | ==== #23 - U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos ==== | ||
| + | Three novels first published as a trilogy in 1938: **//The 42nd Parallel// | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
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| + | ==== #24 - WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson ==== | ||
| + | Sketches of midwestern life in the early 1900s, inspired by the author' | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #25 - A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster ==== | ||
| + | Englishwoman Mrs. Moore visits her son, a magistrate, in India, where she befriends charming, well-respected Muslim doctor Aziz. When Aziz is accused of assaulting Mrs. Moore' | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
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| + | ==== #26 - THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James ==== | ||
| + | Wealthy young American Milly Theale, doomed by illness to an early death, remains determined to experience life, however brief. Londoners Kate Croy and Merton Densher, impoverished lovers, conspire to dupe the charming but naive heiress and obtain her fortune. But fate intervenes. 1902.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
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| + | ==== #27 - THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James ==== | ||
| + | Acting as the wealthy Mrs. Newsome' | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
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| + | ==== #28 - TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald ==== | ||
| + | An American psychiatrist, | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #29 - THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell ==== | ||
| + | === Young Lonigan === | ||
| + | The adolescence of a tough Irish kid on the South Side of Chicago in 1916. Studs Lonigan, a grudging parochial school student pulled in opposite directions by the street and the church, describes his restless fifteenth summer. Strong language. 1935.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | === The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan === | ||
| + | Covers the years from 1917, when Studs Lonigan is still in high school, to 1929 when he is trapped into marriage by a woman he grows to hate. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | === Judgment Day: The Studs Lonigan Story === | ||
| + | The third volume in a trilogy about the life of Studs Lonigan, who began as a child of the Chicago streets aspiring to be a "big shot." His life ends in disillusionment and despair after the Great Depression has beaten him down. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
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| + | ==== #30 - THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford ==== | ||
| + | American John Dowell remembers the longtime friendship he and his wife Florence shared with Captain and Mrs. Edward Ashburnham, a wealthy English couple. Dowell' | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #31 - ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell ==== | ||
| + | Classic political satire targets Soviet Communism. The animals on a farm overthrow their master and live a utopian life, until the intelligent pigs take over--and one establishes himself as dictator. 1946.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #32 - THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James ==== | ||
| + | Maggie, daughter of an American millionaire, | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #33 - SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser ==== | ||
| + | Naive eighteen-year-old Caroline Meeber leaves rural Wisconsin for Chicago, where she temporarily moves into her sister and brother-in-law' | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #34 - A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh ==== | ||
| + | Satirical novel about London society. Tony Last, a young English squire, has a romantic love for his home, his wife, and his small son. When his wife has an affair and his child dies on a hunt, Tony seeks solace in the jungles of Brazil. 1934.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #35 - AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner ==== | ||
| + | The Bundrens, poor whites in Mississippi, | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #36 - ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren ==== | ||
| + | Restored edition, reconstructed from the author' | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #37 - THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder ==== | ||
| + | First published in 1927 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1928. This novel surveys the lives of five Peruvian travelers, victims of the collapse of a famous Incan bridge in 1714. Franciscan Brother Juniper, witness to the tragedy, weaves a story revealing how these people came together on the bridge at that final moment. Was it fate or was it an act of God?\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #38 - HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster ==== | ||
| + | Members of three different social classes intermingle at Howards End, a country house owned by the Wilcox family. The aristocratic Wilcoxes; the cultured, idealistic Schlegel sisters; and impoverished, | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
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| + | ==== #39 - GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin ==== | ||
| + | While living in Harlem, John experiences a religious conversion on his fourteenth birthday. Flashbacks portray the lives, suffering, and sins of John's African-American forefathers, | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
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| + | ==== #40 - THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene ==== | ||
| + | Colonial West Africa. Trapped in a loveless marriage to his piteous wife Louise, Assistant Police Commissioner Scobie begins an affair with widowed shipwreck survivor Helen. The indiscretion precipitates a religious crisis and ultimately leads to dishonor, deceit--and death. 1948.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
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| + | ==== #41 - LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding ==== | ||
| + | With horrifying implications, | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #42 - DELIVERANCE by James Dickey ==== | ||
| + | Four men accustomed to city life take a canoe trip down a remote north Georgia river. They run afoul of sinister locals and, after a violent, nightmarish confrontation, | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
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| ==== #43 - A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell ==== | ==== #43 - A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell ==== | ||
| === First Movement : (1) A Question of Upbringing ; (2) A Buyer' | === First Movement : (1) A Question of Upbringing ; (2) A Buyer' | ||
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| - | + | ==== #45 - THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway ==== | |
| + | A wealthy group of English and American ex-patriates in post-World War I Europe move from the boulevards of Paris to the bullfights of Spain--bathing, | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
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| + | ==== #46 - THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad ==== | ||
| + | First published in 1907. Set in a London back street, amid a group of anarchists. Focuses on Verloc, an agent-provocateur in the employ of the Russian embassy in London. Conrad paints a satirical picture of Verloc' | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
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| + | ==== #47 - NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad ==== | ||
