Raymond Chandler When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography,...

Kim Solga Presents step-by-step instructions for producing artwork using paint and other materials usually found around the house. January 1, 1991 by North Light Books

Naguib Mahfouz The second volume of the highly acclaimed Cairo Trilogy from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight, Palace Of Desire is the...

Judith McNaught Corporate raider Matthew Farrell had come a long way from the poor, scruffy kid of Indiana's steel mills. A long way from the country club where, feeling like...

Tova MordechaiHow does Tonica Marlow, an envangelical female minister, find her way to becoming Tova Mordechai, an Orthodox, practicing Jew? To Play With Fire is the riveting tale of one...

Saigyo Translated by Burton Wwatson Poems of a Mountain Home contains translations of two hundred of Saigyo's poems. His poems are almost all written in the thirty-one syllable tanka form,...

Fred Mustard StewartAgainst the background of the Civil War, the tempestuous lives of Adam and Lizzie are shaped by history's forces, moving from Imperial India to London's salons and New...

Gita Mehta Jaya Singh is the intelligent, beautiful, and compassionate daughter of the Maharajah and Maharani of Balmer. Raised in the thousand-year-old tradition of purdah, a strict regime of seclusion,...

Francine RiversA story of love that won't let go—no matter what California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold...

John Densmore The story of the American rock band, The Doors, by its drummer. John Densmore remembers how the music grew, but cannot forget how Jim Morrison tore himself, and...

Margaret Visser Eating is a strange phenomenon, if you think about it: to survive, we must kill and then incorporate other living things into ourselves. It is this basic strangeness...

Barbara Park Vote for Rosie!Sure, she wears geeky-looking glasses and she tattles on her classmates. But, hey, snitching has its good side. Thanks to Rosie, Ronald Milligan has stopped blowing...