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|  | Time of Angels by Hermann Hesse, Suzanne Toren
As World War I rages in Europe, an influenza epidemic devastates Boston, forcing fourteen-year-old Hannah to leave home. Dangerously ill, she finds herself in Vermont, where a German man takes her in and nurses her back to health. Relying on her vision of an angel to help her find her way home, Hannah is eventually reunited with her family. A mysterious element, daunting situations, and tenacious characters make this novel a rich and compelling read. AUTHOR: Hermann Hesse, Suzanne Toren
PUBLISHER: Disney Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Angelwings by Lauren Klementz-Harte, To Come
The Little Angel of Friendship watches over Patricia, a nine-year-old deaf girl, as she moves from the family farm to the city and tries to make friends with hearing people. AUTHOR: Lauren Klementz-Harte, To Come
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Metaphysical Poets by Helen Gardner
In this important and influential anthology Dame Helen Gardner has collected together those seventeenth-century poets who, although never self-consciously a school, did possess in common certain features of argument and powerful persuasion which have come to be described as 'metaphysical'. AUTHOR: Helen Gardner
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Novels 1930-1935 by Joseph Blotner, Noel Polk, William Faulkner
AS I LAY DYING, a stream-of-consciousness novel narrated from 15 different points of view, depicts the Bundren family, a clan of poor whites who travel to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury their dead matriarch, Addie. This bleakly comic novel explores the nature of grief, community, and family. SANCTUARY is Faulkner's most notorious novel; its sensational subject matter was particularly disturbing to the inhabitants of his home town of Oxford, Mississippi, many of whom felt Faulkner presented a distorted picture of their community. The novel tells the story of Temple Drake, an Alabama debutante who falls under the influence of a sinister bootlegger named Popeye. In the introduction to Sanctuary (one of the few introductions he wrote), Faulkner admits that the book was a cheap idea, because it was deliberately conceived to make money. (SANCTUARY was in fact his only best-seller.) Faulkner liked to boast that he wrote the novel in three weeks, but he also revised it extensively before final publication. LIGHT IN AUGUST is the compelling story of Joe Christmas, an orphan of unknown ancestry who believes himself to be part-black. Like so many of Faulkner's novels, this one deals with the importance of community, as well as the roles of race and gender in Southern life. AUTHOR: Joseph Blotner, Noel Polk, William Faulkner
PUBLISHER: Library of America, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Pipaluk & the Whales by John Himmelman
Description not available.Based on actual events, Pipaluk and her father enlist the aid of their villagers and even the government to help save a group of whales stranded in a frozen inlet, but only Pipa can figure out a way to finally lead the whales back out to sea. AUTHOR: John Himmelman
PUBLISHER: National Geographic Society
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough, Penelope Dellaporta
The towering epic about three generations of a remarkable family in the Australian outback--now available in a specially priced hardcover edition from Modern Classics. AUTHOR: Colleen McCullough, Penelope Dellaporta
PUBLISHER: Random House Value Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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