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The Mist
by Stephen King
Fear changes everything. After a mysterious mist envelops a small New England town, a group of locals trapped in a supermarket must battle a siege of otherworldly creatures ...and the fears that threaten to tear them apart. Stephen King's sinister imagination and the astonishing 3-D sound surrounds you with horror so real that you'll be grabbing your own arm for reassurance. In the impenetrable mist, hearing is... (more)
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Robert Langdon: Book 2
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
Brown's latest thriller (after Angels and Demons) is an exhaustively researched page-turner about secret religious societies, ancient coverups and savage vengeance.The action kicks off in modern-day Paris with the murder of the Louvre's chief curator,whose body is found laid out in symbolic repose at the foot of the Mona Lisa. Seizing control of the case are Sophie Neveu, a lovely French police cryptologist, and... (more)
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Calhoun Family Saga: Book 1
The Notebook
by Nicholas Sparks
The Notebook, a Southern-fried story of love-lost-and-found-again, revolves around a single time-honored romantic dilemma: will beautiful Allison Nelson stay with Mr. Respectability (to whom she happens to be engaged), or will she choose Noah, the romantic rascal she left so many years ago?
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Peter Pan
or, Peter Pan and Wendy
by J. M. Barrie
It was Friday night. Mr and Mrs Darling were dining out. Nana had been tied up in the backyard. The poor dog was barking, for she could smell danger. And she was right — this was the night that Peter Pan would take the Darling children on the most breath-taking adventure of their lives, to a place called Neverland, a strange country where the lost boys live and never grow up, a land with mermaids, fairies and... (more)
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Book 2
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was an easy book to read and it was a very creative story. This story is for more of a younger age group and is basically a fairy tale filled with many creatures, friends to help the main characters, and a happy ending.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Book 1
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
The first of six books in this "trilogy" which is adapted from Adams' radio series with the same name.
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Harry Potter: Book 5
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
by J. K. Rowling
Book five in Joanne Kathleen Rowling's Harry Potter series follows the darkest year yet for the young wizard, who finds himself knocked time after time the events of last year. Over the summer, gossip (usually traced back to the magic world's newspaper, the Daily Prophet) has turned Harry's tragic and heroic encounter with Lord Voldemort at the Triwizard Tournament into an excuse to ridicule and discount the... (more)
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Harry Potter: Book 3
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter is having a rough year. When he first runs away from his Aunt and Uncle he finds out that a notorious criminal is after him, and starts to wonder why. At the beginning of his 3rd year, thinks he may have seen a death omen in one of his special classes. In this third book of the hugely popular Harry Potter series, Harry finds himself on his greatest adventure yet! Finding himself face to face with a... (more)
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
There are few more convincing, less sentimental accounts of love than Wuthering Heights. This is the story of a tormented foundling who falls in love with the daughter of his benefactor, and of the violence and misery that result from their thwarted longing for each other.
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Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world. For the protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri, one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess. We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative of a... (more)
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Sophie's World
A Novel about the History of Philosophy
by Jostein Gaarder
Sophie's World (Sofies verden in the original Norwegian) is a novel by Jostein Gaarder, published in 1991. It was originally written in Norwegian, but has since been translated into English (1995) and at least 53 other languages. It sold over 30 million copies and is one of the most successful Norwegian novels outside Norway.Mostly consisting of dialogues between Sophie Amundsen and a mysterious man... (more)
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The Green Mile
The Two Dead Girls / The Mouse on the Mile / Coffey's Hands / The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix / Night Journey / Coffey on the Mile
by Stephen King, Frank Darabont
Read this history-making serial novel -- from cliffhanger to cliffhanger -- in its entirety. When it first appeared, one volume per month, Stephen King's The Green Mile was an unprecedented publishing triumph: all six volumes ended up on the New York Times bestseller list -- simultaneously -- and delighted millions of fans the world over. Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the... (more)
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Dead Poets Society
by N. H. Kleinbaum
A major June film release from Touchstone Films, this movie tie-in is a sure seller. Starring Robin Williams, this is the poignant story of an eccentric and charismatic English teacher who brings new life to a conservative boys' prep school in Vermont.
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Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays (Vintage)
by Richard Linklater
In one volume, the screenplays to two contemporary classics, directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, about the immediate and life-altering attraction between two strangers. On a train from Budapest to Vienna, Jesse, a young American student, at the end of a romance and his European trip, meets Celine, a young French woman. They are immediately attracted. Despite knowing this may... (more)
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Board Game: Book 1
Jumanji
by Chris Van Allsburg
The game under the tree looked like a hundred others Peters and Judy had at home. But they were bored and restless and, looking for something interesting to do, thought they'd give Jumanji a try. Little did they know when they unfolded its ordinary-looking playing board that they were about to be plunged into the most exciting and bizare adventure of their lives. In his second book for children, Chris Van Allsburg... (more)
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What the Bleep Do We Know!?(TM): Discovering the Endless Possibilities for Altering Your Everyday Reality
by William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente
Everyone is still talking about the movie What the Bleep Do We Know!? Now comes the paperback edition of the book based on the mind-boggling movie that grossed $11 million in the U.S. alone. As the movie did, this book compels readers to ask themselves Great Questions that will recreate their lives as they know them. With the help of fourteen leading quantum physicists, scientists and spiritual thinkers,... (more)
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Panic Room
by James Ellison
When recent divorcee Meg Altman and her ten-year-old daughter, Sarah, move to New York City to start afresh, they buy the former upper West Side home of an eccentric millionaire. Most bizarre among the brownstone's features is a vault-like steel-encased room with a phone line, emergency supplies, and a wall of closed-circuit TVs monitoring the townhouse. It's called the Panic Room, and it's meant to provide a... (more)
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Dracula
by Bram Stoker
When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying and unbelievable discoveries in his client's castle. In the ensuing battle of wits between the sinister Count and a determined group of adversaries, Bram Stoker presents a classic gothic horror that continues to inspire vampire myths to this day.
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The Pianist
The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
by Władysław Szpilman
The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish pianist who survives the German invasion of Poland, the Warsaw ghetto, and the ultimate destruction of the city.
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Umrao Jan Ada
by Mirza Mohammad Hadi Ruswa
Classic novel, pub. a century ago, in Urdu, story of a Lucknow courtesant, on culture and politics, social relations of the period.

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