A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afganistan's last thirty years - from the soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding - that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives - the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness - are inextricable from the history playing out around them. More info...

The kite runner

Set in pre-Taliban and Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, The Kite Runner is a thrilling story about fathers and sons, sin and atonement, injustice and the human yearning for redemption. More Info...

The lord of the rings

Following Bilbo’s 111th birthday, Frodo Baggins and his companion Sam Gamgee, set off along the same East Road down which Bilbo the Hobbit had accompanied Thorin Oakenshield and his dwarves all those many years ago. Much danger and many strange encounters await them: Gandalf, Tom Bombadil, the Black Riders, Strider, the Council of Elrond and the grass-clad slopes of Lórien. More info...

The chronicles of Narnia: prince Caspian

Narnia has been at peace since Peter, Lucy, Susan and Edmund helped rid the kingdom of the evil White Witch. But now the children have returned to their own world, and in their absence a dark presence rules the once harmonious land.

Wicked King Miraz has imposed a pernicious new order of persecution and imprisonment, but the King's nephew and rightful heir, young Prince Caspian, realizing the evil of his uncle's regime, vows to revive Narnia's glorious past. More info...

The Amber Spyglass

The award-winning His Dark Materials trilogy is a breathtaking epic adventure spanning a multitude of worlds. In The Amber Spyglass, the third and final instalment, the war between good and evil reaches a shattering conclusion. More info..

Drafted thirty-five years ago on the same Olivetti typewriter he next used to write Carrie, BLAZE was dismissed by King as too sweet when he first decided to publish “the Bachman books,” and then lost among boxes of papers that wound up at the University of Maine’s Fogler Library. Fortunately, it was recovered this past fall. More info...

When special agent Kathryn Dance is sent to interrogate the convicted killer Daniel 'Son of Manson' Pell as a suspect in a newly unearthed crime, she feels both trepidation and electrifying intrigue. Pell is serving a life sentence for a brutal murder years earlier that mirrored those perpetrated by Charles Manson in the 1960's. But Pell and his Cult members left behind a survivor who - because she was in bed hidden by her toys - was dubbed the Sleeping Doll. More info..

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its simplicity and wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an Alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. More info...

Peter pan

The three Darling children visit Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who will never grow up. More info...