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“AMERICA ON A SHELF” COLLECTION

101 American Customs : Understanding Language and Culture Through Common Practices [Paperback] Harry Collis (Author) Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (October 1, 1999)

The Accidental Tourist: A Novel By Anne Tyler (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

Across The River and Into the Trees Ernest Hemingway; Paperback

The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics) ; Paperback

After This by Alice McDermott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Age of Innocence By Edith Wharton

Al Capone and His American Boys: Memoirs of a Mobster's Wife William J. Helmer (Editor) Publisher: Indiana University Press (July 7, 2011)

America The Story of Us: An Illustrated History [Paperback] Kevin Baker (Author), Prof. Gail Buckland (Photographer), Barack Obama (Introduction) Publisher: History (September 21, 2010)

American Civilization: An Introduction [Paperback] David C. Mauk (Author), John Oakland (Author) Publisher: Routledge; 5 edition (August 16, 2009)

The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation [Paperback] Jim Cullen (Author) Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (June 14, 2004)

American English: Dialects and Variation (Language in Society) [Paperback] Walt Wolfram (Author) Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 2nd Edition edition (September 12, 2005)

American Values - Opposing Viewpoints Series Author David M. Haugen Publisher: Greenhaven (November 7, 2008)

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American Ways: A Cultural Guide to the United States Gary Althen (Author) Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing; 3 edition (February 16, 2011)

American Ways: An Introduction to American Culture (3rd Edition) Maryanne Kearny Datesman (Author), JoAnn Crandall (Author), Edward N. Kearny (Author) Publisher: Pearson ESL; 3 edition (January 8, 2005)

Amish Society John A. Hostetler (Author) Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; 4th edition (April 1, 1993)

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History Norman Mailer Publisher: Plume (January 1, 1995)

Arthur Miller: Collected Plays 1944-1961 (Library of America) Publisher: Library of America (February 2, 2006)

The Assistant: A Novel [Bargain Price] [Paperback] (Author) Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (July 7, 2003)

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream Barack Obama (Author) Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Three Rivers Press (November 6, 2007)

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: and Other Stories [Paperback] Carson McCullers (Author) Publisher: Mariner Books (April 5, 2005)

Baseball As America: Seeing Ourselves Through Our National Game The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (Author), National Geographic (Author) Publisher: National Geographic (April 1, 2005)

The Bell Jar (P.S.) Sylvia Plath

Beloved Toni Morrison

Big-Time Sports in American Universities [Hardcover] Charles T. Clotfelter (Author) Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (March 7, 2011)

Billy Bathgate: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle) E.L. Doctorow Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition (June 29, 2010)

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Bird Cloud: A Memoir [Hardcover] Annie Proulx (Author) Publisher: Scribner; First Edition edition (January 4, 2011)

Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (Modern Library) Truman Capote (Author) Publisher: Library of America; First Edition edition (September 1, 2007)

Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) Publisher: Ballantine Books (November 1, 2005)

The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama (Vintage) David Remnick (Author) Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (January 11, 2011)

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)

Buried Child By Sam Shepard

Carson McCullers: Complete Novels: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter/ Reflections in a Golden Eye/The Ballad of the Sad Cafe/The Member of the Wedding/The Clock Without Hands (Library of America) Publisher: Library of America; First Edition edition (September 27, 2001)

Catch-22 Joseph Heller Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2004

The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger (Author) Publisher: Back Bay Books (January 30, 2001)

Cathedral [Paperback] Raymond Carver (Author) Publisher: Vintage (June 18, 1989)

Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx (Scribner) Publisher: Scribner; (February 10, 2000)

The Collected Stories by Grace Paley (Farrar)

The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer; Paperback

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Collected Stories of paperback

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis [Paperback] Lydia Davis (Author) Publisher: Picador; First Edition edition (October 26, 2010)

The Complete Stories [Paperback] Flannery O'Connor (Author) Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 33 edition (January 1, 1971)

A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)

