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One flew over the cuckoo's nest : a novel
by Ken Kesey
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1962; 311 p.; isbn:0140043128 More Information |
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Interpreter of maladies : stories
Jhumpa Lahiri
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A New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award Notable Book of the Year: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, and Publishers Weekly The nine stories in this stunning debut collection unerringly chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers ...
1999; 198 p.; isbn:039592720X More Information |
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Sons and lovers
D.H. Lawrence ; edited with introduction and notes by Helen Baron and Carl Baron
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For the first time, Sons and Lovers appears in paperback in its complete form, including the restoration of 80 passages missing from previous editions. Drawing on both the physical setting and emotional atmosphere of his own childhood, Lawrence's evocation of a working-class life and of family conflicts is a literary masterpiece rich in insights into ...
1994; 497 p.; isbn:0140188320 More Information |
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Three complete novels
D.H. Lawrence
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1993; 1116 p.; isbn:1566191025 |
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The fortress of solitude : a novel
Jonathan Lethem
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"This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus in black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively black and Latino despite the first whispers of something that will become known as "gentrification."" ...
2003; 511 p.; isbn:0385500696 More Information |
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Life of Pi : a novel
Yann Martel ; with illustrations by Tomislav Torjanac
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Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain
2007; 315 p.; isbn:0151013837 More Information |
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The road
by Cormac McCarthy
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"A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. They sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know ...
2006; 241 p.; isbn:0307265439 More Information |
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The English patient : a novel
Michael Ondaatje
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With ravishing beauty & unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man ...
1992; 307 p.; isbn:0679416781 More Information |
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My sister's keeper
Jodi Picoult.
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Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body.
2004; 423 p.; isbn:0743454529 More Information |
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The reader
Bernhard Schlink ; translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway
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1997; 218 p.; isbn:0375707972 More Information |
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Snow flower and the secret fan : a novel
Lisa See.
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2005; 258 p.; isbn:1400060281 More Information |
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One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
Alexander Solzhenitsyn ; translated from the Russian by H.T. Willetts ; with an introduction by John Bayley
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1995; 159 p.; isbn:0679444645 More Information |
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