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News of the World by Paulette JilesIn the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to audiences hungry for news of the world. He is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives. As the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forming a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land.
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The Call of the Wild by Jack LondonThe domesticated life of a powerful St. Bernard-Shepherd mix named Buck is quickly turned on end when he is stolen away from his master and put to work as a sled dog in Alaska. His once life of luxury turns into a life of survival and adaptation as he learns the ways of the wilderness.
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The Invisible Man by H. G. WellsThe tale of a scientist who discovers how to make his body become invisible, but, when he can't make himself visible again, becomes violently insane.
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