Kate DiCamillo - The Tiger Rising

Life changes for 12-year-old Rob Horton when he finds a caged tiger in the woods behind the Kentucky Star Motel. On the very same day, he meets Sistine Bailey and learns how to trust another person ...

Beth Kephart - A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage

In this 1998 National Book Award finalist, Kephart chronicles the tragedy of her son's developmental problems and her struggle to lead him toward wholeness.

Yaffa Elaich - There Once Was a World: A Nine-Hundred-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok

This monumental work--in which the creator of the Tower of Life at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum documents the 900-year history of an Eastern European shtetl destroyed by the Nazis in ...

Galway Kinnell - A New Selected Poems: Galway Kinnell

That Silent Evening I will go back to that silent evening when we lay together and talked in silent voices, while outside slow lumps of soft snow fell, hushing as they got near the ground, with ...

John Updike - Rabbit Is Rich

The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer ...

Don Delillo - White Noise: Text and Criticism

From a National Book Award-winning author comes this postmodern masterpiece. After a deadly toxic accident and his wife's addiction to an experimental drug, a man is forced to question everything ...

Julia Glass - Three Junes

The interconnected lives, loves, and relationships of different generations of the McLeod family are revealed over the course of three crucial summers, in a debut novel about love, death, and birth in ...

William Shirer - Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Ha Jin - Waiting

Lin Kong is a devoted doctor in love with a modern young woman--a nurse who is educated, clever, and vivid. The only complication is the wife to whom he was married when they were very young--a tiny ...

Charles Frazier - Cold Mountain

Based on local history and family stories passed down by the author's great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded soldier Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the war and back ...