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1984
George Orwell - Signet Classic
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...* Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The... |
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne - Sterling
Format: Hardcover
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Originally published in 1870, Vernes amazing undersea adventure is one of the earliest science fiction novels ever written. Since that time, generations of readers have plunged below the oceans waves with Captain Nemo and his first-ever submarine, The Nautilus. Its a voyage of exploration... |
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the first of Mark Twain's novels to feature one of the best-loved characters in American fiction, with a critical introduction by John Seelye in Penguin Classics. From the famous episodes of the whitewashed fence and the ordeal in the cave to the trial of Injun... |
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The African Queen
C S Forester - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
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First published in 1935, C.S. Forester's classic romantic adventure is a tale of opposites attracted. Allnut and Rose, a disreputable Cockney and an English spinster missionary, wend their way down a river in Central Africa in a rickety, asthmatic steam launch, and are gradually joined... |
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All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel
Erich Maria Remarque - Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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Considered by many the greatest war novel of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front is Erich Maria Remarque’s masterpiece of the German experience during World War I.I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality... |
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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation... |
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All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps
Dave Isay - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A celebration of love from StoryCorpsIn All There Is, StoryCorps founder David Isay shares stories from the revolutionary oral history project, revealing the many remarkable journeys that relationships can take.In these pages we discover that love is found in unexpected places: a New York... |
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Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-created
Patrick E McGovern - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Patrick E. McGovern -- part modern scientist, part Indiana Jones -- uncovers and re-creates the oldest alcoholic beverages ever found.In Ancient Brews, Patrick E. McGovern takes us on a fascinating journey through time, back to the beginning when our ancestors were likely already experimenting... |
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And Ladies of the Club
Helen Hooven Santmyer
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"A great novel that is American to its core...so gently memorable, so bursting with life, that those who abandon themselves to its pages will find it claiming a permanent place close to their hearts." --New York Daily News"A warm, evocative, often hilariou |
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The Awakening: And Other Stories
Kate Chopin - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century American writers, whose fiction explored new and often startling territory. When her most famous story, The Awakening, was first published in 1899, it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of the inner... |
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The Baker's Daughter: A Novel
Sarah McCoy - Broadway Books; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she is for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking her country by a high-ranking Nazi who wishes to marry... |
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Bel Canto
Ann Patchett
Format: Print book
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"Blissfully Romantic ... .A strange, terrific, spellcasting story." - San Francisco Chronicle"Bel Canto ... should be on the list of every literate music lover. The story is riveting, the participants breathe and feel and are alive, and throughout this elegantly-told novel,... |
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The Bell Jar (P.S.)
Sylvia Plath - Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Format: Audiobook
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The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely... |
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A Bend in the River
V.S. Naipaul - Vintage; Reissue edition
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In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation.... |
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The Best of Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado, and 30 Others
Edgar Allan Poe - Prestwick House, Inc.
