Their Finest Hour by Winston Churchill Your browser is not Java capable or Java has been disabled. The third volume of Churchill´s Nobel-Prize winning six-part chronicle of World War II. Their "finest hour" refers to Britain that struggled alone to survive overwhelming German advantage; detailed reconstruction of the bombing of London, the Battle of Britain. Churchill, here wartime Prime Minister, incorporate contemporary documentation and his own reminiscence.

The Waves by Virginia Woolf Your browser is not Java capable or Java has been disabled. A work of haunting power and beauty, Virginia Woolf’s magnificent 1931 novel, The Waves, is perhaps the most challenging and experimental work of her career. Told through the voices of six characters as they move from childhood to old age, The Waves is not only a fascinating experiment in narrative monologue but also a profound and emotionally resonant story about time’s passing and the desire for harmony in the midst of life’s chaos.

	Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Your browser is not Java capable or Java has been disabled. Cat´s Cradle travels from the home turf of Vonnegut´s imagination, Ilium, N.Y. to a Caribbean banana republic where an illicit religion called Bokononism is practiced, as a sense of doom (in the form of ice-nine) overtakes mankind.

	The Agent by Arthur Klebanoff Your browser is not Java capable or Java has been disabled. Fascinating -Jason Epstein, former Editorial Director, Random House and Co-founder, New York Review of Books

	The Playground by Ray Bradbury Your browser is not Java capable or Java has been disabled. Perhaps the best short story by the author of FAHRENHEIT 451 and The Martian Chronicles. Charles Underhill, a widower, fears the brutality he knows his son Jim will meet in the neighborhood playground and, to protect Jim, makes an arrangement with the playground´s mysterious custodian…