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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
By Kim Edwards
On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his...
The Portrait of a Lady
By Henry James, Patricia Crick (Annotations)
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But...
Catch-22
By Joseph Heller
The novel is set during World War II, from 1942 to 1944. It mainly follows the life of Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier...
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
By Greg Mortenson , David Oliver Relin
The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia.In April 2011, the CBS...
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
By Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator)
Now that he's won the chocolate factory, what's next for Charlie?Last seen flying through the sky in a giant elevator in Charlie and the Chocolate...
Cat's Eye
By Margaret Atwood
Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art....
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
By John le Carré, Joseph Kanon (Foreword by)
A new hardcover edition of the book Graham Greene called "the best spy story I have ever read."On its publication in 1964, John le Carré's The Spy...
Running with Scissors
By Augusten Burroughs
The true story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, the Christmas tree stayed up all year round, Valium was consumed like candy, and...
The Horse and His Boy
By C.S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes (Illustrations)
A wild gallop for freedom. Narnia... where horses talk... where treachery is brewing... where destiny awaits. On a desperate journey, two runaways...
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
By Jon Krakauer
A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw...