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 Albert Camus,
Matthew Ward (Translator)
Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's first novel, THE STRANGER (L'etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of...
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 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...
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...
By Lemony Snicket ,
Brett Helquist (Illustrations)
Dear Reader, If you are looking for a story about cheerful youngsters spending a jolly time at boarding school, look elsewhere. Violet, Klaus, and...
By Stephen King
Imagine America devastated by a vast killer plague that moves from coast to coast. Imagine the countryside destroyed and great cities decimated as...
By John Bunyan
This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most entertaining allegories of faith ever written. Set...
By J.D. Salinger
Nine Stories (1953) is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger published in April 1953. It includes two of his most...
By Kurt Vonnegut
In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car...