• The Best Medicine (Dilbury Village #3)

    A love story for the books!She knows her way around risqué romances, but author, Charlie Faulkner, only dreams of starring in her own love story. Drowning her sorrows in takeaway pizza, she writes what she's never experienced.When she does venture out of her writing cave, chaos and medical disasters follow. After a trip to the emergency room, the handsome and capable doctor ignites long-forgotten sparks of passion. Guy Fitton is the guy for her and exactly what the doctor ordered. The only problem is that he may just see her as a crazy, accident-prone woman … not the desirable temptress she... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B079DJGD2Y
    • ASIN: B079DJGD2Y

  • The Overstory: A Novel


    • ASIN: 039363552X
    • ASIN: 039363552X
    • ISBN: 039363552X
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  • 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List

    “The ultimate literary bucket list.” —The Washington Post “If there’s a heaven just for readers, this is it.” —O, The Oprah Magazine          Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that’s as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, and enlightening as the 1,000-plus titles it recommends. Covering fiction, poetry, science and science fiction, memoir, travel writing, biography, children’s books, history, and more, 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die ranges across cultures and through time to offer an eclec... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1523504455
    • ASIN: 1523504455
    • ISBN: 1523504455
    • Brand: Workman Publishing Company
    • Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company

  • Love Medicine: Newly Revised Edition (P.S.)

    Set on and around a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, Love Medicine—the first novel by bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich—is the epic story about the intertwined fates of two families: the Kashpaws and the Lamartines.With astonishing virtuosity, each chapter draws on a range of voices to limn its tales. Black humor mingles with magic, injustice bleeds into betrayal, and through it all, bonds of love and family marry the elements into a tightly woven whole that pulses with the drama of life.Filled with humor, magic, injustice and betrayal, Erdrich blends family lo... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0061787426
    • ASIN: 0061787426
    • ISBN: 9780061787423
    • Brand: Harper Perennial
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

  • We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: A Novel

    Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker PrizeWinner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award One of the New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of 2013Named by The Christian Science Monitor as one of the top 15 works of fiction The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a middle-class American family, ordinary in every way but one...   Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. “I was raised with a chimpanzee,” she explains. “I tell you Fern was a chimp and alrea... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0142180823
    • ASIN: 0142180823
    • ISBN: 9780142180822
    • Brand: Plume
    • Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

  • To Have and Have Not


    • ASIN: 0684818981
    • ASIN: 0684818981
    • ISBN: 0684818981
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse: A Novel

    A New York Times Notable BookFor more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved Native American tribe, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Now, nearing the end of his life, Father Damien dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man. To further complicate his quiet existence, a troubled colleague comes to the reservation to investigate the life of the perplexing, possibly false saint Sister Leopolda. Father Damien alone knows the strange truth of Leopolda's piety, but these facts are bound up in his own sec... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0061577626
    • ASIN: 0061577626
    • ISBN: 0061577626
    • Brand: Erdrich, Louise
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

  • The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Hemingway Library Collector's Edition

    The fourth in the series of new annotated editions of Ernest Hemingway’s work, edited by the author’s grandson Seán and introduced by his son Patrick, this collection includes the best of the well-known classics as well as unpublished stories, early drafts, and notes that provide fascinating insight into the writing process of one of America’s greatest storytellers.Ernest Hemingway is a cultural icon—an archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in perpetual exile—but, to his countless readers, Hemingway remains a literary force much greater than his image... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 147678762X
    • ASIN: 147678762X
    • ISBN: 147678762X
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • Barkskins: A Novel


    • ASIN: 0743288785
    • ASIN: 0743288785
    • ISBN: 0743288785
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)

    In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0684830485
    • ASIN: 0684830485
    • ISBN: 9780684830483
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • Germinal (Penguin Classics)

    The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope.Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to take a back-breaking job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners are ill, hungry, and in debt, unable to feed and clothe their families. When conditions in the mining community deteriorate even further, Lantier finds himself leading... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0140447423
    • ASIN: 0140447423
    • ISBN: 0140447423
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

  • Delicious Foods: A Novel

    WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE HURSTON/WRIGHT LEGACY FICTION AWARDFINALIST FOR THE 2016 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES PRIZE FOR FICTION NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington PostA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Kirkus, BuzzFeed, National Post, Kansas City StarTOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Publishers WeeklyTOP 15 BOOKS OF THE YEAR: BookPageHeld captive by her employers--and by her own demons--on a mysterious farm, a widow struggles to reunite with her young son in this uniquely American story of freedom, perseverance, and... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0316284939
    • ASIN: 0316284939
    • ISBN: 0316284939
    • Brand: Back Bay Books
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

  • Crime and Poetry (A Magical Bookshop Mystery)

