July 20, 1714...the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below. Why should such an event have happened to those particular people? Did it reveal a latent pattern in human life?

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Penguin Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Thornton Wilder

Contemporary

Washington Square Press

Citizen Girl follows an ambitious and idealistic young woman as she confronts what it means to be young and female in the new economy, where a college degree entitles you to make copies and color-coordinate file folders--if your'e lucky.

Citizen Girl. Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin

Nicola Kraus

Emma McLaughlin

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark, Twain

Twentieth Wife

Indu Sundaresan

Genre Fiction

"Janowitz is a fearless writer. Her details are quirky, her language is lean and her sentences sprint along with deceptive ease. The protagonists in her stories share with her a shyness and a sense of always being out of place. Although they try in earnest to fit in, they put on the wrong clothes or say the wrong thing or fail to grasp the subtle messages other people send their way" - "New York Times". "The shrewd observation, the skewed invention are the gifts of a singular talent" - Jay McInerney.

Slaves of New York (Picador Books)

Janowitz, Tama.

A dramatization of Dickens's classic novel, requiring a cast of between 11 and 30. The complex story moves forward quickly with the use of open staging.

Oliver Twist (Dramascripts)

DICKENS., CHARLES

Dramas & Plays

"A major decision about me is being made, and no one's bothered to ask the one person who most deserves it to speak her opinion." The only reason Anna was born was to donate her cord blood cells to her older sister. And though Anna is not sick, she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since she was a child. Anna was born for this purpose, her parents tell her, which is why they love her even more. But now that she has reached an age of physical awareness, she can't help but long for control over her own body and respite from the constant flow of her own blood seeping into her sister's veins. And so she makes a decision that for most would be too difficult to bear, at any time and at any age. She decides to sue her parents for the rights to her own body.

My Sister's Keeper

Picoult, Jodi

Nineteen Minutes

The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things, “who delivers book after book, a winning combination of the literary and the commercial” (Entertainment Weekly), Jodi Picoult presents a spellbinding tale of a mother’s tragic loss and a criminal’s last chance at gaining salvation. Can we save ourselves, or do we rely on others to do it? Is what we believe always the truth? One day June Nealon was happily anticipating a lifetime of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game—waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. In short, waiting for a miracle. For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. In a heartbeat, something happened that changed everything for him. Now, he has one last chance for salvation, and it lies with June’s twelve-year-old daughter, Claire. But between Shay and Claire stretches an ocean of bitter regrets, past crimes, and the rage of a mother who lost her child. This “bold story of loss, justice, redemption, and faith reminds us how tragically truth can be concealed and denied” (Booklist) and reminds us why Jodi Picoult is one of the most acclaimed and beloved authors of our time.

Change Of Heart

The Man Who Knew Infinity

Biographies & Memoirs

Kanigel, Robert

Community & Culture

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