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A schoolmistress's summer vacation is ruined—or is it?—in this delightful English village tale.The end of a school year often brings a burst of joy to children's hearts—and unmitigated rapture to those of their teachers. And so it is for Miss Read, schoolmistress in...
With a rare combination of emotional insight, narrative power, and lyrical grace, Justin Cronin transforms the simple story of a dying man’s last wish into a rich tapestry of family love.“A work of art . . . a great American novel.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer On an...
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,” Ernest Hemingway wrote. “It’s the best book we’ve had.” A complex masterpiece that spawned controversy right from the start (it was banished from the Concord library shelves in...
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Los Angeles Times • The Boston Globe • The Seattle Times • The IndependentIn such acclaimed novels as Let the Great World...
A gay poet is haunted by war and the AIDs crisis in this "sprawling fever dream of a novel" by the Dos Passos Prize-winning author of An Unnecessary Woman (NPR.org).Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, The Angel of History follows...
Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time.Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides—who would become known as Muad'Dib—and of a great family's ambition to...
"In a novel that unfolds like a dream," a New York Times–bestselling author "reminds readers that love and family create the most potent magic of all." —Philadelphia InquirerWriting at the height of her powers, Alice Hoffman conjures three generations of a family...
From the author of the Read with Jenna pick The Wedding People, a ruefully funny coming-of-age novel that deftly dissects matters of the heart and captures the lives of children and adults as they come to terms with life, death, and love.At the center of this affluent...
From the author of Rebecca and The Birds: a classic thriller of shipwreck and murder, "rich in suspense and surprise" (New York Times Book Review). On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honor of her...
"Enchanting . . . a strange tour of late eighteenth-century England, a natural history of elephants and the story of a most unusual friendship." —The Washington PostA poignant and magical story set in eighteenth-century England, The Elephant Keeper by Christopher...
