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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
by David Wroblewski
Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose thoughtful companionship is epitomized by Almondine, Edgar's lifelong
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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's...
by Eckhart Tolle
Building on the astonishing success of The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle presents readers with an honest look at the current state of humanity: He implores us to see and accept that this state, which is based on an erroneous identification with the egoic mind, is one of dangerous insanity.
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The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner, extolled Publishers Weekly on the release of The Pillars of the Earth. A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, the historical epic stunned readers and critics alike with its ambitious scope and gripping humanity. Today, it is a
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Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Cal Stephanides, hermaphrodite, recounts the history of his family, starting in 1922 in Smyrna, from where his grandparents embark for America, moving to Detroit where the family settles, and ending up in San Francisco, where Cal's sexual ambiguity finds its proper home. A New York Times
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The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
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.
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The Measure of a Man (Oprah's Book Club)
by Sidney Poitier
In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguably the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of the man behind the many storied roles.
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Night
by Elie Wiesel
It is 1944. The Jews of Sighet, Hungary are rounded up and driven into Nazi concentration camps. For the next terrible year, young Elie Wiesel experiences the loss of everything he loves -- home, friends, family -- in an agonizing journey through Birkenau, Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald.
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A Million Little Pieces
by James Frey
A searing and controversial story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation, told with the charismatic energy of Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the revelatory power of Burroughs' Junky . By the time James Frey enters a drug and alcohol treatment facility, he has so
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Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers was all of twenty-three when she published her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter . She became an overnight literary sensation, and soon such authors as Tennessee Williams were calling her 'the greatest prose writer that the South [has] produced.' Available now for
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Fall on Your Knees
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
...Ann-Marie MacDonald writes of several generations of a Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia family in this resonant first novel....Ms. MacDonald skillfully shifts the story backward and forward in time, giving it a mythic quality that allows dark, half-buried secrets to be gracefully and
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