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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Rebecca Solnit
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009
A Passage to India
Oliver Stallybrass, E.M. Forster, E. M. Forster, Pankaj Mishra
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005
A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity
Sheryl WuDunn, Nicholas D. Kristof, Nicholas D. Kristof
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
Howard Zinn
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Adam Phillips, Edmund Burke
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998
A Place Where the Sea Remembers
Sandra Benítez, Sandra Benitez
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995
A Plea for Captain John Brown
Henry David Thoreau
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1859
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Dana Crăciun, James Joyce, Dámaso Alonso, Antoaneta Ralian, Seamus Deane
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)
Becky Chambers, Becky Chambers
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
Becky Chambers, Becky Chambers
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Mary Roach
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997
Paradise of the Blind
Phan Huy Đường, Dương Thu Hương, Nina McPherson, Duong Thu Huong
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002
Paradiso (The Divine Comedy, #3)
朱维, Dante Alighieri, Barbara Reynolds, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gustave Doré
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962
Parallel Journeys
Eleanor H. Ayer, Alfons Heck, Helen Waterford
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000
Peace (The Farmers Trilogy Book 2)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Janice Cole Hopkins
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017
Peasant Fires: The Drummer of Niklashausen
Richard M. Wunderli
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Donaldo Macedo, Myra Bergman Ramos, Paulo Freire
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000
Pedro Páramo
Susan Sontag, Margaret Sayers Peden, Juan Rulfo
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994
Pensées
Blaise Pascal, George Iancu Ghidu, T.S. Eliot, A.J. Krailsheimer
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995
Perceval, or, The Story of the Grail
Ruth Harwood Cline, Chrétien De Troyes
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985
Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
C.S. Lewis, C. S. Lewis
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory
Judith Butler
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1988
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
John E. Woods, Patrick Süskind
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
Marjane Satrapi, Transl. Anjali Singh
Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004
Persian Letters (Penguin Classics)
Montesquieu, C.J. Betts
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973
Persuasion
Deidre Shauna Lynch, Jane Austen, James Kinsley
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004
Petals of Blood
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Chinua Achebe, Moses Isegawa
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005
Peter and the Starcatchers (Peter and the Starcatchers, #1)
Ridley Pearson, Dave Barry, Greg Call
Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006
Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes (Peter Nimble, #1)
Jonathan Auxier
Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011