Democracy in America (Library of America) Alexis de Tocqueville (Author), Arthur Goldhammer Publisher: Library of America; First Printing edition (February 9, 2004)

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler (Knopf) Publisher: Ballantine Books; First edition (August 27, 1996)

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Barack Obama (Author) Publisher: Three Rivers Press; Later Printing edition (August 10, 2004)

Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales (Library of America) Publisher: Library of America; Reprint edition (August 15, 1984)

Edith Wharton - Novels: The House of Mirth / The Reef / The Custom of the Country / The Age of Innocence (Library of America) Publisher: Library of America; Reprint edition (May 12, 1986)

Ella Enchanted – Children’s Books Age 12-14 By Gail Carson Levine HarperCollins, 1997.

Emerson: Essays and Lectures: Nature: Addresses and Lectures / Essays: First and Second Series / Representative Men / English Traits / The Conduct of Life (Library of America) Ralph Waldo Emerson Publisher: Library of America Published: November 15, 1983

The Enchantment of Lily Dahl: A Novel [Paperback] Siri Hustvedt (Author) Publisher: Picador; First Edition edition (March 1, 2004)

Encyclopedia of American Folklore Linda S. Watts (Author)

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Publisher: Checkmark Books (September 2007)

Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes Carl Waldman (Author) Publisher: Checkmark Books; 3 edition (August 2006)

Everyman [Paperback] (Author) Publisher: Vintage; April 10, 2007)

Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins (Simon & Schuster)

The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews Eudora Welty Publisher: Vintage (August 29, 1990)

Facts About the States Joseph Nathan Kane (Editor), Janet Podell (Editor), Steven Anzovin (Editor) Publisher: H. W. Wilson; 2 edition (January 1994)

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury (Author) Publisher: Ballantine Books; 1st Trade Ed edition (August 27, 1996)

A Few Corrections: A Novel [Paperback] Brad Leithauser (Author) Publisher: Vintage (March 12, 2002)

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery By Eric Foner (W.W. Norton & Company)

The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt T.J. Stiles (Author) Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (April 20, 2010)

The Fixer: A Novel Bernard Malamud; Paperback

Flags in the Dust

Fool on the Hill: A Novel [Paperback] Matt Ruff (Author) Publisher: Grove Press; 1st Pbk. Ed edition (December 8, 1997)

Freedom: A Novel Jonathan Franzen (Author) Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition (August 31, 2010)

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The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth (Farrar)

The Giver By Lois Lowry Houghton Mifflin, 1993.

The Glass Room [Paperback] Simon Mawer (Author) Publisher: Other Press (October 20, 2009)

Glengarry Glen Ross By David Mamet

Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin Publisher: Bantam Bell, July 2005

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) Publisher: Scribner (September 30, 1999)

Green Hills of Africa Ernest Hemingway; Paperback

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club) Carson McCullers (Author) Publisher: Mariner; (April 21, 2004)

Henry David Thoreau : A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Walden; Or, Life in the Woods / The Maine Woods / Cape Cod (Library of America) Publisher: Library of America; Later prt. edition (September 15, 1985)

Henry James : Novels 1881-1886: Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians (Library of America) Publisher: Library of America (December 1, 1985)

Herman Melville : Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (Library of America) Publisher: Library of America; 11th Printing edition (April 15, 1983)

Holes – Children’s Books Age 12-14 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 [Paperback] Thomas L. Friedman (Author) Publisher: Picador; First Edition edition (November 24, 2009)

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The Hotel New Hampshire (Ballantine Reader's Circle) John Irving (Author) Publisher: Ballantine Books (June 23, 1997)

The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

House Made of Dawn (P.S.) N. Scott Momaday; Paperback

The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne Paperback

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

How the States Got Their Shapes [Paperback] Mark Stein (Author) Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (April 7, 2009)

Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou; Mass Market Paperback

Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land, Revised Edition Wesley Brown (Editor), Amy Ling (Editor) Publisher: Persea; Revised Edition edition (March 2003)

