Raising Ourselves
Megan Elias2025-12-03T08:54:45-05:00Velma Wallis shares the love, loss, and struggle that mark her coming of age in a two-room cabin at Fort Yukon, Alaska, where she is born in 1960, the sixth of thirteen children. Family life is defined by the business of survival: Haul water from the Yukon.…
Into the Wild
Megan Elias2025-12-03T08:51:20-05:00McCandess had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Not long after, he was dead. Into the Wild is the mesmerizing, heartbreaking tale of an enigmatic young man who goes missing in the wild and whose story captured the world’s attention.…
A Thousand Trails Home
Megan Elias2025-12-03T08:49:12-05:00A stunningly lyrical firsthand account of a life spent hunting, studying, and living alongside caribou, A Thousand Trails Home encompasses the historical past and present day, revealing the fragile intertwined lives of people and animals surviving on an uncertain landscape of cultural and climatic change sweeping the Alaskan Arctic.…
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Megan Elias2025-12-02T12:33:05-05:00The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a middle-class American family that is ordinary in every way but one in this award-winning novel.
Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle.…
Garfield’s Sunday Finest
Megan Elias2025-12-02T12:24:37-05:00“Every Sunday morning, after doing the farm chores, Dad, Mom, Doc (yes, he’s real), and I would settle in with the Sunday paper for at least a half hour of chuckling, snorting, and laughing out loud.”—Jim Davis
Settle in with these Garfield Sunday funnies, handpicked and annotated by celebrated Garfield cartoonist Jim Davis.…
The Magnificent Ambersons
Megan Elias2026-06-03T12:36:36-04:00Booth Tarkington’s “The Magnificent Ambersons” is a powerful American novel exploring the dramatic social changes at the turn of the 20th century. This family saga chronicles the fortunes of the wealthy Amberson family in the Midwest and their stubborn resistance to the burgeoning modern era.…
The Best Loved Poems of James Whitcomb Riley
Megan Elias2025-12-02T11:28:59-05:00This collection contains some of the most beloved poems by James Whitcomb Riley, known as the ‘Hoosier Poet.’ Riley’s poetry captures the essence of rural American life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his works continue to be studied and recited to this day.…
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Megan Elias2025-12-02T11:20:50-05:00Ben-Hur surpassed the fabulously popular Uncle Tom in the 19th century and was beloved for its attempt to faithfully represent the life and times of Jesus, and the person of Jesus himself. This is ironic, given that when Wallace began writing the book, he was not very religious.…
Slaughterhouse-Five
Megan Elias2025-12-02T11:10:21-05:00Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time).
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books.…