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Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
SUMMARY:Billy, Old Dan and Little Ann -- a Boy and His Two Dogs...A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan had the brawn... -
When We Were Strangers - Pamela Schoenewaldt
SUMMARY:Introduction "If you leave Opi, you'll die with strangers," Irma Vitale's mother always warned. Even after her beloved mother's passing, 20-year-old Irma longs to st... -
Waveland - Frederick Barthelme
From Publishers WeeklyIn his first novel since PEN/Faulkner finalist Elroy Nights, Barthelme offers a strangely detached exploration of the post-Katrina Mississippi Gulf Coast. On.... -
Union Atlantic - Adam Haslett
SUMMARY: The eagerly anticipated debut novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist You Are Not a Stranger Here: a deeply affecting portrait of the modern gilded age, the f... -
Un Lun Dun - China Mieville
From School Library JournalStarred Review. Grade 5–9—In present-day London, strange things start happening around Zanna: dogs stop to stare at her, birds circle her head. Then, sh.... -
The great lover - Jill Dawson
SUMMARY: Nell Golightly is living out her widowhood in Cambridgeshire when she receives a strange request: a Tahitian woman, claiming to be the daughter of the poet Rupert Brooke, ... -
The eyes of darkness - Dean Koontz
Product DescriptionOne year after her little boy Danny dies, his mother swears that she sees him in a stranger's car, and becoming obsessed with the mystery, she journeys to Las Ve... -
The essential writings of Machi - Niccolo Machiavelli; Peter Cons
FromThe synonym for political cynicism, Niccolo Machiavelli wrote much more than The Prince, for which he is (in)famous. It leads off this anthology, which both spans his range of.... -
The crucible_ a play in four ac - Arthur Miller
SUMMARY: "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introductio... -
The Yellow Silk - Don Bassingthwaite
SUMMARY:He told stories... he told even more lies. He told people what they wanted to hear... he told himself he wasn't doing anything wrong. He told the mysterious stranger...