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 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper LeeSet in Alabama during the Depression; follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch. A tough, tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up. At: Local Library Amazon $4.00 |  | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynSolzhenitsyn's first book, this economical, relentless novel is one of the most forceful artistic indictments of political oppression in... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.64 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Literature, Biography |
 The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten BoomInspiring saga of a heroic, Dutch family in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II; aglow with the glory of God and the courage of a quiet Christian spinster whose life was transformed by it. At: Local Library Amazon $4.00 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Biography |
 Modern Times by Paul M. JohnsonThe history of the 20th century is marked by two great narratives: nations locked in savage wars over ideology and territory, and... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $9.82 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Philosophy & Religion |
 World War I by S. L. A. MarshallGeneral Marshall drew on his firsthand experience as a soldier and lifetime of military service to pen this forthright history of what people once believed would be the last great war. At: Local Library Amazon $5.14 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | General |
 Short Stories by O. HenryThe more than 600 stories written by O. Henry provided an embarrassment of riches for the compilers of this volume.  The final selection... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $15.61 | | 1800's to Modern | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
 Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $11.55 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Phil./Religion, Literature |
 Church History in Plain Language by Bruce ShelleyIt's about time that someone wrote church history that tells about people, not just about "eras" and "ages." Church History in Plain... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $7.70 | | Ancient to Modern | Secondary & Adult | Phil./Religion, General |
 Mere Christianity by C. S. LewisA forceful and accessible discussion of Christian belief that has become one of the most popular introductions to Christianity and one of... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $6.46 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Philosophy & Religion |
 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Marie RemarqueRemarque's 1929 novel is among the finest antiwar literature written after the First World War. The title, Erich Maria Remarque’s... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $5.51 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Historical Fiction |
 Abolition of Man by C. S. LewisC.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man purports to be a book specifically about public education, but its central concerns are broadly... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $9.40 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Philosophy & Religion |
 I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King Jr.On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a speech that moved and inspired America. Here, in its entirety, is Dr. Martin... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.00 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Philosophy & Religion |
| Heretics by G. K. Chesterton In response to many of his modern contemporaries, Chesterton takes readers back to the fundamentals; describing some of a Christian's core beliefs and capturing the essence of the Christian experience. From EveryGoodBook's all-time Top 10 list. At: Local Library Amazon $7.97 | | 1800's to Modern | Secondary & Adult | Philosophy & Religion |
| A History of the American People by Paul Johnson "The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures," begins Paul Johnson. "No other national story holds such tremendous lessons, for the American people themselves and for the rest of mankind." At: Local Library Amazon $8.46 | | Colonial to Modern | Secondary & Adult | General |
| The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $6.85 |  | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
| The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $10.19 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
| Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt We of the great modern democracies must strive unceasingly to make our several countries lands in which a poor man who works hard can live... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $18.99 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Biography |
| Darwin's Black Box by Michael Behe Michael J. Behe, a biochemist at Lehigh University, presents here a scientific argument for the existence of God. Examining the... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $10.55 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | General |
| History of the English by Winston Churchill To most people Churchill is known as one of Britain's greatest statesmen. That overshadows his literary achievements. He begins his account... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $15.98 | | Ancient to Modern | Secondary & Adult | General |
| Lord of the Flies by William Golding William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island is just as chilling and... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $7.77 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
| Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $9.75 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Philosophy & Religion |
| Pond by Robert Murphy An absolutely wonderful coming-of-age story about a city boy who grows up with regular visits to his family's country property that... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.97 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
| The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $7.00 Read Online | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
| Animal Farm by George Orwell Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.00 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Philosophy & Religion |
| Alas,Babylon by Pat Frank The classic apocalyptic novel that stunned the world. Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $10.15 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Historical Fiction |
| Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom,... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.42 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Historical Fiction |
| How Should We Then Live? by Francis Schaeffer In How Should We Then Live? Francis Schaeffer analyzed the reasons for modern society's state of affairs and presented the only viable... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $13.59 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Philosophy & Religion |
| Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.65 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
| Witness by Whittaker Chambers First published in 1952, Witness was at once a literary effort, a philosophical treatise, and a bestseller. Whittaker Chambers had just... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $9.48 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Biography |
| Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. Composition teachers throughout the English-speaking world have been pushing this book on their students since it was first published in... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $5.77 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | General |
| How To Read a Book by Mortimer Adler How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $9.13 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | General |
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| The Birth of the Modern by Paul Johnson From the prizewinning author of Modern Times comes an extraordinary chronicle of the period that laid the foundations of the modern... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.97 |  | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | General |
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| Greenmantle by John Buchan Greenmantle continues the thrilling adventures of Richard Hannay from convalescence following the Battle of Loos, back to London for a... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.99 Read Online | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
| Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George Miyax, like many adolescents, is torn. But unlike most, her choices may determine whether she lives or dies. At 13, an orphan, and... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.00 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
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| The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers Nine strokes from an old country church toll out the death of an unknown man and call Lord Peter Wimsey to one of his most baffling cases.... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.00 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
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| All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot Take an unforgettable journey through the English countryside and into the homes of its inhabitants-- four-legged and otherwise-- with the... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $5.62 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Biography |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls begins and ends in a pine-scented forest, somewhere in Spain. The year is 1937 and the Spanish Civil War is in... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $6.67 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
| Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis In this book Lewis tells of his search for joy, a spiritual journey that led him from the Christianity of his early youth into atheism and... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.00 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Biography |
| Lord Peter by Dorothy Sayers When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the "Gaudy," the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks:... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.00 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | General |
| Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton British writer GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON (1874-1936) expounded prolifically about his wide-ranging philosophies-he is impossible to... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $5.95 Read Online | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
| Intellectuals by Paul Johnson A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx,... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $11.86 | | 1800's to Modern | Secondary & Adult | Philosophy & Religion |
| Whatever Happened to Justice? by Richard J. Maybury "Whatever Happened to Justice?" shows what's gone wrong with America's legal system and economy and how to fix it. It also contains lots of... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $16.15 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | General |
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| Selected Poems by Robert Frost John F. Kennedy said of Robert Frost: "He has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.00 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
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