By Anne McCaffrey
HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD?To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has...
By Jane Austen,
Fiona Stafford (Introduction/Notes)
Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of...
By Michael Crichton
It's been six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing...
By Umberto Eco,
William Weaver (translator)
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his...
By F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Amor Towles (Introduction)
Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American...
By Dodie Smith
One of the 20th Century's most beloved novels is still winning hearts! I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her...
By Boris Pasternak,
Max Hayward (Translator), Manya Harari (Translator), John Bayley (Introduction)
This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987....
By Scott Lynch
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.In this stunning debut, Scott Lynch delivers the thrilling tale of an audacious...
By Roald Dahl,
Quentin Blake (Illustrator)
A little magic can take you a long way.After James Henry Trotter's parents are tragically eaten by a rhinoceros, he goes to live with his two...
By Mark Twain,
Guy Cardwell (Annotations), John Seelye (Introduction)
An adventure story for children, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a fun-filled book that shows life along the Mississippi River in the 1840s. Written...