Justin Cartwright * shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Novel Award, and winner of a Commonwealth Writers Prize *Set against the background of Nelson Mandela's release, IN...

David Norris and Carl FlintAlthough James Joyce spent much of his life in self-imposed exile, all of his writings are obsessively ficused ib Dublin, Ireland. Here, the author provides an...

Author: Richard Herman The bestselling author of Dark Wing and The Warbirds thrusts his legendary hero, Colonel Matt Pontowski, USAF, into a dangerously unstable South Africa. At stake is a...

Chronicle Books Over sized book, hard cover. Fully illustrated covering the designs of famed deginer Isamu Noguchi. October 1, 1986 by Chronicle Books

Jack and Rochelle SutinDescribes the meeting of two escaped prisoners from Nazi labor camps and the dangerous circumstances under which they survived and resisted the war, which included raids on...

Edited by Miron Grindea  The Civitas Dei throughout the ages has been a radiant and inexhaustible inspiration to poets, mystics and artists. With all its limitations and omissions, it may...

Anne Tyler A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKBALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more...

Lisa ScottolineBennie Rosato is a maverick lawyer, and business at her law firm has never been better. Then, without warning, a savage murder tears the firm apart. All evidence points...

David Fisher This hilarious spoof on all the old classic fairy tales has a decidedly legal squint to it as for example when Prince Charming is prosecuted for sexual abuse...

Mary Higgins Clark   It's a minor accident that brings prosecutor Kerry McGrath to the plastic surgeon's office with her beloved daughter, Robin. But even as the doctor assures Kerry...

Johannes Bobrowski Johannes Bobrowski (1917-1965) is known as one of Germany’s greatest writers. His first novel, set in a West Prussian village in 1874, tells the story of the narrator’s...

Ruqaiya Hasan and Geoff Williams Literacy in our society is an issue of major concern, controversy surrounding its social practice fuels current debates in education and much has been written...