By Kim Edwards
On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his...
By Alan Paton
Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s...
By Anne Rice
In the fifth Vampire Chronicle, Lestat is searching for Dora, the beautiful and charismatic mortal daughter of a drug lord. Dora has moved Lestat...
By Stephen King
Carrie knew she should not use the terrifying power she possessed... But one night at her senior prom, Carrie was scorned and humiliated just one...
By Henry James,
Patricia Crick (Annotations)
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But...
By Chinua Achebe
THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The...
By Robert Munsch,
Sheila McGraw (Illustrator)
An extraordinarily different story by Robert Munsch is a gentle affirmation of the love a parent feels for their child--forever. Sheila McGraw's soft...
By H.G. Wells,
Greg Bear (Introduction), Carlo Pagetti (Foreword)
“I’ve had a most amazing time....”So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era—and...
By C.S. Lewis
For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all: If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?...
By Greg Mortenson ,
David Oliver Relin
The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia.In April 2011, the CBS...