Format: Paperback
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This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader contend with Poe''s allusions and complicated vocabulary. Edgar Allan Poe's name conjures up thoughts of hearts beating long after their owners are dead, of disease and plague... |
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Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya - Warner Books
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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*Please note: There are two versions of this cover. The content is the same. Exquisite prose and wondrous storytelling have helped make Rudolfo Anaya the father of Chicano literature in English. Indeed, Anaya's tales fairly shimmer with the haunting beauty and richness of his culture. The winner... |
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
Timothy Egan - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged,... |
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Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories
Truman Capote - Vintage; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and naïveté... |
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Burning Sky: A Novel of the American Frontier
Lori Benton - WaterBrook Press
Format: Paperback
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“I remember the borders of our land, though I have been gone from them nearly half the moons of my life. But who there will remember me? What I have seen, what I have done, it has changed me. I am the place where two rivers meet, silted with upheaval and loss. Yet memory... |
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown - Holt Paperbacks; 30th Anniversary edition
Format: Paperback
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Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented... |
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The Call of the Wild
Jack London - Aladdin Classics
Format: Paperback
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First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on London's experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit... |
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Candide
Voltaire - Barnes & Noble Classics
Format: Paperback
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Candide, by Voltaire, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable... |
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The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole - Dover Publications
Format: Paperback
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In a faraway medieval realm, Manfred, an arrogant and evil prince, rules with an iron fist. Banishing his wife to the castle dungeon, he confines - and plans to wed - the lovely Isabella, fiance of his recently deceased son. The prince's plans are foiled, however, when a well-meaning... |
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The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
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Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories--particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme With Love and Squalor--will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children.... |
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Richard W Wrangham - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in Catching Fire, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents a startling alternative: our evolutionary success is the result of cooking. In a groundbreaking... |
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Cats Cradle: A Novel
Kurt Vonnegut - Dell Publishing
Format: Audiobook
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"A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!" - The New York Times Cats Cradle is Kurt Vonneguts satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planets ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology... |
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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books
Charles Dickens - Oxford University Press; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?'Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart.... |
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Come in and Cover Me
Gin Phillips - Riverhead Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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When Ren was twelve years old, she lost her older brother to a car accident. For twenty-five years he’s been a presence in her life, appearing with a song or a reflection in the moonlight. Her connection to the ghosts around her has made her especially sensitive as an archaeologist,... |
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron - Vintage Books
Format: Print book
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In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery...The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained... |
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas - Oxford University Press; Revised edition
Format: Book
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One of the most exciting and best-loved novels of all time, The Count of Monte Cristo is a timeless tale of endurance, courage, and revenge. Falsely accused of treason, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on his wedding day and imprisoned on an island fortress. After years of solitary... |
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother. |
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Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War
Annia Ciezadlo - Free Press; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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American Book Award WinnerWinner of Books for a Better Life Award (First Book)James Beard Foundation Award NomineeBNN Discover Awards, second place nonfiction IN THE FALL OF 2003, AS IRAQ DESCENDED INTO CIVIL WAR, Annia Ciezadlo spent her honeymoon in Baghdad. For the next six years, she lived... |
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Dead Souls
Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ
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A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls," the serfs who have died in their service and for whom they must continue to pay taxes until the next census. The landowner receives a pay |
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Death Be Not Proud
John Gunther - HarperPerennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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Johnny Gunther was only seventeen years old when he died of a brain tumor. During the months of his illness, everyone near him was unforgettably impressed by his level-headed courage, his wit and quiet friendliness, and, above all, his unfaltering patience through times of despair. This... |
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Deliverance
James Dickey - Audible Studios
Format: Paperback
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Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine) The smash-hit best seller that inspired the acclaimed 1972 film starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox is now available in unabridged audio for the very first time. The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states... |
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Dracula
Bram Stoker - Oxford University Press; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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The most famous of all vampire stories, Dracula remains a compelling read, rattling along at break-neck speed, a true page-turner. Here is a new edition of one of the great horror stories in English literature, the novel that spawned a myth and a proliferation of vampire tales in film,... |
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Drown
Junot Diaz - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback
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Drown is the debut short story collection from Dominican-American author Junot Daz and was published by Riverhead Books in 1996. Drown precedes his novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the short story collection This Is How You Lose... |
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An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace
Tamar Adler - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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In An Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler has written a book that "reads less like a cookbook than like a recipe for a delicious life" (New York magazine) .In this meditation on cooking and eating, Tamar Adler weaves philosophy and instruction into approachable lessons... |
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Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
Jonathan Safran Foer - Perennial
Format: Paperback
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With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior;... |
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A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Hemingway's classic novel of the First World War The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love... |
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Fight Club: A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk - W.W. Norton & Co.
