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Title: Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Publisher's SummaryPublished in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the abolitionists' message to the public conscience - no woman before or since has so moved America to take action against an injustice. Indeed, Abraham...

Title: On Writing – Stephen King

Title: On Writing by Stephen King Publisher's Summary: "If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." Here is Stephen King's master class on his craft. On Writing begins with a mesmerizing account of King's childhood and his...

Title: Go the Fu–k to Sleep

Title: Go the Fu--k to Sleep by Adam Manbach (Narrated by Samuel Jackson) Publisher's Summary: Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) rocks this mock bedtime story, capturing a hilarious range of emotions as the voice of a father struggling to get...

Title: Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money. Raskolnikov argues that...