Paul Scott William Conway, half English and half Indian, reflects on his Indian childhood, education in England, and ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during World War II January 1,...

Richard Dawkins From the author of The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker has been acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution in the last hundred years. In...

Keri Hulme The powerful, visionary, Booker Award–winning novel about the complicated relationships between three outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage.“This book is just amazingly, wondrously great.” —Alice WalkerIn a...

Gershon Kranzler To escape the persecution of the Inquisition, the four members of Rabbi Zacuto's family leave Lisbon for Constantinople but become separated on the way and are only reunited...

Louis Simpson The author discusses his life and career as a poet, examines the work of Whitman, Wordsworth, William Carlos Williams, Conrad, and V.S. Naipaul, and explores aspects of writing...

Compiled Anonymously An anthology of the Chofetz Chaim's philosophical and ethical insights January 1, 1986 by Likutei Chofetz Chaim

Erich Segal From world-renowned author Erich Segal comes a powerful and moving saga of five extraordinary members of the Harvard class of 1958 and the women with whom their lives are intertwined. Their explosive...

Josephine Tey It was the portrait of a man...A judge? A soldier? A prince?When Grant turned over the picture, to his surprise the caption read ‘Richard the Third’. He spent...

Elizabeth Bowen It is London in the late 1930s, and into a coterie of rather grand early-middle-aged people the sixteen-year-old orphan Portia is plunged beyond her depth. Disconcertingly vulnerable, Portia...

Gary Larson The Far Side Gallery 2 is the second anthology of Gary Larson's The Far Side comic strips. Cartoons from previous collections Bride of The Far Side, It Came...

Lawrence Sanders Lawrence Sanders's masterpieces, The First Deadly Sin, The Second Deadly Sin, and The Third Deadly Sin set a standard for today's novels of psychological suspense. Now, Sanders's hero, Captain Edward X. Delaney,...

Bodie Thoene Out of the ashes of the Holocaust, a magnificent novel of indomitable courage and hope.Ellie, a young American photojournalist, finds herself in the Jerusalem of 1947. She unwittingly...