Format: Paperback
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Chuck Palahniuk's startling and outrageous debut novel, basis of the hit movie starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. THE FIRST RULE about fight club is you don't talk about fight club. Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with whitecollar... |
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway - Blakiston
Format: Paperback
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In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls.The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International... |
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The Fortress of Solitude
Jonathan Lethem - Vintage Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Fortress of Solitude is the story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. It's a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball. In that world, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless,... |
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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
Paul Greenberg - The Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Whereas just three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild, rampant overfishing combined with an unprecedented bio-tech revolution has brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal... |
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles - Back Bay Books; 1st Back Bay pbk. ed edition
Format: Print book
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As part of Back Bay's ongoing effort to make the works of John Fowles available in uniform trade paperback editions, two major works in the Fowles canon are reissued to coincide with the publication of Wormholes, the author's long-awaited new collection of essays and occasional... |
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The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think
Brian Hare - Plume Books
Format: Book
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For readers of Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz, this New York Times bestseller offers mesmerizing insights into the interior lives of our smartest petsIn the past decade, we have learned more about how dogs think than in the last century. Breakthroughs in cognitive science, pioneered... |
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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"The Bible of business and personal productivity" - Lifehack"A completely revised and updated edition of the blockbuster bestseller from 'the personal productivity guru'" - Fast CompanySince it was first published almost fifteen years ago, David Allen's... |
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir: Vintage Movie Classics
R. A. Dick - Vintage; Mti edition
Format: Book
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The basis for Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s cinematic romance starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison. Burdened by debt after her husband's death, Lucy Muir insists on moving into the very cheap Gull Cottage in the quaint seaside village of Whitecliff, despite multiple warnings... |
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Gideon's Call
Peter Leavell - Worthy Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Tad, a very clever slave boy, comes of age as the American Civil War intrudes on the tropical sea islands of South Carolina. But his desire to better himself is obstructed by the color of his skin, until Northern soldiers force the evacuation of white plantation owners, setting 10,000 slaves... |
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The Ginger Man
Donleavy, J. P. - Grove Press
Format: Book
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First published in Paris in 1955 and originally banned in America, J. P. Donleavy's first novel is now recognized the world over as a masterpiece and a modern classic of the highest order. Set in Ireland just after World War II, The Ginger Man is J. P. Donleavy's wildly funny, picaresque... |
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Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen
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In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years in the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele - |
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories
Robert Olen Butler - Grove Press
Format: Paperback
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Robert Olen Butler's lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese was acclaimed by critics across the nation and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Now Grove Press is proud to reissue this contemporary classic by one of America's... |
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
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'Great Expectations is up there for me with the world's greatest novels' Howard Jacobson. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadCharles Dickens's Great Expectations charts the course of orphan Pip Pirrip's life as it is transformed... |
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond - W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race. Until around , b.c., all peoples were still Stone Age huntergatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia,... |
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood - Anchor
Format: Paperback
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From the bestselling author of Alias Grace and the MaddAddam trilogy, here is the #1 New York Times bestseller and seminal work of speculative fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author.Now a Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, and Joseph Fiennes. Includes... |
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Henderson the Rain King
Saul Bellow - Penguin Classics; Revised edition
Format: Book
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"It blazes as fiercly and scintillatingly as a forest fire. There is life here; a great rage to live more fully. In this it is a giant among novels." (San Francisco Examiner)Saul Bellow evokes all the rich colors and exotic customs of a highly imaginary Africa in this acclaimed... |
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The House at Tyneford: A Novel
Natasha Solomons - Plume
Format: Paperback
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The start of an affair, the end of an era.Fans of Kate Morton's The Forgotten Garden, Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms, and TV's Downton Abbey will love this New York Times bestselling sweeping historical novel of love and loss. It's the spring of 1938 and no longer... |
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I'll Fly Away
Kelly Nielson - Hornet Creek Publishing LLC
Format: Paperback
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In the spring of 1986, Kelly, a small town girl from Idaho, meets Ibrahim at the International Festival held every year at a small university in the sleepy town of Pocatello. His looks screamed Italian with his light creamy olive complexion, large Romanesque nose and full lips, but his accent... |
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The Imperfectionists: A Novel