    From the national bestselling author of the Amish Quilt Shop Mysteries comes the first charming caper in the Magical Bookshop Mystery series.Rushing home to sit by her ailing grandmother’s bedside, Violet Waverly is shocked to find Grandma Daisy the picture of perfect health. Violet doesn’t need to read between the lines: her grandma wants Violet back home and working in her magical store, Charming Books. It’s where the perfect book tends to fly off the shelf and pick you...Violet has every intention to hightail it back to Chicago, but then a dead man is discovered clutching a volume of ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0451477448
    • ASIN: 0451477448
    • ISBN: 0451477448
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

  • Absalom's Daughters: A Novel

    A spellbinding debut about half sisters, one black and one white, on a 1950s road trip through the American SouthSelf-educated and brown-skinned, Cassie works full time in her grandmother’s laundry in rural Mississippi. Illiterate and white, Judith falls for “colored music” and dreams of life as a big city radio star. These teenaged girls are half-sisters. And when they catch wind of their wayward father’s inheritance coming down in Virginia, they hitch their hopes to a road trip together to claim what’s rightly theirs. In an old junk car, with a frying pan, a ham, and a few dollars ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1627794530
    • ASIN: 1627794530
    • ISBN: 1627794530
    • Brand: Henry Holt Co
    • Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.

  • Scar Lover

    Scar Lover is a miraculous, true-to-the-bone story of love and redemption, at once a classic southern novel and purely, unmistakably, Harry Crews.Running from a past that has scarred and blamed him, and a tragic accident that has destroyed his family, Pete Butcher avoids all personal contact. Then Sarah Leemer, the oddly beautiful girl next door, walks into his life. Slowly, sweetly, and with a determination almost Faulknerian in its ferocity, Sarah pulls Pete back into life and into the ever increasing complications of love, family, death, and deliverance. For Sarah has made Pete her own, and... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0671797867
    • ASIN: 0671797867
    • ISBN: 0671797867
    • Brand: Brand: Touchstone
    • Manufacturer: Touchstone

  • The Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner

    Offers forty-six stories, including twenty that were incorporated into longer works after magazine publication, eleven that appeared in periodicals, and fifteen never published at

    • UPC: 464904
    • Rating: 4.0

  • William Faulkner: Novels 1926-1929 (LOA #164) : Soldiers' Pay / Mosquitoes / Flags in the Dust / The Sound and the Fury

    The Library of America edition of the complete novels of William Faulkner culminates with this volume presenting his first four full-length works of fiction, each newly edited, and, in many cases, restored with passages that

    • UPC: 4125490

  • The Portable Faulkner

    In prose of biblical grandeur and feverish intensity, Faulkner reconstructed the history of the American South as a tragic legend of courage and cruelty, gallantry and greed, futile nobility and obscene

    • UPC: 2001804
    • Rating: 5.0

  • The Best of Bad Faulkner : Choice Entries from the Faux Faulkner Contest

    "As I Lay Dieting". "Abstinence! Abstinence!" "Lite in August". Contestants who entered the Faulkner Write-Alike Contest were encouraged to "pound in fury" at their keyboards to write the best bad Faulkner they could. For those

    • UPC: 53324925
    • Rating: 5.0

  • Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner - eBook

    This invaluable volume, which has been republished to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of Faulkner's birth, contains some of the greatest short fiction by a writer who defined the course of American literature. Its forty-five stories

    • UPC: 589672383
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Oprah's Book Club Summer 2005: A Summer of Faulkner : Three Novels: As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August

    As I Lay Dying-This novel is the harrowing account of the Bundren family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Told in turns by each of the family members-including Addie

    • UPC: 3930975
    • Rating: 5.0

  • The Sound and the Fury : The Corrected Text with Faulkner's Appendix

    Depicts the troubled childhood of Jason, Quentin, Caddy, and Benjy Compson, members of a southern

    • UPC: 380994
    • Rating: 4.074

  • Seeds : One Man's Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees That Inspired Famous American Writers from Faulkner to Kerouac, Welty to Wharton

    Author Richard Horan describes his travels from L. Frank Baum's childhood home to Harper Lee's Alabama, gathering tree seeds and stories from the homes of America's most treasured

    • UPC: 15228397
    • Rating: 3.0

  • William Faulkner Novels 1942-1954 (LOA #73) : Go Down, Moses / Intruder in the Dust / Requiem for a Nun / A Fable

    Gathering four works from a crucial period in the career of a Nobel Prize-winning author, an authoritative edition features restored texts of Go Down, Moses; Intruder in the Dust; Requiem for a Nun; and A

    • UPC: 204874
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Faulkner & Friends

    Faulkner & Friends

    • UPC: 52895626
    • Rating: 3.0

  • Guide to Absalom, Absalom -- William Faulkner’s greatest novel (Quentin Compson, Thomas Sutpen)

    Introduction to Reading William Faulkner - Lynda Zwinger

    Writing Advice from Grant Faulkner, NaNoWriMo Executive Director