Contemporary

Sixty years ago, on October 15, 1952, E.B. White's Charlotte's Web was published. It's gone on to become one of the most beloved children's books of all ti...

as Further Evidence Of His Family's Bad Fortune, Which They Attribute To A Curse On A Distant Relative, Stanley Yelnats Is Sent To A Hellish Boys' Juvenile...

A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression"A thriller, a gripping tale . . . that you will not set down until it is finishe...

A Specially Produced Paperback Edition -- With Flaps -- Of The Phenomenal #1 New York Times Bestseller, That Has Sold More Than Six Million Copies In Hardco...

They open a door and enter a world Narnia ... a land frozen in eternal winter ... a country waiting to be set free. Four adventurers step through a wardrob...

things Fall Apart Tells Two Intertwining Stories, Both Centering On Okonkwo, A “strong Man” Of An Ibo Village In Nigeria. The First, A Powerful Fable O...

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherma...

A Novel About Black Americans In Florida That Centers On The Life Of Janie And Her Three Marriages. Foreword / Edwidge Danticat -- Their Eyes Were Watching ...

The classic novella from Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck explores the secrets of man's nature, the darkest depths of evil, and the luminous possibilities...

A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood. A fox saw the mouse and the mouse looked good. Walk further into the deep dark wood, and discover what hap...

Narnia. . .where The Woods Are Thick And Cool, Where Talking Beasts Are Called To Life. . .a New World Where The Adventure Begins. digory And Polly Meet A...

After more than a quarter of a century and three million copies in print, Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, The Killer Angels, re...

Who does not wish that they could overcome evil, tribulation, sorrow, and pain, and transform them all for the praise and glory of God? Who does not want t...

acclaimed As One Of The Most Exciting Books In The History Of American Letters, This Modern Epic Became An Instant Bestseller Upon Publication In 1974, Tr...

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth f...

Jack London became one of, and perhaps the most successful writer of the turn of the 20th century. Fifty-one of his books, innumerous articles and short st...

A writer visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. His grandmother won't talk about it...

somewhere In South America, At The Home Of The Country's Vice President, A Lavish Birthday Party Is Being Held In Honor Of Mr. Hosokawa, A Powerful Japanes...

Olive Torres is used to being the unlucky twin: from inexplicable mishaps to a recent layoff, her life seems to be almost comically jinxed. By contrast, her...

Winner Of The 2002 Man Booker Prize For Fiction Pi Patel Is An Unusual Boy. The Son Of A Zookeeper, He Has An Encyclopedic Knowledge Of Animal Behavior, A F...

This classic, second only to the Bible for religious instruction and inspiration, has brought understanding and comfort to millions for centuries. Written...

the Scarlet Letter Is The Story Of Three New England Settlers At Odds With The Puritan Society In Which They Live. Roger Chillingworth, An Aging Scholar, Ar...

"Matt, I need a war."So begins David Baldacci's new book--a thriller unlike any he's written before. "Matt" is Mathew Pender, of Pender Associates--a shadow...

This best-selling tale is based on the biblical figures of David, Saul, and Absalom. For the many Christians who have experienced pain, loss, and heartache...

The New York Times bestseller“The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as it...

enzo Knows He Is Different From Other Dogs: A Philosopher With A Nearly Human Soul (and An Obsession With Opposable Thumbs), He Has Educated Himself By Wat...

With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with c...

Set in 1935 England, this New York Times bestseller is enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class, making it a profound—an...

It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny—the only child, yearning to break free from her ador...

When Seventeen-year-old Bella Leaves Phoenix To Live With Her Father In Forks, Washington, She Meets An Exquisitely Handsome Boy At School For Whom She Feel...

Noah Calhoun, Recently Returned From World War Ii In 1946, Buys An Old Plantation Home In Rural North Carolina, Where He Contents Himself With Memories Of H...

A New York Times Bestseller A decade after the publication of this hugely popular international bestseller, Picador releases the tenth anniversary edition...

In the India of the mid-1970s, Indira Gandhi's government has just come to power. It institutionalizes corruption and arbitrary force, most oppressive to ...

“Radiant as [To the Lighthouse] is in its beauty, there could never be a mistake about it: here is a novel to the last degree severe and uncompromising. ...

Born with no air in his lungs, it was only when Reuben Land's father, Jeremiah, picked him up and commanded him to breathe that Reuben's lungs filled. Reub...

From the author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie, a new novel that millions of fans have been waiting for. "Every family is a...

January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins ...

Determined to make her heroine "as poor and plain as myself," Charlotte Brontë made a daring choice for her 1847 novel. Jane Eyre possesses neither the gre...

This Is The Tale Of Family, Memory, Love, And Living Told By 14-year-old Susie Salmon, Who Is Already In Heaven. Through The Voice Of A Precocious Teenage G...

Here is Oscar Wilde's most brilliant tour de force, a witty and buoyant comedy of manners that has delighted millions in countless productions since its fir...

an Orphaned Boy And A Kidnapped Horse Gallop For Narnia ... And Freedom. 'excellent For Homeschool Use' school Library Journal gr 4-7-british Narrator Alex...

Set in an unnamed Caribbean seaport, Garcia Marquez's extraordinary Love in the Time of Cholera (1988) relates one of literature's most remarkable stories ...

A Song of Ice and Fire, Book Two: As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to o...

The Small Town Of Chester's Mill, Maine, Is Faced With A Big Dilemma When It Is Mysteriously Sealed Off By An Invisible And Completely Impenetrable Force Fi...

Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, toss...

Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you know from the opening page that this is the real thing–a l...

Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in tum-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poi...

“The Last Letter is a haunting, heartbreaking and ultimately inspirational love story.“—InTouch WeeklyBeckett,If you’re reading this, well, you know the las...