By Nick Hornby
Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups?Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it - even though...
By William Faulkner
“I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. . . . I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then...
By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,
Percy Bysshe Shelley (contributor), Maurice Hindle (Editor, Introduction)
Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the...
By Oliver Sacks
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of...
By Dan Brown
WHAT IS LOST...WILL BE FOUNDIn this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the...
By Barbara Ehrenreich
Reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity--a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems...
By Dan Brown
An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe.An astonishing truth...
By Madeleine L'Engle
Wind, unicorn, and boy merged into a single swiftness.When fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace Murry shouts out an ancient rune meant to ward off the...
By William Strunk Jr.,
E.B. White, Roger Angell (Foreword)
New York Times: "Buy it, study it, enjoy it. It's as timeless as a book can be in our age of volubility." Boston Globe: "No book in shorter space,...
By Dave Eggers
'When you read his extraordinary memoir you don't laugh, then cry, then laugh again; you somehow experience these emotions all at once.'"Well, this...