| + | In a fictitious South American country torn by corruption and political instability, | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #48 - THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence ==== | ||
| + | Rural England. Follows the lives and loves of three generations of the Brangwen family. Farmer Tom Brangwen marries Polish widow Lydia and adopts her daughter Anna as his own. All seek individual fulfillment, | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
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| + | ==== #49 - WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence ==== | ||
| + | A complex meditation on love depicting the contrasting affairs of sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen--Ursula with misanthropic Rupert, Gudrun with domineering Gerald. Both couples strive for fulfillment and meaning, but while Ursula and Rupert eventually marry, Gudrun and Gerald' | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[BR 03918]] - 6 volumes. | ||
| + | ==== #50 - TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller ==== | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
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| + | ==== #51 - THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer ==== | ||
| + | Novel of World War II in which an American infantry platoon invades the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. Mailer explores the soldiers' | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
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| + | ==== #52 - PORTNOY' | ||
| + | In this satire on Jewish life, the protagonist--who is on a psychoanalyst' | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
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| + | ==== #53 - PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov ==== | ||
| + | University poet-in-residence John Shade writes a 999-line poem just before his death. Demented scholar Charles Kinbote then provides commentary on the poem. Kinbote' | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
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| + | ==== #54 - LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner ==== | ||
| + | Joe Christmas, an orphan of mixed blood, travels to the South, seeking a place and people with whom he can belong. But he is soon hardened by white and black bigotry.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
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| + | ==== #55 - ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac ==== | ||
| + | The adventures of free-spirited Dean Moriarty, Sal Paradise, and their eclectic friends as they traverse North America by bus, car (both stolen and borrowed), and thumb on a wild, anarchic quest for identity and purpose. Classic autobiographical portrayal of the beat generation. Descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1957.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
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| + | ==== #56 - THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett ==== | ||
| + | While hunting for his partner' | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | * [[BR 01597]] - 3 volumes. | ||
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| + | ==== #57 - PARADE' | ||
| + | Four novels brought together in one volume that trace the personal life of Christopher Tietjens and the social history of Tory England in World War I and after. Includes "Some Do Not ...," "No More Parades," | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
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| + | ==== #58 - THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton ==== | ||
| + | A novel of manners set in New York society in the 1870s, an age of convention, propriety, and tribal solidarity. Newland Archer is torn between his attraction to Countess Olenska, a femme fatale, and his security in a bland, but proper, marriage to her cousin May. Pulitzer Prize. 1920.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
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| + | ==== #59 - ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm ==== | ||
| + | A stunning adventuress descends upon Oxford during Eights Week and captures the heart of every undergraduate student. One of her victims, the Duke of Dorset, is particularly devastated by her beauty.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
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| + | ==== #60 - THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy ==== | ||
| + | New Orleans. Apathetic young businessman and avid movie fan Binx Bolling undertakes a quest for authenticity that outrages his family, endangers his aunt's fragile stepdaughter Kate, and leads him into the chaos of Mardi Gras--during which he opens up to love. Some strong language. National Book Award. 1960.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
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| + | ==== #61 - DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather ==== | ||
| + | A tale about the exploits of Bishop Jean Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant, French Catholic priests who organized pioneer and Indian missions throughout the newly created diocese of New Mexico in the second half of the nineteenth century. 1927.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #62 - FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones ==== | ||
| + | Army life in Hawaii before World War II, centering on the conflict and bond between two men: Pfc. Prewitt, a bugler and unwilling ex-boxer, and First Sergeant Warden, who risks his career for an affair with his commanding officer' | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #63 - THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever ==== | ||
| + | === The Wapshot Chronicle === | ||
| + | Follows the fortunes of the Wapshot family of St. Botolphs, a mythical New England seaport. Old Captain Leander Wapshot is in love with his ferryboat, which he keeps losing and regaining. An eccentric aunt wants to give Leander' | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | === The Wapshot Scandal === | ||
| + | Sequel to **//The Wapshot Chronicle// | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #64 - THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger ==== | ||
| + | As Christmas vacation begins, Holden Caulfield recounts his feelings and reactions to flunking out of Pencey, his third prep school. Instead of heading straight home, he wanders around New York City. This account of his adventures conveys his dismay at the adult world. Strong language. For senior high and older readers.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| ==== #65 - A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess ==== | ==== #65 - A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess ==== | ||
| A 15-year-old hooligan named Alex roams the streets of London terrorizing people at random. He is arrested and subjected to corrective brainwashing with unanticipated results. The author adds a flavor of reality of his prophecy of future urban life by inventing the teenage dialect of " | A 15-year-old hooligan named Alex roams the streets of London terrorizing people at random. He is arrested and subjected to corrective brainwashing with unanticipated results. The author adds a flavor of reality of his prophecy of future urban life by inventing the teenage dialect of " | ||
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| + | ==== #66 - OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham ==== | ||
| + | Philip Carey is a sensitive, talented, orphan with a club foot who cannot find his true vocation. He begins a love affair with a waitress hardly suspecting it will drastically alter the course of his life. This semi-autobiographical novel of tortured, obsessive love was first published in 1915.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #67 - HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad ==== | ||
