By Zora Neale Hurston
Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's...
By John Irving
"The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a...
By Walter M. Miller Jr.,
Mary Doria Russell (Introduction)
Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern...
By Douglas Adams
Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms...
By Gregory Maguire,
Douglas Smith (illustrator), Jelena Bojić (Translator)
Liir hid in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Left for dead in a gully, the teen is shattered in spirit and body. But silent...
By Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. Delany notes, "modern critics...
By Mitch Albom
A classic from the author of
The First Phone Call from Heaven
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and...
By Michael Shaara
In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of...
By Bill Bryson
"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it."After nearly two decades spent on...