By Michael Ende,
Ralph Manheim (Translator), Roswitha Quadflieg (Illustrator)
The story begins with a lonely boy named Bastian and the strange book that draws him into the beautiful but doomed world of Fantastica. Only a human...
By Tracy Chevalier
History and fiction merge seamlessly in Tracy Chevalier's luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Through the eyes of sixteen-...
By Natalie Babbitt
Doomed to—or blessed with—eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and...
By Wilson Rawls
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereBilly, Old Dan, and Little Ann - a boy and his two dogs.A loving threesome, they roamed...
By Julian Barnes
Winner of the 2011 Man Booker PrizeOne of The Atlantic's Best Books I Read This YearA novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting...
By Bret Easton Ellis
Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking...
By Stephen King
In this brilliant collection of stories, Stephen King takes readers down paths that only he could imagine.A supermarket becomes the place where...
By Henry David Thoreau
Nature was a form of religion for naturalist, essayist, and early environmentalist Henry David Thoreau (1817–62). In communing with the natural world...
By Samuel Beckett
"Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful?" Estragon's complaint, uttered in the first act of "Waiting for Godot", is the playwright's...