| + | An allegorical tale of a man's journey by steamboat to the center of the Congo. As he penetrates its forbidding interior, he faces an increasing propensity for inhumanity in himself and in others.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #68 - MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis ==== | ||
| + | Nobel Prize-winner' | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #69 - THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton ==== | ||
| + | First published in 1905. Lily Bart, the orphaned daughter of a New York merchant, is endowed with beauty and charm and hopelessly addicted to the pleasures of luxury and wealth. Though she relentlessly pursues her goal to marry someone with money, she is attracted to Lawrence Selden, a lawyer of modest means.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #70 - THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durrell ==== | ||
| + | === Justine (book #1) === | ||
| + | Alexandria, Egypt, on the eve of World War II. Although the narrator, an exiled Irish schoolteacher, | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | === Balthazar (book #2) === | ||
| + | Volume two of The Alexandria Quartet, following **// | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | === Mountolive (book #3) === | ||
| + | Set in Egypt, the third novel of the Alexandria Quartet, preceded by **// | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | === Clea (book #4) === | ||
| + | Final volume of the Alexandria Quartet, following **// | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #71 - A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes ==== | ||
| + | A novel exploring the nature--and limits--of innocence. When a hurricane destroys their Jamaican home, the Bas-Thorntons place their five children aboard a ship bound for England. But the children experience violence, sexuality, and betrayal after they are captured by pirates. Some violence. 1929.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #72 - A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul ==== | ||
| + | The author says this novel is "the one closest" | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #73 - THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West ==== | ||
| + | Formerly a fine arts student at Yale, Tod Hackett hopes for success in Hollywood as a set designer. Through his apartment neighbor, aspiring actress Faye Greener, Tod meets a cast of seedy characters and has a series of misadventures. Some strong language. 1939.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #74 - A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway ==== | ||
| + | Romance between American lieutenant Frederic Henry in the ambulance service in Italy during World War I and the English nurse Catherine Barkley, who tends him when he is wounded. When Catherine becomes pregnant, she refuses to marry Frederic.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #75 - SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh ==== | ||
| + | Comic satire on the habits of the press. The editor of London' | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #76 - THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark ==== | ||
| + | Edinburgh. With her freethinking ideas and irresistible charm, schoolmistress Jean Brodie exerts an enormous influence on a small group of impressionable young girls. The " | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #77 - FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce ==== | ||
| + | A controversial, | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #78 - KIM by Rudyard Kipling ==== | ||
| + | Colonial India. Irish orphan Kimball O'Hara befriends a Tibetan Buddhist lama seeking spiritual redemption and joins him on a journey. Along the way, British Intelligence recruits Kim for secret-service activities. Kim attempts to reconcile the opposing cultures and obligations of the spirit and the state. 1901.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #79 - A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster ==== | ||
| + | Englishwoman Lucy Honeychurch witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza and faints into the arms of George Emerson. Lucy fancies George--who is entirely unsuitable--but faces social disapproval and her own conflicting desires. Back home, Lucy entertains a more acceptable suitor and must soon choose between convention and passion. 1908.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #80 - BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh ==== | ||
| + | Waugh' | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #81 - THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow ==== | ||
| + | Nobel Prize-winner Saul Bellow' | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #82 - ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner ==== | ||
| + | Historian Lyman Ward, immobilized by illness and deserted by his wife, has retired to his ancestral California cabin to research his family' | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #83 - A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul ==== | ||
| + | In a recently independent central African nation, Salim, a Muslim of Indian origin, purchases a defunct store in a town at a bend in the river. Hoping to prosper but feeling trapped, Salim observes the people, political climate, and needs of a society in upheaval. 1979.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #84 - THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen ==== | ||
| + | Only sixteen and recently orphaned, Portia becomes the unwanted charge of her self-centered half brother Thomas and his wife Anna in London. Innocent and honest Portia becomes romantically involved with Eddie, an attractive cad, with heartbreaking results. 1938.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #85 - LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad ==== | ||
| + | Jim, a young, untested mate aboard the steamer Patna, cowardly abandons his crew when the ship threatens to sink. Disgraced and guilt-ridden, | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #86 - RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow ==== | ||
| + | A story set in 1906 New York that incorporates luminaries of the period, including Theodore Roosevelt, Sigmund Freud, and Emma Goldman. A ragtime musician from Harlem falls victim to racist vandalism and seeks redress through violence. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sex.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| ==== #87 - THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett ==== | ==== #87 - THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett ==== | ||
| Portrays the divergent lives of two working-class English sisters. While conventional Constance works in her father' | Portrays the divergent lives of two working-class English sisters. While conventional Constance works in her father' | ||
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| * [[https:// | * [[https:// | ||
| * [[https:// | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #88 - THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London ==== | ||
| + | Buck, a St. Bernard mix, is stolen and trained to be a sled dog in the Alaskan gold fields. Abused by both men and dogs, Buck learns to fight ruthlessly until he finds a master, John Thornton, whom he loves and respects. For senior high and older readers. 1903.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #89 - LOVING by Henry Green ==== | ||
| + | Three novels exploring British class distinctions in the early twentieth century. **// | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #90 - MIDNIGHT' | ||
| + | Biting satire tells of Saleem Sinai, who is born at the stroke of midnight, August 15, 1947--the instant of the birth of the new state of India. From that moment, his life is magically entwined with India' | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #91 - TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell ==== | ||
