| Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman |
This book contains an intriguing study of modern day witchcraft. |
| The Pagoda by Patricia Powell |
The story of Lowe's life unfolds to reveal the mysteries of a disguised
identity. A Chinese immigrant in Jamaica during the 1890's. |
| Places I Never Meant To Be edited edition by Judy Blume |
A collection of short stories written by authors that have been banned by
schools and libraries across the nation. This book experiences the trials and
tributes of being stuck between the ages of 13 and 18. |
| The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger |
An excellent account of a fishing ship going down at sea. Gripping,
moving - a must read! |
| Unseen Rain by Quatrains of Rumi |
A collection of short verses used to portray this famous poet's talent as
a "mature spirit and master poet." |
| Getting Over Tom by Abigal Thomas |
A collection of short stories that vary from love and jealousy to the
quirky lifestyles of teenage girls. |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M.
Pirsig |
The story of a father and son who embark on a summer journey, not only
finding the meaning in motorcycles but also finding the meaning of life and values within
themselves. |
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby |
Based on a true story, this is a moving and emotional memoir of a man who
had it all, the family, the house and the money until he had a stroke which left his whole
body paralyzed except for his right eye. |
| Soul Kiss by Shay Youngblood |
Lyrical, ultimate, unsettling, enthralling, funny. A coming of age
story. |
| A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking |
This fully updated edition is enriched with a new introduction by
Professor Hawking and an entirely new chapter on wormholes and time travel. |
| All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Vol. 1) by
Cormac McCarthy |
This novel tells the story of John Grade Cole, a young Texas rancher who
ventures to Mexico in search of excitement. |
| The Storyteller by Mario Vargas Llosa |
This book follows the destiny of the Peruvian Jew, Saul Zuratas, as he
transformed from a conscience-stricken, modern man obsessed with the survival of the
pre-modern peoples of the Amazon into a member of the tribe. |
| Love In the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
A lush, wondrous story of an unrequited love that survives half a century
and more than 600 distractions. |
| Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
by Adeline Yen Mah |
After her mother dies giving birth to her, Adeline's siblings, who
consider her bad luck, scapegoat her, and her wealthy father and vain stepmother deprive
her of friends and send her away to school. |
| The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett |
A slightly shopworn private eye. A performed grifter. A fat
man. A beautiful by treacherous woman. What kind of a detective story can
these characters manage to work out? |
| Mortal Friends by James Carroll |
This book is about an Irish immigrant who becomes successful in Boston but
is then threatened by his new connections to the Italian Mafia. |
| Country Courtyards by Eudora Welty |
Welty traveled around Mississippi, photographing country courtyards.
90 of those particular images have been gathered into this album. |
| Therapy by David Lodge |
The protagonist in this novel is recognizably human as he runs from
aromatherapy to acupuncture with the need to find the cure for his ills. |
| Souls and Bodies by David Lodge |
This book follows a group of British Catholic University students through
the 60's and 70's, as they fumble their way into the sexual revolution and through varied
crises of love, marriage and faith. |
| Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler |
A revisit to society in 2032 where the basic physical and emotional needs
of people seem almost impossible to meet. |
| A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Erving |
In the summer of 1953, during a Little League Baseball game, 11-year-old
Own Meany hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. How will he ever
forget it? |
| Tar Baby by Toni Morrison |
Morrison probes deeply and sensitively into the relationship between
blacks and whites, black and blacks, and women and men in this emotionally intense
narrative. |
| Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri |
Traveling from India to New England and back again, this collection of
short stores are imbedded with the personal details of Indian culture. |
| The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky |
Charlie is a high school freshman with no friends but remains writing
letters to a certain "friend." After Charlie meets Sam and Patrick at a
football game, Charlie's love of Sam, coming to terms with his past, watching "Rocky
Horror Picture Show" and growing close to his family is documented through his
"friend's" letters. |
| Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury |
This book contains Bradbury's frightening vision of the future, when he
vividly paints a society holding up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal.
A place where trivial information is good and knowledge and ideas are bad. |
| Dawn by Octavia E. Butler |
The Oankali spaceship saved every surviving human from a dying Earth and
now they are ready to help Lilith lead her people back to Earth -- but for a price. |
| Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen |
A book of brief essays that present an exquisite challenge to conventional
thinking about what is normal and what is deviant. |
| The Alienist by Caleb Carr |
A fascinating murder mystery with lots of historical, accurate details.
Set in NYC. |
| Secrets by Nuruddin Farah |
Set in Somalia, a story of multiple identities. Lush and sensual
writing. |
| The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera |
In the polymorphous work, Kundera discusses life, music, sex, philosophy,
literature and politics in ways that are rarely politically correct, never classifiable
but always original, entertaining and definitely brilliant. |
| Wrong Information is Being Given Out at Princeton by J.P.
Donleavy |
Stephen O'Kelly meets a wealthy, beautiful and moody girl, with whom he
falls in love with but then finds himself cut off from any money and abandoned by his new
bride. |
| The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand |
Howard Roark is an architect whose genius and integrity will not be
comprised. His ideas work against conventional standards. |
| The Annotated Alice by Lewis Carroll (with notes by
Martin Gardner) |
The only single-volume edition of Carroll's masterpieces contains the
complete text of both works and annotations that highlight the games, references and
parodies in the works. |
| The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B. by James Patrick
Donleavy |
Lush, lovely, bawdy and sad. One of the most perfect love affairs in
modern literature. |
| The Word's Don't Fit My Mouth by Jessica Cavemore |
This book contains life-inspiring poems. |
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt |
Forceful, clear, gripping, this book is the best non-fiction novel that
has everything going for it snobbism, ruthless power, voodoo, local color and a totally
evil estheticism. |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers |
This book contains a profound sense of moral isolation and its sensitive
glimpses into the inner lives of lonely people. This book tells the story of a
sensitive teenage girl who discovers the meaning of loneliness. |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) by J. K.
