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|  | The Lord of the Rings & the Hobbit by Alan Lee, J. R. R. Tolkien
Description not available.A guide to reading The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. AUTHOR: Alan Lee, J. R. R. Tolkien
PUBLISHER: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science Fiction & Fantasy 
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 | The Heights of Macchu Picchu by Nathaniel Tarn, Pablo Neruda
Inspired by a visit to the Incan ruins, THE HEIGHTS OF MACCHU PICCHU contains 340 poems about Chilean history. This volume marked the beginning of Neruda's image as a populist poet. AUTHOR: Nathaniel Tarn, Pablo Neruda
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Local News by Gary Soto
A collection of shorts stories about the everyday lives of Hispanic children in the United States. In one, a boy is tormented by his bullying older brother, and in another a lovesick boy tries to win the girl of his dreams by pretending to be a racquetball champion despite the fact that he's never played before. The Spanish words and phrases used in the stories are defined in a glossary. AUTHOR: Gary Soto
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Earthrise by C. William Dietz
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Binding: HARDCOVER
In the sequel to DeathDay, an invasion by the alien Saurons has devastated Earth, until Jack Manning, Chief of Security of a government created to insure human cooperation with the conquerors, and Alex Franklin, the government's puppet president, join forces to undertake an underground war of resistance. AUTHOR: C. William Dietz
PUBLISHER: Ace Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Science Fiction & Fantasy
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 | Ex-Friends
The former editor of Commentary magazine, and an ardent conservative, writes about the friendships and rivalries among his friends, an ideas-driven group of New York intellectuals from the worlds of publishing and academia. Included are his fallings-out with the Trillings, Norman Mailer, and Lillian Hellman.
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Alice M. Hogan, Dale Carnegie, Eleanor Bron, Jill Masters, John P. Riquelme
Because of its sexual frankness and indictment of Victorian hypocrisy, Hardy`s novel was considered shocking when it was published in 1891. It is the tale of Tess Derbeyfield, a young country girl whose rape by Alec D`Urberville, a distant aristocratic relative, leads to pregnancy. Tess`s baby dies, and she finds work as a dairymaid at a farm where no one knows her story. There she falls in love with and marries a young farmer named Angel Clare, but when Angel finds out about his wife`s past, he is horrified, and deserts her. Tess meets Alec again--now a reformed character who has become an itinerant preacher--and lives with him as his wife. When Angel returns for her and finds her with Alec, he leaves her again--and Tess, in despair, stabs Alec--the cause of all her woes--and kills him. She and Angel are reunited, but only briefly: Tess is taken into custody and will be tried for murder and hanged. The cynical and sophisticated Alec`s seduction of a country girl, and the self-righteous Angel`s destructive idealization of her, can be seen as symbols of the city`s ruthless exploitation of the English countryside--a common theme in Hardy`s fiction. AUTHOR: Alice M. Hogan, Dale Carnegie, Eleanor Bron, Jill Masters, John P. Riquelme
PUBLISHER: Atria Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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