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Nineteen Eighty-Four, Centennial Edition
George Orwell - Plume; Centennial edition
Format: Paperback
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"Thought Police." "Big Brother." "Orwellian." These words have entered our vocabulary because of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel, 1984. The story of one man's nightmare odyssey as he pursues a forbidden love affair through a world ruled by warring... |
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Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand - NAL
Format: Paperback
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Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller - nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American... |
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The Chronicles of Narnia
C S Lewis - C. S. Lewis
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Experience all seven tales of C. S. Lewis's classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, in one impressive paperback volume!Epic battles between good and evil, fantastic creatures, betrayals, heroic deeds, and friendships won and lost all come together in this unfor |
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Clan of the Cave Bear
Jean M Auel - Crown
Format: Audio CD
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An all-absorbing journey into man's possible past. Jean M. Auel, a storytelling genius, weaves a compellingly readable saga of human survival; an epic that transcends time and place. It is peopled with rich and complex characters who experience the full range of human emotions. All this... |
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Dune
Frank Herbert - Ace Books
Format: Book
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Famed Science Fiction novel |
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The Eye of the World: Book One of The Wheel of Time
Robert Jordan - Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook
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"These veteran narrators keep the plot moving and the narration fresh" (AudioFile Magazine) This program is read by Audie Award-winning narrators Michael Kramer and Kate Reading, and includes a bonus interview with the author. Now an original series starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!... |
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Forward the Foundation
Isaac Asimov - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning testament to his creative genius. Forward The Foundation is a the saga's dramatic climax -- the story Asimov fans have been waiting for. An exciting tale of danger, intrigue, and suspense, Forward The Foundation brings to vivid life Asimov's best loved characters:... |
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Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Frankenstein is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century Gothicism and the prototype of the twentieth-century science-fiction novel. It was conceived in the Swiss Alps in mid-June 1816 after a conversation about bringing corpses to life provoked a nightmare, and was written over the ne |
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)
George R.R. Martin - Bantam
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONESFrom a master of contemporary fantasy comes the first novel of a landmark series unlike any youve ever read before. With A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin has launched a genuine masterpiece, bringing together the best the genre has to offer.... |
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The Giver
Lois Lowry - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Book
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The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver... |
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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift - Norton
Format: Paperback
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This new edition of Swift's satiric classic is based on the 1726 text -- the edition textual scholars now consider the most authoritative. It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. "Contexts" collects materials that influenced Swift's writing of the novel,... |
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
Format: Hardcover
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time.Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household... |
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Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
J. K. Rowling - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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A winner of England's National Book Award, the acclaimed debut novel tells the outrageously funny, fantastic adventure story of Harry Potter, who escapes a hideous foster home thanks to a scholarship to The Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. |
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams - Del Rey
Format: Paperback
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At last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five classic novels from Douglas Adams's beloved Hitchiker series.The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxySeconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised... |
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The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins - Scholastic Inc.
Format: eBook
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Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun. . . . In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts... |
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The Intuitionist
Colson Whitehead - Isaac Asimov
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It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector in the history of the department, is at the center of it. There are two warring factions within the department: the Empiricis |
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Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton - Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Creatures once extinct now roam Jurassic Park, soon-to-be opened as a theme park. Until something goes wrong...and science proves a dangerous toy...."Wonderful...Powerful."THE WASHINGTON POST... |
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The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
J.R.R. Tolkien - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 50 Anv edition
Format: Hardcover
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One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind themIn ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others.... |
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The Martian
Andy Weir - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadSix days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate... |
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Outlander, 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition
Diana Gabaldon - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NOW A STARZ ORIGINAL SERIESTwenty years ago, Diana Gabaldon swept readers into her mesmerizing world brimming with history, romance, and adventure. In celebration of the series that has captured the heart of millions, here is a special 20th anniversary... |
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Ready Player One
Ernest Cline - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadThe bestselling cult classic - now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, READY PLAYER ONE is a spectacularly genre-busting,... |
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The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition
Stephen King - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent... |
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Swan Song
Robert McCammon - Pocket Books
Format: Paperback
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New York Times bestselling author Robert McCammon's prescient and "shocking" (John Saul) vision of a post-apocalyptic US comes to life in his classic epic of terror and renewal.In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, Earth's... |
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Swan Song
Robert McCammon - Pocket Books
Format: Paperback
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New York Times bestselling author Robert McCammon's prescient and "shocking" (John Saul) vision of a post-apocalyptic US comes to life in his classic epic of terror and renewal.In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, Earth's... |
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Twilight (Twilight, Book 1)
Stephenie Meyer - Megan Tingley Books
Format: Hardcover
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Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Isabella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep... |
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