Tom Rachman - Dial Press Trade Paperback; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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One of most acclaimed books of the year, Tom Rachman's debut novel follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters and editors of an English-language newspaper in Rome. |
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeRalph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal,... |
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Jaws: A Novel
Peter Benchley - Ballantine Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Here is Peter Benchleys classic suspense novel of shark versus man, which was made into the blockbuster Steven Spielberg movie. The Jaws phenomenon changed popular culture and continues to inspire a growing interest in sharks and the oceans today. When Peter Benchley wrote Jaws in the early... |
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The Journey
Wanda E. Brunstetter - Barbour Books
Format: Print book
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Now a New York Times and USA Today Besteller! Discover along with Titus Fisher how life can begin anew in Christian County, Kentucky. Moving from Pennsylvania, finding rewarding work, and leaving a broken romance behind is the best decision Titus ever made. But is he ready to consider love... |
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Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain - Ecco
Format: Paperback
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A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine - now with all-new, never-before-published material. |
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The Kitchen House: A Novel
Kathleen Grissom - Touchstone Books
Format: Paperback
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In this gripping New York Times bestseller, Kathleen Grissom brings to life a thriving plantation in Virginia in the decades before the Civil War, where a dark secret threatens to expose the best and worst in everyone tied to the estate.Orphaned during her passage from Ireland, young,... |
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The Known World: A Novel
Edward P Jones - Amistad
Format: Paperback
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In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book Award finalist, tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making... |
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The Language of Flowers
Vanessa Diffenbaugh - Large Print Press; Lrg edition
Format: Large Print
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it's been more useful in communicating mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent... |
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The Last Letter from Your Lover: A Novel
Jojo Moyes - Pamela Dorman Books; First American Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A sophisticated, page-turning double love story spanning forty years-an unforgettable Brief Encounter for our times. It is 1960. When Jennifer Stirling wakes up in the hospital, she can remember nothing-not the tragic car accident that put her there, not her husband, not even who she is. She feels... |
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / Edition 60
James Agee
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A landmark work of American photojournalism "renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality" (New York Times) In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to e |
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The Light Between Oceans: A Novel
M. L. Stedman - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The years-long New York Times bestseller soon to be a major motion picture from Spielberg's Dreamworks that is "irresistible ... seductive ... with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page" (O, The Oprah Magazine) .After four harrowing years... |
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (20th Anniversary Edition)
Sherman Alexie
Format: Print book
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Alexies prose startles and dazzles with unexpected, impossible-to-anticipate moves. These are cultural love stories, and we laugh on every page with a fist tight around our hearts.The Boston GlobePoetic and unremittingly honest . . . The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is for the American... |
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Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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The stunning, classic coming-of-age novel written by one of America's foremost Southern writers A legendary author on par with William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Wolfe published Look Homeward, Angel, his first novel, about a young man's burning desire to leave... |
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Format: Paperback
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Before The Hunger Games there was Lord of the FliesLord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial... |
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The Magnificent Ambersons
Booth Tarkington - Classic Books Library
Format: Paperback
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Set in Midwest America in the early twentieth century, this bestselling novel introduces the extravagantly rich Ambersons, whose only real problem is that George Amberson Minafer?the spoiled grandson of the family patriarch?refuses to acknowledge the rising wealth and prestige of business... |
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The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients... |
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Mansfield Park (Oxford World's Classics)
Jane Austen - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. She gradually falls in love with her cousin Edmund, but when the dazzling and sophisticated... |
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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
Anya Von Bremzen - Crown; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment... |
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Me Before You
Jojo Moyes - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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Look out for Jojo's new book, Still Me, the next book featuring Louisa Clark from Me Before You and After You, coming soon! They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . . Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life... |
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka - Dover Publications
Format: Paperback
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Since his death in 1924, Kafka has come to be regarded as one of the greatest modern writers, one whose work brilliantly explores the anxiety, futility, and complexity of modern life. The precision and clarity of Kafka's style, its powerful symbolism, and his existential exploration of the human... |
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Midnight's Children: A Novel
Salman Rushdie - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to "a glittering novelist - one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling" (The New Yorker) WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS * SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES... |
