Fiction

Word Cloud Classics: Frankenstein Horror. Romance. Science. A classic tale that would be a fright to miss! The idea for the story came to the author, Mary Shelley, in a dream she had about a scientist who had created life and was horrified by what he had made. This Gothic-style...

Word Cloud Classics: The Call of the Wild and Other Stories Powerful stories about the will to survive. In Call of the Wild, Buck, a domesticated dog, is stolen from his home in California and sold into sled dog slavery during the 1890s Klondike gold rush in Alaska. Forced to...

Word Cloud Classics: The Brothers Grimm Volume II - 110 Grimmer Fairy Tales Terrifying tales and frightening fables at their finest! We all know the stories - or do we? We know who Snow White is, but what about Rose Red? And what happens to an all-too willful child? Learn more...

The Wizard of Oz (Word Cloud Classics) “There is no place like home.” We all know the movie and storyline well. But have you ever read the original novel? Influenced by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, L. Frank Baum created this classic...

Word Cloud Classics: The Three Musketeers The Three Musketeers, by French writer Alexandre Dumas, was first released in serial form in 1844, a year before Dumas' publication of The Count of Monte Cristo . The story was an instant success, largely due to Dumas' transformation of the...

Dracula (Word Clound Classics) No home library is complete without the classics! Dracula is a keepsake to be read and treasured. 2013 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Gold Winner in Cover Design - Small Format (Fiction) Irish author Bram...

Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales (Leather Bound Classics) They are the stories we've known since we were children. Rapunzel . Hansel and Gretel . Cinderella . Sleeping Beauty . But the works originally collected by the Brothers Grimm in the early 1800s are not necessarily the...

Hans Christian Andersen's Complete Fairy Tales (Leather Bound Classics)   Classic tales of fairies and princesses, ducklings and dancing shoes from the master storyteller Hans Christian Andersen.   All the best-loved fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, including...

Les Miserables (Leather Bound) “The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.” So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use,' says Victor Hugo in the preface of his famous...

Replica Two girls, two stories, one epic novel. From Lauren Oliver, New York Times bestselling author of Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy, comes an epic, masterful novel that explores issues of individuality, identity, and humanity. Replica contains two narratives in...

13 Reasons Why You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret... is to press play. Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette...

English Lit 101 A guide to the greats in British literature! From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Charles Dickens' Tiny Tim to Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy and Shakespeare's Juliet, British authors have created some of the most compelling characters in all of literature. But too...

The Son of Neptune Percy is confused. When he awoke after his long sleep, he didn't know much more than his name. His brain-fuzz is lingering, even after the wolf Lupa told him he is a demigod and trained him to fight. Somehow Percy managed to make it to the camp for half-bloods,...

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Haruki Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he’d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons...

Kafka on the Shore Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never...

This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time. It is sure to be a literary event. Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young...

A Wild Sheep Chase A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami’s international reputation. It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a...

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage  marks a new direction in Murakami's fiction: a return to the lyrical realism not seen since his 1987 novel  Norwegian Wood , but set against the social realities of contemporary Japan.   Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of...

Hear the Wind Sing Acclaimed, best-selling Haruki Murakami's debut short novels, newly re-translated and in one English-language volume for the first time--with a new introduction by the author. After almost thirty years out of print, the first major works of fiction by...