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Title:	Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The
Authors:	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Description:	The detectives’ detective solves a variety of mysteries in this collection of short stories.
Series:	Since Sherlock Holmes: A Hundred Years of Detective Fiction

Title:	All the Pretty Horses
Authors:	Cormac McCarthy
Description:	The tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey along which he learns about survival, loyalty, death, and love.
Series:	From Boys to Men

Title:	An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Authors:	P. D. James
Description:	Cordelia Grey, a junior detective, must make moral decisions as she investigates a murder that involves loyalty and betrayal.
Series:	Since Sherlock Holmes: A Hundred Years of Detective Fiction

Title:	Antigone (Oedipus Cycle )
Authors:	Sophocles
Description:	The issues raised in this play written more than two millennia ago are still being examined today, including whether we should conform to civil law when it conflicts with our understandings and beliefs about responsibility to a “higher law.”
Series:	And Justice for All?

Title:	Bay Country
Authors:	Tom Horton
Description:	These essays by a veteran environmental reporter provide a disturbing portrait of an estuary in decline under the pressure of a burgeoning population.
Series:	Chesapeake Bay: End of an Era (The)

Title:	Best Thing I Ever Tasted, The
Authors:	Sallie Tisdale
Description:	A mixture of food history, memoir, and sociology, this book looks at past and present American attitudes toward food and how they affect all of us.
Series:	Food, Glorious Food

Title:	Big Sleep, The
Authors:	Raymond Chandler
Description:	The hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe struggles for power as he pursues investigations with fists and guns.
Series:	Since Sherlock Holmes: A Hundred Years of Detective Fiction

Title:	Bread Givers
Authors:	Anzia Yezierska
Description:	This novel tells the story of Sara Smolinsky’s struggle to free herself from the restrictions imposed on women in a Russian Orthodox Jewish family that emigrates to New York City at the turn of the twentieth century.
Series:	Becoming American

Title:	Bridge to Terabithia
Authors:	Katherine Paterson
Description:	The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.
Series:	For Grownups Only: Children's Literature Revisited

Title:	Catcher in the Rye, The
Authors:	J. D. Salinger
Description:	Holden Caufield is arguably the most famous literary teenager to ever come of age. Is he deserving of this glory?
Series:	From Boys to Men

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