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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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...
The Kite Runner
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...
The Merchant of Venice
By William Shakespeare, Robert Jackson (Editor), Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor)
Watership Down
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...
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
By Laura Hillenbrand
Hillenbrand brilliantly re-creates a universal underdog story, one that proves life is a horse race.Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and...
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
By Barack Obama
The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics—a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together...
The Pilgrim's Progress
By John Bunyan
This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most entertaining allegories of faith ever written. Set...
Interpreter of Maladies
By Jhumpa Lahiri
Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this stunning debut collection unerringly charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love...
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
By Erik Larson
Bringing Chicago circa 1893 to vivid life, Erik Larson's spell-binding bestseller intertwines the true tale of two men--the brilliant architect...
Republic
By Plato, G.M.A. Grube (Translator), C.D.C. Reeve (Editor)
Since its publication in 1974, scholars throughout the humanities have adopted G M A Grube's masterful translation of the Republic as the edition of...