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Book: The Catcher in the Rye / J.D. Salinger
A depressed teenager accosts the world with scathing criticisms in a hopeless search for something genuine.
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Book: King Rat / James Clavell
Prisoners in a Japanese camp in China during WWII have various means of survival, one rising above the rest.
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Book: Great Lakes Solo / Mary Blocksma
An account by an adventurous woman who sets out to travel the length of the United States-side of the Great Lakes coast.
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Book: The Hero with a Thousand Faces / Joseph Campbell
An incredible examination of the universal components of myths with lyrical interpretations and hundreds of examples.
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Book: A Walk in the Woods / Bill Bryson
The story of the author’s attempt to hike the Appalachian Trail.
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Book: Gai-Jin / James Clavell
The Noble House tries to establish a port of trade in Japan.
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Book: The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald
An unusually honest character’s account of a holocaust of the American Dream.
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Book: The Odyssey / Homer
Homer’s epic. Odysseus starts out to sail home victorious from the Trojan War, but Poseidon has other ideas.
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Book: The Teachings of Don Juan / Carlos Castaneda
An anthropology student straps in for the ride of his life as the apprentice of a Yaqui Indian sorceror.
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Book: Narcissus and Goldmund / Hermann Hesse
To live by the heart or the mind?