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Title: A Million Little Pieces
Author: James Frey
A Million Little Pieces is a partially-fabricated memoir by James Frey. It tells the story of a 23-year-old alcoholic and drug abuser and how he copes with rehabilitation in a Twelve Steps-oriented treatment center.

Title: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of 'A Course in Miracles'
Author: Marianne Williamson
Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles is the first book by author Marianne Williamson and is to date the biggest selling book of interpretation of the spiritual thought system found in the book A Course In Miracles. Most estimates claim that A Return to Love has sold in excess of three million copies, making it not only the best selling book of ACIM interpretation but one of the best selling self-help books of all time.

Title: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Author: Betty Smith
Based in early twentieth-century Brooklyn, it tells the story of Francie Nolan and her family’s fight on poverty. Despite their struggles, the characters are still infused with hope and optimism that being poor is not a hindrance for them to dream, to desire, and to work it out from themselves. The book was written in 1943 based on Smith’s own experiences, and her portrayal of New York’s poor was considered controversial at that time.

Title: Beloved
Author: Toni Morrison
is a 1987 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. The novel is loosely based on the life and legal case of the slave Margaret Garner, about whom Morrison later wrote in the opera Margaret Garner (2005)

Title: Discover the Power Within You: A Guide to the Unexplored Depths Within
Author: Eric Butterworth
This book is a valuable guide for all who are seeking a truly full way of life. It deals definitively with the question, What did Jesus really teach? and offers direct and simple answers to what Jesus himself taught about such vital subjects as: How to Succeed, How to Attain True Prosperity, How to Pray, How to Find Healing, How to Overcome Virtually All Personal Problems.

Title: Ellen Foster
Author: Kaye Gibbons
The novel follows the story of Ellen, the first person narrator, a young white American girl living under unfavorable conditions somewhere in the rural South.

Title: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Author: Maya Angelou
Is a 1969 autobiographical novel about the early years of author Maya Angelou's life. The autobiography explores the isolation and loneliness faced by Angelou, and the attributes of her character that helped her cope with the prejudices of society. Quite graphic in nature, the text deals with issues including childhood, rape, racism, and sexism, some of which has generated controversy

Title: Jubilee
Author: Margaret Walker
is a critically acclaimed historical novel written by Margaret Walker, which focuses on the story of a biracial slave during the American Civil War. It is set in Georgia and later in various parts of Alabama in the mid-1800s before, during, and after the Civil War.

Title: Love in the Time of Cholera
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The novel is about a fifty-year love triangle set in the late 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. It is a tale of unrequited love; it explores the idea that suffering for love is a kind of nobility.

Title: Middlesex
Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
The narrator and protagonist, Calliope Stephanides, later called Cal, an intersexed person of Greek descent, has 5-alpha-reductase deficiency. The bulk of the novel is devoted to telling his coming-of-age story growing up in Detroit, Michigan in the late 20th century. This story, however, is intertwined with elements of a family saga, meditations on the era's zeitgeist and bits of contemporary history.

Title: Reflections on the Art of Living: A Joseph Campbell Companion
Author: Diane K. Osbon
Taken from an intimate seminar of ten people gathered at Esalen Institute in 1983, Joseph Campbell expounds on the art of living and the meaning of myth in our modern world.

Title: Strawberry Girl
Author: Lois Lenski
Set in the U.S. state of Florida in the early 20th century, the story deals with two families, the Boyers and the Slaters. The Boyers, having just moved to a new home in Florida, come into conflict with their new neighbors, the economically disadvantaged (and work ethic-less) Slaters. The story followed Birdie Boyer, a ten-year-old girl in the Boyer family. She was very excited to help harvest the strawberries.

Title: Sula
Author: Toni Morrison
The story is about two friends, Nel and Sula, whose relationship examines the confusing mysteries of human emotions. The novel addresses ideas of good and evil and how the two, at times, seem to resemble one another.

Title: The Bluest Eye
Author: Toni Morrison
The story is about a year in the life of a young black girl in Lorain, Ohio named Pecola. It takes place against the backdrop of America's Midwest as well as the Great Depression. The Bluest Eye is told from five perspectives: Pecola's, her mother's, her father's, her friend Claudia's, and Soaphead Church's.

Title: The Color Purple
Author: Alice Walker
Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on female African - American life during the 1930's in southern America, addressing the numerous issues in the black female life, including their exceedingly low position in black social culture. Because of the novel's sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence, it has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 at number eighteen.

Title: The Deep End of the Ocean
Author: Jacquelyn Mitchard
The Deep End of the Ocean is a best-selling novel by Jacquelyn Mitchard, released in 1996. It is about an American middle class, suburban family that is torn apart when the youngest son is kidnapped and raised by a mentally ill woman, until he appears at the frontdoor step of his real mother and asks if he can mow the lawn.

Title: The Education of Little Tree
Author: Forrest Carter
The fictional memoirs of Forrest Little Tree Carter begins in the late 1930s as the protagonist is given over into the care of his Cherokee grandparents, at the age of five years. The book was originally to be called Me and Grandpa, according to the book's introduction. The story centers on a clever child's relationship with his Scottish-Cherokee grandfather, a man named Wales (an overlap with Carter's other fiction).

Title: The Good Earth
Author: Pearl S. Buck
The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck, first published in 1931, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1932. It is the first book in a trilogy that includes Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935).

Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Author: John Steinbeck
The narrative begins from Tom Joad's point of view just after he is paroled from prison after serving four years for manslaughter. On his journey home, he meets a preacher, Jim Casy, who he remembers from his childhood and the two travel together. When they arrive at Tom's childhood farm home, they find it deserted. Disconcerted, he and Casy go to the farm of Tom's Uncle John, a few miles away, where he finds his family loading a truck with everything they own.

Title: The Heart of a Woman
Author: Maya Angelou
The Heart of a Woman is 273 pages long and basically picks up where I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings left off. The memoir is committed to telling her relationship with her son and the men that were in and out of her life. It goes through her time as a head of the SCLC in New York and being an on the road entertainer. She ignites you in stories of mass appeal allowing us to follow her life from L.A. and Hawaii all the way to New York. She comes across famous individuals such as Billie Holiday, Martin Luther King Jr., and Sidney Poitier.

Title: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Author: Eckhart Tolle
The book is a self-help and/or spiritually focused book that is of no specific religious denomination. The book starts out with Eckhart's recalling his initial transformative experience in 1980. The book covers topics including personal and collective forms of: the ego and the emotional pain body.

Title: The Seat of the Soul
Author: Gary Zukav
The author sees mankind as being on a brink of a new phase of evolution, where old ideas of power and conflict give way to a more spiritual and cooperative way.

Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
A 1937 novel, set in central and southern Florida in the early 20th century, the novel garnered attention and controversy at the time of its publication, and has come to be regarded as a seminal work in both African-American literature and women's literature.

Title: To Kill a Mockingbird
Author: Harper Lee
Jean Louise Finch (Scout) lives with her brother, Jeremy (Jem), and their widowed father, Atticus, on the main residential street in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. A successful lawyer and a widower, Atticus raises Jem and Scout with the help of their black cook, Calpurnia.

Title: White Oleander
Author: Janet Fitch
White Oleander is a 1999 novel by American author Janet Fitch. It is a coming-of-age story about a child (Astrid) who is separated from her mother and placed in a series of foster homes.
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