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1861: The Civil War Awakening
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Adam Goodheart
ISBN: 1400040159
Publication Date: 2011
Alone Together
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Sherry Turkle
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Publication Date: 2011
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by
Michael Chabon
ISBN: 9780679450047
Publication Date: 2000
Anna Karenina
by
Tolstoy, Leo
Publication Date: 1939
Asterios Polyp
by
David Mazzucchelli
ISBN: 0307377326
Publication Date: 2009
Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America
by
Katherine Beckett; Steven Kelly Herbert
ISBN: 0195395174
Publication Date: 2009-11-12
Beyond Nature's Housekeepers
by
Nancy C. Unger
ISBN: 0199735069
Publication Date: 2012
The Brides of March : Memoir of a Same-sex Marriage
by
Beren deMotier
ISBN: 059543987X
Publication Date: 2007
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by
Junot Díaz
ISBN: 9781594489587
Publication Date: 2007
The Book Thief
by
Markus Zusak
ISBN: 9780375831003
Publication Date: 2006
The Corfu Trilogy
by
Durrell, Gerald
ISBN: 0141028416
Publication Date: 2006
Dandelion Wine
by
Ray Bradbury
ISBN: 0394496051
Publication Date: 1975
Diving into the Wreck 1971-1972
by
Adrienne Rich
ISBN: 9780393043709
Publication Date: 1973
The Dreaded Feast
by
Taylor Plimpton (Editor); Michele Clarke (Editor); P. J. O'Rourke
ISBN: 081098265X
Publication Date: 2009
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
by
Rachel Maddow
ISBN: 0307460983
Publication Date: 2012
Driftless
by
David Rhodes
ISBN: 1571310592
Publication Date: 2008
Honor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last Case
by
David E. Stannard
ISBN: 0143036637
Publication Date: 2006
Hope
by
Shalom Auslander
ISBN: 159448838X
Publication Date: 2012
The Horizontal World
by
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ISBN: 1582433453
Publication Date: 2006
The Last Holiday
by
Gil Scott Heron
ISBN: 0802129013
Publication Date: 2012
Law Man
by
Shon Hopwood; Dennis Michael Burke
ISBN: 0307887839
Publication Date: 2012
Life of Pi
by
Yann Martel
ISBN: 9780151008117
Publication Date: 2002
The Long Way Home : An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War
by
David Laskin
ISBN: 0061233331
Publication Date: 2010
My Life in France
by
Julia Child; Alex Prud'homme
ISBN: 9781400043460
Publication Date: 2006
No Right to Remain Silent: The Tragedy at Virginia Tech
by
Lucinda Roy
ISBN: 0307409635
Publication Date: 2009
Pox: An American History
by
Michael Willrich
ISBN: 1594202869
Publication Date: 2011
Red Dog
by
Louis de Bernières
ISBN: 9780375421556
Publication Date: 2001
Room
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Emma Donoghue
ISBN: 0316098337
Publication Date: 2010
The Round House
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Louise Erdrich
ISBN: 9780062065247
Publication Date: 2012
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
by
Timothy Egan
ISBN: 0618969020
Publication Date: 2012
The Sparrow
by
Mary Doria Russell
ISBN: 9780679451501
Publication Date: 1996
Tales from Moominvalley
by
Tove Jansson (Illustrator); Thomas Warburton (Translator)
ISBN: 0312625421
Publication Date: 2010
The Time Machine
by
H. G. Wells
ISBN: 9780486284729
Publication Date: 1895
Tiny Beautiful Things
by
Cheryl Strayed
ISBN: 9780307949332
Publication Date: 2012
Movies
8 1/2
by
Federico Fellini
Publication Date: 1963
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801
Chinatown
by
Roman Polanski
Publication Date: 1974
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071315/
Collapse
by
Chris Smith
Publication Date: 2009
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1503769/
Desk Set
by
Walter Lang
Publication Date: 1957
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050307
Eames : the architect and the painter
by
Jason Cohn, Bill Jersey
Publication Date: 2011
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1972646/
The Future of Food
by
Deborah Koons
Publication Date: 2004
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427276
George Washington
by
David Gordon Green
ISBN: 0780025032
Publication Date: 2000
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262432
Life of Pi
by
Ang Lee
Publication Date: 2012
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454876/
Love Actually
by
Richard Curtis
Publication Date: 2003
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314331/
My Neighbor Totoro
by
Hayao Miyazaki
Publication Date: 1988
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096283
Obselidia
by
Diane Bell
Publication Date: 2010
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1522218/
Raising Arizona
by
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Publication Date: 1987
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093822/
Rare Exports
by
Jalmari Helander
Publication Date: 2010
This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1401143/
http://youtu.be/9RQlikX4vvw
Romantics Anonymous
by
Jean-Pierre Améris
Publication Date: 2010
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1565958/
The Shop Around the Corner
by
Ernst Lubitsch
Publication Date: 1940
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033045
Tetsuo
by
Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Publication Date: 1989
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096251/
Young Frankenstein
by
Mel Brooks
Publication Date: 1974
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072431/
Sanjuro
by
Akira Kurosawa
Publication Date: 1962
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056443
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