 | A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)
Release Date: November 30, 2001With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village--will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain futur...
 |  | The Remains of the Day
Release Date: September 12, 1990The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving “a great gentleman.” But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington’s “greatness” and graver doubts about his own faith in the man he served. A tragic, spiritua...
|  | The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War (Modern Library)
Release Date: November 2, 2004| Series: Modern Library A reissue of a Pulitzer prize-winning classic, and now the major motion picture GETTYSBURG. As a result of these acclamations, this book is considered one of the greatest novels written on the Civil War. ...
|  | The Seven Storey Mountain
Publication Date: October 4, 1999A modern-day Confessions of Saint Augustine, The Seven Storey Mountain is one of the most influential religious works of the twentieth century. This edition contains an introduction by Merton's editor, Robert Giroux, and a note to the reader by biographer William H. Shannon. It tells of the growing restlessness of a brilliant and passionate young man whose search for peace and faith leads him, at the age of twenty-six, to take vows in one of the most demanding Catholic orders--the Trappist monks. At the Abbey of Gethsemani, "the four walls of my new freedom,"...
|  | Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
Publication Date: July 9, 1980“I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let usanswer . . . Why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? Howcan they meet us face to face till we have faces?” Hauntedby the myth of Cupid and Psyche throughout his life, C.S. Lewis wrotethis, his last, extraordinary novel, to retell their story through thegaze of Psyche’s sister, Orual. Disfigured and embittered, Orual lovesher younger sister to a fault and suffers deeply when she is sent awayto Cupid, the God of the Mountain. Psyche is forbidden to look upon thegod&rsquo...
|  | The Crimson Petal and the White
Publication Date: September 1, 2003| Series: Harvest Book At the heart of this panoramic, multidimensional narrative is the compelling struggle of a young woman to lift her body and soul out of the gutter. Faber leads us back to 1870s London, where Sugar, a nineteen-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, yearns for escape to a better life. Her ascent through the strata of Victorian society offers us intimacy with a host of lovable, maddening, unforgettable characters. They begin with William Rackham, an egotistical perfume magnate whose ambition is fueled by his lust ...
|  | The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny
Release Date: April 21, 1999Wisdom to Create a Life of Passion, Purpose, and PeaceThis inspiring tale provides a step-by-step approach to living with greater courage, balance, abundance, and joy. A wonderfully crafted fable, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari tells the extraordinary story of Julian Mantle, a lawyer forced to confront the spiritual crisis of his out-of-balance life. On a life-changing odyssey to an ancient culture, he discovers powerful, wise, and practical lessons that teach us to:Develop Joyful Thoughts,Follow Our Life's Mission and Calling,Cultivate Self-Discipline and ...
|  | The Awakening (Classic Reprint)
Publication Date: July 22, 2012Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That sail right! He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, un less it was the mocking-bird that hung on the other side of the door, whistling his fluty notes out upon the breeze with maddening persistence. Mr. Pontellier, unable to read his news-( paper with any degree of comfort, arose with an expression and an exclamation of disgust. He walked down the gallery and across the narrow bridges which connected the Lebrun cottages one with the other. He had been seated before the door of th...
|  | The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play
Release Date: August 27, 1996Unleash the hidden power of your mind through Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas's simple, fail-safe memory system, and you can become more effective, more imaginative, and more powerful, at work, at school, in sports and play. Discover how easy it is to: file phone numbers, data, figures, and appointments right in your head; learn foreign words and phrases with ease; read with speed--and greater understanding; shine in the classroom--and shorten study hours; dominate social situations, and more.From the Paperback edition. ...
|  | The Catcher in the Rye
Publication Date: May 1, 1991Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself...
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