By Isaac Asimov
They mustn't harm a human being, they must obey human orders, and they must protect their own existence...but only so long as that doesn't violate...
By J.R.R. Tolkien,
Christopher Tolkien (Editor), Ted Nasmith (Illustrator)
The story of the creation of the world and of the First Age, this is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back and...
By Ovid,
David Raeburn (Translation), Denis Feeney (Contributor)
Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a masterpiece of Western culture--the first attempt...
By Dan Brown
An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe.An astonishing truth...
By Elizabeth Strout
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the...
By Dr. Seuss
Back in 1957, Theodor Geisel responded to an article in Life magazine that lamented the use of boring reading primers in schools. Using the pseudonym...
By J.D. Salinger
The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that...
By Stieg Larsson,
Reg Keeland (Translator)
The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson's internationally best-selling trilogy.Lisbeth Salander - the heart of Larsson's two previous...
By Annie Proulx
At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just deserts. He...
By Arthur C. Clarke
The Last Generation Of Mankind On EarthWithout warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear in the skies above every major city on Earth.They...