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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
By Bill Bryson
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson—the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent—brilliantly explores the remarkable history,...
The Remains of the Day
By Kazuo Ishiguro
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of...
Naked Lunch
By William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (Editor), Barry Miles (Editor)
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapters are intended to be read in any order. The...
Choke
By Chuck Palahniuk
Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an...
The Wee Free Men
By Terry Pratchett
"Another world is colliding with this one," said the toad. "All the monsters are coming back.""Why?" said Tiffany."There's no one to stop them."There...
Just So Stories
By Rudyard Kipling
Librarian's Note: Alternate cover edition can be found here.Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include How the Camel Got His...
Atonement
By Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and...
Watchmen
By Alan Moore , Dave Gibbons (Illustrator/Letterer), John Higgins (Colorist)
This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the...
The World According to Garp
By John Irving
This is the life of T.S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields--a feminist leader ahead of her time. This is the life and death of a famous mother...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
By Tom Stoppard, Henry Popkin (Consulting Editor)
Hamlet told from the worm's-eye view of two minor characters, bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, reality...