HomerSing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turnsdriven time and again off course, once he had plunderedthe hallowed heights of Troy.So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent...

Elie WieselBorn in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp, and...

Stefan Zweig Stefan's Zweig's Beware of Pity is an almost unbearably tense and powerful tale of unrequited love and the danger of pity. The famous novel is published by Pushkin...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky In 1864, just prior to the years in which he wrote his greatest novels -- Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov -- Fyodor...

William FaulknerThis novel, by Nobel Prize-winning William Faulkner, was published in 1948.It focuses on Lucas Beauchamp, a black farmer accused of murdering a white man. He is exonerated through the...

DisneyMickey Mouse's The Prince and the Pauper (Disney Classics)Snuggle up with your favorite Disney characters in this beautiful Disney Classics storybook edition of the beloved film, The Prince and the...

Alice WalkerPossessing the Secret of Joy is the story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who lives much of her adult life in North America. As a young woman, a...

Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhDNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Book club pick for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf - "A deeply spiritual book [that] honors what is tough, smart and untamed...

Jane AustenNorthanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1790s....

Sally WittmanPublisher:Scholastic, London, 1980, ©1978

Roger Hargreaves Little Miss Tidy is a very neat person -- she always puts away everything in the right place. The trouble is, she can never remember where the right...

Tadeusz BorowskiTadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where the will to survive overrides...