the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Waugh, Evelyn
2008
Captain Charles Ryder returns to the country estate of Brideshead where he indulges in a sentimental journey that takes him back twenty years to his schoolmates at Oxford and to his memories of the Marchmains.
Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris are determined to unlock the centuries old mystery behind an ancient Renaissance text before their graduation from Princeton, but just as they are about to discover its secrets, the campus is rocked with a series of suspicious deaths.
Deerslayer, or frontiersman Natty Bumppo, and his Mohican friend, Chingachgook, attempt to rescue a Native American maiden and avoid two white bounty hunters in upper state New York during the French and Indian Wars.
Tells the story of Owen Meany who believes he is God's instrument and his friendship with John Wheelwright; beginning at age eleven when Owen hits a foul ball that kills John's mother during a Little League game in 1953.
Orno Tarcher arrives in New York alone, scared, and longing for his quiet Missouri town, when he meets Marshall Emerson, and he soon finds himself drawn into Marshall's web of evil, despair, and revenge.
Amir, haunted by his betrayal of Hassan, the son of his father's servant and a childhood friend, returns to Kabul as an adult after he learns Hassan has been killed, in an attempt to redeem himself by rescuing Hassan's son from a life of slavery to a Taliban official.
Eighth-grade misfits Edwin Hanratty and his only friend, Flake, feed each other's misery and discontent until they decide the only solution is violence.