Martin Pugh Britain is celebrated for having avoided the extremism, political violence, and instability that blighted many European countries between the two world wars. However, disillusionment with parliamentary democracy, outbreaks...

Max Frisch Arrested and imprisoned in a small Swiss town, a prisoner begins this book with an exclamation: "I'm not Stiller!" He claims that his name is Jim White, that...

Beth ShoshanCome along on the adventures of Big Bear and Koala Bear as Koala learns that sometimes it's harder to be small, but small bears can still do everything big...

Julia Llewellyn Natasha was always the more intelligent and Sophie the more beautiful, but it never came between them until now. Suddenly the tiny, niggling, inescapable fact of their envy...

Taichi Yamada Kazama Tsuneo is an immigration officer in Tokyo, struggling to live a 'normal' life after an event that happened eight years previously. His problems worsen following the emergence...

Hisham Matar In the Country of Men is a stunning depiction of a child confronted with the effects of Libyan strongman Khadafy's 1969 September revolution.Libya, 1979. Nine-year-old Suleiman’s days are...

Alice Hoffman Bestselling author Alice Hoffman tears a page from history and melds it with mysticism to create a spellbinding, highly acclaimed tale about the persecution of Jewish people during...

Author: Chris Cleave When a massive suicide bomb explodes at a London soccer match a woman loses both her four-year-old son and her husband. But the bombing is only the...

Doranne Jacobson Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Line BooksPublication date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 2006

Robert B Cialdini, PhDInfluence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes"—and how to apply these understandings. Dr. Robert Cialdini is the seminal expert in...

Jennifer Miller Writing with fierce honesty, Jennifer Miller has created an extraordinary synthesis of history, reportage, and coming-of-age memoir in Inheriting the Holy Land. Her groundbreaking perspective on the conflict...

Author: Lisa Aiken Lisa Aiken and other authors Inspiring Days is a collection of writings from a wide range of mentors who have guided tens of thousands of people in...