Rowling |
A mysterious letter sent to Harry leads him to the Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft, where all the humor, haunting and suspense begins. |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) by J. K.
Rowling |
Harry must hop a train to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
to begin his second year. But when his only transportation option is a magical
flying car, it's just his luck to crash into a valuable whomping willow. |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) by J.
K. Rowling |
In this edition, Harry gets rescued from his neighbor and sent back to
Hogwarts School. What Harry has to face this time explains why the officials let him
off so easily. |
| Harry Potter (Book 4) by J. K. Rowling |
What will happen to Harry this time around? Well, you will have to
just wait will the latest book in this series is released on July 8, 2000. |
| Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje |
Anil, an anthropologist, returns to her home in Sri Lanka to solve the
mystery of dead bodies. |
| The Way Men Act by Elinor Lipman |
Libby aims to marry Dennis. Melinda tries to keep her dignity as an
un-degreed lonely woman in a college town. And Dennis wants - what? |
| A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O'Toole |
The many subplots that weave through this book are as complicated as
anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end.
Ignatius, a selfish, domineering, deluded tragic and comic and larger than life
character, carries the story from beginning to end. |
| Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Ms. Bennet scrambles to find husbands for her five daughters in a gentle
satire of human weakness and prejudice. |
| Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood |
The story of a girl's betrayal by her friends when she is young and how
this affects her later. |
| Mortal Stakes by Robert Parker |
This book contains a fictionalized account of a Red Sox pitcher and
organized crime. |
| Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card |
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race attack,
government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. |
| Cold River by William Jodson |
This is a realistic novel of two siblings battling for survival in a
terrifying snowstorm. |
| A Time For Dancing by Davida Wills Hurwin |
Juliana and Sam have been inseparable since school days dancing at age
nine. In high school, when Julie is diagnosed with Lymphoma, normal becomes a thing of the
past as the friends confront death and saying good-bye. |
| Caucasia by Danzy Senna |
The story of a bi-racial girl growing up in Boston in the 1970's.
After her mother gets targeted by the FBI, the girl and her mother have to go underground. |
| Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Spencer Hesser |
This book address's Obsessive Compulsive Disorder with a sensitive humor.
Take a journey with a girl who is dealing and trying to cope with this disease by
following her daily routines and rituals. |
| Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden |
Annie and Liza love the Metropolitan Museum of Art, medieval history,
acting and each other. |
| The Color of Water by James McBride |
This book about a black man's tribute to his white mother is both complex
and moving. It is suffused with the issues of race, religion and identity. |
| When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago |
A girl's account of life in Puerto Rico and family life in the states. |
| El Bronx Remembered by Nicholas Mohr |
The South Bronx during the 1940's and 1950's is helped to be revealed by
Puerto Rican immigrants. |
| All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob
Woodward |
Two reporters help reveal to us how they unraveled the events that led to
President Nixon's eventual resignation. |
| The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley |
A modern classic about Malcolm's life from thief and drug dealer to
important member of the Black Muslim faith. His trenchant analysis of American
racism still fascinates. |
| The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J.
Gaines |
In her 100 years as an African-American woman, Miss Jane Pittman
experiences it all from slavery to the civil rights movement. |
| A Civil Action by Johnathon Harr |
Based on a true story, the town of Woburn, Massachusetts believes that the
Leukemia that has dilled their kids is caused from their local water supply being
contaminated by local businesses. |
| War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
When creatures from Mars arrive on the planet Earth in green-glowing space
ships shaped like stingrays, the question is "What can save the Earth from the
Martians atomizing death beams?" The answer is simpler than you may think. |
| Clifford's Blues by John Alfred Williams |
A fictionalized narrative of a black jazz musician imprisoned in Dachau
who keeps himself alive by working as the bandleader of a group of prisoners who plays
jazz at a nearby officers' club. |
| Naked by David Sedaris |
In essay form, travel along catastrophic detours through a nudist colony,
a fruit packaging plant and a dozen more of the world's little purgatories. |
| Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov |
This contains a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade, a darkly
comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue. |
| Main Street (Dover Thrift Edition) by Sinclair Lewis |
The story of an idealistic young woman's attempts to reform her small
town. |
| Contact by Carl Sagan |
In December 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the
most awesome encounter in human history. Who - or - what is out there? |
| Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck |
George and Lennie, due to loneliness and alienation, cling to each other
as they work in Salinas Valley, dreaming of a place to call their own. |
| The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Jay Gatsby spends almost all of his adult life searching for the past but
ends up dying before he can retrace it all. Who knows what lies in his past? |
| The Catcher in the Rye by J. J. Salinger |
Holden Caulfield, an emotionally disturbed 16-year old, as he sits in a
mental hospital, tells his story of trying to grow up in an adult world. |
| Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden |
To capture the geisha experience in the art of fiction, Arthur Golden
trained as long and hard as any geisha who must master the arts of music, dance, clever
conversation, crafty battle with rival beauties and cunning seduction of wealthy patrons. |
| Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt |
Through his father, Malachy, cannot really provide Frank with any material
objects, he does provide Frank with something that will always stick with him: his
father's story. |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
This story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by
Jose Arcadio Buendia and occupied by descendents all sporting variations on their
progenitor's name. |
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