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The Shadow of the Torturer
Gene Wolfe
Young Shoulders
John Wain
Billy Bishop Goes To War, a play by John Gray with Eric Peterson
John Gray
Man Descending
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Garrison Town
Christopher Moore
The Vision Tree: Selected Poems
Phyllis Webb
Downbelow Station
C. J. Cherryh
James Joyce
Richard Ellmann
On the Black Hill
Bruce Chatwin
Riddley Walker
Russell Hoban
The Claw of the Conciliator
Gene Wolfe
The Many-Colored Land
Julian May
Waldo Emerson
Gay Wilson Allen
The Fate of the Earth
Jonathan Schell
A Flag for Sunrise
Robert Stone
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980
Jonathan D. Spence
Plutonian Ode and Other Poems, 1977-1980
Allen Ginsberg
The Second American Revolution and Other Essays, 1976-82
Gore Vidal
George Mills
Stanley Elkin
The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Caro
Antarctic Traveler
Katha Pollitt
The Claw of the Conciliator
Gene Wolfe
Grant: A Biography
William S. McFeely
Rabbit is Rich
John Updike
The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder
Mary Chesnut’s Civil War
C. Vann Woodward
The Collected Poems
Sylvia Plath
Superfudge (Fudge, book 3)
Judy Blume
Playing Beatie Bow
Ruth Park
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939–1944
Aranka Siegal
A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
Nancy Willard
Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree, The
Stan Berenstain
Jumanji
Chris Van Allsburg
The Haunting
Margaret Mahy
Let the Circle Be Unbroken
Mildred D. Taylor
Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale from Senegal
John Steptoe
The Song of Pentecost
W. J. Corbett
On the Black Hill
Bruce Chatwin
Taking Terri Mueller
Norma Fox Mazer
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Judy Blume
Long Neck and Thunder Foot
Michael Foreman
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
A Flag for Sunrise
Robert Stone
A Visit to William Blake’s Inn
Nancy Willard
Eight Million Ways to Die
Lawrence Block