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Chicken Soup for the Soul
Chicken Soup for the Girl's Soul
Real Stories by Real Girls About Real Stuff
by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, Irene Dunlap
From Barbies to your first bra, from holding your teddy bear to slowdancing with your first boyfriend, from knowing everyone in elementary school to trying to make new friends in middle school. . . . When dealing with these changes, it's no wonder preteen girls can freak out from time to time. Consider Chicken Soup for the Girl's Soul your survival guide! From reading the true experiences of... (more)
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Skeleton Crew
by Stephen King
Twenty-two stories from the "wildly imaginative" #1 Bestselling Author In this brilliant collection of stories, Stephen King takes readers down paths that only he could imagine....A supermarket becomes the place where humanity takes its last stand against unholy destruction...a trip to the attic turns into a journey to hell...a woman driver finds a scary shortcut to paradise...an idyllic lake harbors a... (more)
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Wild Ducks Flying Backward
The Short Writings of Tom Robbins
by Tom Robbins
Known for his meaty seriocomic novels, Tom Robbins’s shorter work has appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper’s , from Playboy to the New York Times . Collected here for the first time in paperback, the essays, articles, observations—and even some untypical country-music lyrics—offer a rare overview of the eclectic sensibility of an American original. Whether rocking with the Doors,... (more)
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Chicken Soup for the Soul
Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
101 Stories of Changes, Choices and Growing Up for Kids Ages 9-13
by Jack Canfield, Rusty Fischer, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, Irene Dunlap
This survival guide to the preteen years is packed with stories by and about readers ages nine to thirteen, including celebrity pieces by *NSYNC, Mia Hamm and more. From remembering their own life experience or to watching their own children grow, most people recognize that the preteen years, ages nine to thirteen, can be one of the most awkward times in life-a period of tremendous physical and emotional... (more)
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Horseradish
Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
by Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket's work is filled with bitter truths, like: 'It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself.' Or: 'It is very easy to say that the important thing is to try your best, but if you are in real trouble the most important thing is not trying your best, but getting to safety.' For all of life's ups and downs, its... (more)
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My Secret Garden
Women's Sexual Fantasies
by Nancy Friday
When it first appeared, My Secret Garden created a storm of outrage and exhilaration. Women who read it were astonished to find in its pages the hidden content of their own sexual fantasies. More outspoken, graphic, and taboo-shattering than any book before its time, My Secret Garden quickly became the classic study of female sexuality. Today, millions of women have made Nancy Friday's groundbreaking... (more)
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
by David Sedaris
'When apple-picking season ended, I got a Job in a packing plant and gravitated towards short stories, which I could read during my break and reflect upon for the remainder of my shift. A good one would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit ...Once, before leaving on vacation, I copied an entire page from an Alice Munro story and left it in my typewriter, hoping a... (more)
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The Essential Rumi
by Rumi
The ecstatic, spiritual poetry of thirteenth-century Sufi mystic Rumi has enchanted the world, and doubtless its appeal is due to its unique blend of beauty, insight, wit, daring and depth. Coleman Barks, through his musical and magical translations, has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a remarkably wide range of literary and spiritual readers, lovers, and seekers. With the addition of... (more)
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
by Robert Frost
A feast for lovers of American literature-the work of our greatest poet, redesigned and relaunched for a new generation of readers No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not Taken" to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," he refined and even defined our sense of what poetry is and what it can do. T. S. Eliot judged him "the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American... (more)
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Dark Visions
Dark Visions
The Strange Power; The Posessed; The Passion
by L. J. Smith
GIFTED AND CURSED Kaitlyn Fairchild has always felt like an outsider in her small hometown. Her haunting eyes and prophetic drawings have earned her a reputation as a witch. But Kait's not a witch: She's a psychic. Tired of being unaccepted and different, Kait accepts an invitation to attend the Zetes Institute, where she can have a fresh start and try to tame her powers with other psychic teens. Learning to... (more)
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The Paris Review Book: of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, Travels, the Art of Writing, and Everything Else in the World Since 1953
by The Paris Review
For a half-century, The Paris Review has published writing and interviews from the world's most brilliant authors. To commemorate the anniversary, a breathtakingly diverse and illuminating anthology has been assembled. The greatest writers here write and speak upon the greatest subjects of our time: Lorrie Moore and Raymond Carver on Heartbreak, Vladimir Nabokov on Sex, Kurt Vonnegut and Susan Sontag on War,... (more)
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has had a dramatic impact on computer science curricula over the past decade. This long-awaited revision contains changes throughout the text. There are new implementations of most of the major programming systems in the book, including the interpreters and compilers, and the authors have incorporated many small changes that reflect their experience teaching ... (more)
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The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics: From Albert Einstein to Stephen W. Hawking and From Annie Dillard to John Updike - an Eloquent ... Collection From More Than 90 of This Centu
by Clifton Fadiman
The writings of more than 60 authors including Isaac Asimov, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Pierre Curie, Primo Levi and James Gleick, are represented in this volume. Each expresses a perspective on the Sciences.