| + | The famous saga, first published in 1932, of Jeeter Lester and his shiftless family. Their ribald adventures along Tobacco Road, once a flourishing plantation, attract a lusty preacher, Sister Bessie. Explicit descriptions of sex.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #92 - IRONWEED by William Kennedy ==== | ||
| + | Compassionate, | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #93 - THE MAGUS by John Fowles ==== | ||
| + | A young English school-teacher, | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #94 - WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys ==== | ||
| + | Fascinated with the character of Bertha, the madwoman in "Jane Eyre" ([[https:// | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #95 - UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch ==== | ||
| + | Follows the adventures of charming would-be writer Jake Donaghue in London and Paris. Jake falls in and out of love, resumes a friendship with a philosophy professor, kidnaps a canine movie star, and contemplates--at last--getting a real job. 1954.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #96 - SOPHIE' | ||
| + | Stingo moves into a cheap Brooklyn rooming house where he meets unstable Nathan and his gorgeous lover Sophie, a Polish Catholic who somehow survived the Holocaust. Stingo, who feels unrequited love for Sophie, becomes her confidant as she faces the horrors of her past, especially the years she worked for the Commandant of Auschwitz. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 1979.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #97 - THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles ==== | ||
| + | Three American travelers, Tunner and young couple Kit and Port, are adrift in the deserts and cities of North Africa after World War II. The trio's inability to comprehend the foreign culture mirrors their personal psychological frailty--and ultimately leads to their downfall. 1949.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #98 - THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain ==== | ||
| + | A novel of clandestine love, murder, and accidental death. Vagabond Frank Chambers stops at a California roadside sandwich stand run by a Greek man and his American wife. Captivated by her, Frank hires on and they begin a mutually destructive affair. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. 1934.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #99 - THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy ==== | ||
| + | American ex-G.I. Sebastian Dangerfield lives in post-WWII Dublin with his wife and child. Sebastian, who occasionally studies at Trinity College, attempts to satisfy his appetite for women, drink, and general roguishness while avoiding bill collectors and steady work. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 1955.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #100 - THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington ==== | ||
| + | In the nineteenth century Major Amberson made a fortune, and his family became the most prominent in their midwestern town. When industrialization transforms the town into a city, the major' | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| ===== THE READER' | ===== THE READER' | ||
| ==== #1 - ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand ==== | ==== #1 - ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand ==== | ||
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| **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| * [[https:// | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #2 - THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand ==== | ||
| + | Although he is expelled from school, Howard Roark is determined to succeed as an architect, rejecting the conventional path of his friend Peter Keating and the wiles of his destructive lover Dominique Francon. Some descriptions of sex. 1943.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #3 - BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard ==== | ||
| + | Jonnie Goodboy Tyler ventures forth from the dwindling community of human survivors in the Rocky Mountains and ends up challenging the powerful alien race that has dominated and exploited all known galaxies for centuries.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #4 - THE LORD OF THE RINGS (trilogy) by J.R.R. Tolkien ==== | ||
| + | === (book #1) === | ||
| + | As the Ring cycle begins, Frodo, a home-loving hobbit, inherits the magic ring that his Uncle Bilbo brought back from his adventures in **//The Hobbit//** ([[https:// | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | |||
| + | === The Two Towers (book #2) === | ||
| + | In this sequel to **//The Fellowship of the Ring//** ([[https:// | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | |||
| + | === The Return of the King (book #3) === | ||
| + | In this third volume of the Ring trilogy, Frodo and Sam bear the ring to Mount Doom. The War of the Rings, fought between the forces for good and the Dark Lord of evil, is ended. Sequel to **//The Two Towers//** ([[https:// | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #5 - TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee ==== | ||
| + | Six-year-old Scout and her brother Jem are intrigued by their reclusive neighbor. Meanwhile, their father Atticus, an attorney, defends a black man charged with raping a white woman in their small Alabama town. Some violence and some strong language. Pulitzer Prize. 1960.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #6 - 1984 by George Orwell ==== | ||
| + | Satire about an alternate London under a totalitarian regime overseen by the omnipresent Big Brother. Winston Smith, a Ministry of Truth bureaucrat, attempts an intellectual rebellion against the Party while he pursues an illicit romance. His actions lead to his imprisonment, | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #7 - ANTHEM by Ayn Rand ==== | ||
| + | Individualism in a world of total collectivism where food, work, and even mating are ordered by the commune is the theme of this short novel. The author vividly describes what she believes are the ultimate, bleak consequences of the collectivist doctrine and the importance of individualism.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #8 - WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand ==== | ||
| + | A story of post-revolutionary Russia and of a woman torn between two men who love--one a Communist and the other an aristocrat. Pursues the theme of the individual against the state.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #9 - MISSION EARTH (series) by L. Ron Hubbard ==== | ||
| + | === The Invaders Plan (book #1) === | ||
| + | The interstellar Voltar Confederacy targets Earth for eventual, routine takeover, but the timetable is upset, first by the threat of Earth' | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | |||
| + | === Black Genesis: Fortress of Evil (book #2) === | ||
| + | In this satire, agent Soltan Gris is ordered by the evil Lombar Hisst to sabotage the Voltarian mission to Earth aimed at stopping pollution. Gris lays his plans carefully but fails to take into account the resourcefulness of the mission leader or the totally irrational nature of Earthmen. Sequel to **//The Invader' | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | |||
| + | === The Enemy Within (book #3) === | ||
| + | Voltarian super-agent Jettero Heller continues his covert mission to save Earth from choking on its own pollution, as his handler, Soltan Gris, proceeds with his plan to enrich himself and restrain Heller. Gris is also enthralled by the charms of Utanc, a lovely Turkish belly-dancer. Sequel to **//Black Genesis//** ([[https:// | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | |||
| + | === An Alien Affair (book #4) === | ||
