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Metamorphoses
By Ovid, David Raeburn (Translation), Denis Feeney (Contributor)
Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a masterpiece of Western culture--the first attempt...
Olive Kitteridge
By Elizabeth Strout
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the...
A Visit from the Goon Squad
By Jennifer Egan
Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly...
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
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...
Childhood's End
By Arthur C. Clarke
The Last Generation Of Mankind On EarthWithout warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear in the skies above every major city on Earth.They...
Anansi Boys
By Neil Gaiman
God is dead. Meet the kids.Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn't know...
A Passage to India
By E.M. Forster
E. M. Forster's exquisitely observed novel about the clash of cultures and the consequences of perception, set in colonial India  Among the greatest...
Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
By Art Spiegelman
Maus is the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father,...
The Children of Húrin
By J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (Editor), Alan Lee (illustrator)
Tolkien fans are sure to treasure this tale of Middle-earth's First Age, which appeared in incomplete forms in the posthumously published The...
Anathem
By Neal Stephenson
Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the...