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Open today from 9am to 9pm  •  March 19, 2010

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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Through the eyes of Atticus's children, Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930's in this novel from 1960.

Tortilla Curtain

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A car collision between two men represents the dividing line between America and Mexico and between rich and poor in this humorous and serious political novel from 1996.

Virgin of Small Plains

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Small Plains, Kansas, January 23, 1987: In the midst of a deadly blizzard, the naked, frozen body of a teenage girl is found in a field. Seventeen years later, three families and three friends, their worlds inexorably altered in the course of one night, must confront the ever-unfolding consequences in award-winning author Nancy Pickard’s remarkable 2006 novel of suspense.

Water for Elephants

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As a young man in the great Depression, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. For Jacob, now ninety, the circus world he remembers in this 2006 novel was both his salvation and a living hell.

When the Emperor was Divine

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Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel from 2002 paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. In five chapters, each flawlessly executed from a different point of view within a family, she has created a novel of unrelenting economy and suppressed emotion.
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