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The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot - Oxford University Press; New Ed. / edition
Format: Print book
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As Maggie Tulliver approaches adulthood, her spirited temperament brings her into conflict with her family, her community, and her much-loved brother Tom. Still more painfully, she finds her own nature divided between the claims of moral responsibility and her passionate hunger for self-fulfillment.... |
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My Antonia
Willa Cather - Barnes & Noble Classics
Format: Hardcover
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My ntonia, by Willa Cather, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some... |
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The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern - Anchor Books; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.... |
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Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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One of the most profound and disturbing works of nineteenth-century literature, Notes from the Underground is a probing and speculative work, often regarded as a forerunner to the Existentialist movement. The Gambler explores the compulsive nature of gambling, one of Dostoevsky's own vices... |
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories
Ambrose Bierce - Dover Publications
Format: Paperback
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Ambrose Bierce wrote stories so dramatically different from those of his contemporaries that they hardly seem like they were written in the nineteenth century. These original and innovative tales, most of which appeared in the 1880s and 1890s, constitute 23 examples of his best and most... |
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The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation
Homer. - Farrar
Format: Print book
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Robert Fitzgerald's translation of The Odyssey has been the standard translation for more than three generations of students and poets. Macmillan Audio is delighted to publish the first ever audio edition of this classic work, the greatest of all epic poems. Fitzgerald's supple... |
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Olive Kitteridge: Fiction
Elizabeth Strout - Random House; 2 edition
Format: Book
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • SOON TO BE AN HBO MINISERIESIn a voice more powerful and compassionate than ever before, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout binds together thirteen rich, luminous narratives into a book with the heft of a novel, through the presence... |
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The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
Susan Orlean - Ballantine Publ.
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean's wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower - the rare ghost... |
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Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline - William Morrow
Format: Paperback
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The #1 New York Times BestsellerChristina Baker Kline's Orphan Train is an unforgettable story of friendship and second chances that highlights a little-known but historically significant movement in America's past - and it includes a special PS section for book clubs featuring insights,... |
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A Passage to India
E.M. Forster - Grapevine
Format: Paperback
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Dr. Aziz is a young Muslim physician in Chandrapore, a British Indian town. Mrs Moore, an English woman, meets him in the courtyard of a nearby mosque one evening; she and her younger travelling companion Adela are dissatisfied with cramped British colonial society and want to explore more... |
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People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks - Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Format: Audiobook
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View our feature on Geraldine Books's People of the Book.From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime:... |
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A Person of Interest: A Novel
Susan Choi - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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With its propulsive drive, vividly realized characters, and profound observations about soul and society, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Susan Chois latest novel is as thrilling as it is lyrical, and confirms her place as one of the most important novelists chronicling the American experience.... |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories
Oscar Wilde - Signet Classic
Format: Paperback
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In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde's full-length novel, a fashionable young man sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Also included in the volume are three of the Irish master storyteller's short works:Lord Arthur Savile's CrimeThe Happy PrinceThe Birthbday of the Infanta |
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Plain Truth
Jodi Picoult - Washington Square Press; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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From the bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper comes the riveting story of a murder that shatters the picturesque calm of Amish country -- and tests the heart and soul of the lawyer defending the woman at the center of the storm.The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes... |
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Pope Joan: A Novel
Donna Woolfolk Cross - Broadway Books
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A world-wide bestseller, major motion picture and upcoming "Director's Cut" TV mini-series exclusively for the U.S!"Pope Joan has all the elements one wants in a historical drama-love, sex, violence, duplicity, and long-buried secrets. Cross has written an engaging book."-Los... |
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The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James - Oxford University Press; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Henry James is one of the giants of American literary history. From the novella "Daisy Miller" and classic short stories such as "The Turn of the Screw" to the popular short novel Washington Square and intricately woven and highly complex later novels such as The Golden... |
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce - Oxford University Press; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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James Joyce's Portrait of an Artist is one of the most significant literary works of the twentieth century, and one of the most innovative. Its originality shocked contemporary readers on its publication in 1916 who found its treating of the minutiae of daily life as indecorous, and its central... |
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Novel (P.S.)
