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“America on a Shelf” “AMERICA ON A SHELF” 101 American Customs: Understanding Language and Culture Through Common Practices By Harry Collis McGraw-Hill, 1999 Across the River and Into the Trees By Ernest Hemingway Scribner 1998 The Accidental Tourist: A Novel By Anne Tyler The Adventures of Augie March By Saul Bellow The Age of Innocence By Edith Wharton Collector’s Library, 2004 Al Capone and His American Boys: Memoirs of a Mobster's Wife William J. Helmer Indiana University Press, 2011 All the Light We Cannot See By Anthony Doerr Scribner, 2014 America, the Story of Us: An Illustrated History By Kevin Baker, Prof. Gail Buckland (Photographer), Barack Obama (Introduction) History, 2010 American Civilization: An Introduction By David C. Mauk and John Oakland Routledge, 2009 1 The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation By Jim Cullen Oxford University Press, 2004 American English: Dialects and Variation By Walt Wolfram Wiley-Blackwell, 2005 American Ways: A Cultural Guide to the United States By Gary Althen Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2011 American Ways: An Introduction to American Culture By Maryanne Kearny Datesman, JoAnn Crandall and Edward N. Kearny Pearson ESL, 2005 Amish Society By John A. Hostetler The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993 The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History By Norman Mailer Plume, 1995 As I Lay Dying By William Faulkner Vintage The Assistant: A Novel By Bernard Malamud Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003 The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American DreamBy Barack Obama Three Rivers Press, 2007 The Ballad of the Sad Café and other stories By Carson McCullers Houghton Mifflin 2 Baseball as America: Seeing Ourselves Through Our National Game National Geographic, 2005 Because of Winn-Dixie By Kate DiCamillo Candlewick, 2009 Believer: My Forty Years in Politics By David Axelrod Penguin Press, 2015 The Bell Jar (P.S.) By Sylvia Plath Beloved By Toni Morrison Big-Time Sports in American Universities By Charles T. Clotfelter Cambridge University Press, 2011 Billy Bathgate: A Novel By E.L. 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Scott Fitzgerald Scribner, 1999 Green Hills of Africa By Ernest Hemingway Scribner 1998 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter & The Member of the Wedding By Carson McCullers Houghton Mifflin, 2011 Holes By Louis Sachar Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998 Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America By Thomas L. Friedman Picador, 2009 The Hotel New Hampshire By John Irving Ballantine Books, 1997 The Hours By Michael Cunningham Farrar, Straus & Giroux House Made of Dawn (P.S.) By N. Scott Momaday The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne Houghton Mifflin 8 Housekeeping By Marilynne Robinson Farrar How the States Got Their Shapes By Mark Stein Harper, 2009 Humboldt's Gift By Saul Bellow Viking I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings By Maya Angelou Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land Eds. Wesley Brown and Amy Ling Persea, 2003 In Cold Blood By Truman Capote Random House, 2002 In Country By Bobbie Ann Mason Harper Perennial, 2005 The Inner Circle By Brad Meltzer Grand Central Publishing, 2011 The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose By Woody Allen Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007 Intruder in the Dust By William Faulkner Invisible Man 9 By Ralph Ellison Ironweed By William Kennedy Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? 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Doctorow Random House Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home By Rhoda Janzen St. Martin's Griffin, 2010 Michelle Obama: An American Story David Colbert Houghton Mifflin Co, 2009 Middle School. The Worst Years of My Life By James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts Little, Brown and Company, 2012 Middlesex By Jeffrey Eugenides Farrar 11 The Mindset Lists of American History: From Typewriters to Text Messages, What Ten Generations of Americans Think Is Normal By Tom McBride Wiley, 2011 Moby-Dick or the Whale By Herman Melville Penguin Books The Moviegoer By Walker Percy Vintage, 1998 A Multitude of Sins By Richard Ford Vintage, 2003 Muslims in America: A Short History (Religion in American Life) By Edward E. Curtis IV Oxford University Press, USA, 2009 My Father's Tears: And Other Stories By John Updike Alfred A. Knopf, 2009 My Life By Bill Clinton Vintage, 2005 National Geographic Our Fifty States By Stephen F. Cunha National Geographic Children's Books, 2004 The National Parks: America's Best Idea By Dayton Duncan Knopf, 2009 12 Native Son By Richard Wright Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2003 Netherland By Joseph O'Neill Vintage, 2009 The New York Trilogy: City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room By Paul Auster No Joke: Making Jewish Humor By Ruth R. Wisse Princeton University Press, 2015 Nuts to You By Lynne Rae Perkins Greenwillow Books, 2014 The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family By Peter Firstbrook Crown, 2011 Of Mice and Men & the Moon is Down By John Steinbeck Penguin Classics Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters By Barack Obama Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2010 Off the Beaten Path: A Travel Guide to More Than 1000 Scenic and Interesting Places Still Uncrowded and Inviting Editors of Reader's Digest Readers Digest, 2009 On Beauty By Zadie Smith Penguin Press 13 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest By Ken Kesey Operation Shylock: A Confession By Philip Roth Simon & Schuster The Optimist's Daughter By Eudora Welty Random The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father By Sally H. Jacobs PublicAffairs, 2011 Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis By Robert D. Putnam Simon & Schuster, 2015 Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 By Taylor Branch Simon & Schuster, 1989 The Pastures of Heaven By John Steinbeck Penguin Classics Pigeon Feathers and other Stories By John Updike Random House Plainsong By Kent Haruf Vintage, 2000 The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction By Alan Jacobs Oxford University Press, 2011 14 The Plot Against America By Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin Company The Portable Arthur Miller Penguin Classics The Portrait of a Lady Henry James Penguin Classics Postcards By Annie Proulx Scribner, 1996 The Post-American World By Fareed Zakaria W.
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