• The Great American Read: The Book of Books: Explore America's 100 Best-Loved Novels

    A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series. What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour special in May 2018 revealing America's 100 best-loved novels, determined by a rigorous national survey. Subsequent episodes will air in September and October. Celebrities and everyday Americans will champion their favorite novel and in the finale in late October, America's #1 best-loved novel will b... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0316417556
    • ASIN: 0316417556
    • ISBN: 0316417556
    • Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal

  • 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

  • Fahrenheit 451

    Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1451673310
    • UPC: 642688055004
    • ASIN: 1451673310
    • ISBN: 9781451673319
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • The Life We Bury

    A USA Today bestseller and book club favorite! College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran--and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home, after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1616149981
    • ASIN: 1616149981
    • ISBN: 1616149981
    • Brand: Seventh Street Books
    • Manufacturer: Seventh Street Books

  • The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time (The Literature 100)

    Praise for the previous edition:"...provides interesting introductions to these great works..."—American Reference Books Annual "Fiction lovers...will be delighted...provoke[s] debate over literary values and encourage[s] deep reading of literature...Highly recommended..."—Library JournalWhich novels are truly great, and why? The Novel 100, Revised Edition is a unique reference that profiles great novels drawn from all cultures and periods of literature. Each entry provides a plot summary and assessment of a particular novel, with an emphasis on facts about the novel's creation, critical ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B007917NXK
    • ASIN: B007917NXK
    • Manufacturer: Facts on File

  • Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel

    Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland.Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the USA Today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours. Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager—obsessed with music, food, and girls—but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews esc... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1503943372
    • ASIN: 1503943372
    • ISBN: 1503943372
    • Brand: Lake Union Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

  • We Were the Lucky Ones: A Novel

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERInspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite—We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds.    “Love in the face of global adversity? It couldn't be more timely.” —Glamour   It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B01FRSZAUO
    • ASIN: B01FRSZAUO
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • The Hideaway

    In this USA TODAY and Amazon Charts Bestseller, Sara is wrenched back to Sweet Bay, Alabama, by her grandmother’s will, where she learns more about Margaret Van Buren in the wake of her death than she ever knew in her life. After her last remaining family member dies, Sara Jenkins goes home to The Hideaway, her grandmother Mags’s ramshackle B&B in Sweet Bay. She intends to quickly tie up loose ends then return to her busy life and thriving antique shop in New Orleans. Instead, she learns Mags has willed The Hideaway to her and charged her with renovating it—no small task considering her... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0718084225
    • ASIN: 0718084225
    • ISBN: 0718084225
    • Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
    • Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

  • The Things They Carried

    A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.   The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.  Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0618706410
    • UPC: 046442706414
    • ASIN: 0618706410
    • ISBN: 0544309766
    • Brand: Tim O Brien
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • That Month in Tuscany

    That Month in Tuscany . . .Ren Sawyer and Lizzy Harper live completely different lives. He’s a rock star with a secret he can no longer live with. She’s a regular person whose husband stood her up for a long planned anniversary trip. On a flight across the Atlantic headed for Italy, a drunken pity party and untimely turbulence literally drop Lizzy into Ren’s lap. It is the last thing she can imagine ever happening to someone like her. But despite their surface differences, they discover an undeniable pull between them. A pull that leads them both to remember who they had once been before... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00MSR5EJA
    • ASIN: B00MSR5EJA
    • Manufacturer: Fence Free Entertainment, LLC

  • Spilled Milk: Based on a true story

    "Randis later would testify at a criminal trial against her father, who was sentenced to prison for his crimes. He was sentenced to up to 16 years in 2004. Her painful -- and ultimately triumphant -- story is recounted in Randis' first novel, "Spilled Milk." -Stacy Brown, Pocono Record Newspaper"I read this book in two days. I couldn't put it down." - Chelsea DeBoer, Teen Mom 2 "Spilled Milk is a story about resilience. The strength of the human mind and will power to live a better life." - The Weekly Sparkle"This book has changed lives." -Gabrielle Stone, Actress "The honest, raw open... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0615835600
    • ASIN: 0615835600
    • ISBN: 0615835600
    • Manufacturer: K.L Randis

