"Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when…
Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, "The Grapes…
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth century New…
Carol Burnett spent most of her childhood in a Depression-scarred Hollywood neighborhood, where she lived in a single-room apartment with…
The passionately misguided individuals profiled in this entertaining book form an unforgettable portrait of human imagination run wild.Never has so…
The Literate Cat is both photographic essay and literary anthology -- a delight to the eye and the mind. No…
Working as an interpreter for British Intelligence translating intercepted phone calls, wiretaps, and voice mails, Bruno Salvador, the abandoned son…
FBI Special Agent Pendergast is taking a break from work to take Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to…
A collection of the virtuoso nonfiction writings by one of our greatest contemporary storytellers. As a novelist, John Fowles needs…
A master assassin. A vendetta years in the making. And a counterterrorism operative who will risk everything -- even treason…
On a May morning in 1664, in the small village of Versailles, as hundreds of young aristocrats are coming to…
A story tracing the creation of Republican Rome presents those who founded an empire, including Marius and Sulla, each determined…
Evocative of the classic urban tales of Bernard Malamud, James Baldwin, and Henry Roth, Paul Hond`s The Baker is an…
With Borrowed Time and Becoming a Man-the 1992 National Book Award winner for nonfiction-this collection completes Paul Monette’s autobiographical writing.…
"A history teacher rents a video on the recommendation of a friend. Not a great fan of cinema, he watches…
From the master of suspense, a novel about a very different kind of war-with a very different set of rules.…