by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1983)
Written from his own experiences this short novel focuses on the lives of a group of political prisoners held in a sharashka, a research & development laboratory near Moscow manned by engineers & technicians plucked from the gulags to perform work for the state.
Cynthia Voigt
When, as the new Classics professor at Vandemark College, their father is made responsible for a collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts, twelve-year-old Phineas and his older sister Althea try to find out why the collection is the target of thieves, especially when the mummy disappears.
Karel Čapek
Originally written in 1936, two years before Capek's death and three years before the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, War with the Newts is considered by many to be Capek's greatest book. Working in the "fantastic" satiric tradition of Wells, Orwell, and Vonnegut, Capek chronicles the discovery of a colony of highly intelligent giant salamanders off the coast of an Indonesian island. Capek sardonically details all the reactions of the civilized world - from horror to skepticism, from intellectual fascination to mercantile opportunism - and the ultimate destruction from which it (and the newts) might not escape.
Manto Costa
É uma viagem no tempo. O romance nos leva ao Brasil dos anos 70, que viveu no período sob forte ditadura militar e, ao mesmo tempo, conheceu grande efervescência cultural. O livro emociona o leitor com amor, política, música e vida pulsante. Julinho da Adelaide, o eterno eterônimo de Chico Buarque, ganha vida e conduz a história: uma apaixonada aventura setentista.
Barbara Cohen. Ill. by Jan Naimo Jones
Molly, who recently emigrated with her family from Russia to New Jersey, learns about birthday parties and who her real friends are.