Bel Canto

Bel CantoWinner of the PEN Faulkner Award Winner of the Orange Prize National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist New York Times Readers Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century "Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book." Washington Post Book World Ann Patchetts spellbinding novel about love and opera, and the unifying ways people learn to communicate across cultural barriers in times of crisis. Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's

the hero who masterminded that triumph

Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school again—he can't seem to stay out of trouble

Henry and Keiko forge a bond of friendship–and innocent love–that transcends the long-standing prejudices of their Old World ancestors

Dear Sugars

As a third-year Ph

the sword of Excalibur

Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra

1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder of a local farmer who was stampeded to death by his herd

When Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man first appeared

burning him up with her fierceness and determination every time they clash

and The Guardian

flashlight cast down in the aisles