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Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
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Category: Fiction | Series: Perennial Classics (Paperback)
"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just begin ...Show more
Bearing the Cross - Martin Luther King, Jr. , and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David Garrow
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Perennial Classics Ser.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. covers the entire life of the leader of the Civil Rights Movement Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about Dr. Martin Luther King, J ...Show more
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken. ...Show more
Flow: Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Category: Mind Body Spirit | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. In this n ...Show more
Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Poems, Tales, Criticism by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Fiction | Series: Perennial Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
The finest comic, Gothic, and satiric works of the nineteenth-century writer are included in an anthology that features a superb collection of poetry, critical essays, and short fiction, including such classics as "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Raven," "The Purloined Letter," "Annabel Lee," "The M
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by DE BEAUVOIR SIMONE KIRKUP JAMES
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Perennial Classics (Paperback)
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out ...Show more
Papillon by Henri Charriere
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
Henri Charri re, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet ...Show more
Tao Te Ching - A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell
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Category: Spirituality | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
In eighty-one brief chapters, Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, provides advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit, and teaches us how to work for the good with the effortless skill that comes from being in accord with the Tao?the basic principle of the universe ...Show more
The Autobiography of a Flea by Stanislas de Rhodes
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Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics
'The Autobiography of a Flea' was initally published in 1887, and inspired a film directed by one of the first female pornographic directors from the 1970s. Starring the inimitable John C Holmes, it is recognised as a classic example of the x-rated genre. Can men of the cloth ever escape temptation? A y ...Show more
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
Available in audio for the first time since its publication in 1970, and narrated by the author, Germaine Greer. A worldwide best seller, The Female Eunuch is a landmark book in the history of the women's movement and a ground-breaking feminist tract. Drawing from history, literature, and popular cultu ...Show more
The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in 1880. ...Show more
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
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Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
A sensational international bestseller, and winner of Frances' coveted Prix Goncourt, 'The Lover' is an unforgettable portrayal of the incandescent relationship between two lovers, and of the hate that slowly tears the girl's family apart. Saigon, 1930s: a poor young French girl meets the elegant son of ...Show more