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  • Collection: Freedom to Read

The Giver

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The book starts in a seemingly Utopian world where there is no war, pain, suffering, or difference of choice. However, it becomes clear that society has given up all of its memories of the time before this "Sameness", and have also lost colour,…

A Wrinkle in Time

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This book is about Meg Murry, a fourteen year-old girl who is transported on an adventure through time and space with her younger brother Charles Wallace and her friend Calvin O'Keefe to rescue her father, a gifted scientist, from the evil forces…

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Set in the 1930s in the fictional town Maycomb, Alabama, this book focuses on Scout Finch who lives with her older brother, Jem, and their widowed, lawyer father, Atticus. Scout, Jem, and their friend Dill are interested in the reclusive neighbour,…

Lizzy’s Lion

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This rhyming children's book is about a young girl, Lizzy, and the lion she keeps in her bedroom. When a robber sneaks in one night, the lion proceeds to eat him. Lizzy then wakes up to find bits of the robber strewn about her room. She and her lion…

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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This book is about Constance Chatterly, a young, married, upperclass woman, whose husband has become paralyzed from the waist down due to a war injury. After becoming sexually frustrated, Constance starts an affair with their gamekeeper, Oliver…

Hacking the Future: Stories for the Flesh-Eating 90s

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"Hacking the Future" tells the story of what happens when information technology escapes the high tech labs of Silicon Valley and invades the sites of everyday culture. It includes some of the survival tales of people who just want to "feel" again in…

Fifty Shades Trilogy

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This series follows the story of recent graduate Ana Steele as she contemplates a relationship with an older, successful man, Christian Grey. After she interviews him for a friend's newspaper piece, she finds herself attracted to him. He asks her for…

Let Me Die Before I Wake: Hemlock’s Book of Self-Deliverance for the Dying

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This book is a collection of true and moving stories about terminally ill people who choose to die on their own terms. It contains information on the legal aspects, psychology, and actual methods for a terminally ill person to accelerate their…

Show Me!: A Picture Book of Sex for Children and Parents

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Originally published in Germany, this is a sex-education book aimed at helping parents teach their children about discovering and exploring their sexuality. The book contains numerous photos of children and adults alike.

While some saw it as an…

Easton Ellis, Bret. American Psycho

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Told in first-person narrative, this book is set in Manhattan in the late 1980s and follows the life of the young and wealthy investment banker, Patrick Bateman. Bateman describes his daily life on Wall Street and recounts his evening outings in…