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Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
by Fawcett (Mass Market Paperback) (Release Date: 1985-01-12)

Jane Austen
Emma
by Dutton Adult (Hardcover)

Jane Austen
Pride & Prejudice
by Blackstone Audiobooks (CD)

Sherman Alexie
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Little, Brown Young Readers (Hardcover)

In his first book for young adults, bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by acclaimed artist Ellen Forney, that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.

Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)
by NAL Trade (Paperback) (Release Date: 2003-05-27)

Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise-the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.

Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale
by Fawcett (Mass Market Paperback) (Release Date: 1986-12-12)

"Splendid."NEWSWEEKIt is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She is allowed out once a day to the food market, she is not permitted to read, and she is hoping the Commander makes her pregnant, because she is only valued if her ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she was an independent woman, had a job of her own, a husband and child. But all of that is gone now...everything has changed."Deserves the highest praise."SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Richard Adams
Watership Down
by Rex Collings (Hardcover)

Jane Austen
Favorite Jane Austen Novels: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Dover Publications (Paperback)

Three of the author’s most popular works—widely admired for their satiric wit, subtlety and perfection of style—brilliantly recreate the provincial world of the early 19th-century English countryside, focusing, respectively, on husband-hunting mothers and daughters, the humbling of proud lovers, and the return of a once-rejected lover. Total of

Jane Austen
Emma (Penguin Classics)
by Penguin Classics (Paperback) (Release Date: 2003-05-06)

Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Bantam (Paperback) (Release Date: 1997-05-12)

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