| + | Jettero Heller has arranged a demonstration of his new non-polluting fuel in the form of a grand Indy-500-style race to be held during a blizzard. Soltan Gris, desperate to stop Heller, is waylaid repeatedly by two angry lesbians, while his concubine Utanc runs up tremendous credit card bills. Sequel to **//The Enemy Within//** ([[https:// | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | |||
| + | === Fortune of Fear (book #5) === | ||
| + | Book Five of the author' | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | |||
| + | === Death Quest (book #6) === | ||
| + | Sixth book in the author' | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | |||
| + | === Voyage of Vengeance (book #7) === | ||
| + | Satirical science fiction novel features a cast of strange aliens and stranger Earth men. Includes beleaguered Apparatus assassin Soltan Gris who continues his efforts to sabotage the mission aimed at saving Earth from drowning in its own pollution. Sequel to **//Death Quest//** ([[https:// | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | |||
| + | === Disaster (book #8) === | ||
| + | Things look bleak as villain Soltan Gris continues to sabotage the Voltarian mission to save Earth. The U.S. is about to declare war, the world' | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | |||
| + | === Villainy Victorious (book #9) === | ||
| + | The insane Lombar Hisst has taken control of the Voltarian Confederacy and sent a death battalion to take over Earth. Voltarian fleet officer Jettero Heller and the beautiful Countess Krak find themselves cast in the role of fugitives as it now appears that villainy has won the day. Some strong language. Book nine of the author' | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | |||
| + | === The Doomed Planet (book #10) === | ||
| + | Voltarian fleet officer Jettero Heller rallies with the rebel forces of Prince Mortiiy attempting to defeat the villainous Lombar Hisst. But can they breach the defenses of the seemingly impregnable Palace City where Hisst has taken refuge? And can they still save Earth from its scheduled invasion? Some strong language and descriptions of sex. Book ten of the Mission Earth series. Sequel to **// | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #10 - FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard ==== | ||
| + | First published in 1940. Shortly after publishing a paper deriding superstition and denying the existence of demons and devils, ethnologist James Lowry awakens on a sidewalk, with his clothes disheveled. The past four hours are a blank. As he desperately tries to find out what happened, he experiences a horrific realization that supernatural forces may be taking revenge.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| ==== #11 - ULYSSES by James Joyce ==== | ==== #11 - ULYSSES by James Joyce ==== | ||
| Deals with a single day--June 16, 1904--in the life of Leopold Bloom, a Dublin advertising salesman. The stream-of-consciousness style and the use of interior monologues expose the personalities of the characters. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1922.\\ | Deals with a single day--June 16, 1904--in the life of Leopold Bloom, a Dublin advertising salesman. The stream-of-consciousness style and the use of interior monologues expose the personalities of the characters. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1922.\\ | ||
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| + | ==== #12 - CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller ==== | ||
| + | Bombardier Yossarian desperately tries to stay alive during World War II. Military rules make it impossible for anyone to achieve the combat quota necessary to quit flying. Yossarian and his buddies concoct ways to avoid the ridiculous orders of their officers. Strong language and descriptions of sex.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #13 - THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald ==== | ||
| + | Against the glitter and recklessness of the Jazz Age, Jay Gatsby makes a desperate attempt to recapture the past and, along with it, the love of Daisy Buchanan. Amid extravagant parties at Gatsby' | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #14 - DUNE by Frank Herbert ==== | ||
| + | In this science fiction novel with sociological and religious overtones, an exile with psychic powers becomes the prophet of the savage people on the planet Dune. Prequel to **//Dune Messiah//** ([[https:// | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #15 - THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein ==== | ||
| + | Luna is a twenty-first-century penal colony but, since no one can stand Earth gravity after being on the moon for a few weeks, all who are sent there must stay. When the liberated people rise against the authority, they receive unexpected help from a computer with a personality.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #16 - STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein ==== | ||
| + | Born and raised on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith returns to Earth unfamiliar with its cultural and social customs. Tutored in earthly matters by Jubal Harshaw, Smith evolves into a messianic figure preaching free love. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. Hugo Award. 1961.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #17 - A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute ==== | ||
| + | A young Englishwoman, | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS: | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[BR 05053]] - 3 volumes. | ||
| ==== #18 - BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley ==== | ==== #18 - BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley ==== | ||
| A satire set in a future technocratic society in which people are rigidly classified by the state and kept happy by a government-administered drug. When two bureaucrats, | A satire set in a future technocratic society in which people are rigidly classified by the state and kept happy by a government-administered drug. When two bureaucrats, | ||
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| * [[https:// | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #19 - THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger ==== | ||
| + | As Christmas vacation begins, Holden Caulfield recounts his feelings and reactions to flunking out of Pencey, his third prep school. Instead of heading straight home, he wanders around New York City. This account of his adventures conveys his dismay at the adult world. Strong language. For senior high and older readers.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #20 - ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell ==== | ||
| + | Classic political satire targets Soviet Communism. The animals on a farm overthrow their master and live a utopian life, until the intelligent pigs take over--and one establishes himself as dictator. 1946.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #21 - GRAVITY' | ||
| + | A demanding novel of comic, terrifying incidents that traces the odyssey of the anti-hero, an American lieutenant stationed in London during World War II. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #22 - THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck ==== | ||
| + | Steinbeck' | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #23 - SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut ==== | ||
| + | Billy Pilgrim, adrift in time, randomly revisits past and present manifestations: | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #24 - GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell ==== | ||
| + | A romantic Civil War epic in which Scarlett O' | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #25 - LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding ==== | ||
| + | With horrifying implications, | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #26 - SHANE by Jack Schaefer ==== | ||
