Old Glory
Old Glory is a travel book by Jonathan Raban. It is the winner of The Royal Society of Literature’s Heinemann Award and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.
Book Lust
Written by Nancy Pearl, former Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book and inspiration for the Librarian action figure
Kiss the Girls
Psychological thriller novel by American writer James Patterson, the second to star his recurring main character Alex Cross, an African-American psychologist and policeman
The Golden Compass
Young-adult fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, published in 1995 by Scholastic UK. Set in a parallel universe, it follows the journey of Lyra Belacqua to the Arctic in search of her missing friend, Roger Parslow, and her imprisoned uncle, Lord Asriel, who has been conducting experiments with a mysterious substance known as “Dust”.Northern Lights is the first book of the trilogy, His Dark Materials . Alfred A. Knopf published the first US edition April 1996, under the name The Golden Compass, under which title it was adapted as a 2007 feature film and as a companion video game
The Book of the City of Ladies
Perhaps Christine de Pizan’s most famous literary work, and it is her second work of lengthy prose
Doctor Zhivago
Title of a novel by Boris Pasternak and its various adaptations.
Pensees
Collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal