By Kurt Vonnegut
Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereCat's Cradle, one of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels, is filled with scientists and G-men and even...
By J.R.R. Tolkien,
Christopher Tolkien (Editor, Introduction, Commentary)
Mythic lore and forgotten legends are unveiled in stories of the three ages of Middle-earth unearthed by Christopher Tolkien from his father's...
By Sue Monk Kidd
Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the...
By Nick Hornby
In his eagerly awaited fourth novel, New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just...
By Michael Chabon
For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake...
By Dr. Seuss
For out-starting upstarts of all ages, here is a wonderfully wise and blessedly brief graduation speech from the one and only Dr. Seuss. In his...
By Arthur Conan Doyle,
Richard Lancelyn Green (Editor)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine in which they were first published,...
By Michael Chabon
Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded...
By Anne Frank,
Eleanor Roosevelt (Introduction), B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday (Translator)
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has become a world classic—a powerful reminder...