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|  | To the Lighthouse by Julia Briggs, Juliet Stevenson, Margaret Drabble, Virginia Woolf, Everyman's Library Staff
In TO THE LIGHTHOUSE Virginia Woolf fleshes out her notions of reality by using a three-part structure and an elegiac, ode-like form to reveal the complexities of family politics. The autobiographical storyline follows Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay, their children, an eccentric artist, and a family friend over the course of many years. AUTHOR: Julia Briggs, Juliet Stevenson, Margaret Drabble, Virginia Woolf, Everyman's Library Staff
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Trade Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Works of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens
Dickens's second novel, OLIVER TWIST, the story of an orphan who flees the workhouse only to fall in with a gang of thieves and prostitutes in London's sleazy underworld, was a trenchant criticism of England's poor laws. Enacted in the 1830s, these laws provided assistance for the poor only through workhouses, which were deliberately squalid and miserable to encourage the poor--who were considered lazy and immoral--to better themselves and get out. The inequities between rich and poor were one of Dickens's constant themes, and with OLIVER TWIST he established himself as a staunch champion of the downtrodden, particularly children. The novel also, however, has its cheerful moments, and contains some of Dickens's most colorful characters, including Fagin, the Artful Dodger, the evil Bill Sykes, and the unfortunate Nancy. Dickens's one serious, un-comic novel, A TALE OF TWO CITIES, is set during the French Revolution and tells a story of unselfish devotion. The beautiful Lucy Manette marries Charles Darnay, the descendant of an aristocratic French family denounced by the revolutionaries, among whom are the memorably evil and fanatical Mme. Defarge. When Darnay is arrested and condemned to death, his place is taken at the guillotine by Sidney Carton, who loves Lucy himself and is willing to die to secure her happiness (and who happens to resemble Darnay). His last words-- 'Tis a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done... --have become nearly as famous as the novel itself, one of Dickens's most beloved works despite its sober subject matter. It is also, with BARNABY RUDGE, one of his only two historical novels. AUTHOR: Charles Dickens
PUBLISHER: Random House Value Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Witness for the Dead
Description not available.Arrested by the Feds and deep in debt to a dangerous loan shark, Arthur Patch and his attorney, Jimmy Morrissey, try to blackmail the authorities by threatening to reveal that fugitive gangster Butchy Crimmins is really a snitch working for the FBI, a story that sends Butchy and his girlfriend, Mavis Reilly, on the run with a host of enemies in hot pursuit. Reprint.
PUBLISHER: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening by Gregory Rabassa, M Ario De Carvalho
Mario de Carvalho has written a fictional memoir of a Stoic Roman official (in the province that is now Portugal) who must cope with both the rise of Christianity and the imminent fall of the Empire. This novel was a best-seller in Portugal and won the 1996 Pegasus Prize for Literature. AUTHOR: Gregory Rabassa, M Ario De Carvalho
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Rollo & Tweedy & the Ghost at Dougal Castle by Chuck Lewkowicz, Laura J. Allen, Laura Jean Allen
Mouse detective Tweedy and his assistant Rollo are called to Scotland to catch a mysterious phantom before it uncovers a hidden treasure. Will they be able to apprehend the ghost? AUTHOR: Chuck Lewkowicz, Laura J. Allen, Laura Jean Allen
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | American Beauty by Alan Ball, Sam Mendes
Description not available.The screenplay of the 1999 film follows Lester Burnham, whose family's and employer's contempt motivate him to make changes in his life AUTHOR: Alan Ball, Sam Mendes
PUBLISHER: Newmarket Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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