| + | Wyoming territory, 1889. A mysterious stranger named Shane rides into the Starretts' | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #27 - TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute ==== | ||
| + | Keith Stewart leads a simple life in London making mechanical models and writing for a hobby magazine. While he is temporarily caring for his niece her parents shipwreck off South America, carrying a fortune in diamonds to the bottom. Keith heads off to recover the girl's inheritance and finds adventure. 1960.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #28 - A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving ==== | ||
| + | When he was eleven years old, Owen Meany hit a foul ball that struck and killed the mother of his best pal, Johnny Wheelwright the story' | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #29 - THE STAND by Stephen King ==== | ||
| + | ' | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #30 - THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT' | ||
| + | England, 1860s and 1870s. Affianced amateur scientist Charles Smithson becomes obsessed with Sarah Woodruff, a scandalous woman believed to have been deserted by her French lover. In order to pursue Sarah, Charles breaks his engagement to Ernestina Freeman, the spoiled daughter of a merchant prince--but Sarah eludes him. 1969.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #31 - BELOVED by Toni Morrison ==== | ||
| + | Nobel Prize laureate' | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #32 - THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison ==== | ||
| + | The heroic lords of Demonland are arrayed in epic battle against the minions of the warlock King Gorice XII. Against exotic landscapes, amidst swordplay and sorcery, passion and violence, intrigue and betrayal, and ample bloodletting, | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #33 - THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner ==== | ||
| + | In 1928 Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #34 - LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov ==== | ||
| + | Incarcerated and awaiting trial, widowed middle-aged professor Humbert Humbert tells of his erotic obsession with preadolescent girls--particularly twelve-year-old Dolly Haze, whom he calls Lolita. Humbert details his fascination with Lolita and describes their bizarre road trip. Some descriptions of sex and some violence. 1955.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #35 - MOONHEART by Charles de Lint ==== | ||
| + | **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==== #36 - ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner ==== | ||
| + | The rise and fall of a nineteenth-century Southern family is reconstructed by several narrators with differing views. A Southern gentleman attempts to found a dynasty but fails: he cannot see that human values are superior to social mores.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[BR 07218]] - 3 volumes. | ||
| + | ==== #37 - OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham ==== | ||
| + | Philip Carey is a sensitive, talented, orphan with a club foot who cannot find his true vocation. He begins a love affair with a waitress hardly suspecting it will drastically alter the course of his life. This semi-autobiographical novel of tortured, obsessive love was first published in 1915.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #38 - WISE BLOOD by Flannery O' | ||
| + | Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith, falls under the spell of a " | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #39 - UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry ==== | ||
| + | Quauhnahuac, | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #40 - FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies ==== | ||
| + | A novel of ambition, love, and revenge that spans sixty years, three continents, and two wars, about a man who pursues a saint in order to find the meaning of sainthood.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #41 - SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint ==== | ||
| + | Gypsy-cab driver Hank intervenes in the mugging of photojournalist Lily and is shot. Two mysterious crow sisters kill the mugger and heal Lily and Hank, arousing their interest to learn more about the " | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #42 - ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac ==== | ||
| + | The adventures of free-spirited Dean Moriarty, Sal Paradise, and their eclectic friends as they traverse North America by bus, car (both stolen and borrowed), and thumb on a wild, anarchic quest for identity and purpose. Classic autobiographical portrayal of the beat generation. Descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1957.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #43 - HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad ==== | ||
| + | An allegorical tale of a man's journey by steamboat to the center of the Congo. As he penetrates its forbidding interior, he faces an increasing propensity for inhumanity in himself and in others.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #44 - YARROW by Charles de Lint ==== | ||
| + | **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** | ||
| + | ==== #45 - AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft ==== | ||
| + | Collection of three novels and five short stories spanning the years 1919 to 1933. The title piece chronicles a university expedition to Antarctica, where strange fossils and extremely old ruins are found. 1943.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[BR 02394]] - 3 volumes. | ||
| + | ==== #46 - ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane ==== | ||
| + | Private investigator Mike Hammer takes on cases involving murder and mayhem, kidnapping, communism, suicide, and a bacterial plague. Explicit descriptions of sex, violence, and strong language. 1970.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #47 - MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint ==== | ||
| + | Magical creatures exist just beyond the perception of ordinary humans. Isabelle Copley, student of the mysterious artist Vincent Rushkin, learns the force of her paintings to bring the magical creatures to life. Now, twenty years after her power brought unexpected tragedy, she returns to the town of Newford to resume her painting and to use the magic of her brush to fulfill a promise to a long-dead friend. Some strong language.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #48 - TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf ==== | ||
| + | During summer visits to the Scottish coast, members of the Ramsey family reveal their personal challenges and innermost thoughts. Youngest child James must forfeit a yearned-for visit to the lighthouse. Ten years later, James, surviving family members, and former guests complete the long-delayed outing. Includes Eudora Welty' | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #49 - THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy ==== | ||
| + | New Orleans. Apathetic young businessman and avid movie fan Binx Bolling undertakes a quest for authenticity that outrages his family, endangers his aunt's fragile stepdaughter Kate, and leads him into the chaos of Mardi Gras--during which he opens up to love. Some strong language. National Book Award. 1960.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #50 - TRADER by Charles de Lint ==== | ||
| + | Max Trader, an introverted artisan, wakes up one morning and finds himself in another man's body, that of the wastrel Johnny Devlin. While Max ponders how to reclaim his life, he encounters people and situations that cause him to reevaluate the meaning of living. Some strong language and some violence.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #51 - THE HITCHHIKER' | ||
| + | When the Earth is demolished to make room for a galatic freeway, sole earth survivor Arthur Dent is forced to take up a life of hitchhiking around the cosmos with the aid of an alien friend and a book called ' | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #52 - THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers ==== | ||
