Nelson MandelaLong Walk to Freedom(Long Walk to Freedom #1-2)Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the...

A Just Ask Book  Twelve-year-old George is sent to his seventh foster home, down on the Dyers' farm this time. He's dreading it. He bitterly used to the getting stared...

Anton Chekhov Collects eleven stories depicting the greed, corruption, and other problems assailing Russian society in the author's later years. First published November 16, 1993

Vladimir NabokovFocusing on the central figures of his life--his four wives, his books, and his muse, Dementia--the book leads us to suspect that the fictions Vadim has created as an...

Joseph Conrad First published in 1900, Lord Jim is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Its central message about the consequences of straying from...

William Golding When a plane crashes on a remote island, a small group of schoolboys are the sole survivors. From the prophetic Simon and virtuous Ralph to the lovable Piggy...

Toni MorrisonNobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison’s spellbinding new novel is a Faulknerian symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of black women...

Author: DH Lawrence 'Love Among the Haystacks' is a powerful story of sibling rivalry and the destructive passion of sexual envy.

HG WellsYoung, impoverished, and ambitious science student Mr. Lewisham is locked in a struggle to further himself through academic achievement. But when his former sweetheart, Ethel Henderson, re-enters his life,...

Nancy Mitford One of Nancy Mitford’s most beloved novels, Love in a Cold Climate is a sparkling romantic comedy that vividly evokes the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the...

Author: Robert James Waller Neither Robert Kincaid nor Francesca Johnson are in the first bloom of youth. Both of them are content with their lives. Yet when Robert turns into...

Gabriel Garcia MarquezSet in an unnamed Caribbean seaport, Garcia Marquez's extraordinary Love in the Time of Cholera (1988) relates one of literature's most remarkable stories of unrequited love. "This shining...