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Wide Sargasso Sea
By Jean Rhys
Prequel to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who...
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
By Junot Díaz
An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here. Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares...
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 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...
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
By Rebecca Wells
When Siddalee Walker, oldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker, Ya-Ya extraordinaire, is interviewed in the New York Times about a hit play she's...
Invisible Man
By Ralph Ellison
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American...
Bag of Bones
By Stephen King
Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by...
Me Talk Pretty One Day
By David Sedaris
David Sedaris became a star autobiographer on public radio, onstage in New York, and on bestseller lists, mostly on the strength of SantaLand Diaries...
The Color Purple
By Alice Walker
The Color Purple is a classic. With over a million copies sold in the UK alone, it is hailed as one of the all-time 'greats' of literature, inspiring...
A Time to Kill
By John Grisham
Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock...