Richard Preston   The Cobra Event is set in motion one spring morning in New York City, when a seventeen-year-old student wakes up feeling vaguely ill. Hours later she is...

Paul Scott When ex-Chief Minister Mohammed Ali Kasim is arrested by English police officers at this home in Ranpur, his detainment signals the first of the wholesale arrests of influential...

John Lanchester John Lanchester's award-winning debut novel is a diabolically clever ode to our love of food, which has at its heart one of the most seductive and sinister characters...

Larry BondWhat if a foreign rogue nation launched a war against the United States within its own borders? America's largest cities are in flames. Its majestic landmarks are in ruins....

Diana ShawThe author of Almost Vegetarian presents the one book that full-time and part-time vegetarians need on their shelves--a book that contains more than 600 contemporary low-fat recipes and invaluable...

Sarah Dening Consulted by millions, the I Ching is one of the oldest and most widely used divination systems ever devised. Since ancient times it has provided its readers with...

Author: Michael Baldwin Set in the Loire Valley, this is the story of William Wordsworth's sojourn in France and his marriage to Annette Vallon. France becomes too dangerous for the...

Author: Danielle Steel A small chateau lies hidden in the New England woods. No one has lived there for a hundred years. But it is as pristine and exquisite as...

Kate Barnes and Steve Weston How does the heart pump blood? How do our eyes see? What does the inside of a bone look like? In all its color and...

Translated by Alex Comfort A translation of Indian writings cover all aspects of sex and love September 12, 1997 by Simon & Schuster

Clayton M Christensen Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen says outstanding companies can do everything right and still lose their market leadership -- or worse, disappear completely. And he not only...

Paul Scott In this first book of the Raj Quartet, we are introduced to an India where everything is in flux. WWII has shown that the British are not invincible...