Umberto EcoThe year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed...

A mass-market paperback edition of The Horse and His Boy, book three in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, featuring cover art by Cliff Nielsen and black-and-white interior...

VC AndrewsFlowers in the Attic(Dollanganger #1)The four Dollanganger children had such perfect lives -- a beautiful mother, a doting father, a lovely home. Then Daddy was killed in a car...

Author: Samuel Beckett Few works of contemporary literature are so universally acclaimed as central to our understanding of the human experience as Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy. Molloy, the...

John SteinbeckThe Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the...

Barbara KingsolverWith the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Barbara Kingsolver explores her trademark themes of family, community and the natural world. Defiant, funny and courageously...

Author: Sholom AleichemSholom Aleichem was one of the greatest- if no the greatest-- Yiddish writer of modern times. A masterful storyteller and an accomplished humorist, he attained worldwide fame through...

Frederic M Wheelock and Richard A LaFleur This book contains:40 chapters with grammatical explanations and readings drawn from the works of Rome's major prose and verse writers;Self-tutorial exercises, each with...

Sherwood Anderson Set against the backdrop of a fictional 1890s town, Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio depicts the not-so-simple lives of its residents as seen through the eyes of George Willard, a young...

AS ByattEach story is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling -- about the ways in...

Gary PaulsenLOSTBrian Robertson, sole passenger on a Cessna 406, is on his way to visit his father when the tiny bush plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness. With nothing but...

Daniel Keyes   The story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In diary entries, Charlie tells how a...