Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton

Summary:  Wealthy Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets May's unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. At first, Newland becomes a defender of the Countess, whose separation from her abusive husband makes her a social outcast in the restrictive upper class  society of late-19th Century New York, but he finds in her a companion spirit and they fall in love.

All But My Life
Gerta Weissman Klein

Summary: The author tells of the three years she endured as a slave laborer of the Nazis during World War II.

Dune
Frank Herbert **

Summary: It is a distant galaxy in the far future. The year is 10191. Arrakis is a desert planet, Arrakis is the only source of 'Melange' a vital drug used by the Guild Navigators for space travel from star system to star system. Two rival families, The Atreides and The Harkonnens, fight for control of the mining operations of Melange on Arrakis.

*Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell

Summary:  Willful and pampered Scarlett O'Hara's strength of character carries her thought the deprivations of the Civil War, but her infatuation with Ashley Wilkes keeps her from recognizing her true love until it is too late.

Hard Love
Ellen Wittinger

Summary: After starting to publish a zine in which he writes his secret feelings about his lonely life and his parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old John meets an unusual girl and begins to develop a healthier personality.

Lords of Discipline  ^
Pat Controy

Summary: Will, a senior at the Carolina Military Institute in 1966, heads for conflict when his views change from those of his conservative, gung-ho classmates.

October Sky 
Home Hickam

Summary: This is the biography of Homer Hickam, the introspective son of a mine superintendent and a mother determined to get him out of Coalwood, West Virginia forever, nurtures a dream to send rockets into outer space--an ambition that changes his life and the lives of everyone living in Coalwood in 1957.

Once the Acacias Bloomed
Fred Spiegel

Summary: This memoir provides the reader w ith the significance of the lives of the victims and survivors prior to 1933 and for the survivors after 1945. Fred Spiegel's biography tells his story during the years of 1933-45 ranges from his expeiences as a child during Kristallnacht to the concentration camps and then liberation.

*  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey

Summary:  A rebel named Randle Patrick McMurphy is committed to a mental ward and challenges the authority of its dictatorial head nurse. Includes line drawings by the author.

Summary:  The soldiers who fought in the Vietnam war carried much more than weapons and the gear necessary for survival. They carried love letters, pictures of girlfriends, and newly formed memories that would fundamentally change their perceptions of reality. This novel is about these men, the war they fought, and power of storytelling to mend the life altering rift that war leaves in its wake.