By William S. Burroughs,
James Grauerholz (Editor), Barry Miles (Editor)
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapters are intended to be read in any order. The...
By Chuck Palahniuk
Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an...
By Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and...
By Alan Moore ,
Dave Gibbons (Illustrator/Letterer), John Higgins (Colorist)
This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the...
By Junot Díaz
An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here. Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares...
By Douglas Adams
Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent...
By Rebecca Skloot
From the back cover:
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells--taken without...
By Khaled Hosseini
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime." Amir is the son of a...
By Richard Adams
Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0380002930 here.Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of...
By Jhumpa Lahiri
Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this stunning debut collection unerringly charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love...