Hugh: 1441 books

The classic Newbery Medal winner that was transformed into a beloved film. Doctor Dolittle heads for the high seas in perhaps the most amazing adventure ever experienced by man or animal! Told by 9-and-a-half-year-old Tommy Stubbins, crewman and future naturalist, Doctor Dolittle and...

Ollam (“ollav”), named for the ancient title of Ireland’s chief poets, celebrates the career of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University, who is one of the foremost interpreters of the rich and fascinating world of early Irish saga literature....

Filmmaker Rose Leclair is beautiful, famous, and happily married. But when a new star actress begins commanding unwelcome amounts of attention—even, reportedly, from Rose's own husband—her life of privilege unspools. First published in 1967, The Camera Always Lies is an absorbing novel of Hollywood politics and one woman's struggle to survive them.

Why in folly’s name had he ever married her? They had been young enough, he eighteen, she seventeen. They had been idiots enough, he vain beyond all vanity, she adoring beyond all conceivable adoration; she had been pretty, innocent and wealthy.

Just as "Cancelled in Red" took Inspector Luke Bradley, the soft-spoken, hard-boiled cop, through the intriguing maze of the stamp collecting racket, so this mystery tangles Bradley up in the fast tanbark crowd. "The 24th Horse" gallops after a host of hard-faced people,...

Even before his birth, Johnny Baker's life is in danger. His mother breaks the law when she has her fertilized egg endowed with genes that will give her son the potential to become a visual artist. Born in 2038, John Firth Baker is the first genetically engineered artist. At the age of nineteen, at...

This 1922 novel puts to good use Walpole’s experiences in a series of boarding schools, as well as his knowledge of his father’s career as the Bishop of Edinburgh. Acknowledged as one of his best books, it is ranked with the clerical classics of Anthony Trollope. Walpole adapted it for the stage in 1936.

The author was praised for his lively and accurate depictions of childhood in this 1919 novel. A comic exploration of the psychology of boyhood, it is the first in a trilogy that includes Jeremy and Hamlet (1923) and Jeremy at Crale (1927). The fictional setting, the cathedral town of Polchester in Glebeshire, appears in many later Walpole novels.

A case of buyer’s remorse, Victorian style: feisty young Rachel chooses a conventional but dull suitor over her rebellious cousin. As her marriage goes into decline, she starts seeing a lot more of the unsuitable man. This 1914 novel shows the influence of Walpole’s mentor, Henry James.

A well-bred young man — call him a yuppie if you must! — finds himself in way over his head when he goes out with a domineering Amazon to whose craigslist posting he replied on a whim. She and her roommate give him no choice but to embrace his feminine, submissive side.

Catherine Kint was drinking champagne, contemplating the moon and enjoying an encounter with a handsome man in tight pants when reality overtook her. This enchanted evening at the zoo took a turn for the worse. But that was nothing to how badly things would go for those around her. Unable to...

Four old friends on their annual duck hunt. Three ulterior motives. Two puppet masters pulling the strings. One shot that ignites the powder keg. All of them trying to get out alive. 24 meets Southern Comfort. Episodes II & III are live. Look for Episode IV: Refugio in April 2014....

There is a God after all. That was the immense conviction that faced him as he heard, slowly, softly, the leaves, the twigs, settle themselves after that first horrid crash which the clumsy body had made.