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 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 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 Malcolm X,
Alex Haley
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Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential...
By Toni Morrison
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a...
By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
Ralph Parker (Translator), Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Introduction), Eric Bogosian (Afterword), Alexander Tvardovsky (Foreword)
Solzhenitsyn's first book, this economical, relentless novel is one of the most forceful artistic indictments of political oppression in the Stalin-...
By Dan Simmons
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it....
By Dava Sobel
During the great ages of exploration "the longitude problem" was the greatest of scientific challenges. Lacking the ability to determine their...
By Charlotte Brontë,
Stevie Davies (Editor/Introduction)
A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and dark secrets, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is edited with an introduction and notes by Stevie Davis...