Color Purple

WALKER, A

A triumphant novel of a black woman's life in the South.

Ellen Foster

Ellen Foster, cast adrift after the deaths of her drunken father and misused mother, moves from one bad situation to another until she finds a real home.

Farewell To Manzanar

The true story of one spirited Japanese American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention.

Finding Laura Buggs

One perplexing clue to her past sets Sandy Meyer on an incredible and harrowing journey in search of her lost family, a pilgrimage that brings her face to face with nerve-shattering suspense, unbearable terror and the magnificent capacity of the human heart.

Flowers For Algernon

Provocative novel of a dramatic medical experiment and its implication for society. 30-year-old retarded Charlie is turned into a genius.

Girl With A Pearl Earring

True and painful diary of a 15-year-old girl's experience with drugs that eventually leads to her death.

Good Man Is Hard To Find, And Other Stories

Flannery O'Conner exposes the underside of life in the rural south of the United States with a keen eye for the dark side of human nature, an amazing ear for dialogue, and a necessary sense of irony.

Green Mile

Set in the 1930s at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary's death-row facility, The Green Mile is the riveting and tragic story of John Coffey, a giant, preternaturally gentle inmate condemned to death for the rape and murder of twin nine-year-old girls.

Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets (Book 2)

Harry Potter is in terrible danger indeed when he returns to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Chilling, malevolent voices whisper from the walls only to Harry, and it seems certain that his classmate Draco Malfoy is out to get him.

Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire. (Book 4)

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry vies with two other magicians' schools, the stylish Beauxbatons and the icy Durmstrang, in a Triwizard Tournament. Those chosen to compete will undergo three supreme tests. Could Harry be one of the lucky contenders?

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (Book 3)

Harry Potter "accidentally" causes the Dursleys' dreadful visitor Aunt Marge to inflate like a monstrous balloon and drift up to the ceiling. Fearing punishment, Harry lunges out into the darkness with his heavy trunk and his owl Hedwig.

Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)

ROWLING, J

Orphan Harry Potter's life changes when destiny calls and he isenrolled at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Compelling and realistic story of a young boy's survival in the Canadian wilderness.

Horse Whisperer

Teenager Grace Maclean loses a leg in a terrible accident while riding her horse, Pilgrim. Grace and Pilgrim are both emotionally scarred as well as physically devastated by the accident. Realizing that the fates of her daughter and the horse are linked, Grace's mother launches a campaign to find a '"horse whisperer'", someone who can cure troubled horses with only a calm voice and a soothing touch.

In Country

Sam Hughes, a contemporary girl, searches to understand who her father was and what the Vietnam War that killed him was about.

October Sky

The author tells the story of growing up in a dying coal town in the 1950's, and how he made his dream of launching rockets into space come true.

Pelican Brief

An unforgettable and chilling story that begins with the simultaneous assassinations of two Supreme Court justices.

Perfect Storm

In 1991 the forces of nature converged to create a 100-year storm that caught the North Atlantic fishing fleet at sea and unprotected.

Pigman

Two lonely high school students meet Mr. Pignati, an old man who lives in his dreams and makes daily visits to the baboons at the zoo. The three find love and laughter, but only for a short time.

Pride And Prejudice

A superb comedy of manners, detailing the romantic clash between an opinionated woman and her proud beau.

Siddharta

Snow Falling On Cedars

In 1954 on the isolated beaches of San Pedro Island in Puget Sound, a local fisherman mysteriously drowns. When a Japanese American is charged with his murder, it becomes clear over the course of the ensuing trial that much more is at stake than one man's guilt.