By Jon Krakauer
A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw...
By C.S. Lewis,
Pauline Baynes (Illustrations)
The Adventure Begins. Narnia... where Talking Beasts walk... where a Witch waits... where a new world is about to be born. On a daring quest to save...
By John Grisham
In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the curb...Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother ...
By Haruki Murakami,
Jay Rubin (Translator)
Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which...
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...
By Augustine of Hippo,
Henry Chadwick (Translator/Introduction), Simon Vance (Narrator), Albert Cook Outler (Translator)
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the...
By Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and The Tenth Circle, pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story...
By Mark Twain,
Guy Cardwell (Annotations), John Seelye (Introduction)
An adventure story for children, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a fun-filled book that shows life along the Mississippi River in the 1840s. Written...
By Anne Frank,
Eleanor Roosevelt (Introduction), B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday (Translator)
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has become a world classic—a powerful reminder...
By Muriel Barbery,
Alison Anderson (Translator)
A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant...