John Lawton BLACK OUT is an outstanding debut thriller from a major new talent, featuring an original new detective, Sgt Frederick Troy, the son of a distinguished Russian emigre. Children...

Dick Francis Teenager Benedict Juliard has no other ambition than to ride in steeplechases as an amateur jockey. Having agreed not to do anything that could destroy his father's growing...

Better Homes and Gardens Celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of Better Homes & Gardens magazine, a collection of more than two hundred recipes features both traditional favorites and innovative new dishes,...

Andrew Weil, MD In his new book, Dr. Weil explains how the mechanisms and processes of the body's healing system work.  He delineates the ways in which an individual can optimize...

Adaia abd Abraham Shumsky The touching story of an unusual friendship between a Jordanian king and a Jewish carpenter hired to do work on the palace is set against the...

Alfred J Kolatch Introduces Jewish days of celebration including Shabbat, Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Simchat Torah, Chanukah, Tu Bi-Shevat, Purim, Passover, Lag B'omer, Shavuot, Tisha B'av, and Yom Ha-Atzmaut...

CV Wedgwood THE CHICAGO SUNDAY TRIBUNE has summed up the appeal of Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910-97): Easily the most distinguished woman historian of our time, [she] is the dream of...

John King An experience of family life in an Iraqi town through the eyes of the Saleh-Ali family, where you can join the family for a meal of "kubba", listen...

Dan Greenburg   My room is a mess. Now, usually this is not big news. But my clothes have started moving...when I'm not inside them. And the TV is floating...

Beryl Ratzer Meet them all, and more, on the pages of this book. You, the reader, will tour from event to event in the history of that small piece of...

Laurie R King In 1923, an amateur archaeologist brings Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes an inlaid box from the Holy Land and then promptly dies in a suspicious traffic accident...

Molly O'Neill In A Well-Seasoned Appetite, Molly O'Neill intertwines more than two hundred recipes with smart, eloquent essays that celebrate in the fact that eating, like most intimate acts perfomred on...