Bel Kaufman’s UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE; brand new to her school, a teacher discovers troubled students–and teachers.

Jack London’s THE CALL OF THE WILD; a St. Bernard is abducted, beaten, and sent to the Yukon.

L. Travers’s MARY POPPINS; a perfectly proper English nanny disrupts a staid household.

Bob Woodward’s THE COMMANDERS; a look into the thoughts of Colin Powell and Dick Cheney during the first Bush Administration.