By Chuck Palahniuk
Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an...
By Tom Stoppard,
Henry Popkin (Consulting Editor)
Hamlet told from the worm's-eye view of two minor characters, bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, reality...
By Sharon Creech
Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle's mother has disappeared. While tracing her steps on a car trip from Ohio to Idaho with her grandparents,...
By Junot Díaz
An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here. Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares...
By William Paul Young
Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered...
By Virginia Woolf,
Eudora Welty (Foreword)
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye....
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...
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...
By Gayle Forman
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.On a day that started like any other…Mia had everything: a loving family, a...
By Stephen Chbosky
The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky, Perks follows observant “wallflower” Charlie as he charts a course through the strange...