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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
By Bill Bryson
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson—the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent—brilliantly explores the remarkable history,...
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
By Rebecca Skloot
From the back cover: Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells--taken without...
The Kite Runner
By Khaled Hosseini
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime." Amir is the son of a...
Watership Down
By Richard Adams
Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0380002930 here.Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of...
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
By Barack Obama
The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics—a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together...
Republic
By Plato, G.M.A. Grube (Translator), C.D.C. Reeve (Editor)
Since its publication in 1974, scholars throughout the humanities have adopted G M A Grube's masterful translation of the Republic as the edition of...
The Origin of Species
By Charles Darwin, Julian Huxley (Introduction)
The classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the world.Few other...
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
By Thomas L. Friedman
A timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists.When...
Of Mice and Men
By John Steinbeck
The compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world. Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded...
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
By Azar Nafisi
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her...