By Agatha Christie
En route to London, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot has booked winter passage on the fabled Orient Express. Among the assortment of fellow...
By Elizabeth Kostova
Late one night, exploring her father’s library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to "My dear...
By Frances Hodgson Burnett,
Sandra M. Gilbert (Afterword)
This timeless classic is a poignant tale of Mary, a lonely orphaned girl sent to a Yorkshire mansion at the edge of a vast lonely moor. At first, she...
By Jules Verne,
Michael Glencross (Translator, Annotations), Brian W. Aldiss (Introduction)
"To go around the world...in such a short time and with the means of transport currently available, was not only impossible, it was madness"One ill-...
By J.K. Rowling,
Mary GrandPré (Illustrator)
The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry....
By Ally Condie
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe.So when Xander's face appears...
By Gregory Maguire,
Douglas Smith (illustrator), Jelena Bojić (Translator)
Liir hid in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Left for dead in a gully, the teen is shattered in spirit and body. But silent...
By William Shakespeare,
Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor), Catherine Belsey (Contributor)
Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for...
By Mildred D. Taylor
Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year—the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a...
By Frank Herbert
Set in the far future amidst a sprawling feudal interstellar empire where planetary dynasties are controlled by noble houses that owe an allegiance...