Nikolai Gogol Gogol's stories are admired for their skillful mingling of fantasy and reality, quiet good humor and use of mundane details — as Gogol put it — "to extract...

Sharon Kay Penman Here, alive from the pages of history, is the compelling tale of a Celtic society ruled by Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, on a collison course with a...

Michael McCollum Tory Bronson--a software engineer aboard the first Earth starship--becomes the intercessory between a shipload of aliens fleeing a dying sun and her own world, which is reluctant to...

Thomas Pakenham In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10...

Author: Tom Clancy When his proposal for a ground-breaking Middle Eastern peace plan falls through, Deputy Director of the CIA Jack Ryan must stop anti-Israeli agents from acquiring an atom...

Paul Erdman Beyond Switzerland's borders, World War II is raging; within them, a seething hotbed of financial, political and sexual skulduggery threatens to tear the country apart, for its banking...

Brian Stableford Finding themselves suddenly possessed of uncanny visionary powers, David Lydard and Gabriel Gill are gradually drawn into a deadly contest between forces of godlike power, and they must...

Oudo Wafu Nishijima with Jeffrey Bailey Buddhist masters of the past have explained the relationship between theory and the Truth by way of a simple metaphor. The Truth, they say,...

T Berry Brazelton, MD Based on over three decades of continuous practice and internationally recognized research, Touchpoints is the only childcare reference by a pediatrician who has both medical and...

Franklin Allen Leib Douglas Moser is convinced that Lt. William Stuart is dead, but when he learns that his friend is in fact a POW in Laos, he recruits an...

David Feldman Bestselling author and pop-culture pundit David Feldman demystifies our language's most curious cliches and quips. From cooties and mugwumps to Ps and Qs and Peeping Tom, this is...

Dorothy  Cantor and Toni Bernay Explores the strengths, background, and skills that have enabled women to achieve postions of political power, through interviews with twenty-five politically prominent women January 1,...