| + | Deep South, 1930s. John Singer, who is deaf and mute, feels content until his best friend, also mute, is committed to a mental institution. Singer, who can read lips, becomes the confidante of several town residents, all of whom want answers to their problems. Some strong language. 1940.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #53 - THE HANDMAID' | ||
| + | Set in the future, the United States of America is now the Republic of Gilead, a fundamentalist Christian theocracy that arose after fanatics shot the president, machine-gunned the Congress and forced the army to declare a state of emergency. To reverse the declining birthrate, women are forcibly recruited into the ranks of Handmaids and are assigned to the Commanders of the Faithful, whose wives are barren. Some strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1986.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #54 - BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy ==== | ||
| + | 1850s. A teenager known only as the Kid runs away from his alcoholic father in Tennessee. The Kid journeys west to the Texas-Mexico borderlands, | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| ==== #55 - A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess ==== | ==== #55 - A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess ==== | ||
| A 15-year-old hooligan named Alex roams the streets of London terrorizing people at random. He is arrested and subjected to corrective brainwashing with unanticipated results. The author adds a flavor of reality of his prophecy of future urban life by inventing the teenage dialect of " | A 15-year-old hooligan named Alex roams the streets of London terrorizing people at random. He is arrested and subjected to corrective brainwashing with unanticipated results. The author adds a flavor of reality of his prophecy of future urban life by inventing the teenage dialect of " | ||
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| + | ==== #56 - ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute ==== | ||
| + | An atomic war has destroyed all life in the Northern Hemisphere and the lethal fallout is moving southward. A group of people in Australia, including American navy Commander Dwight Towers, are faced with impending annihilation. They must decide how to spend the precious days remaining to them. 1957.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[BR 01619]] - 3 volumes. | ||
| + | ==== #57 - A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce ==== | ||
| + | Largely autobiographical novel portrays the Irish childhood, adolescence, | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #58 - GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint ==== | ||
| + | **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** | ||
| + | ==== #59 - ENDER' | ||
| + | In a future Earth engaged in an interstellar war against insectoid aliens, Ender Wiggin is chosen at the age of six to be trained as the military genius who will carry his people to victory. Along with his brother Peter and his sister Valentine, he not only brings the conflict to an end, but also affects the evolution of human society. Strong language.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #60 - THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint ==== | ||
| + | Musician Janey Little discovers an unknown fantasy novel, entitled The Little Country, in her grandfather' | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #61 - THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis ==== | ||
| + | **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** | ||
| + | ==== #62 - STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein ==== | ||
| + | Thousands of years in the future, a young man joins mobile infantry and fights in an interplanetary war against insect-like aliens. Hugo Award.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #63 - THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway ==== | ||
| + | A wealthy group of English and American ex-patriates in post-World War I Europe move from the boulevards of Paris to the bullfights of Spain--bathing, | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #64 - THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving ==== | ||
| + | The fictional life and times of T.S. Garp, famous writer and son of Jenny, an early feminist leader. Named after a father he never sees, Garp grows up to be a fiercely independent, | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #65 - SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury ==== | ||
| + | Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade, both thirteen, are fascinated by the carnival that comes to their small town. But after a series of frightening events, the boys realize there is something sinister about the show and its owner. 1962.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #66 - THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson ==== | ||
| + | During his scientific investigation of the ghosts in an old abandoned house, Dr. Montague invites a young man and two women to participate in his experiments.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #67 - AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner ==== | ||
| + | The Bundrens, poor whites in Mississippi, | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #68 - TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller ==== | ||
| + | | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #69 - INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison ==== | ||
| + | Classic novel of a young black man's search for identity. Follows the unnamed protagonist from his youth in a Southern town through the depression years in Harlem, where he examines and rejects the values thrust on him by both whites and blacks. Some strong language. National Book Award 1953. 1947.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #70 - THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling ==== | ||
| + | **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** | ||
| + | ==== #71 - THE MAGUS by John Fowles ==== | ||
| + | A young English school-teacher, | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #72 - THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein ==== | ||
| + | Betrayed by his girl and his business partner, a man is robbed of his business assets and left with only his pet tomcat to confide in. As a final blow he is forced into a thirty-year-long sleep in suspended animation. Awakening in the year 2000, he is determined to pick up the pieces of his life and somehow avenge himself on those who betrayed him.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #73 - ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig ==== | ||
| + | Recounts a man's cross-country motorcycle trip with his eleven-year-old son and his philosophic digressions on sanity and on living an authentic life. This 1999 twenty-fifth anniversary edition contains a new introduction by the author and his afterword to the tenth edition.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #74 - I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves ==== | ||
| + | Realistic story purports to be the lost autobiography of the emperor Claudius, who lived from 10 B.C. to 54 A.D. It vividly depicts the political conspiracies, | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #75 - THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London ==== | ||
| + | Buck, a St. Bernard mix, is stolen and trained to be a sled dog in the Alaskan gold fields. Abused by both men and dogs, Buck learns to fight ruthlessly until he finds a master, John Thornton, whom he loves and respects. For senior high and older readers. 1903.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #76 - AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O' | ||
| + | **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** | ||
