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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry: A Novel
Fredrik Backman - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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A charming, warmhearted novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller A Man Called Ove Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy - as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also... |
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel
Rachel Joyce - Random House
Format: Book
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Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning the mail arrives, and within the stack of quotidian... |
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Jonas Jonasson - Hyperion
Format: Paperback
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The international publishing sensation--over six million copies sold worldwide!A reluctant centenarian much like Forrest Gump (if Gump were an explosives expert with a fondness for vodka) decides it's not too late to start over . . .After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends... |
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Gregory Maguire - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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Is this new land a place where magics really happen?From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella tale.In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats... |
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Collins Design Wisps)
Calef Brown - Harper Design
Format: Hardcover
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In his short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, F. Scott Fitzgerald provides a humorous and touching journey that reveals what it's like to be born old and age in reverse.With art by Calef Brown, this collector's edition presents this classic story in illustrated form for the first... |
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
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This series of readers is aimed at students at 6 levels from elementary to advanced. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary. The approximate vocabulary count for stage 5 is 1800 words. This science fiction tale became the fi |
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For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf
Ntozake Shange - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papps Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country.... |
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fannie Flagg - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of... |
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel
Annie Barrows - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NOW A NETFLIX FILM * A remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. "Treat yourself to this book, please - I can't recommend it highly enough." - Elizabeth Gilbert,... |
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