Stella Suberman"For a real bargain, while you're making a living, you should make also a life." --Aaron BronsonIn 1920, in small-town America, the ubiquitous dry goods store--suits and coats, shoes...

Michael Strassfeld The coeditor of the enormously popular Jewish Catalog "help[s] readers understand more fully the meaning of our holidays and thereby to observe these festivals . . . with...

Steve Martini   Attorney Paul Madriani has reason to suspect he's representing a guilty man. Dr. David Crone, a respected medical researcher, is charged with the murder of a colleague:...

Michael Collins Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2000, The Keepers of Truth is the highly-acclaimed new novel from a rich and unpredictable talent. March 5, 2001 by W&n

Julian Rathbone On the Sussex Downs in 1066, the psychotic William and his gang of European mercenaries began the process which fragmented a civilisation. Walt, the last of King Harold's...

Patricia Cornwell Patricia Cornwell's legendary crime fiction creation, Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, has logged a host of fans among mystery readers and, within the bounds of her fictional...

Diana Wynne Jones His father and uncles are enchanters, his mother a powerful sorceress, yet nothing seems magical about Christopher Chant except his dreams. Night after night, he climbs through...

Giles Waterfield In the 1930s, Henry and Helen Williamson arrive on the French Riviera looking for a house. Barely thirty, Henry has been forced to retire from the Indian civil...

Michele Roberts In her place as maid to Madame Patin in the cafe next to the sea, orphan Genevieve becomes the breathless audience for her mistress's alarming folk stories, beginning...

Carson McCullers Here is the story of the inimitable twelve-year-old Frankie, who is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older brother’s wedding. Bolstered by lively conversations...

Paul A Gompers and Josh Lerner This volume provides a meaningful framework for understanding the relationship between venture capital and entrepreneurial success. It helps readers spot the real limitations of...

Dossie Easton In the early 1990s, the first Bottoming Book taught tens of thousands of people that bottoming -- being a submissive, masochist, slave, 'boy' or 'girl, ' or other...