Mary Gaitskill Fierce, raw tales of love and sex and obsession--not since Ethan Canin's Emperor of the Air has there been such excitement surrounding a debut short-story collection.Daisy's valentine --A romantic weekend...

Primo Levi So runs the Song of the Partisan. This enthralling novel pays tribute to the Jews who fought back during the holocaust. Based on a true story, it chronicles the...

Charles Dickens With an Introduction and Notes by Deborah Wynne, Chester College.Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society....

Elizabeth Haich An autobiography that connects the twentieth century European life of internationally beloved teacher Elisabeth Haich and her lucid memories of initiation into the hidden mystical teachings of the...

Lao Tzu Written some 2,500 years ago, the Tao Te Ching is the most influential text of ancient Chinese philosophy and one of the most widely read examples of wisdom...

RK Narayan This novel completes the informal trilogy which began with "Swami and Friends" and "The Bachelor of Arts," The protagonist, Krishna, is an English teacher at the same college...

Terry Pratchett There’s a monster in the river, a headless horsemen in the drive. And now Granny Aching has gone, there’s only young Tiffany Aching left to guard the boundaries.It’s...

Ernest Hemingway At the age of twenty-two, Ernest Hemingway wrote his first short story, "Up in Michigan." Seventeen years and forty-eight titles later, he was the undisputed master of the...

His Holiness the Dalai Lama Don't miss His Holiness the Dalai Lama's classic book, The Art of Happiness, or his newest, The Book of Joy,  named one of Oprah's Favorite...

Howard Zinn The acclaimed author of "A People's History of the United States" (more than 200,000 copies sold) presents an honest and piercing look at American political ideology."A shotgun blast...

Haruki Murakami Haruki Murakami’s first two novels, available for the first time in English outside Japan. With a new introduction by the author.'If you’re the sort of guy who raids...

EM Forster Written at various dates before World War I, these 12 stories contain themes that were to re-emerge in E.M. Forster's later work. They demonstrate his belief in freedom,...