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Albert Camus, SparkNotes Editors
Spark Notes The Stranger
by SparkNotes (Paperback)

Michael Chabon
The Yiddish Policemen's Union CD: A Novel
by HarperAudio (CD) (Release Date: 2007-05-01)

For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a temporary safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end. Homicide detective Meyer Landsman of the District Police has enough problems without worrying about the upcoming Reversion. His life is a shambles, his marriage a wreck, his career a disaster. And in the cheap hotel where Landsman has washed up, someone has just committed a murder—right under his nose. When he begins to investigate the killing of his neighbor, a former chess prodigy, word comes down from on high that the case is to be dropped immediately, and Landsman finds himself contending ...

Michael Chabon
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Picador (Paperback)

Truman Capote
In Cold Blood
by Vintage (Paperback) (Release Date: 1994-02-01)

Sandra Cisneros
The House on Mango Street
by Vintage (Paperback) (Release Date: 1991-04-03)

Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered the canon of coming-of-age classics.Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong--not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.

Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: A Pop-up Adaptation
by Little Simon (Hardcover)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is Robert Sabuda's most amazing creation ever, featuring stunning pop-ups illustrated in John Tenniel's classic style. The text is faithful to Lewis Carroll's original story, and special effects like a Victorian peep show, multifaceted foil, and tactile elements make this a pop-up to read and admire again and again.

Truman Capote
A Christmas Memory
by Knopf Books for Young Readers (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2006-10-10)

Lewis Carroll
The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition
by W. W. Norton & Company (Hardcover)

Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
by Prestwick House Inc. (Paperback)

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness was first published in 1899 in serial form in London’s Blackwood’s Magazine. Loosely based on Conrad’s firsthand experience of rescuing a company agent from a remote station in the heart of the Congo, the novel is considered a literary bridge between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With its modern literary approach to questions such as the ambiguous nature of good and evil, the novel foreshadows many of the themes and techniques that define modern literature. This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the modern reader contend with Conrad’s complex approach to the human condition.

Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
by Penguin Classics (Paperback) (Release Date: 2003-02-04)

With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life-from knight to nun, miller to monk-reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth century that is as robust as it is representative. Translated by Nevill Coghill

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