Muriel Spark - Open Road Media
Format: Paperback
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Muriel Sparks timeless classic about a controversial teacher who deeply marks the lives of a select group of students in the years leading up to World War II"Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!" So asserts Jean Brodie, a magnetic, dubious, and sometimes... |
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The Prince
NiccoloÌ? Machiavelli - Humphrey Milford
Format: Paperback
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When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a debate that has raged unabated until the present day. Based upon Machiavelli's first-hand experience as an emissary of the Florentine Republic to the courts... |
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The Quiet American
Graham Greene - Penguin Classics; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Graham Greenes classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in VietnamI never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused, Graham Greenes narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous Quiet American of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career.... |
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain - Broadway Paperbacks
Format: Print book
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The book that started the Quiet RevolutionAt least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts - Rosa Parks,... |
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Ragtime: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
E.L. Doctorow - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time. Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War..... |
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The Razor's Edge
W. Somerset Maugham - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiancée Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle,... |
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Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
Lucy Knisley - First Second
Format: Paperback
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time... |
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The Rent Collector
Camron Wright - Shadow Mountain
Format: Hardcover
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Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense... |
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Replay
Ken Grimwood - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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Jeff Winston, forty-three, didn't know he was a replayer until he died and woke up twenty-five years younger in his college dorm room; he lived another life. And died again. And lived again and died again - in a continuous twenty-five-year cycle - each time starting from scratch at the age of eighteen... |
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Sacred Hunger
Barry Unsworth - W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the 1992 Booker Prize for Fiction Possibly the best novel Ive read in the last decade.David Halberstam Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with the sacred hunger to expand its empire and its profits, England entered full... |
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert - Henry Holt and Co
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTA major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful... |
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The Snow Child: A Novel
Eowyn Ivey - Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
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Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall,... |
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Sometimes a Great Notion
Ken Kesey
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The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sailor Song is a wild-spirited and hugely powerful tale of an Oregon logging clan.A bitter strike is raging in a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Buc |
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The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything
Stephen M.R. Covey - Free Press; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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With nearly 750,000 copies in print, this instant classic shows that establishing trust is “the one thing that changes everything” (Marcus Buckingham, coauthor of Now, Discover Your Strengths) in both business and life. Trust, says Stephen M.R. Covey, is the very basis of the new global... |
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The Sportswriter: Bascombe Trilogy
Richard Ford - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely within themselves. This is a condition that Frank himself aspires to. But at thirty-eight, he suffers from incurable dreaminess, occasional pounding of the heart, and the not-too-distant losses... |
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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Simon Sinek - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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The inspiring, life-changing bestseller by the author of LEADERS EAT LAST and TOGETHER IS BETTER. In 2009, Simon Sinek started a movement to help people become more inspired at work, and in turn inspire their colleagues and customers. Since then, millions have been touched by the power... |
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Still Alice
Lisa Genova - Gallery Books; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University. Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children... |
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Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home
Jessica Fechtor - Plume
Format: Print book
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A national bestseller and winner of a 2015 Living Now Book Award, Stir is an exquisite memoir about how food connects us to ourselves, our lives, and each other. At 28, Jessica Fechtor was happily immersed in graduate school and her young marriage, and thinking about starting a family.... |
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A Heinlein - Ace
Format: Paperback
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The complete, uncut version of Robert A. Heinlein's all-time masterpiece, the brilliant novel that grew from a cult favorite to a bestseller to a science fiction classic.Raised by Martians on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith is a human who has never seen another member of his species. Sent... |
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The Street: A Novel
Ann Petry
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The Street tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s. Originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterw |
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith - W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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"Tom Ripley is one of the most interesting characters in world literature."—Anthony Minghella, director of ?The Talented Mr. Ripley Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath. Here, in this first Ripley novel, we are introduced to suave... |
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That Night
Alice McDermott
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On a warm suburban night, the sound of lawn sprinklers is drowned out by the rumble of hot rods. Suddenly a car careens onto a family's neat front yard, teenage boys spill out brandishing chains and leather, and a young man cries out for the girl he loves. Tonight fathers will pic |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel
Zora Neale Hurston - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick"A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don't know how to live properly." - Zadie SmithOne of the most important... |
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These is my Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 (P.S.)
