By William Shakespeare,
Linda Alchin, Antoni Cimolino (Stage Director), Shelagh O'Brien (Film Director)
In 1603, James VI of Scotland ascended the English throne, becoming James I of England. London was alive with an interest in all things Scottish, and...
By Agatha Christie
First, there were ten—a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an...
By Janet Fitch
Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder...
By Alan Moore ,
David Lloyd (Illustrator), Steve Whitaker (Contributor), Siobhan Dodds (Contributor)
A powerful story about loss of freedom and individuality, V for Vendetta takes place in a totalitarian England following a devastating war that...
By Charlaine Harris
Things between cocktail waitress Sookie and her vampire boyfriend Bill seem to be going excellently (apart from the small matter of him being undead...
By Christopher Paul Curtis
It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him:...
By J.K. Rowling,
Mary GrandPré (Illustrator)
For Twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single...
By John Steinbeck
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth...
By Stephen King
Johnny, the small boy who skated at breakneck speed into an accident that for one horrifying moment plunged him into The Dead Zone. Johnny Smith, the...