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...
By Tracy Chevalier
History and fiction merge seamlessly in Tracy Chevalier's luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Through the eyes of sixteen-...
By Michael Ondaatje
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the...
By Laura Esquivel,
Thomas Christensen (Translator), Carol Christensen (Translater)
Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend...
By Alan Paton
Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s...
By Chinua Achebe
THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The...
By Robert Munsch,
Sheila McGraw (Illustrator)
An extraordinarily different story by Robert Munsch is a gentle affirmation of the love a parent feels for their child--forever. Sheila McGraw's soft...
By Greg Mortenson ,
David Oliver Relin
The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia.In April 2011, the CBS...
By Carlos Ruiz Zafón,
Lucia Graves (Translator)
The international literary sensation, about a boy's quest through the secrets and shadows of postwar Barcelona for a mysterious author whose book has...
By Italo Calvino,
William Weaver (Translator)
Librarian's Note: alternate cover edition for this edition is in here.Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately...