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Henry & Mudge Books #01: Henry and Mudge: The First Book of Their Adventures by Cynthia Rylant Publisher Comments Henry, feeling lonely on a street without any other children, finds companionship and love in a big dog named Mudge.... (read more) List Price $3.99 Your price: $1.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash Publisher Comments In his phenomenal debut novel — a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small North Carolina town — author Wiley Cash displays a remarkable talent for lyrical, powerfully emotional... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Grendel by John Gardner Staff Pick It's easy to find oneself in the thrall of hanks of blond hair and mead-fueled heroism, but it is a more difficult task to regard, with care, the heart of a monster. The monster (but is he?) in question is Grendel, an introspective animal who loves his... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Publisher Comments Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter #1) by J. K. Rowling Publisher Comments Harry Potter has never been the star of a Quidditch team, scoring points while riding a broom far above the ground. He knows no spells, has never helped to hatch a dragon, and has never worn a cloak of invisibility. All he knows is a miserable life... (read more) List Price $10.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger Publisher Comments Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is truly one of America's literary treasures.... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed Staff Pick I know this title is everywhere right now. I was very fortunate to get an advanced copy, and I immediately fell in love. Why? Well, like many, my favorite books are those that seem to have been written just for me. I deeply understood the raw ache of... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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A Series of Unfortunate Events #01: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket Publisher Comments Alexander Baddenfield is a horrible boya really horrible boywho is the last in a long line of lying, thieving scoundrels. One day, Alexander has an astonishing idea. Why not transplant the nine lives from his cat into himself... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell Publisher Comments View our feature on George Orwell’s 1984. Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell’s narrative is timelier than ever. 1984 presents a startling and haunting... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter #07) by J. K. Rowling Staff Pick I couldn't imagine a better ending for this extraordinary series. J. K. Rowling, thank you for staying true to your vision.... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter #06) by J. K. Rowling Publisher Comments As the Harry Potter sequence draws to a close, Harry's most dangerous adventure yet is just beginning . . . and it starts July 16, 2005. We could tell you, but then we'd have to Obliviate your memory.... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Staff Pick "It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery..." Take your time reading this beautifully written book with an innovative... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2) by J. K. Rowling Publisher Comments The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby... (read more) List Price $10.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham Publisher Comments Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths, much less the ability to build our lives around them. Instead, guided by our parents, by our teachers, by our managers, and by psychology's fascination with pathology, we... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Publisher Comments The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Night by Elie Wiesel Publisher Comments This powerful and gripping novel explores what life in the secret annex might have been like for Peter Van Pels. What it was like to be forced into hiding with Anne, first to hate her and then begin falling in love with her.To sit and... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson Publisher Comments This story of Thomas Jefferson's children by one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, tells a darker piece of America's history from an often unseen perspective-that of three of Jefferson's slaves-including two of his own children. As each child grows up... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Staff Pick John Green has so cleanly sidestepped anything precious, sentimental, and heart-warming in The Fault in Our Stars, it's a wonder he was even able to write about two teenagers diagnosed with cancer. These are some fertile fields for tweeness, indeed. Oh... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $10.00 Used - Hardcover
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The House on Mango Street (Vintage Contemporaries) by Sandra Cisneros Publisher Comments US... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dreams of Joy by Lisa See Publisher Comments #1 New York Times Bestseller In her most powerful novel yet, acclaimed author Lisa See returns to the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl's strong-willed nineteen-year-old daughter, Joy. Reeling from newly uncovered family... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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