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• John Adams

  McCullough, David G.

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  The adventurous life-journey of the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who became the second President of the United States.

• Infinite Jest

  Wallace, David Foster

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  A spoof on our culture featuring a drug-and-alcohol rehabilitation house near Boston.

• Paul Revere's Ride

  Fischer, David Hackett, 1935-

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  An exciting narrative that offers deep insight into the outbreak of revolution and the emergence of the American republic.

• Olive Kitteridge

  Fiction

  Strout, Elizabeth

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  Olive Kitteridge, a retired teacher, deplores the changes taking place in her little town of Crosby, Maine.

• All Souls

  A Family Story from Southie

  MacDonald, Michael Patrick

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  Heart-breaking testimony to lives lost too early; and the story of how a place so filled with pain could still be "the best place in the world."

• The Secret History

  Tartt, Donna

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  At an elite Vermont college, a charismatic classics professor and a group of clever, eccentric misfits discover a new way of thinking and living.

• Walden

  Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

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  Thoreau's account of two years in a little cabin near Walden Pond, where he lived a self-reliant, solitary, and contemplative existence.

• The Bell Jar

  Plath, Sylvia

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  Sylvia Plath's harrowing autobiographical novel traces a young woman's descent into an emotional breakdown.

• The Perfect Storm

  a True Story of Men Against the Sea

  Junger, Sebastian

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  Depicts the courage, terror, and awe that the men of the fishing vessel "Andrea Gail" faced as they were caught in the grip of a savage force of nature.

• The Friends of Eddie Coyle

  Higgins, George V., 1939-1999

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  George V. Higgins' seminal crime novel is a down-and-dirty tale of thieves, mobsters, and cops on the mean streets of Boston.

• Common Ground

  A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

  Lukas, J. Anthony

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  Winner of three different awards, this is a story of the busing crisis in Boston.

• A Prayer for Owen Meany

  a Novel

  Irving, John, 1942-

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  Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument; he is.