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Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451673310
• UPC: 642688055004
• ASIN: 1451673310
• ISBN: 9781451673319
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Animal Farm

George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0451526341
• ASIN: 0451526341
• ISBN: 9780451526342
• Brand: Orwell, George
• Manufacturer: Signet

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time, as seen in the HBO documentary True Justice “[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice and equality has inspired me and many others and made a lasting impact on our country.”—John LegendSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times • The Washington Pos... [Read More]

• ASIN: 081298496X
• ASIN: 081298496X
• ISBN: 9780812984965
• Brand: Spiegel Grau
• Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau

50 States, 5,000 Ideas: Where to Go, When to Go, What to See, What to Do

This richly illustrated book from the travel experts at National Geographic showcases the best travel experiences in every state, from the obvious to the unexpected. Sites include national parks, beaches, hotels, Civil War battlefields, dude ranches, out-of-the-way museums, and more. You'll discover the world's longest yard sale in Tennessee, swamp tours in Louisiana, dinosaur trails in Colorado, America's oldest street in NYC, and the best spot to watch for sea otters on the central California coast. Each entry provides detailed travel information as well as fascinating facts about each state... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1426216904
• ASIN: 1426216904
• ISBN: 9781426216909
• Brand: National Geographic
• Manufacturer: National Geographic

Travels with Charley in Search of America

• ASIN: B001BC6GN6
• ASIN: B001BC6GN6
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Alexander Hamilton

A New York Times Bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is “a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143034758
• ASIN: 0143034758
• ISBN: 0143034758
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Runner's World Performance Nutrition for Runners: How to Fuel Your Body for Stronger Workouts, Faster Recovery, and Your Best Race Times Ever

Up-to-date nutrition advice for runners, based on the latest scienceRunners have different nutrition and recovery needs than other endurance athletes. Yet until now, they've had no nutritional resource specifically addressing their concerns.This comprehensive guide distills the newest thinking in the science of exercise nutrition into practical, hands-on tips that will help runners stay healthy, recover faster, enjoy better workouts, and race successfully. Readers will learn:• detailed information on nutritional topics important to runners, from balancing internal energy stores to proper hyd... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1594862184
• ASIN: 1594862184
• ISBN: 9781594862182
• Brand: Rodale Press
• Manufacturer: Rodale Books

Cry, the Beloved Country

An Oprah Book Club selection, Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land ar... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0743262174
• ASIN: 0743262174
• ISBN: 0743262174
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

Love Story (Love Unexpectedly)

USA TODAY BESTSELLER • Over the course of one wild road trip, feuding childhood sweethearts get a second chance at love in this charming rom-com—a standalone novel from the author of Blurred Lines and Good Girl. When Lucy Hawkins receives a job offer in San Francisco, she can’t wait to spread her wings and leave her small Virginia hometown behind. Her close-knit family supports her as best they can, by handing over the keys to a station wagon that’s seen better days. The catch? The cross-country trip comes with a traveling companion: her older brother’s best friend, aka the guy who t... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01GYQ057Q
• ASIN: B01GYQ057Q
• Manufacturer: Loveswept

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

A Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland.“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.” So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 068484267X
• ASIN: 068484267X
• ISBN: 068484267X
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

Orphan Train

The #1 New York Times Bestseller“A lovely novel about the search for family that also happens to illuminate a fascinating and forgotten chapter of America’s history. Beautiful.”—Ann PackerMoving between contemporary Maine and Depression-era Minnesota, Orphan Train is a powerful novel of upheaval and resilience, of second chances, and unexpected friendship.Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by pure luck. Would they be adopt... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0061950726
• ASIN: 0061950726
• ISBN: 0061950726
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

In the opening pages of Jamie Ford’s stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II. As Henry looks on, the owner opens a Japanese parasol.This simple act takes old Henry Lee back to the 1940s, at the height of the war, when young Henry’s world is a jumble of conf... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345505344
• ASIN: 0345505344
• ISBN: 0345505344
• Brand: Ballantine Books
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

The 50 States: Explore the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps!

A 2016 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People (National Council for the Social Studies-Children's Book Council)In 51 charmingly illustrated infographic maps, explore every state of the USA from Alabama to Wyoming and the nation’s capital to discover more than 2,000 facts that celebrate the people, cities, nature, and historic events that have helped make America what it is today. You'll also get an expansive guide to the state flags and US presidents. Ghost towns, swamp tours, the center of the universe…bacon donuts, brainy berries, salmon jerky…The French Fry King, The Moth... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1847807119
• UPC: 884310929165
• ASIN: 1847807119
• ISBN: 9781847807113
• Brand: WIDE EYED
• Manufacturer: Wide Eyed Editions

Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom

In this frank and witty memoir, Ken Ilgunas lays bare the existential terror of graduating from the University of Buffalo with $32,000 of student debt. Ilgunas set himself an ambitious mission: get out of debt as quickly as possible. Inspired by the frugality and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau, Ilgunas undertook a three-year transcontinental journey, working in Alaska as a tour guide, garbage picker, and night cook to pay off his student loans before hitchhiking home to New York.Debt-free, Ilgunas then enrolled in a master’s program at Duke University, determined not to borrow against his... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00B77UDWU
• ASIN: B00B77UDWU
• Manufacturer: Amazon Publishing

All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book 1)

The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself.  With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.  Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.

• ASIN: 0679744398
• ASIN: 0679744398
• ISBN: 9780679744399
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Graduation Party Game Bundle

Celebrate your grad with this graduation game bundle - a game that doubles as a silly, sentimental keepsake. It's sure to have guests of all ages giggling like giddy school children! Bundle includes: Who Knows

• UPC: 987190035
• Color: Graduation Party Game BundleOther