Lesley Adkins and Roy A Adkins This handy reference provides full access to the 1,200 years of Roman rule from the 8th century B.C. to the 5th century A.D., including...

Alan Temperley January 1, 1998 by Scholastic

Ada Rapoport-Albert Hasidism has been a seminal force and a source of controversy in the Jewish world since its inception in the second half of the 18th century. Indeed, almost...

Karen Robards While vacationing in Utah’s mountain wilderness, Lynn Nelson suddenly finds herself having to deal with her teenage daughter Rory’s raging hormones. The object of Rory’s passion is their...

Margaret Lawrence January 1, 1998 by Pan Books

Alice Hoffman After nearly twenty years of living in California, March Murray, along with her fifteen-year-old daughter, Gwen, returns to the sleepy Massachusetts town where she grew up to attend...

John Toland Adolf Hitler was, without doubt, an influential individual of the 20th century. His actions shaped the modern world, and his fearful legacy still influences the world in which...

James Pool James Pool's powerful exposé, Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler's Rise to Power, 1919-1933, was praised by The New Yorker as "one of the most useful and illuminating studies of...

Mark Bittman Wise to current tastes and cooking trends, a step-by-step, enjoyable guide to the whole art of cooking includes more than one thousand contemporary recipes complemented by a wealth...

Tony Sowter January 5, 1998 by Chrysalis Books

Kiran Desai After years of failure at school and work, and of spending his days dreaming in the tea stalls and singing to himself in the public gardens, it doesn't...

Kate Atkinson   From the award-winning author of Life After Life comes Kate Atkinson's Human Croquet, part fairy tale, part mystery, part coming-of-age novelNew York TimesBook Review Notable Book of...