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Chocolat
By Joanne Harris
When the exotic stranger Vianne Rocher arrives in the old French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique called “La Celeste Praline”...
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
By Simon Winchester
The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible...
Emma
By Jane Austen, Fiona Stafford (Introduction/Notes)
Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of...
The Robber Bride
By Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom," a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom...
The Name of the Rose
By Umberto Eco, William Weaver (translator)
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his...
Orlando
By Virginia Woolf
An alternative cover edition exists here. In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the restraints of...
I Capture the Castle
By Dodie Smith
One of the 20th Century's most beloved novels is still winning hearts! I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her...
The Prince and the Pauper
By Mark Twain, Everett H. Emerson (Afterword)
This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two boys...
The Lies of Locke Lamora
By Scott Lynch
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.In this stunning debut, Scott Lynch delivers the thrilling tale of an audacious...
Quicksilver
By Neal Stephenson
Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of...