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Antic Hay
by Aldous HuxleyHuxley's brilliantly unconventional novel of a young man who jeered at moral respectability
Barabbas
by Par Lagerkvist Alan BlairBarabbas is the acquitted: the man whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified upon the hill of Golgotha. By the Nobel Prize winning author.
The Fox
by D. H. LawrenceLawrence's brilliant story of two women and the intruder who threatens their love.
The Masters
by C. P. SnowThe ancient rituals of Cambridge are brought to life as the intricate maneuvers of scholars are dramatized in the election of a new Master.
Music in the Life of Albert Schweitzer
by Charles R. JoySelections from Schweitzer's writings about music, his early raptures, Bach, organs and organ-building, Africa, and an essay on Medicine, Theology and Music.
Night at the Vulcan (Roderick Alleyn #16)
by Ngaio MarshIn the make-believe world of the theater, Inspector Alleyn deals with the stark reality of murder and recasts the players in a deadly drama.
Rootabaga Stories Part Two
by Carl SandburgFanciful, humorous short stories for children by the famous author.
Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun (Sin and Salvation #4 and #7)
by William Faulkner2 great novels by the famous American author, about Temple Drake, the reckless Mississippi debutante who expiated a youthful sin by mature confession.
Destination: Universe!
by A. E. Van Vogt11 stories: Far Centaurus, The Monster, Dormant, Enchanted Village, A Can of Paint, Defense, The Rulers, "Dear Pen Pal", The Sound, The Search, and Postscript
Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka
by Franz Kafka Willa Muir Edwin MuirThe Judgment, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Great Wall of China, A Country Doctor, A Common Confusion, The New Advocate, An Old Manuscript, A Fratricide, A Report to the Academy, and more.
The South Sea Shilling: Voyages of Captain Cook, R.N.
by Eric SwensonA novel about the South Sea voyages of Captain Cook
The Wonderful World of Books
by Alfred StefferudArticles on the pleasures of reading, reading among friends, reading more effectively, reading toward wider horizons, choosing and using books, and more.
Arrowsmith
by Sinclair LewisA story of a visionary, a man of great energy and purpose, courage and dedication, who never loses hope, even in the face of personal tragedy. Afterword by E. L. Doctorow.<P><P> Pulitzer Prize Winner
Fortune Is a Woman
by Winston GrahamOliver Branwell was fast learning that insurance investigators have jobs that are frequently messy and involve finding corpses.
Hornblower and the Atropos (The Hornblower Saga, Book #8)
by C. S. ForesterAdmiral Nelson is dead. The war with Bonaparte continues and there's a lot of gold to be salvaged. Follows Hornblower and the Hotspur.
Iceworld
by Hal ClementNo one could possibly live on that frozen planet, but something was answering their messages...
A Kiss Before Dying
by Ira LevinAs a young coed's suicide leads her troubled sister into a perilous investigation, she is trapped in a web of mounting horror and suspense.
A Manual of Counterpoint Based on Sixteenth-Century Practice
by David D. BoydenSince counterpoint is the art of combining 2 or more melodies, this book discusses the contours of melodies in relation to other ones.
Nine Stories
by J. D. SalingerA Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, Just Before the War with the Eskimos, The Laughing Man, Down at the Dinghy, For Esme ... with Love and Squalor, Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, and Teddy.
Out of the Deeps
by John WyndhamFirst there were fiery red balls, plunging down from the sky into the sea. Then ships began to disappear mysteriously. Creatures from the deep wage war on all mankind.
Science and the Modern World
by Alfred North WhiteheadThe history of science, including mathematics, relativity, quantum mechanics, science and philosophy, science and religion.
The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris/Goodbye to Berlin
by Christopher IsherwoodA classic of 20th-century fiction, The Berlin Stories inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film Cabaret. First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires—this is the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power. The Berlin Stories is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable Sally Bowles, whose misadventures in the demimonde were popularized on the American stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am A Camera and Liza Minnelli in Cabaret; Mr. Norris, the improbable old debauchee mysteriously caught between the Nazis and the Communists; plump Fräulein Schroeder, who thinks an operation to reduce the scale of her Büste might relieve her heart palpitations; and the distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers.
The Cabala
by Thornton WilderThe story of a young American of Puritan background living in Rome in the 1920s, by the Pulitzer Prize winning author.