John Steinbeck
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In 1941, Steinbeck and his close friend Ed Ricketts, a marine biologist, rented a ship and set about exploring the Gulf of California. The scientific data collected, along with Steinbeck's log of the journey, were detailed in the work Sea of Cortez. Ten years later, the log was published on its own, chock-full of elegantly described marine life and often-amusing anecdotes about the adventure.
27) Flight
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Pepe Torres takes his first trip to town from his isolated farm and kills a drunken man in an argument. He flees to the mountains but succumbs to peril.
28) Of mice and men
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In Depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a spread of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences.
29) Cannery Row
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In a rundown California town where the inhabitants struggle to survive and better themselves, a romance develops between a quiet marine biologist and a runaway supporting herself through prostitution.
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Studio classic volume 17
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The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.