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Rosetta eBooks
Rosetta eBooks are now available in the Pellissippi Library's netLibrary eBook collection, providing instant access to 99 well known 20th Century authors. Search for them in the Library's online catalog or at netLibrary's website. There is no limit to the number of simultaneous users of this collection. The eBooks in this collection can be read online or off-line with the Adobe Digital Editions reader. The checkout period is three weeks, as compared to three days for other netLibrary eBooks. The Collection includes:
Examples from the Rosetta CollectionSlaughterhouse Five Published in 1969, Slaughterhouse Five became one of the most popular and enduring novels of its time. Its indelible ironic tone, its trippy plotting and its bold, even hilarious use of science fiction make it an utterly unique reading experience. Slaughterhouse Five remains perhaps the signature work in Vonnegut's large and varied catalogue of writings (excerpt from www.rosettabooks.com).
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut The Bluest Eyes
The Bluest Eye is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove - a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others - who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its fulfillment. The Prince of Tides
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The Bluest Eye, published in 1969, is the first of Toni Morrison’s ten novels. It announced the arrival of one of the most important literary voices of her time and has remained for nearly thirty-five years her consistently best-read book. Oprah’s Book Club selected The Bluest Eye in 2000, assuring its yet wider readership.
The Prince of Tides is Conroy's biggest and most popular novel. The character of Tom Wingo is among the author's finest creations, a good man who very badly wants to make things right -- like most Conroy heroes, a man in a bad situation, struggling to find an honorable way out. Conroy tells Tom's sprawling story with skill and abandon, and with a fearless reach for the most lyrical and heartfelt expression of a man, seemingly, learning to breathe again (
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