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Book: Close Range / Annie Proulx
Equal doses of the dreams and realities that live in Wyoming.
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Book: Travels with Charley / John Steinbeck
America, 1960. Has anything changed?
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Book: The Oedipus Cycle / Sophocles
These straightforward, rhythmic verses about the Job of the ancient Greeks knock persistently on doors in your head until they open.
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Book: Demian / Hermann Hesse
A boy with the mark of Cain steps from his protected world of wholesome goodness and light into the ambivalent land of good and evil.
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Book: World of Wonders / Robertson Davies
A magician reveals his mysterious past, the scars that formed him, and the power they gave him.
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Book: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea / Jules Verne
Captain Nemo, Nobody, flees an evil world to inhabit the symbol of its nemesis.
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Book: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain
A hilarious look at survival in the old south from the perspective of a boy whose most valuable assets are compassion and the ability to lie like the devil.
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Book: By Searching / Isobel Kuhn
Auto-biographical account of my grandmother’s coming to the China Inland Mission.
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Book: Moby Dick / Herman Melville
Like a fine cut diamond, the treasure you see depends on the angle you’re looking at it from.
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Book: Into the Wild / Jon Krakauer
How does the father affect the adventures of the son? Krakauer obsesses over one particular case.