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LEAVES OF GRASS, Whitman's monumental and enormously influential book, was his life's work, going through nine different editions from its first publication in 1855 to the famous deathbed edition published the year he died (1892). Influenced by Eastern religions, his years as a journalist, the Civil War, 19th-century expansionism, Nature, the theater and opera, and his own liberal sexual attitudes, LEAVES OF GRASS is both a document set firmly in its time and a great transcendent work of art. It is also one of the most popular and accessible books of poems ever written, beloved since its first publication. AUTHOR: A. S. Ash, Dan O'Herlihy, Ed Begley, Harold W. Blodgett, Jerome Loving
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Poems, 1972-1982 by Denise Levertov
This, the second volume of Levertov's book-by-book oeuvre, includes her books THE FREEING OF DUST (1975), LIFE IN THE FOREST (1978), and CANDLES IN BABYLON (1982). Levertov's famous war poems, written in reaction to her 1972 visit to North Vietnam, are present here. AUTHOR: Denise Levertov
PUBLISHER: New Directions Publishing Corporation
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Tiger Trouble! by Diane Goode
Jack has a very unusual best friend--a tiger named Lily. Jack and Lily do everything together--from taking a bath to playing tug-of-war with the other neighborhood children. But then their apartment building is sold to a man who doesn't like cats and he's determined to make Jack give up his beloved pet. Can Jack do anything to keep Lily with him? Watercolor and gouache illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: Diane Goode
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Gospel According to the Sun by Norman Mailer
An account of the life of Christ, written in his own words. Mailer conflates the chronicles of the four evangelists into his telling, which provides a new and unfamiliar portrait of the Messiah and his doctrines. AUTHOR: Norman Mailer
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert, John Schoenherr
One June morning in 1870, a shy six-year-old named Ben MacDonald, who was more comfortable with animals than with people, wandered away from his family farm to the plains of Manitoba and disappeared without a trace. This story tells of how he was adopted and raised by a female badger who had lost her litter. AUTHOR: Allan W. Eckert, John Schoenherr
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo, Margaret S. Paden, Susan Sontag
Juan Preciado made a promise to his mother, who is dying, that he would go to her birthplace and look for his father, Pedro Paramo. She remembers a village, robust and full of life, that no longer exists--Comala is a decaying town, surrounded by mirages. Pedro Paramo may or may not be alive; he is described by one traveler as living bile, who died years ago. Rulfo did not use a linear plot, but a montage of images from the living and the dead to tell a story of loss, fate, and bleakness. According to the introduction by Susan Sontag, this book sparked a dramatic change in Latin American literature, injecting (with the work of Borges) the magical realism which then influenced Gabriel Garcia Marquez--who knows the entire book of Pedro Paramo by heart. AUTHOR: Juan Rulfo, Margaret S. Paden, Susan Sontag
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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