Author Archive
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Spoon River Anthology – E.L. Masters
Edgar Lee Masters creates a compelling free-verse monologue in which former citizens of a mythical Midwestern town speak from the grave of the hopes and dreams of their lives.
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To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird which takes place in Alabama during the Depression is narrated by the protagonist Scott Finch. It is a story of human compassion, of innocence, kindness, hatred and most of all of love seen through a child...
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Pigs in Heaven – Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver’s bestselling Pigs in Heaven continues the tale of Turtle and Taylor Greer, a Native American girl and her adoptive mother who have settled in Tucson, Arizona, as they both try to overcome their difficult pas...
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Prodigal Summer – Barbara Kingsolver
Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.
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The Bean Trees – Barbara Kingsolver
Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head...
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The Ambassadors – Henry James
In this complex tale of self-discovery, Henry James traces the path of an old idealist, Lambert Strether, who arrives in Paris intending to persuade his young charge to abandon an obsession with a French woman and return home. ...
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The Cider House Rules – John Irving
The story revolves around Wilbur Larch, a physician in charge of St. Cloud's orphanage, and Homer Wells, one of the orphans. Homer has had several tries of being adopted, but they all fail, and he grows up in the orphanage.
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The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
A simple and beautiful fable style tale of a cuban fisherman and his relentless battle with a giant marlin at sea. Hemingway weaves a powerful story with timeless themes of courage and endurance in the face of defeat and triumph.
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A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms Summary is a beautiful story of a love affair between an expatriate American Lieutenant Frederic Henry and a young woman nurse with the backdrop of the First World War, bloodshed, fighting and displacement of...
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Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
The novel is set during World War II, from 1942 to 1944 and mainly follows the life of Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th Squadron is b...
