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Our communities have been and still are home to some of the most well-known authors in American literature. Why not take home one of their books today?

Title	Author	Cover
Angel Landing	Alice Hoffman
The letters of A. Bronson Alcott.	Amos Bronson Alcott
Selected poems	Amy Lowell
The red tent	Anita Diamant
Rescue : a novel	Anita Shreve
Freedom's ransom	Anne McCaffrey
Selected poems of Anne Sexton	Anne Sexton
Walden Two	B F Skinner
Natural history : poems	Dan Chiasson
Look homeward : a life of Thomas Wolfe	David Herbert Donald
Sexual perversity in Chicago and The duck variations : two plays	David Mamet
No ordinary time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II	Doris Kearns Goodwin
Mount dragon : a novel	Douglas J Preston
Fairy tales	E E Cummings
SubUrbia	Eric Bogosian
God's silence : poems	Franz Wright
Book of souls	Glenn Cooper
The American Revolution : a history	Gordon S Wood
The good liar	Gregory Maguire
Curious George gets a medal	H A Rey
Trio for slide rule and typewriter	Hal Clement
Overcoming life's disappointments	Harold S Kushner
Uncle Tom's cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe
Walden, and Civil disobedience. Authoritative texts, background, reviews, and essays in criticism,	Henry David Thoreau
Life upon these shores : looking at African American history, 1513-2008	Henry Louis Gates
Poems and other writings	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Extraterrestrial civilizations	Isaac Asimov
How does a poem mean?	John Ciardi
That is all	John Hodgman
Mastering the art of French cooking. Vol. two	Julia Child
The rat brain fiasco	Julie Berry
Deep pockets	Linda Barnes
The Willoughbys	Lois Lowry
The early stories of Louisa May Alcott, 1852-1860	Louisa May Alcott
Over the river and through the wood : the New England boy's song about Thanksgiving day	Lydia Maria Child
"My heart is a large kingdom" : selected letters of Margaret Fuller	Margaret Fuller
Is everyone hanging out without me? (and other concerns)	Mindy Kaling
N.C. Wyeth : the collected paintings, illustrations and murals	N C Wyeth
The house of the seven gables : a romance	Nathaniel Hawthorne
For reasons of state.	Noam Chomsky
Scarpetta	Patricia Daniels Cornwell
Sailing through China	Paul Theroux
Sydney's star	Peter H Reynolds
Early lectures	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Xkcd : volume 0	Randall Munroe
The age of spiritual machines : when computers exceed human intelligence	Ray Kurzweil
Night passage	Robert B Parker
Away	Robert Creeley
Singing school : learning to write (and read) poetry by studying with the masters	Robert Pinsky
The remarkable Christmas of the cobbler's sons	Ruth Sawyer
Chasing Shakespeares : a novel	Sarah Smith
Collected stories	Saul Bellow
Tiny problems!	Scott McCloud
War	Sebastian Junger
Into the storm : a novel	Suzanne Brockmann
The bell jar	Sylvia Plath
Bulfinch's mythology	Thomas Bulfinch
The abstinence teacher	Tom Perrotta
Gods like us : on movie stardom and modern fame	Ty Burr
Prayers for dark people	W E B Du Bois