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“A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.” --Franz Kafka
What is the What, Dave Eggers
The Known World, Edward P. Jones
Empire Falls, Richard Russo
The Giver, Lois Lowry
Light in August, William Faulkner
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
The Rape of Sita, Lindsey Collen
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
January's Dream, John Robinson
Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Julian, Gore Vidal
Washngton, D.C., Gore Vidal
Sophie's Choice, William Styron
Saints and Villians, Denise Giardina
The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
Love, Toni Morrison
The Macho Paradox, Jackson Katz
Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher
Gender and Grace, Mary Stuart van Leeuwen
Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way we Think and Feel, Jean Kilbourne
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Gloria Steinem
The Hearts of Men, Barbara Ehrenreich
Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
Real Boys, William Pollack
Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller
The Wounded Healer, Henri Nouwen
Life of the Beloved, Henri Nouwen
The Return of the Prodigal Son, Henri Nouwen
Seeking Peace, Johann Cristoph Arnold
Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamott
No Man is an Island, Thomas Merton
Staying Alive: real Poems for Unreal Times, Neal Astley
Poetry 180, Billy Collins
The Braindead Megaphone, George Saunders
A Stay Against Confusion, Ron Hansen
You've Got to Read This, Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard
Modern American Memoirs, Annie Dillard & Cort Conley
The Art of the Personal Essay, Phillip Lopate
Novel Voices, Jennifer Levasseur & Kevin Rabalais
Feminisms, Warhol
The Courage to Teach, Parker Palmer
Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks
The Freedom Writers' Diary, Freedom Writers & Erin Gruell
Teaching with Fire, Sam Intrator
Writing without Teachers, Peter Elbow
Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire, Rafe Esquith
There are No Shortcuts, Rafe Esquith
Jesus' Son, Denis Johnson
A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O' Connor
Red Ant House, Ann Cummins
The Things They Carried, Tim 'O Brien
The Color of Water, James McBride
Teacher Man, Frank McCourt
Lucky, Alice Sebold
Black Ice, Lorene Cary
On Becoming a Novelist, John Gardner
The Art of Fiction, John Gardner
Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
Writing to Change the World, Mary Pipher
The Lie That Tells a Truth, John Dufresne
The Writer's Book of Hope, Ralph Keyes
On Writing, Stephen King
Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction, Charles Baxter
The Story Behind the Story, Andrea Barrett & Peter Turchi
Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life, Charles Baxter & Peter Turchi
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
Reading Like a Writer, Francine Prose
The Forest for the Trees, Betsy Lerner
Films
Lean on Me
RUDY
Glory
Bowling for Columbine
A Few Good Men
It's a Wonderful Life
The Wedding Singer
Stand and Deliver
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Joe Versus the Volcano
Hotel Rwanda
Crash
Good Will Hunting
Patch Adams
The Rainmaker
Rainman
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Fahrenheit 9/11
The Sound of Music
Anne of Green Gabels
Zoolander
Braveheart
Coach Carter
Glory Road
Cool Hand Luke
Mona Lisa Smile
An Inconvienent Truth
North Country
The Family Man
Remember the Titans
Malcolm X
Runaway Jury
Instinct
Jerry Macguire
Meet Joe Black
Shadowlands
Shakespeare in Love