In Cold Blood Truman Capote (Author) Publisher: Random House (March 5, 2002)

In Country: a novel [Paperback] Bobbie Ann Mason (Author) Publisher: Harper Perennial (August 2, 2005)

The Inner Circle [Hardcover] Brad Meltzer (Author) Publisher: Grand Central Publishing; First Edition edition (January 11, 2011)

The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose [Paperback] Woody Allen (Author) Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (June 12, 2007)

Invisible Man ; Paperback

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Intruder in the Dust William Faulkner Paperback

Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking)

Is the American Dream a Myth? (At Issue Series) [Paperback] Kate Burns (Editor) Publisher: Greenhaven (August 25, 2006)

Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future [Paperback] John Brockman (Author) Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (January 18, 2011)

James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales I; The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie (Library of America) - James Fenimore Cooper;

John Steinbeck Novels 1942-1952: The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / The Pearl / East of Eden (Library of America) Publisher: Library of America; First Printing edition (February 14, 2002)

John Steinbeck : Novels and Stories, 1932-1937 : The Pastures of Heaven / To a God Unknown / Tortilla Flat / In Dubious Battle / Of Mice and Men (Library of America) Publisher: Library of America; First Edition edition (February 15, 2007)

Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings (Library of America #186) Publisher: Library of America; Library of America edition (September 18, 2008)

Lancelot: A Novel [Paperback] (Author) Publisher: Picador; 1 edition (September 4, 1999)

Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA [Paperback] Tim Weiner (Author) Publisher: Anchor (May 20, 2008)

Let the Great World Spin: A Novel [Paperback] Colum McCann (Author) Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (December 2, 2009)

Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain

Lila: An Inquiry into Morals

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Living History Hillary Rodham Clinton (Author) Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition (May 31, 2003)

Living in the U.S.A., Sixth Edition Alison Lanier (Author) Publisher: Intercultural Press; 6 Revised edition (December 2004)

Lush Life: A Novel [Bargain Price] [Paperback] Richard Price (Author) Publisher: Picador; 1 Reprint edition (March 3, 2009)

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar) – Pulitzer Prize winner

Mark Twain : Mississippi Writings : Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, Pudd'nhead Wilson (Library of America) Publisher: Library of America (November 1, 1982)

Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels (Library of America No. 200) Publisher: Library of America (March 4, 2010)

The March by E.L. Doctorow (Random House)

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home Rhoda Janzen (Author) Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition edition (April 13, 2010)

Michelle Obama: An American Story [Hardcover] David Colbert (Author) Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co (January 9, 2009)

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

The Mindset Lists of American History: From Typewriters to Text Messages, What Ten Generations of Americans Think Is Normal Tom McBride (Author) Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (June 28, 2011)

Moby Dick or the Whale Herman Melville

The Moviegoer [Paperback] Walker Percy (Author) Publisher: Vintage; 1st Vintage International ed edition (April 14, 1998)

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A Multitude of Sins [Paperback] Richard Ford (Author) Publisher: Vintage; First Edition edition (February 4, 2003)

Muslims in America: A Short History (Religion in American Life) Edward E. Curtis IV (Author) Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (October 1, 2009)

My Father's Tears: And Other Stories [Paperback] (Author) Publisher: Ballantine Books; Reprint edition (May 25, 2010)

My Life [Paperback] Bill Clinton (Author) Publisher: Vintage (May 31, 2005)

Nathaniel Hawthorne : Collected Novels: Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun (Library of America) Publisher: Library of America; Reprint edition (April 15, 1983)

National Geographic Our Fifty States [Hardcover] Stephen F. Cunha (Author) Publisher: National Geographic Children's Books; (October 1, 2004) Reading level: Ages 10 and up

The National Parks: America's Best Idea Dayton Duncan (Author) Publisher: Knopf (September 8, 2009)

The Native Americans: An Illustrated History Betty Ballantine (Editor), Ian Ballantine (Editor), Alvin M., Jr. Josephy (Introduction) Publisher: JG Press (September 2001)

Native Son [Paperback] Richard Wright (Author) Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics; (September 30, 2003)

Netherland Joseph O'Neill (Author) Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (May 7, 2009)

The New Yorker Stories By Ann Beattie. Scribner, $30.

