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Plainsong
by Kent Haruf
(also available in Spanish)
Set in the fictitious small town of Holt, Colorado, Plainsong depicts a group of imperfect characters that transform their situations from isolation to community. |
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A Room with a View
by E. M. Forster
In this Edwardian social comedy, a young British woman falls in love with an expatriate living in Italy and must choose between convention and passion. |
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The Professor’s House
by Willa Cather
Professor Godfrey St. Peter, a man in his 50s, has achieved what would seem to be remarkable success. When called on to move to a more comfortable home, something in him rebels. |
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The Sea of Grass
by Conrad Richter
Originally published in 1936 and set in New Mexico, this novel explores the conflicts in the settling of the American Southwest, primarily between the pioneering ranchers and farmers. |
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Rabbit Is Rich
by John Updike
In this humorous, critically acclaimed work, Rabbit Angstrom displays his emphatically American spiritual maladies and pursuit of earthly pleasures. |
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The Shipping News
by E. Annie Proulx
Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, struggles to regain his life when he moves to the coast of Newfoundland with his two daughters. Proulx won the Pulitzer Prize for the novel. |
