Classics

Winston Smith, a worker at the Ministry of Truth in the political entity of Oceania, puts his life on the line when he joins a covert brotherhood in rebelling against the Party that controls all human thought and action.Axis360

A young, well to do and bored Emma Woodhouse learns a thing or two about true class - and love - after an eventful turn as a matchmaker.Axis360

Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist.Overdrive eAudiobook

Sethe, an escaped slave who now lives in post-Civil War Ohio, has borne the unthinkable and works hard at "beating back the past." She struggles to keep Beloved, an intruder, from gaining possession of her present while throwing off the legacy of her past.Axis360 Overdrive

The story of the four March sisters Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, and their trials growing into young ladies in a very poor home in nineteenth-century New England.Axis360

A fourth-generation German-American is tortured by his memories of the firebombing of Dresden in 1944 which he witnessed while a prisoner of war.Overdrive eAudiobook

A young African-American woman is mysteriously transfered back in time leading to an irresistable curiosity about her family's past.Axis360

Set in the near future, America has become a puritanical theocracy and Offred tells her story as a Handmaid under the new social order.Axis360

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