| + | ==== #77 - FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury ==== | ||
| + | Social satire set in the future, when owning or reading books is a crime. Guy Montag, a fireman charged with destroying books, becomes a fugitive when he succumbs to temptation. 1953.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #78 - ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis ==== | ||
| + | Social satire is subordinated to the progress of a likable young doctor toward a career of scientific research, and to a tender love story. His wife, Leora, is a wholly believable and sympathetic character.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #79 - WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams ==== | ||
| + | A fable about a band of rabbits who set out bravely for a new home in the English countryside. They encounter many dangers and adventures along the way, and finally make it to safety after rescuing some does who become their mates. For junior and senior high and older readers.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #80 - NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs ==== | ||
| + | Graphic, postmodern satire depicting a world of drug addicts, narcotics police, ward psychologists, | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #81 - THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy ==== | ||
| + | The entire crew of "Red October," | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[BR 07205]] - 5 volumes. | ||
| + | ==== #82 - GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton ==== | ||
| + | Supernatural crime fighter Anita Blake reluctantly attends her friend Catherine' | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #83 - THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein ==== | ||
| + | Three secret-service agents must find a way to halt the invasion of earth by alien monsters who have the ability to control men's thoughts and actions.\\ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #84 - IT by Stephen King ==== | ||
| + | It began in 1958 when seven imperiled children searched in the drains beneath the New England town of Derry for the horror they believed lurked there. Twenty-seven years later those children, now grown, recall their buried memories. Again, the most heinous violence awaits them. Strong language, violence, and some descriptions of sex.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #85 - V. by Thomas Pynchon ==== | ||
| + | A wild, discursive tale of two men and an unknown woman called " | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #86 - DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein ==== | ||
| + | An unemployed actor in the year 2100 takes a drink from a space pilot and finds himself shanghaied to Mars for the most important and dangerous role of his career. He is coerced into impersonating a prominent and controversial public figure.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #87 - CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein ==== | ||
| + | Thorby is taken from his parents at an early age and knows many cruel masters in his childhood. Now he is sold again--this time to a decrepit beggar named Baslim. After living with Baslim for a while, Thorby realizes that Baslim is involved in more than begging. Thorby promises that when Baslim dies, Thorby will deliver a message for him. But delivery of the message lands Thorby in an alien spaceship where he becomes both guest and prisoner.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #88 - BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh ==== | ||
| + | Waugh' | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #89 - LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner ==== | ||
| + | Joe Christmas, an orphan of mixed blood, travels to the South, seeking a place and people with whom he can belong. But he is soon hardened by white and black bigotry.\\ | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | ==== #90 - ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO' | ||
| + | Chief Bromden, a long-term inmate of a mental institution, | ||
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| + | **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | ==== #91 - A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway ==== | ||
| + | Romance between American lieutenant Frederic Henry in the ambulance service in Italy during World War I and the English nurse Catherine Barkley, who tends him when he is wounded. When Catherine becomes pregnant, she refuses to marry Frederic.\\ | ||
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| + | ==== #92 - THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles ==== | ||
| + | Three American travelers, Tunner and young couple Kit and Port, are adrift in the deserts and cities of North Africa after World War II. The trio's inability to comprehend the foreign culture mirrors their personal psychological frailty--and ultimately leads to their downfall. 1949.\\ | ||
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| + | ==== #93 - SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey ==== | ||
| + | Oregon timber country. A bitter labor strike against old Henry Stamper' | ||
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| + | ==== #94 - MY ÁNTONIA by Willa Cather ==== | ||
| + | A lawyer recalls his Nebraska boyhood and the girl who was a strong influence on his life in this novel about pioneering conditions and the assimilation of the immigrant.\\ | ||
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| + | ==== #95 - MULENGRO by Charles de Lint ==== | ||
| + | **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** | ||
| + | ==== #96 - SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy ==== | ||
| + | After serving time in the workhouse, young Suttree chooses a ramshackle houseboat on the Tennessee River instead of his family' | ||
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| + | ==== #97 - MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock ==== | ||
| + | The Huxley family lives on the edge of Ryhope Wood, a forest in a remote corner of Britain. One by one, the Huxley men are drawn into the wild, primitive life of Ryhope Wood. They are lured by their curiosity, by the beauty of one of the mythical beings living there, and by their lust for power over the beast-like humans who inhabit the wood. 1984.\\ | ||
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| + | ==== #98 - ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach ==== | ||
| + | Richard earns a living by barnstorming and by giving three dollar rides in his old biplane. One day a mysterious pilot lands next to Richard and tells him "There are some things you do not know." The visitor, a retired Messiah from Indiana, teaches Richard that the world is an illusion and reality lies within one's self.\\ | ||
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| + | * [[BR 03931]] - 1 volume. | ||
| + | ==== #99 - THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies ==== | ||
| + | A journalist writing a series of articles on old Toronto asks Dr. Hullah to reminisce about the sudden death of an Anglican priest twenty years earlier. The doctor obliges willingly, but not without recalling certain youthful events, including his encounter with a Native American medicine woman and a stint in the army, and airing his thoughts on the arts. Yet one question vexes him: why did Father Hobbes die? Some strong language.\\ | ||
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| + | ==== #100 - THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie ==== | ||
| + | When two Indian-born actors fall from an exploded hijacked airplane onto an English Channel beach, they must overcome violent personal conflicts in order to survive the catastrophe. Gibreel acquires a halo, but Saladin begins to take on the appearance of the devil, and from here on the story becomes a tale of good and evil.\\ | ||
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