"Armed with only his wits and his cunning, one man recklessly defies the French revolutionaries and rescues scores of innocent men, women, and children from the deadly guillotine. His friends and foes know him only as the Scarlet Pimpernel. But the ruthless French...

"Take seven, lively, "normal" boys -- one an inventive genius -- give them a clubhouse for cooking up ideas, an electronics lab above the town hardware store, and a good supply of Army surplus equipment, and you, dear reader, have a boyhood dream come true and a...

"In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining...

"Some Pig. Humble. Radiant." "These are the words in Charlotte's web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur's...

Set in medieval Paris, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo (1831) tells the gripping story of the kind, gypsy Esmeralda, condemned as a witch by the lustful, archdeacon Frollo, and the deformed, bell ringer of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Quasimodo, who tries to save...

Leon Uris portrays the birth of the nation of Israel, in this "story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era." Explore this book.

Young Harry Potter is an orphan living with his relatives who make his life miserable, even forcing him to live in a closet upstairs. All hope seems lost until he discovers, that he like his parents, is a Wizard, and that he has been accepted by the Hogwarts School of...

"They existed only to serve the state. They were conceived in controlled Palaces of Mating. They died in the Home of the Useless. From cradle to grave, the crowd was one—the great WE. In all that was left of humanity there was only one man who dared to think, seek,...

After a difficult life as a youth, the orphan Jane Eyre, now governess of the secluded Thornfield Hall —the first place she has ever really felt at home — discovers the secret of the attic that threatens to destroy her dreams of happiness forever. Explore this...