Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit

Author	Toni Morrison
ISBN	0307594165

America's most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.

Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing...

Author	Toni Morrison
ISBN	1400033446

Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison’s reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes...

Author	William Shakespeare
ISBN	0743484908

Measure for Measure is among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare’s plays. In it, a duke temporarily removes himself from governing his city-state, deputizing a member of his administration, Angelo, to enforce the laws more rigorously. Angelo chooses as his first victim Claudio, condemning...

Author	William Shakespeare
ISBN	0743482751

Much Ado About Nothing, abridged.

CLAUDIO: So, um, Hero, I sorta maybe like you a whole lot will you go to the prom with me?

HERO: We should get married! Squeeeeeee!

BEATRICE: Pfft. Love is for stupid losers who are stupid.

BENEDICK: You know, you might get laid more...

Author

William Shakespeare

Readers and audiences have long greeted As You Like It with delight. Its characters are brilliant conversationalists, including the princesses Rosalind and Celia and their Fool, Touchstone. Soon after Rosalind and Orlando meet and fall in love, the princesses and Touchstone go into exile in the...

Author	Howard Thurman
ISBN	0807010294

In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman (1900–81) demonstrates how the gospel may be read as a manual of resistance for the poor and disenfranchised. Jesus is a partner in the pain of the oppressed and the example of His life offers a solution...

Author

Lauren Thompson

I would recommend this book for the primary grades, second through third grade. I would categorize this book as modern fantasy.

This is a great book to introduce before fall. It does a phenomenal job at showing the beautiful colors of the leaves, and reinforcing the changes that nature goes...

Author	Lauren Thompson
ISBN	0689855842

Now perhaps author Lauren Thompson's presented message that one need not be worried about and frightenend of everything (of so many things) is an important lesson to be learned by young Mouse (and indeed by everyone). However, and logically speaking, considering that bats and kittens do indeed both...

Author	Nathan Englander
ISBN	1524732753

The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father

Larry is an atheist in a family of orthodox Memphis Jews. When his father dies,...