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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain                 Huckleberry Finn was once part of a gang with his best friend, Tom Sawyer. They found some treasure and now he’s got six thousand dollars just sitting in the bank until he’s older. He lives with the Widow Douglas right now and all she wants his for him to be civil, go to school and be educated. She also wants to keep him safe. Huck’s father is a drunk and he’s back in town. He wants his son and his son’s money. After Huck’s father takes custody from the Widow Douglas, Huck eventually comes up with an ingenious plan to get away. He fakes his own death and heads down the river where he finds Jim, Ms. Watson’s slave, on a run for freedom. And so the adventures begin.                 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a story about friendship, trust and lo...

Moloka’i by Alan Brennert                 The year was 1891. The leper colony, Kalaupapa, located on the island of Moloka’i had been established a few years earlier to isolate those diagnosed with the disease from the rest of the Hawaiian population. Rachel’s uncle, Pono, had been diagnosed and placed in Kalihi hospital undergoing different tests and treatments. Now the health inspector was knocking on Rachel’s door. She had seen this man and others like this one at her school, checking the students for any of the telltale signs of the disease. Her mother, Dorothy, has bandage the small red soar on Rachel’s leg for weeks hoping and praying that it wasn’t leprosy but the marks remained. Rachel was to be taken to Kalihi hospital, just like her Uncle Pono, and if there was no change their greatest fear would come true: Rachel would be sent to Kalaupapa where the disease would eventually kill her as it had s...

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The year is A.F. 632. It is a time of stability. The population is being manufactured so that a certain number of the population is created for each caste system. Children are raised in a State Conditioning Centre where electroshock therapy may be used for conditioning. Hypnotherapy influences the ideas of the population, are executed according to class and change with each age range. Individuality is not promoted. Thinking is not promoted. Everyone is conditioned to feel and act a certain way. Bernard Marx, an Alpha, spends way too much time by himself. His lone activities have made him a source of ridicule. Most people assume something went wrong while he was being created, which would explain why he is so short for an Alpha and why he doesn’t socialize as much. Is he an individual? Bernard ponders that question along with many other ideas. But that’s not what he is supposed to do in this new world. Here everyone belongs to everyone and ...

The Dinner by Herman Koch                 Paul Lohman is at a very prestigious restaurant with his wife Claire, his brother Serge and his Sister-In-Law Babette. Serge, who will be running for Prime Minister in seven months, has invited Paul and Claire to dinner in this unnamed upscale restaurant. This is no ordinary dinner. This dinner has to do with the future of the Lohman family, and not just Serge and his career but the future of Michel, Paul and Claire’s son, and Rick, Serge and Babette’s son. The fifteen year old boys are in the middle of an extremely harmful situation that will severely affect everyone’s lives. It’s time to lay everything on the table to find a solution to their family problem.                 The Dinner was an intense novel filled with family secrets and unimaginable choices. When the unimaginable ha...

All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren Jack Burden was a political reporter for Chronicle . That was until Willie Stark, the newly elected Governor, reached out to Burden offering him a position on his staff. Willie and Jack have a history. Jack can remember back in 1922, before Willie Stark had ever run for Governor, meeting him in the back of a bar while discussions were taking place about the construction of a school. Back then Jack wasn’t even drinking. He was an honest man, husband to a school teacher, and son to a farmer. But that was over a decade ago. Both men have changed quite a lot. Governor Stark isn’t as trusted as he used to be, something to be considered with his position of power and keeping certain people in line. Many people know of his different affairs outside of his marriage, but they turn a blind eye because of how much they respect his wife. Jack is essential to Willie’s staff. He trust Jack. Jack is the guy that can dig up dirt as long as there is ...

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell The last novel in the Simon Snow series is set to be released at the end of Cath and Wren’s first year at the University of Nebraska. The twins are huge Simon Snow fans, wrapped up in the magic and in fan fiction. Cath, more so than Wren over the last couple of months, since Cath has a huge following online and has been working on her own installment of the Simon Snow series that she has been slowly releasing to her followers. But this freshmen year has been a year full of change. It all began when Wren told Cath she didn’t want to be roommates their freshmen year of school. For the first time ever Cath is without her built-in best friend. Their father is at home alone causing Cath to constantly worry about his wellbeing. It doesn’t help that she thinks her roommate Reagan hates her. And to top it all off, her mother who left the family when Cath and Wren were eight years old suddenly wants to have a relationship with the twins again. It’s too much f...

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Charlie Gordon is going to be the first human being whose IQ is increased by surgery. He is thirty two years old, works at a bakery, and has an IQ of 70. Dr. Strauss and Professor Nemur have been conducting experiments to increase intelligence and have found success with one particular mouse, Algernon. Now they want Charlie to undergo the same procedure as Algernon, undergoing surgery and subsequent testing. Charlie who has always yearned to be smart and have friends is highly motivated. The surgery is a success and Charlie, like Algernon, is a phenomenon. Charlie’s mind is opening but his maturity and emotions are also changing and it’s a struggle for him to become this intelligent and respected man, when the memories of his past and the understanding of his circumstances are constantly intruding and making their presence known.                 Flowers for Alger...