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Books for the College Bound

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  • A Death in the Family
    James Agee
    The enchanted childhood summer of 1915 suddenly becomes a baffling experience for Rufus Follet when his father dies.
  • In the Time of Butterflies
    Julia Alvarez
    Dede, the only survivor of the four Mirabel sisters, code named Mariposas or butterflies, reveals their role in the liberation of the Dominican Republic from the dictator Trujillo.
  • Bless Me, Ultima
    Rudolfo Anaya
    Ultima, a wise old mystic, helps a young Hispanic boy resolve personal dilemmas caused by the differing backgrounds and aspirations of his parents and society.
  • The Handmaid's Tale
    Margaret Atwood
    In Gilead, a Christian fundamentalist dystopia, fertile lower-class women serve as birth-mothers for the upper class.
  • Crime and Punishment
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    A sensitive intellectual is driven by poverty to believe himself exempt from moral law.
  • Invisible Man
    Ralph Ellison
    A young African American seeking identity during his high school and college days, and later in New York's Harlem, relates his terrifying experiences.
  • Cold Mountain
    Charles Frazier
    A wounded Civil War soldier endures the elements, The Guard, and his own weakness and infirmity to return to his sweetheart who is fighting her own battle to survive while farming the mountainous North Carolina terrain.
  • Catch-22
    Joseph Heller
    In this satirical novel, Captain Yossarian confronts the hypocrisy of war and bureaucracy as he frantically attempts to survive.
  • A Farewell to Arms
    Ernest Hemingway
    World War I is the setting for this love story of an English nurse and a wounded American ambulance officer.
  • Brave New World
    Aldous Huxley
    In a chilling vision of the future, babies are produced in bottles and exist in a mechanized world without soul.
  • To Kill A Mockingbird
    Harper Lee
    A young girl tells of life in a small Alabama town in the 1930s and her father's defense in court of an African American accused of raping a white woman.
  • Beloved
    Toni Morrison
    Preferring death over slavery for her children, Sethe murders her infant daughter who later mysteriously returns and almost destroys the lives of her mother and sister.
  • The Grapes of Wrath
    John Steinbeck
    An Oklahoma farmer and his family leave the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression to go to the promised land of California.
  • Native Son
    Richard Wright
    For Bigger Thomas, an African American man accused of a crime in the white man's world, there could be no extenuating circumstances, no explanations and only death.