By William Faulkner
“I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. . . . I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then...
By John Grisham
"The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the...
By Willa Cather,
Kathleen Norris (Foreword)
Willa Cather’s heartfelt novel is the unforgettable story of an immigrant woman’s life on the hardscrabble Nebraska plains. Through Jim Burden’s...
By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,
Percy Bysshe Shelley (contributor), Maurice Hindle (Editor, Introduction)
Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the...
By Frank Herbert
Set in the far future amidst a sprawling feudal interstellar empire where planetary dynasties are controlled by noble houses that owe an allegiance...
By Wally Lamb
On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother, Thomas, entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut, public library, retreated to one of the rear...
By Paulo Coelho ,
Alan R. Clarke (Translator), Özdemir İnce (Translator)
Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His...
By Charles Dickens,
Richard Maxwell (Editor/Introduction), Saniye Güven, Sevil İnan Sönmez (Translator)
'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; -- the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!'
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the...
By Judi Barrett,
Ron Barrett (Illustrator)
The beloved, bestselling tale of edible weather is brought to life!If food dropped like rain from the sky, wouldn't it be marvelous! Or would it? It...
By Oliver Sacks
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of...