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Break in Case of Emergency: A novel
Jessica Winter - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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A smart, irreverent, blistering workplace satire set in the world of a nonprofit feminist startup, for fans of Then We Came to the End and The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. When Jen takes a poorly defined job at a start-up chaired by Leora Infinitis--a wealthy sit-com actress and celebrity... |
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The Help
Kathryn Stockett - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film - a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't - nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.Aibileen is a black maid... |
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Beloved
Toni Morrison - Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of legend... |
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte - Penguin Classics
Format: Book
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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Charlotte Bronte's first published novel,... |
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The Awakening
Kate Chopin - Everyman's Library
Format: Hardcover
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Kate Chopin's riveting, daring story of one woman's search for personal freedom was so far ahead of its time that its publication in 1899 aroused a storm of controversy violent enough to end its author's career. With an effortless, sure-handed artistry, Chopin tells the story... |
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The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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In 1949 four Chinese women-drawn together by the shadow of their past-begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club.Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died, and her daughter... |
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The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd - Viking; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Sue Monk Kidds first novel The Secret Life of Bees, a heartwarming coming of age tale set in 1960s South Carolina, a New York Times bestseller for more than 125 weeks, and a Good Morning America Read This Book Club pickFans of The Helpwill love Sue Monk Kidds Southern coming of age tale.... |
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fannie Flagg - Random House
Format: Print book
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A folksy, funny and endearing story of life in a small town in Alabama in the Depression and in the 1980s. However, the novel's laughter and tears are interrupted by a strange murder and a still stranger trial. |
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My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
Jodi Picoult - Atria
Format: Book
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Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body. New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult... |
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Pride and Prejudice: An Annotated Edition
Jane Austen - Belknap Press; Annotated edition
Format: Hardcover
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Along with the plays of William Shakespeare and the works of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen's novels are among the most beloved books of Western literature. Pride and Prejudice (1813) was in Austen's lifetime her most popular novel, and it was the author's personal favorite. Adapted... |
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