Doctor Zhivago

by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

The publication of DOCTOR ZHIVAGO was surrounded by great controversy. Pasternak's manuscript received a cool reception from Soviet publishers in Moscow, and the author, despairing of ever seeing the book in print, had a copy of the manuscript submitted to an Italian publisher. As a result, the first publication of the book was in Italy in 1956. ...

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Eva Luna

by Isabel Allende

This immensely popular, lushly romantic epic tale of an orphaned girl who rises from rags to riches is one of Allende's richest fantasies, reinforcing her reputation as one of Latin America's best storytellers and a celebrated writer in both the feminist and magical-realist traditions.

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The Tooth Book

by Dr Seuss, Roy McKie (Illustrator), Theo LeSieg

Rhyming text and illustrations briefly point out what animals have teeth, their uses, and how to care for them.

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Seekers

by John Jakes

The third installment of Jakes's classic story of the Kent family finds Abraham Kent seeking to build a new life on the Western frontier. This repackaged edition includes a new Introduction by the author. Reissue.

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One Hungry Monster: A Counting Book in Rhyme

by Susan Heyboer O'Keefe

One hungry monster, underneath my bed, moaning and groaning, and begging to be fed. That's how this monstrous adventure begins. What follows is a hilarious romp through the house as a young boy tries to control his naughty but lovable guests, whose high jinks get wilder as the numbers get higher. Here's the rambunctious story, full of mischief and ...

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Read All about It!: Great Read-Aloud Stories, Poems, and Newspaper Pieces for PR

by Jim Trelease (Editor)

Great read-aloud selections for teenagers, families and teachers from the bestselling author of The New Read-Aloud Handbook. This collection of 48 works from newspapers, magazines, and books features works from Pete Hamill, Maya Angelou, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Gary Paulsen, and others.

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Shark Dialogues

by Kiana Davenport

Spanning the years from the early 19th century to our own troubled times, Shark Dialogues is the extraordinary and irresistible story of one sprawling and spirited Hawaiian family, whose origins lie in the fateful meeting of a shipwrecked Yankee sailor and a runaway Tahitian princess.

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Dog Who Wouldn't Be

by Farley Mowat

The story of Mowat's boyhood pet, a dog of indeterminate breed and eccentric habits but of quite remarkable character and personality.

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Being there

by Jerzy N Kosinski

Chauncey Gardner is a pleasant, dim-witted nobody who becomes a media celebrity, rising to prominence for no particular reason. Kosinsky's classic satire of the power of the media--and especially television--was made into an Oscar-winning movie in 1979.

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Generations of Winter

by Vassily Aksyonov

In the tradition of epic Russian fiction, a magnificent saga of one Moscow family in the cataclysmic years 1928-1945, by the celebrated author of The Burn and In Search of Melancholy Baby. A brilliant blend of real and fictional characters portrays the Gradov family as they are engulfed in heroism and sacrifice, victory and loss.

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Castle

by Franz Kafka

Published posthumously, Kafka's novel--a major modernist/symbolist work--is about a surveyor, known only as K., who struggles with an absurd, implacable bureaucracy in an attempt to penetrate a dimly defined "castle." The characters in Kafka's allegory inhabit a strange world, comic and dreamlike, that has come to be known as "Kafkaesque."

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If You Were a Writer

by Joan Lowery Nixon

Melia's mother is a writer and Melia thinks she might like to be one as well. With her mother's encouragement and gentle suggestions, Melia learns some practical tips for creating stories. Watercolor illustrations accompany the text.

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Bend Sinister

by Vladimir Nabokov

Nabokov's first novel written in America was inspired by his vision of the madness of totalitarianism, which he called "idiotic and despicable." Adam Krug, an internationally celebrated professor of philosophy, is asked by an old schoolmate, now a power-mad dictator, to lend his support to his brutal regime. Krug refuses. His friends are ...

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Roman Fever & Other Stories

by Edith Wharton

A collection of beautifully-crafted short stories. They are set in Italy, France and America and are powerful portraits of women who live in 'the world of propriety' at the turn of the century. They tell of the emotions women feel: in love, in jealousy, when they long for children or seek independence - and when their passions lead them to ...

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Fire Cat

by Esther Averill

This is the story of Pickles, a young cat who gets into lots of trouble until he is adopted by local firemen.

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Voss

by Patrick White

Set in 19th-century Australia, this is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a young orphan. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for each other. The Australian author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973.

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Jean-Christophe

by Romain Rolland

Rolland's massive roman-fleuve about a great composer and his art was published in three volumes between 1902 and 1912.

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Four Great American Classics

by Bantam Doubleday Dell (Editor), Stephen Crane, Mark Twain

Novels by Hawthorne, Twain, Crane, and Melville.

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Unquiet Earth

by Denise Giardina

The author of the successful Storming Heaven returns to Appalachia for her acclaimed new novel--winner of the 1992 Lillian Smith Book Award of the Southern Regional Council. The story is a superb saga of three people whose lives entwine in love and politics, in Depression era West Virginia, in the shadow of dying mines and the doomed union ...

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Galatea 2.2

by Richard Powers

The fictional protagonist, Richard Powers, becomes involved with Philip Lentz and his scheme to train a neural net on a canonical list of great books until the machine is capable of passing an English literature exam. As the device grows, Powers is forced to reconsider his literary vocation.

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Six memos for the next millennium

by Italo Calvino

This collection of five lectures Calvino was about to deliver at the time of his death is his legacy to us; the universal values he pinpoints become watchwords for our appreciation of Calvino himself. The five most important qualities for a writer, he says in one essay, are lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity.

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Tin Can Tree

by Anne Tyler

When young Jamie Pike dies in a tragic accident, she leaves behind a family numbed with grief and torn with guilt and recrimination. In this compassionate and haunting novel Anne Tyler explores how each member of the family learns to face the future in their own way.

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Ten Red Apples

by Pat Hutchins

There are ten red apples hanging on the tree. Yippee, fiddle-dee-fee! But one by one, along come the farm animals and soon there is just one red apple left...

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The drinker

by Hans Fallada

An autobiographical novel written during the Second World War in Germany in 1944 during the author's confinement in a medical asylum. It is a self-portrait of an alcoholic and the effect of his behaviour on his surroundings, especially on his deteriorating marriage. Hans Fallada (1893-1947) was a documentary novelist, most famous for his "Little ...

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The Great American Novel

by Philip Roth

Gill Gamesh, the only pitcher who ever literally tried to kill the umpre. The ex-con first baseman, John Baal, 'The Babe Ruth of the Big House', who never hit a home-run sober. If you've never heard of them - or of the Rupert Mundys, the only homeless big-league ball team in American history - it's because of the Communist plot, and the capitalist ...

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