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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Gregory Maguire - Harper Collins; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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This is the book that started it all! The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguire's breathtaking New York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, through a darker and greener (not rosier) lens.... |
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Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel
Helen Fielding
Format: Paperback
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Bridget Jones's Diary is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of a thirty-something Singleton on a permanent doomed quest for self-improvement. Caught between the joys of Singleton fun, and the fear of dying alone and being found three... |
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Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
E L James - Doubleday; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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When 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 this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate... |
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The Hours: A Novel
Michael Cunningham - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group... |
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A Thousand Acres: A Novel
Jane Smiley - Anchor Books
Format: Paperback
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A successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emotions. An ambitious reimagining of Shakespeare's King... |
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March: A Novel
Geraldine Brooks - Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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As the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats during the dark first year of the war, one man leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. Riveting and elegant as it is meticulously... |
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Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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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 women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously... |
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring "masterpiece ... one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century" (Wall Street Journal) must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit in the face of our "brave new world"Aldous... |
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The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman - Yearling; 1st edition
Format: Print book
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Lyra Belacqua is content to run wild among the scholars of Jodan College, with her daemon familiar always by her side. But the arrival of her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, draws her to the heart of a terrible struggle—a struggle born of Gobblers and stolen children, witch clans and armored... |
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