Want to finally focus on YOU and not your students when choosing a book? Check out the recommended list below:
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Tom Rachman - 2010 - Language Arts & Disciplines - Limited preview
Preoccupied by personal challenges while running a struggling English-language newspaper in Rome, an obituary writer confronts mortality, an eccentric publisher obsesses over his basset hound and other staff members uncover the paper's founding ...
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Damon Galgut - 2010 - Fiction - Limited preview
When Laurence Waters arrives at his rural hospital posting in a former homeland of the new South Africa, Frank, a fellow doctor there, is instantly suspicious. Laurence is everything Frank is not – young, optimistic, and full of new schemes. The ...
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Edward O. Wilson - 2011 - Limited preview
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents the adventures of Raff, a modern-day Huck Finn in Alabama, whose love of ants transforms his life and those around him as he fights condo developers intent on destroying an endangered tract of land ...
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William Golding, Edmund L. Epstein - 1954 - Fiction - Limited preview
The classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island.
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Michael Cunningham - 2010 - Fiction - Limited preview
Peter and Rebecca Harris have settled into a comfortable mid-life--with their careers as an art dealer and editor, respectively, blossoming and their son in college--until Rebecca's look-alike brother with a history of drug problems shows up and ...
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Damon Galgut - 2010 - Fiction - Limited preview
Damon Galgut stepped prominently onto the international stage with the publication of The Good Doctor He has been compared to J.M. Coetzee, Graham Greene, and Joseph Conrad, but his voice is truly his own. .The Quarry written ten years ago but ...
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Amy Hempel - 1998 - Fiction - Limited preview
A delightful anthology features the long-admired short story writer's first novella, as well as her latest collection of stories, which address the ironies of life with her trademark quirky intelligence. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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Junot DÃaz - 2008 - Fiction - Limited preview
Living with an old-world mother and rebellious sister, an urban New Jersey misfit dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and believes that a long-standing family curse is thwarting his efforts to find love and happiness. A first novel by ...
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Amy Bloom - 1994 - Fiction - Limited preview
This fresh and stunning National Book Award nominee is a collection of stories that takes the reader deep into the heart of the most alarming and joyful human relationships. "Amy Bloom considers the complicated dynamics of families with insight ...
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Amy Bloom - 2001 - Snippet view
These stories are about the uncertain gestures of love, about the betrayals and gifts of the body, about the surprises and bounties of the heart, and about what comes to us unbidden and what we choose.
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Edward P. Jones - 2004 - Fiction - Limited preview
When a plantation proprietor and former slave--now possessing slaves of his own--dies, his household falls apart in the wake of a slave rebellion and corrupt underpaid patrollers who enable free black people to be sold into slavery. Reader's ...
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Lorrie Moore - 2010 - Fiction - Limited preview
In the Midwest just after the September 11 attacks, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin comes of age amid such challenges as racism, the War on Terror, and cruelty in the name of love, as she leaves her family's farm to attend college and takes a part ...
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Emma Donoghue - 2010 - Fiction - Limited preview
A 5-year-old narrates a riveting story about his life growing up in a single room where his mother aims to protect him from the man who has held her prisoner for seven years since she was a teenager. 125,000 first printing.
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Ernest Hemingway - 2002 - Fiction - No preview available
The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a ...
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Zadie Smith - 2000 - Fiction - Limited preview
Set in post-war London, this novel of the racial, political, and social upheaval of the last half-century follows two families--the Joneses and the Iqbals, both outsiders from within the former British empire--as they make their way in modern ...
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Sheri S. Tepper - 1989 - Fiction - Limited preview
In a futuristic society where the sexes are separated, men are warriors, and women cultivate the arts, Stavia disobeys the group's prohibitions by loving a man forbidden to her, setting the stage for a momentous decision.
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald - 1993 - Limited preview
Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the "Jazz Age". Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the ...
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Amy Bloom - 1993 - Fiction - Snippet view
A first collection of short stories features tales of psychiatrists crossing professional boundaries, a small girl in need of love, a frightened father in need of redemption, and wives who become mistresses.
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Chinua Achebe - 1996 - Limited preview
THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives ...
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Laurie Colwin - 2001 - Fiction - Limited preview
Another Marvelous Thing is perfect for anyone who knows firsthand that opposites actually do attract. These spare and unsentimental stories display how two very different people -- a tough-minded and tenderhearted woman and an urbane, old ...
Aravind Adiga - 2008 - Fiction - Limited preview
Aravind Adigawas born in India in 1974 and attended Columbia and Oxford universities. A former correspondent forTimemagazine, he has also been published in theFinancial Times. He lives in Mumbai, India.
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Amy Hempel - 2006 - Fiction - Limited preview
A complete collection of short works offers insight into the progression of the writer's work throughout a thirty-year period and features, among other tales, the complete texts of At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Tumble Home, and The Dog of ...
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Isaac Asimov - 1987 - Fiction - Snippet view
This collection of 21 of Isaac Asimov's short stories spans the body of his fiction from the 1940s to the 1980s--exploring not only the future of technology, but the future of humanity's maturity and growth.
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Kazuo Ishiguro - 2006 - Fiction - Limited preview
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Dayand When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems ...
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Chris Cleave - 2009 - Fiction - Limited preview
The Somerset Maugham Award-winning author of Incendiary presents a tale of a precarious friendship between an illegal Nigerian refugee and a recent widow from suburban London, a story told from the alternating and disparate perspectives of both ...
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