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BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist
- W. A. Swanberg
Peter Collier & David Horowitz - The Rockerfellers
Anais Nin - The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. VI
B.L. Reid - The Lives of Roger Casement
E.B. White - Letters of E.B. White

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
The Master Puppeteer
- Katherine Paterson
Read Her Acceptance Speech
Milton Meltzer - Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust
John Ney - Ox Under Pressure
Mildred D. Taylor - Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Barbara Wersba - Tunes for a Small Harmonica

CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
- Bruno Bettelheim
Dorothy Dinnerstein - The Mermaid and the Minotaur
Joseph Frank - Dostoyevsky
Ada Louise Huxtable - Kicked a Building Lately?
Rufus E. Miles, Jr. - Awakening from the American Dream

FICTION
The Spectator Bird
- Wallace Stegner
Raymond Carver - Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
MacDonald Harris - The Balloonist
Ursula K. Le Guin - Orsinian Tales
Cynthia Propper Seton - A Fine Romance

HISTORY
World of Our Fathers
- Irving Howe
Lawrence Goodwyn - Democratic Promise
Linda Gordon - Woman's Body, Woman's Right
Richard Kluger - Simple Justice
Joshua C. Taylor - America as Art

POETRY
Collected Poems, 1930-1976
- Richard Eberhart
Irving Feldman - Leaping Clear and Other Poems
Margaret Newlin - The Snow Falls Upward
Muriel Rukeyser - The Gates
David Wagoner - Collected Poems, 1956-1976

TRANSLATION
Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance
- Li-Li Ch'en
Robert Fagles – Aeschylus’s The Orestia
Gregory Rabassa – Marquez’s The Autumn of the Patriarch
Charles S. Singleton – Dante’s The Divine Comedy, Paradiso: Vols, I & II
Helen Weaver – Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings



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