Nancy Turner - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author's own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and fire who forges a full and remarkable existence in a harsh, unfamiliar frontier. Scrupulously recording her steps down the path Providence... |
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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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"A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world." - Barack Obama Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadThings Fall Apart is the first... |
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The Third Policeman
Flann O'Brien
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The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station wher |
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Time and Again
Jack Finney - Scribner Paperback Fiction
Format: Print book
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An anniversary edition of a timeless classic tells what happens when Simon Morley is selected by a secret government agency to test Einstein's theory of the past co-existing with the present and is transported back to 1880s New York. Reissue. NYT. |
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
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The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product,... |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American ReadHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South - and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatredOne of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird... |
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To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf - Harcourt
Format: Paperback
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Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is one of her greatest literary achievements and among the most influential novels of the twentieth century. The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle... |
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Tobacco Road
Erskine Caldwell
Format: Print book
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Enormously popular in the 1930s and 1940s, Erskine Caldwell brought to millions of Americans his bawdy, forcefully written, grimly comic stories of injustice and human irrationality, set chiefly in the South. "Tobacco Road" remains the book for which he is best remember |
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The Tortilla Curtain
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Mexican... |
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A Town Like Alice
Nevil Shute - Vintage; 1st VI ptg edition
Format: Paperback
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Nevil Shutes most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback.Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month... |
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Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand - Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Readers Circle for author chats and more.In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious... |
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The Water Is Wide: A Memoir
Pat Conroy - Dial Press Trade Paperback; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families on Yamacraw island, America is a world away. For years the people here lived proudly from the sea, but now its waters are not safe. Waste from industry threatens... |
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Watership Down: A Novel
Richard Adams - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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Soon to be a major Netflix animated miniseries starring James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, and Oscar and Grammy award-winner Sir Ben Kingsley. A worldwide bestseller for more than forty years, Watership Down is the compelling tale of a band of wild rabbits struggling to hold onto their... |
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Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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This "tour de force" (New York Times Book Review) celebrates its 50th anniversary.Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys's return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting... |
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Winesburg, Ohio (Oxford Worlds Classics)
Sherwood Anderson - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback(REISSUE)
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Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Andersons masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small town at the end of the nineteenth century. At the center is George Willard, a young reporter who becomes the confidant of the towns solitary figures. Andersons stories influenced... |
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Winter Garden
Kristin Hannah - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print Length
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Can a woman ever really know herself if she doesn't know her mother? From the author of the smash-hit bestseller Firefly Lane and True Colors comes Kristin Hannah's powerful, heartbreaking novel that illuminates the intricate mother-daughter bond and explores... |
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Wise Beyond Your Field
Nancy K Napier - Boise State University CCI Press
Format: Paperback
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Do you want to boost your organization's performance? Out perform your peers? It may be as simple as looking outside your own field. Wise Beyond Your Field shows how creative leaders use ideas from far beyond their own fields to do things differently and out perform their peers.... |
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The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest "Sensation Novel." Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue. This new critical edition is the first... |
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Women in Love
D. H. Lawrence - Oxford University Press; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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In Women in Love (1920), Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen who first appeared in Lawrence's earlier novel, The Rainbow, take center stage as Lawrence explores their growth and development in their relationships with two powerful men, Rupert Birkin and his friend Gerald Crich. A novel of regeneration... |
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The World's Strongest Librarian: A Book Lover's Adventures
Josh Hanagarne - Gotham Books
Format: Book
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A funny and uplifting story of how a Mormon kid with Tourette's found salvation in books and weight lifting Josh Hanagarne couldn't be invisible if he tried. Although he wouldn't officially be diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome until his freshman year of high school, Josh was six years... |
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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel
Michael Dorris - Picador; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Michael Dorris has crafted a fierce saga of three generations of Indian women, beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of kinship. Starting in the present day and moving backward, the novel is told in the voices of the three women: fifteen-year-old... |
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Diane Ackerman - W.W. Norton
Format: Paperback
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The New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. After their zoo was bombed, Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the Nazis by hiding refugees in the empty animal... |
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