Eoin Colfer Benny, a sports-obsessed, carefree kid, is convinced that he can take on the world-until he spends the summer living with his grandfather and meets resident tomboy and all-around...

Roger KahnSpanning half a century, the first comprehensive anthology of the great Roger Kahn's writing, for a new generation of sports fansRoger Kahn, author of 19 books including the modern...

Ann E Killebrew Ancient Israel did not emerge within a vacuum but rather came to exist alongside various peoples, including Canaanites, Egyptians, and Philistines. Indeed, Israel's very proximity to these...

Bob ReissIn the wake of a globally disastrous plague involving a microbe that consumes oil while destroying all gas-operated machinery, the survival of the world's governments and markets falls on...

Jose Saramago Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel follows...

Michael Marshall Welcome to the world of Michael Marshall where a female FBI agent and her partner face a secret brotherhood of serial killers born and bred to commit the...

Edited by Peter Vernezze and Carl J Porter The legions of Bob Dylan fans know that Dylan is not just a great composer, writer, and performer, but a great thinker...

Michael Wex As the main spoken language of the Jews for more than a thousand years, Yiddish has had plenty to lament, plenty to conceal. Its phrases, idioms, and expressions...

Lian Hearn Brilliance of the Moon  is the third book in the Tales of the Otori series by Lian Hearn. Don't miss the related  series,  The Tale of Shikanoko.A beautiful,...

Judy Glattstein Where most bulbs books repeat the seasonal approach to bulb gardening by bloom time, assuming the usual fall ritual of mass planting bulbs by the bushel, this book...

Elizabeth Flock Isabel Murphy has it all, but when she freezes on air while reporting on the death of Princess Diana, it is clear her life is not as it...

Gao XingjianFrom China's first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature comes an exquisite new book of fictions, none of which has ever been published before in English. A young...