Amos Oz Set in 1950s Jerusalem, My Michael is the story of a remote and intense woman named Hannah Gonen and her marriage to a decent but unremarkable man named...

Susan Isaacs Meet Lily White, Long Island criminal defense lawyer. Smart, savvy, and down-to-earth, Lee can spot a phony the way her haughty mother can spot an Armani. Enter handsome...

Irvin D Yalom Bestselling author of Love's Executioner and The Gift of Therapy,   psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom probes further into the mysteries of the therapeutic encounter in this entertaining...

Thomas Friedman A Second Edition of Thomas Friedmans stunning book, the first edition of which won the American National Book Award.If youre only going to read one book on the...

Harriet Doerr Richard and Sara Everton, just over and just under forty, have come to the small Mexican village of Ibarra to reopen a copper mine abandoned by Richard's grandfather...

Antony Beevor This is a timely analysis and re-creation of the turning point of World War II. In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote "Stalingrad is no longer a town...Animals...

Rabbi Y Green Pirkei Avos in the Light of Chassidus is one of the many works of Rabbi Yekusiel Green which convey the light of Chassidic thought and insight in a...

Ivo Andric A vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late sixteenth century to the beginning of World War I, The Bridge on...

Bettina Selby Bettina Selby's latest journey by bicycle takes her to the cradle of civilization, where the Tigris and the Euphrates rise. It is the corridor of ancient invasion fought...

Judith Herman, MD When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, Herman’s volume has changed the way we think about...

Sarah Glidden The award-winning graphic memoir about Israel that offers more questions than answers about identity and politics Sarah Glidden is a progressive Jewish American twentysomething who is both vocal...

Michael Cunningham A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood.In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the...