Mary Pope OsborneSummary:Jack and Annie travel back in time to a desert in the Middle East at the behest of Merlin who has given them a rhyme to help on...

Author: Tom Clancy John Kelly, former Navy SEAL and Vietnam veteran, is still getting over the accidental death of his wife six months before, when he befriends a young woman...

Barbara W TuchmanHistory - From the distinguished American historian whose work has been acclaimed around the world, a major new book that penetrates one of the most bizarre and fascinating...

James GleickA work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary edition of James Gleick’s groundbreaking bestseller Chaos introduces a whole new readership to...

Alison LathamPrinted music and writing about music involve the use of complex systems of notation and a wealth of technical terms in several languages. The Oxford Dictionary of Musical Terms...

Ludwig Lewisohn   'We have here, then a novelistic document of life, of the inferno of a marriage.'That word exhausts the book's horrifying and infuriating subject matter - a marriage...

Larry Evans

Stephen Jay GouldRanging as far as the fox and as deep as the hedgehog (the urchin of his title), Stephen Jay Gould expands on geology, biological determinism, "cardboard Darwinism," and...

Isabel AllendeIsabel Allende’s latest novel, set in the present day (a new departure for the author), tells the story of a 19-year-old American girl who finds refuge on a remote...

Bessel Van Der KolkThe effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new...

John Williams   William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead...

Steven RowleyFrom the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus comes a novel about a struggling writer who gets his big break, with a little help from the most famous...