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All the Available Light: A Marilyn Monroe Reader
by Yona Zeldis McDonough
No star in any genre has affected the world as deeply or has lasted as long without fading as Marilyn Monroe. This thought-provoking and wide-ranging collection of essays examines the undiminished incandescence of Marilyn Monroe -- the impact she has had on our culture, the evolution of her legend since her death, and what she tells us now about our lives and times -- and includes previously unpublished work from... (more)
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No Rest for the Witches
Voodoo Moon/ The Majicka/ Breath of Magic/ Any Witch Way She Can
by Lori Handeland, MaryJanice Davidson, Cheyenne McCray, Christine Warren
FOUR WITCHES ON A MAN HUNT From broomsticks to black magic, leather-clad warriors to love potions gone wrong, here you’ll find four stories of supernatural sex and suspense from some of today’s hottest bestselling authors. MaryJanice Davidson “The Majicka” Life’s a bit crowded for Ireland and her roommates—a fairy, a werewolf, a vampire, and now a zombie…especially when a mysterious man walks through... (more)
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Garfield: Book 14
Garfield Swallows His Pride
by Jim Davis
Here's Garfield at his most appealing. Debonair, wise beyond his years--and funny! When you crave sarcasm, rapier wit, pithy comments, and lots of belly laughs, Garfield's the one who has it all! So take a look inside at the latest collection of vignettes from the life of the most lovable cat around.
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable
by John Brockman
From Copernicus to Darwin, to current-day thinkers, scientists have always promoted theories and unveiled discoveries that challenge everything society holds dear; ideas with both positive and dire consequences. Many thoughts that resonate today are dangerous not because they are assumed to be false, but because they might turn out to be true. What do the world's leading scientists and thinkers consider to be... (more)
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There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled
The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure
A rolling stone may gather no moss, but one thing it does gather is funny stories, as this collection of goofy travel essays shows. The perfect trip, where nothing goes wrong, is surely not the memorable trip, which is where "everything" goes wrong and one lives to tell the tale and laugh about it.
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The Poets' Corner
The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family
by John Lithgow
From listening to his grandmother recite epic poems from memory to curling up in bed while his father read funny verses, award-winning actor John Lithgow grew up with poetry. Ever since, John has been an enthusiastic seeker of poetic experience, whether reading, reciting, or listening to great poems. The wide variety of carefully selected poems in this book provides the perfect introduction to appeal to... (more)
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Best American Essays: Book 2007
The Best American Essays 2007 (The Best American Series)
The twenty-two essays in this powerful collection -- perhaps the most diverse in the entire series -- come from a wide variety of periodicals, ranging from n + 1 and PMS to the New Republic and The New Yorker, and showcase a remarkable range of forms. Read on for narrative -- in first and third person -- opinion, memoir, argument, the essay-review, confession, reportage, even a dispatch from Iraq. The philosopher... (more)

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