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"The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757", is a historical action novel published in 1826 by the American writer James Fenimore Cooper. The story centers around the transport of the daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to safety at Fort William Henry during the French and Indian War. Guided by Major Duncan Heyward, Natty Bumppo (Hawk-eye), Chingachgook, and Uncas (the novel's title character), they fend off attacks by the rival Hurons...
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Buck is a domesticated dog living with his loving family on a ranch in California when he is stolen away and sold off into the brutish life of an Alaskan sled dog. In order to survive, Buck must withstand cruel treatment from his human masters, and fight to gain respect and dominance within his new pack. No longer able to rely on his family, Buck must adjust to this new life and answer the call of the wild. The Call of the Wild is a story of Northern...
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Twelve Years a Slave (1853) is considered to be one of the most riveting and important documents recounting slavery in the United States. It is the heart-rending memoir of a free black man who is taken hostage and sold into slavery in a Louisiana plantation, his twelve years of bondage, and his remarkable escape to freedom. Since its publication, this classic has become a historical reference for its salient of depiction of life as a slave in the...
4) Moby Dick
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Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
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After the death of her father, Isabel Archer, a young American woman, travels to England to stay with her aunt, where she finds herself an object of affection for several men. When she is left a large legacy by her ailing uncle, she also attracts the attention of those with an interest in her substantial fortune. Faced with decisions about her future, Isabel must live with the consequences of the choices she makes, as her life is forever altered.
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6) Little women
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
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Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
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The year is 1922, and young Nick Carraway moves to the village of West Egg, where he discovers that his neighbor is the eclectic millionaire Jay Gatsby. As he and Gatsby become acquainted, Nick is thrown into a world full of dazzling parties, unrequited love, and unchecked idealism. Gatsby, surrounded by riches, yearns for the love of a woman who chose another man. He waits for her every night, using a green light at the end of his dock to call out...
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Classics. Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are...
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An adapted and illustrated edition of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, at an easy-to-read level for all ages!
Newland Archer is a respectable man from a respectable family, comfortable in New York society. So when his wife's cousin Ellen returns to America, planning to divorce her husband, gossip about the family starts to spread. As Newland spends more time with Ellen a friendship between them grows. But this friendship will put both his social...
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