  • The Girl Who Lived: A Thrilling Suspense Novel

    Ten years ago, four people were brutally murdered. One girl lived.No one believes her story.The police think she's crazy.Her therapist thinks she's suicidal.Everyone else thinks she's a dangerous drunk.They're all right--but did she see the killer?As the anniversary of the murders approaches, Faith Winters is released from the psychiatric hospital and yanked back to the last spot on earth she wants to be--her hometown where the slayings took place. Wracked by the lingering echoes of survivor's guilt, Faith spirals into a black hole of alcoholism and wanton self-destruction. Finding no solace a... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1683993039
    • ASIN: 1683993039
    • ISBN: 1683993039
    • Manufacturer: Greyson Media Associates

  • All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel

    - A New York Times and USA Today bestseller - Book of the Month Club 2016 Book of the Year - Second Place Goodreads Best Fiction of 2016A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the Midwestern meth lab backdrop of their lives.As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she f... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1250153964
    • ASIN: 1250153964
    • ISBN: 9781250153968
    • Manufacturer: A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin

  • The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

    Here you can find our list of the 100 greatest novels of all time.

    • ASIN: B01CQ5AER0
    • ASIN: B01CQ5AER0
    • Manufacturer: Centaur Editions

  • The Tuscan Child

    From New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Rhys Bowen comes a haunting novel about a woman who braves her father’s hidden past to discover his secrets… “Pass the bread, the olives, and the wine. Oh, and a copy of The Tuscan Child to savor with them.” —NPRIn 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into the verdant fields of German-occupied Tuscany. Badly wounded, he found refuge in a ruined monastery and in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. But the love that kindled between them was shaken by an irreversible betrayal.Nearly thirty years ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1503951812
    • ASIN: 1503951812
    • ISBN: 1503951812
    • Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

  • Sons and Lovers (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #34] - eBook

    «Sons and Lovers» is a 1913 novel by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. The Modern Library placed it ninth on their list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century. While the novel

    • UPC: 737439534
    • Rating: 3.41

  • The Sorrows of Young Werther (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #83] - eBook

    "Nature has endowed [Goethe] more generously than anyone since Shakespeare." —Friedrich Schiller"[In] 'Werther', all the richness of [Goethe’s] gift was apparent… The extreme, nerve-shattering sensitivity of the little book… evoked a storm of applause which

    • UPC: 403475120
    • Rating: 3.944

  • Persuasion (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #100] - eBook

    Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded

    • UPC: 205914744
    • Rating: 4.126

  • The Princess of Cleves (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #53] - eBook

    "One of the greatest [French novels]." —Malcolm Cowley"A story of hopeless love and mute renunciation in which the stately tenor of the lives depicted is hardly ruffled by the exultations and agonies succeeding each other

    • UPC: 905639913
    • Rating: 3.412

  • Emma (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #38] - eBook

    Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives

    • UPC: 692303060
    • Rating: 4.038

  • Anna Karenina (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #12] - eBook

    "The best novel ever written." —William Faulkner"A perfect work of art." —Fyodor Dostoyevsky"One of the greatest love stories in world literature." —Vladimir NabokovConsidered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, “Anna Karenina” is

    • UPC: 976862217
    • Rating: 4.008

  • The Time Machine (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #96] - eBook

    "[Wells] contrives to give over humanity into the clutches of the Impossible and yet manages to keep it down (or up) to its humanity, to its flesh, blood, sorrow, folly." —Joseph Conrad"The most important writer

    • UPC: 389927541
    • Rating: 3.816

  • Great Expectations (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #16] - eBook

    "Dickens’ most compactly perfect book." —George Bernard Shaw"‘Great Expectations’ has the most wonderful and most perfectly worked-out plot for a novel in the English language." —John Irving"The most unified and concentrated expression of Dickens’s abiding

    • UPC: 628657887
    • Rating: 3.88

  • Vanity Fair (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #27] - eBook

    «Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero» is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847–48, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain. The book's title comes from John Bunyan's allegorical story The Pilgrim's

    • UPC: 829222380
    • Rating: 3.899

  • Demons (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #42] - eBook

    "One of humanity’s most impressive achievements — perhaps even its supreme achievement — in the art of prose fiction." —Ronald Hingley"Dostoyevsky’s most confused and violent novel, and his most satisfyingly 'tragic' work." —Joyce Carol Oates"Out

    • UPC: 306358722
    • Rating: 4.263

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