The New York Trilogy: City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room Paul Auster; Paperback

The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court By Jeffrey Toobin. Doubleday, $27.95.

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The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family [Hardcover] Peter Firstbrook (Author) Publisher: Crown (February 8, 2011)

Of Mice and Men and the Moon is Down John Steinbeck

Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters By Barack Obama Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers; (November 16, 2010)

Off the Beaten Path: A Travel Guide to More Than 1000 Scenic and Interesting Places Still Uncrowded and Inviting [Hardcover] Editors of Reader's Digest (Author) Publisher: Readers Digest; Rev Upd edition (March 19, 2009)

On Beauty By Zadie Smith. Penguin Press

On the Road (Penguin Classics) Jack Kerouac; Paperback

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics) Ken Kesey; Paperback

One Nation Under Gods: A History of the Mormon Church Richard Abanes Publisher: Basic Books (July 2003)

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 [Hardcover] Sally H. Jacobs (Author) Publisher: PublicAffairs (July 12, 2011)

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 By Taylor Branch Publisher: Simon & Schuster (November 15, 1989)

Pastures of Heaven John Steinbeck

Pigeon Feathers [Paperback] John Updike (Author)

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Publisher: Ballantine Books (August 27, 1996)

Plainsong Kent Haruf (Author) Publisher: Vintage; 3rd edition (August 22, 2000)

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction [Hardcover] Alan Jacobs (Author) Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (May 26, 2011)

The Plot Against America By PHILIP ROTH Houghton Mifflin Company, $26.

Popular Culture Opposing Viewpoints Series Published by Greenhaven Press, July 2005

The Portable Arthur Miller Paperback

Portrait of a Lady Henry James

Postcards (Scribner Classics) [Hardcover] Annie Proulx (Author) Publisher: Scribner (October 1, 1996)

The Post-American World Fareed Zakaria (Author) Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (May 4, 2009)

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Robert A. Caro (Author) Publisher: Vintage; First Edition edition (July 12, 1975)

A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) John Irving (Author) Publisher: Ballantine Books; Later Printing edition (June 23, 1997)

Rabbit Novels Vol. 1 John Updike Publisher: Ballantine Books (November 4, 2003)

Rabbit Novels Vol. 2 John Updike

Ragtime: A Novel [Paperback] E.L. Doctorow (Author) Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (May 8, 2007)

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Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition James T. Kloppenberg (Author) Publisher: Princeton University Press (October 11, 2010)

The Religious History of America: The Heart of the American Story from Colonial Times to Today Edwin S. Gaustad (Author) , Leigh Schmidt (Author) Publisher: HarperOne; Revised edition (October 1, 2002)

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Morris (Author) Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (November 20, 2001)

The Road to Wellville T.C. Boyle (Author) Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (May 1, 1994)

Rock Springs Richard Ford; Paperback

Rodin's Debutante [Hardcover] Ward Just (Author) Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition (March 1, 2011)

Sarah, Plain and Tall – Children’s Books Age 8-11 By Patricia MacLachlan HarperCollins, 1985.

