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Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House
A perfect blurring of the line between the psychological and the supernatural.
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Margery Williams The Velveteen Rabbit
A Christmas classic. A sickly boy and his favourite toy will teach you what it means to love and be loved in return.
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Solomon Northup 12 Years a Slave
Solomon Northup’s account of his abduction and slavery in the Deep South. This edition includes affidavits written by those who knew Solomon and the legal document that was signed preceeding his release.
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T.H. White The Sword in the Stone
The famous Arthurian tale. Meet Arthur before he was Arthur. Meet “Wart”. And Merlyn. And Robin Hood. And many others in this colourful and hilarious romp through history. Book 1 of 4.
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Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls
A young demolitionist is sent to work with a guerrilla unit in the Spanish Civil War. Hemingway proves that he knows people. The good ones. The drunkards. The fortune-tellers. The cowards. He knows them all.
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Trans. John Hughes The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise
The endless abnegation of two once-bound souls. With a poem by Alexander Pope.
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Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Fall in love with the monster like I did.
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Lewis Sinclair It Can't Happen Here
Fascism in America? It can't happen here.
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