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Bless Me Ultima book cover

Rudolfo Anaya

Bless Me, Ultima

Five Skies cover: photo of a western landscape with the sky taking a large area of the picture

Ron Carlson

Five Skies

Pael yellow book cover with author name in brown and title in green, will a very positive blurb and a seal noting the book won the NBCC prize fo autobiography

Edwidge Danticat

Brother, I'm Dying

Love Medicine book cover

Louise Erdrich

Love Medicine

The Great Gatsby book cover

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

The Paperbark Shoe cover

Goldie Goldbloom

The Paperbark Shoe

The Maltese Falcon book cover

Dashiell Hammett

The Maltese Falcon

A Farewell to Arms book cover

Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

Book cover; title in Yellow with background black and white illustration of a woman in a long dress carrying large ceramic vessels approaching the base of a tall wooden ladder

Jorge F. Hernández (editor)

Sun, Stone, and Shadows

Robinson Jeffers cover

Robinson Jeffers

Selected Poetry

Book cover: yellow background with a blue and brown colored leafrising up in the middle, title in lower case blue, author name in lowercase gold

Jhumpa Lahiri

The Namesake

To Kill a Mockingbird book cover

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Call of the Wild book cover

Jack London

The Call of the Wild

Book cover: title in black author name in yellow again a green-blue brushed background sky and dark mountains

Dinaw Mengestu

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

Book cover with author name in yellow, title in dark brown over an illustration of a large billowing cloth with a small portion of a large number of metal bars

Cynthia Ozick

The Shawl

Edgar Allan Poe book cover.

Edgar Allan Poe

Great Tales and Poems

Book cover: author name and title in red serif type over a yellow background of an orange watercolor of a banyan tree

Vaddey Ratner

In the Shadow of the Banyan

Book cover with title and author in black type again a background of faded panels of a wooden door

Marilynne Robinson

Gilead

Housekeeping book cover

Marilynne Robinson

Housekeeping

The Grapes of Wrath book cover

John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath

The Joy Luck Club book cover

Amy Tan

The Joy Luck Club

Adventures of Tom Sawyer book cover

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Bridge of San Luis Rey book cover

Thornton Wilder

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Book cover: title and author name in pink and white outline type over a background of an illustration of a car making its way around a curve on a mountain road

Tobias Wolff

This Boy's Life

Old School book cover

Tobias Wolff

Old School

Dark organge book cover with author name and title and an illustration of a single eye with several tear running down the page

Kevin Young

Book of Hours

Book cover: Title and author name in handwriting grey in a background of streaming blue arrows in the middle of which tow heads are formed, one by organge arrows, the by blue arrows

Alejandro Zambra

Ways of Going Home