Satire and Dissent: Interventions in Contemporary Political Debate Amber Day (Author) Publisher: Indiana University Press (February 16, 2011)

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne

Shadow Country (Modern Library Paperbacks) [Paperback] Peter Matthiessen (Author) Publisher: Modern Library; 1ST edition (December 2, 2008)

The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves [Paperback] Siri Hustvedt (Author) Publisher: Picador; First Edition edition (December 7, 2010)

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains Nicholas Carr (Author) Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (June 6, 2011)

The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx (Author) Publisher: Scribner; 1st Touchstone Ed edition (June 1, 1994)

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A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother Janny Scott (Author) Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover; 1St Edition edition (May 3, 2011)

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories Ernest Hemingway; Paperback

Snow White [Paperback] Donald Barthelme (Author) Publisher: Touchstone; First Edition edition (May 30, 1996)

Speak American: A Survival Guide to the Language and Culture of the U.S.A. Dileri Borunda Johnston (Author) Publisher: Random House Reference; 1st edition (April 25, 2000)

Steve Jobs [Hardcover] Walter Isaacson (Author) Publisher: Simon & Schuster (October 24, 2011)

The Stories of John Cheever; Paperback

Strange But True, America: Weird Tales from All 50 States John Hafnor (Author) Publisher: Lone Pine Productions; 1st edition (August 31, 2009)

A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying/The Sound and the Fury/ Light in August William Faulkner

The Summer Without Men: A Novel [Paperback] Siri Hustvedt (Author) Publisher: Picador (April 26, 2011)

Tales from Facebook [Paperback] Daniel Miller (Author) Publisher: Polity; 1 edition (April 5, 2011)

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Doris Kearns Goodwin (Author) Publisher: Simon & Schuster (September 26, 2006)

Television and American Culture Jason Mittell (Author) Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (February 18, 2009)

Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author)

Tennessee Williams: Plays 1937-1955 (Library of America) Publisher: Library of America; Stated 1st edition (October 1, 2000)

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Their Eyes Were Watching God [Paperback] Zora Neale Hurston (Author) Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics (May 30, 2006)

Three by Tennessee Williams

To a God Unknown John Steinbeck

To Have and Have Not Ernest Hemingway; Paperback

To Kill a Mockingbird (New Windmills) Harper Lee (Author) Publisher: Heinemann (September 5, 1966)

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.) [Paperback] Betty Smith (Author) Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics (May 30, 2006)

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

Understanding the Americans: A Handbook for Visitors to the United States [Paperback] Yale Richmond (Author) Publisher: Hippocrene Books (April 1, 2009)

Underworld by Don DeLillo (Scribner)

A Visit from the Goon Squad0 Jennifer Egan (Author) Publisher: Anchor (March 22, 2011)

Walden Henry David Thoreau

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration [Hardcover] Isabel Wilkerson (Author) Publisher: Random House; First Edition edition (September 7, 2010)

Washington Irving : History, Tales, and Sketches: The Sketch Book / A History of New York / Salmagundi / Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. (Library of America)

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Publisher: Library of America; First Edition edition (November 15, 1983)

Washington Square Henry James

The Way Home (Back Bay Readers' Pick) George Pelecanos (Author) Publisher: Back Bay Books; Reprint edition (January 13, 2011)

A Week at Concord and Merrimack Rivers Henry David Thoreau

What Is the What (Vintage) [Paperback] Dave Eggers (Author) Publisher: Vintage (October 9, 2007)

White Noise: (Classics Deluxe Edition) Don DeLillo; Paperback

Whitman: Poetry and Prose (Library of America College Editions) Publisher: Library of America (May 1, 1996)

William Faulkner : Novels 1930-1935 : As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon (Library of America) Publisher: Library of America; First Edition edition (December 1, 1985)

William Faulkner: Novels 1926-1929: Soldiers' Pay / Mosquitoes / Flags in the Dust / The Sound and the Fury (Library of America) Publisher: Library of America (April 6, 2006)

The World According to Garp (Ballantine Reader's Circle) John Irving (Author) Publisher: Ballantine Books (June 23, 1997)

World's End (Contemporary American Fiction) [Paperback] T.C. Boyle (Author) Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); First Edition edition (July 20, 1990)

A Wrinkle in Time – Children’s Books Age 12-14 By Madeleine L’Engle Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1962.

Zora Neale Hurston : Novels and Stories : Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories (Library of America) -

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