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  The Chronicles of Narnia: Book 2

  The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

  by C. S. Lewis

  "We've fallen on our feet and no mistake. This is going to be splendid. That old chap will let us do anything we like," said Peter to Susan, Edmund and Lucy. The old professor certainly did seem to live in a world of his own, so the children set about finding their own entertainment in the huge old house set miles from anywhere in the heart of the country. First there was the thrilling... (more)
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  Death of a Salesman

  Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem

  by Arthur Miller

  The tragedy of a typical American--a salesman who at the age of sixty-three is faced with what he cannot face; defeat and disillusionment.
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  Hegemony or Survival

  America's Quest for Global Dominance

  by Noam Chomsky

  "Reading Chomsky today is sobering and instructive . . . He is a global phenomenon . . . perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet." - The New York Times Book Review An immediate national bestseller, Hegemony or Survival demonstrates how, for more than half a century the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of staking out the globe. Our leaders have... (more)
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  For Dummies

  Classical Music for Dummies

  by David Pogue, Scott Speck

  The more you know about classical music, the more you love it. Now, thanks to Classical Music For Dummies , you can achieve a whole new level of insight into both the composers and the compositions that have made classical music one of the great accomplishments of humankind. Classical Music For Dummies doesn't assume that you have a degree in musicology -- or even that you took a course in music... (more)
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  The Last Days of Socrates

  Euthyphro / Apology / Crito / Phaedo

  by Plato

  Plato’s Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo These four dialogues present the trial, imprisonment, and execution of Socrates who Phaedo said was “the wisest, best, and most righteous person I have ever known.” In the Euthyphro, Socrates approaches the court where he will be tried on charges of atheism and corrupting the young. On the way he meets Euthyphro, an expert in religious matters. Socrates challenges... (more)
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  Young Royals: Book 3

  Doomed Queen Anne

  by Carolyn Meyer

  Though born without great beauty, wealth, or title, Anne Boleyn blossomed into a captivating woman. She used her wiles to win the heart of England's most powerful man, King Henry VIII, and to persuade him to defy everyone--including his own wife--to make her his new queen. But Anne's ambition proved to be her fatal flaw.
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  Young Royals: Book 4

  Patience, Princess Catherine

  by Carolyn Meyer

  England anxiously awaits Prince Arthur's betrothed--the Spanish princess who will be its future queen. But when Arthur dies not long after the wedding, Catherine of Aragon's fate becomes uncertain. Will the king and Catherine's parents arrange a marriage with Arthur's brother, Henry, or will she return to Spain a widow? Through all this turmoil, the young princess's resolve remains unshaken: She will one day be... (more)
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  Young Royals: Book 2

  Beware, Princess Elizabeth

  by Carolyn Meyer

  Elizabeth Tudor's teenage years are hardly those of a fairy-tale princess. Her father has beheaded her mother; her jealous half sister has her locked away in the Tower of London; and her only love has betrayed her in his own quest for the throne. Told in the voice of the young Elizabeth and ending when she is crowned queen, this is the second novel in the exciting Young Royals series.
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  The Diary of a Young Girl

  by Anne Frank

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  Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th Ed.

  by René Descartes

  This new edition contains Donald Cress's completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to Discourse on Method, bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining the clear and accessible style of a classic teaching edition.
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  Utopia

  by Thomas More

  Sir Thomas More's entertaining description of Utopia, an island supporting a perfectly organized and happy people, was a best-seller when it first appeared in Latin in 1516. This work of a Catholic martyr has later been seen as the source of Ana-baptism, Mormonism, and even communism. Utopia revolutionized Plato's classical blueprint of the perfect republic, mainly by its realism. Locating his island in the (then)... (more)
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  Cat's Cradle

  by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

  Cat's Cradle is Vonneguts' satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible make on an entire generation of readers, Cat's Cradle is one of this... (more)
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  A Brief History of the Human Race

  by M. A. Cook

  "Enthralling....If so compact a book can be magisterial, <this> is it."—Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World Why has human history been crowded into the last few thousand years? Why has it happened at all? Could it have happened in a radically different way? What should we make of the disproportionate role of the West in shaping the world we currently live in? This witty, intelligent... (more)
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  Spark Charts Philosphy (SparkNotes SparkCharts)

  by SparkNotes Editors

  Covers the 150 most-studied works of literature, including character lists, one-sentence summaries of every novel, plot overviews, major themes, symbols, and quotations, author biographies, and historical contexts of each book.
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  Walden

  or, Life in the Woods

  by Henry David Thoreau

  Henry David Thoreau's masterwork, Walden, is a collection of his reflections on life and society. This groundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers and continues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind and a love of nature.
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  What You Don't Know Can Keep You Out of College: A Top Consultant Explains the 13 Fatal Application Mistakes and Why Character Is the Key to College Admissions

  by Don Dunbar

  In the tradition of The Gatekeepers , a veteran counselor provides the missing key to the college admissions door with insider wisdom about how admissions committees think, and the thirteen fatal mistakes that can ruin an application. When Don Dunbar was a college counselor for Phillips Academy, Andover, in the 1980s, he got to sit in on the meetings where the nation’s top colleges decided whether to... (more)
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  The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008

  by Paul R. Krugman

  In 1999, in The Return of Depression Economics , Paul Krugman surveyed the economic crises that had swept across Asia and Latin America, and pointed out that those crises were a warning for all of us: like diseases that have become resistant to antibiotics, the economic maladies that caused the Great Depression were making a comeback. In the years that followed, as Wall Street boomed and financial wheeler-dealers... (more)
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  Freakonomics: Book 2

  Super Freakonomics

  Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

  by Steven D. Levitt

  Steven D. Levitt is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and the recipient of the John Bates Clark medal, awarded to the most influential economist under the age of forty.
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  Night Trilogy: Book 1

  Night

  by Elie Wiesel

  Original Yiddish title: Un di Velt Hot Geshvign (And the World Remained Silent), 1955; rewritten in French in 1958 as "La Nuit"; original 1960 translation from French into English by Stella Rodway; later translated anew from French into English by the author's wife, Marion WieselNight, masterpiece of Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, is a... (more)
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  The Crucible

  by Arthur Miller

  Arthur Miller also wrote the screenplay for the 1992 movie starring Daniel Day Lewis and Winona Rider. The film features a scene (between John and Abigail) that was deleted from the original production.