Author: Alice Walker; Publisher: Harvest Books

Despondent over the futility of life in the South, black tenant farmer Grange Copeland leaves his wife and son in Georgia to head North. After meeting an equally humiliating existence there, he returns to Georgia, years later, to find his son, Brownfield, imprisoned for the murder of his wife. As the guardian of the couple's youngest daughter, Grange Copeland is looking at his third -- and final -- chance to free himself from spiritual and social enslavement.

Genre: Literary (ISBN: 9780156028363)

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Author: Chip Kidd; Publisher: Scribner Book Company

The Learners

Genre: Literary (ISBN: 9780743255240)

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Author: Booth Tarkington; Publisher: Wildside Press

Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was one of the most popular writers of the early 20th Century, who first achieved acclaim with his historical romance Monsieur Beaucaire (1900). But his more characteristic work was found in such novels as The Gentleman from Indiana (1899), The Conquest of Canaan (1905), and the trilogy consisting of The Turmoil (1915), The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and The Midlander (1921). He won two Pulitzer Prizes for novels, for The Magnificent Ambersons and for Alice Adams (1921). The Magnificent Ambersons was memorably filmed by Orson Welles in 1942. Tarkington is also noted for several charming, idealized novels about childhood and adolescence, such as Penrod (1914) and Seventeen (1916), which occur squarely in the middle of the line of literary development that leads from Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer up to Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine. They are classics of period Americana.

Genre: Classics (ISBN: 9780809532735)

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Organic Farming

Genre: Books (ISBN: 9780852361917)

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Handbook of Buying and Purchasing Management

Genre: Books (ISBN: 9780133741902)

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Author: Conrad Buff; Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company

The year is 1291, and Walter is the twelve-year-old son of William Tell, the greatest bowman in the land of Uri. Walter lives happily in the remote heights of the Alpine Mountains, caring for his family's goat herd and practicing his marksmanship in the hopes of making his father proud. But as the end of the year approaches, Walter's peaceful life is shaken as his country enters a revolution, and Walter must carry a secret that could threaten the life of the father he loves so dearly. More than seven hundred years have passed since the day Walter stood in the marketplace balancing an apple on his head while the Austrian tyrant Gessler commanded Walter's father, William Tell, to take aim at the apple with his great crossbow. The dramatic tale of William's arrest and escape and the daring revolt of the Swiss against the Austrians has become a legend around the world.

Genre: Classics (ISBN: 9780618128075)

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