The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1) by Stephen King

Date of Publication: 1982
Number of Pages: 304
Synopsis (from back cover): This heroic fantasy is set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace that is a dark mirror of our own. A spellbinding tale of good versus evil, it features once of Stephen King’s most powerful creations - The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who [...]

La Vagabonde by Colette

Date of Publication: 1910
Number of Pages: 239
Synopsis (from back cover): Largely autobiographical, La Vagabonde recalls Colette’s own years spent touring Paris music halls, taking the reader backstage and into the demimonde of Renée Néré, and aging dancer, mime, and failed writer. Around this extraordinary heroine Colette spins the first of her masterpieces, a novel that [...]

The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie

Date of Publication: 1935
Number of Pages: 184
Synopsis (from back cover): A is for Mrs. Ascher - fatally attacked in Andover. B is for Betty Barnard - strangled on the beach in Bexhill. C is for Sir Carmichael Clarke - now a corpse in Churston. If nothing else, the murderer knew is ABCs. But the alphabetical [...]

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Date of Publication: 1968
Number of Pages: 183
Synopsis (from back cover): Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed and terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered [...]

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Date of Publication: 1811
Number of Pages: 312 (Barnes & Noble paperback edition)
Synopsis (from back cover): Jane Austen’s first published novel, Sense and Sensibility is a wonderfully entertaining tale of flirtation and folly that revolves around two starkly different sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. While Elinor is thoughtful, considerate, and calm, her younger sister is emotional [...]

Out of My Depth by Emily Barr

Date of Publication: 2006, Headline Review
Number of Pages: 408
Synopsis (from back cover): When Susie decides to invite her old school friends to stay for a reunion she tells herself that it’s just about showing off. It’s about letting Amanda, Izzy, and Tamsin see how well she’s done, with her successful career as an artist, her [...]

Bohemian Manifesto: A Field Guide to Living on the Edge by Laren Stover

Illustrations by IZAK
Date of Publication: 2004, Bullfinch Press
Number of Pages: 265
Synopsis (from inside cover): Bohemianism is a way of life, a state of mind, an atmosphere. It’s about living richly and irreverently, beyond convention. It’s about being uninhibited, unbuttoned, creative and free.
Bohemian Manifesto is your entry into this world. It distills the penchants and peccadilloes [...]

The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien

Date of Publication: 2007, Houghton-Mifflin Company
Illustrated by Alan Lee
This is the latest book to be published under Tolkien’s name. It is the story of Húrin and his family, and the curse laid upon them by Morgoth. It’s one of the most tragic stories that Tolkien ever wrote, and it is appearing now in its most [...]

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte

Date of Publication: 1849
Number of Pages: 599
Synopsis (from back cover of book): Written immediately after Jane Eyre, Shirley is a novel of wider sweep and scope. Its focus is less on individual men and women, although their stories add compulsive drama and tension, than on the individual perceived in close relation with the forces molding [...]

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Date of Publication: 1818
Number of Pages: 237
Synopsis (from back cover): “All the privilege I claim for my own sex…is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.”
Anne Elliot’s heartfelt words strike the keynote of Jane Austen’s last completed novel. It features a heroine older and wiser than her predecessors in earlier books, [...]