Presents valuable advice on what really matters in life, and how to put this cumulative wisdom into practice.

Charlie Nancy is leading a comfortable life until his father dies and he discovers that dear old dad was a human form of Anansi, the African tric

Dicken's story of the orphan forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.

On his last long walk, septuagenarian war hero, deserter, and professor Alessandro Giuliani shares his past with an illiterate young factory work

From his first terrifying encounter with Magwitch, an escaped convict, Pip's life is enraged with misconceptions about guilt, money, and class, o

"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depres

Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems--not the least of which are the rabbit in his waiting room and the trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-f

An American classic, this is the warm story of family life in a 19th century setting. The simplicity and unhurried life of the March family provi

In this classic mystery, murder strikes close to home. Lord Peter is on vacation when he hears that a dead body has been found at the Wimsey fami