Roberto Calasso With The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Calasso turned ancient legends into modern literature and created a postmodern novel out of the ancient myths of classical Greece...in Ka, Calasso attempts...

Francis Wheen A major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century. Written by an author of great repute.The history of the 20th century is...

Rachel Rubin Wolf Shows how to depict light and shade, whether in oil, acrylic, pastel, watercolor, or colored pencil January 1, 1999 by North Light Books

  Donna Morrissey Kit's Law is the passionate, well-told story of three feisty female characters struggling against imposed order and male tradition in a harsh Newfoundland outport. Lizzy is the steadfast...

Joyce Goldstein A special combination of 160 incredible recipes with an insightful and fascinating explanation of culinary trade secrets includes dishes such as Roast Duck with Carmelized Turnips along with...

Ann M Martin It's a bridesmaid surprise!Kristy's father left her family when she was little. Now, years later, he's called with some surprising news: He's getting married! Kristy and her...

Devised and Edited by Dermot Bolger In this almost-all-girl reprise of the collaborative fiction Finbar's Hotel, Dermot Bolger skillfully weaves together eight chapters, each contributed by a different Irish writer, into...

Susan Elizabeth Phillips A British Lady Lady Emma Wells-Finch, the oh-so-proper headmistressof England's St. Gertrude's School for Girls, is a woman on a mission—she has two weeks to lose her...

Paul Sloane and Des MacHale Normal situations veer off into the bizarre, confounding and surreal, and it's left to you to figure it out. Welcome to the world of perplexing...

Sue Tilley January 1, 1999 by Hodder & Stoughton TRANSLATE with x English Arabic Hebrew Polish Bulgarian Hindi Portuguese Catalan Hmong Daw Romanian Chinese Simplified Hungarian Russian Chinese Traditional Indonesian...

Parker J Palmer With wisdom, compassion, and gentle humor, Parker J. Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teacher and follow its leadings toward a sense of meaning and...

Yissocher Frand Preservation of life in an HMO dominated society . . . the modern scourge of cynicism . . . tension between Torah life and a bottom line society...