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Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy

E L James - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback

MORE THAN 100 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDENOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREWhen literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants...
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Still Alice

Lisa Genova - Gallery Books; Media Tie-In edition
Format: Print book

In Lisa Genovas extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished professor diagnosed with Alzheimers disease learns that her worth is comprised of more than her ability to remember. Now a major motion picture from Sony Pictures Classics starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin,...
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Jurassic Park

Michael Crichton - Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

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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Life of Pi

Yann Martel - ‎Mariner Books; First edition
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for FictionPi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity...
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

Diane Ackerman - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

When Germany invaded Poland, bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into the empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after...
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The Martian

Andy Weir - Crown
Format: Hardcover

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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It: A Novel

STEPHEN KING - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

Soon to be a major motion picture - Stephen King's terrifying, classic #1 New York Times bestseller, "a landmark in American literature" (Chicago Sun-Times) - about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled on as teenagers ... an evil...
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The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood
Format: Hardcover

(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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A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle - Square Fish
Format: Paperback

This is Book 1 of the Time Quintet Series It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. "Wild nights are my glory,"...
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Jeannette Walls - Scribner
Format: Print book

Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic,...
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