In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote

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On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces.  There...

The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls 

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Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns,...

In 1956, a 76-year-old preacher with failing health writes a letter to his young son; this account of his life is a meditation on fathers and children, particularly sons, on faith, and on the imperfectability of man. 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction.

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

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Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad.  That’s a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them...

This historical novel captures New York City in 1930 as the Jazz Age makes way for the Great Depression and the Empire State Building begins to rise above the city. The story focuses on an Irish immigrant working on the construction who meets an artist who is the paramous of a major gangster.

The struggles of Miles Roby with his teenage daughter, soon-to-be-ex-wife and the wealthy owner of the restaurant where he has worked for 20 years mirror the condition of this small fictional mill town in Maine. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2002.

The 15-year-old autistic narrator uses his superbly logical and literal mind to investigate the murder of his neighbor's dog, using the skills he learned from his favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes, in this funny and poignant novel that won the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year award.

 

The first book in the popular Mitford series (1998) introduces generally lovable people living in a charming village. Father Tim, the bachelor rector, becomes involved in a rich, provincial comedy in which mysteries and miracles abound.

Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking 2003 memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran in ages six to fourteen.

Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. And Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do