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Eight Cousins

Nutcracker (Scholastic Junior Classics)

by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Jane B. Mason

It's Christmas Eve and Marie has found a funny-looking nutcracker under the tree. Marie's godfather says this nutcracker once saved a beautiful princess from a horrible spell cast by the wicked Mouse Queen. But Nutcracker is in danger-the Mouse King seeks revenge! Now Nutcracker must face off against the seven-headed King of Mice-and he needs Marie's help to win the battle!

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities , by Charles Dickens , is considered a classic of English literature. It is an early nineteenth century Romantic novel set in the period of the French Revolution.

Madame Secretary

by Madeleine Albright

In this outspoken and much-praised memoir, the highest-ranking woman in American history shares her remarkable story and provides an insider's view of world affairs during a period of unprecedented turbulence. A national bestseller on its first publication in 2003, Madam Secretary combines warm humor with profound insights and personal testament with fascinating additions to the historical record.

Water Music (The Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)

Water Music (The Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)

by T. Coraghessan Boyle

Toussaint Louverture: A Biography

by Madison Smartt Bell

In 1791, Saint Domingue was both the richest and cruelest colony in the Western Hemisphere; more than a third of African slaves died within a few years of their arrival there. Thirteen years later, Haitian rebels declared independence from France after the first--and only--successful slave revolution in history. Much of the success of this uprising can be credited to one man, Toussaint Louverture--a figure about... (more)

Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories

by Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction. At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on an outdoor stage. In a mansion once occupied by The Rolling Stones, Marilyn Manson reads his own... (more)

Quick studies : the best of Lingua Franca

Quick studies : the best of Lingua Franca

Lingua Franca covered the intellectual life of the 1990s--when American scholars took to the public stage as never before--with wit and passion and helped establish many of the leading voices in American journalism today. Dedicated to the proposition that academia can compete for interest with Hollywood and Washington, Lingua Franca explained, in depth, the ideas of the decade--and told some of its least... (more)

Haunted America

by Michael Norman, Beth Scott

Six Characters in Search of an Author (A Play)Luigi Pirandello

Six Characters in Search of an Author (A Play)

by Luigi Pirandello

Come Along with MeShirley Jackson

Come Along with Me

by Shirley Jackson

Woe Is I : The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English

Woe Is I : The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English

by Patricia T. O'Conner

The bestselling grammar book has been updated and revised to include the latest and greatest on the basics and subtleties of English, and features a new chapter on the language of the Internet.

Swimming Lessons : And Other Stories from Firozsha Baag

Swimming Lessons : And Other Stories from Firozsha Baag

by Rohinton Mistry

Firozsha Baag is an apartment building in Bombay. Its ceilings need plastering and some of the toilets leak appallingly, but its residents are far from desperate, though sometimes contentious and unforgiving. In these witty, poignant stories, Mistry charts the intersecting lives of Firozsha Baag, yielding a delightful collective portrait of a middle-class Indian community poised between the old ways and the new.... (more)

Dialogues. (English.)

by Plato

The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of Classical Athens. In tracing these events through four dialogues, Plato also developed his own philosophy, based on Socrates' manifesto for a life guided by self-responsibility. Euthyphro finds Socrates outside the court-house, debating the nature of piety, while The Apology is his robust... (more)

Kaffir Boy : The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

Kaffir Boy : The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

by Mark Mathabane

Country of My Skull : Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa

Country of My Skull : Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa

by Antjie Krog

Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind bars, South Africa has been undergoing a radical transformation. In one of the most miraculous events of the century, the oppressive system of apartheid was dismantled. Repressive laws mandating separation of the races were thrown out. The country, which had been carved into a crazy quilt that reserved the most... (more)

Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002

Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002

by Salman Rushdie

For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey... (more)

The Emperor of Ocean Park

by Stephen L. Carter

This is the most talked about fiction debut in years: a large, suspense-laden thriller that is also a novel of brilliantly astute social observation focusing on two fascinating worlds: that of the New York-Washington black upper middle class, and the complex world of an Ivy League law school. Judge Oliver Garland has just died in suspicious circumstances. Conservative and famously controversial, Garland has made... (more)

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924) was one of the most remarkable figures in English literature. Born in Poland, and originally named Josef Teodor Konrad Walecz Korzeniowski, he went to sea at the age of seventeen and eventually joined the crew of an English vessel, becoming a British citizen in the process. He retired from the sea in 1894 and took up the pen, writing all his works in English, a language he had only... (more)

Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers

Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers

by Judith Rollins

"Between Women" is the result of forty in-depth interviews, interviews enhanced by the author's own experience as a domestic worker for ten employers in the greater Boston area. The reader is quickly drawn into the world of domestic workers as the author allows the women to speak for themselves whenever possible. Clearly relevant to labor studies, women's studies and black studies, at its essence this book is a... (more)

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