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The world according to Garp

The son of a famous radical feminist spends his life struggling with his diverse personal relationships and with his ambition to be a writer.
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Metamorphosis

Gregor Samsa becomes an object of disgrace to his family and an alienated man after he wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant beetle-like insect.
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The amber spyglass

Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra's father, Lord Asriel.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Huck Finn, the son of the town drunk, and Jim, an escaped slave, make a break for freedom down the vast Mississippi River on a raft.
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The adventures of Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy in early-nineteenth-century Missouri, embarks on a summer of adventures with his friends, Huck and Becky, after witnessing a shocking crime in the village graveyard.
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The graveyard book

The orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of eighteen months and raised lovingly and carefully to the age of eighteen years by the community of ghosts and otherworldly creatures.
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Flags of our fathers

Presents an account of the Marines who came together during the battle of Iwo Jima to raise the American flag in a moment that has been immortalized in one of the most famous photographs of World War II.
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The good thief

Young Ren, an orphan in nineteenth-century New England, is rescued from the orphanage by Benjamin Nab, who claims to be Ren's brother; but as time goes on Ren begins to question who he can and cannot trust.
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The help

Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.
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The Hunger Games

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.
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