James E Lovelock Celebrities drive hybrids, Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, and supermarkets carry no end of so-called “green” products. And yet the environmental crisis is only getting...

Sherri Smith Rome, 63 BC.Offered up by her parents at the age of six to become a Vestal Virgin, one of six hand-picked women who symbolically protected the Roman Republic,...

Richard Zimler It's Autumn 1940. The Nazis seal 400,000 Jews inside a small area of the Polish capital, creating an urban island cut off from the outside world. Erik Cohen,...

Paolo Bacigalupi Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to...

Jack HigginsDark men and darker deeds from the New York Times- bestselling author and "dean of intrigue novelists" (St. Louis Post- Dispatch)On Long Island, a trusted operative for the president...

Tish RabeThe Cat in the Hat takes readers on an out of this world reading adventure through outer space! The Cat in the Hat's Learning Library is a nonfiction picture...

Carmen M Reinhart, Kenneth S Rogoff Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the...

Jordan L Hawk Introverted scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne wants nothing more than a quiet life with his lover, private detective Griffin Flaherty. Unfortunately, Whyborne’s railroad tycoon father has other ideas:...

Dara OBriain Nostalgia, identity, eccentricity, gin drinking and occasional violence... these are just some of the themes that stand-up comedian Dara O Briain explores in "Tickling the English."O Briain moved...

Batsheva Pomerantz "The articles and essays in this volume reflect the kaleidoscope of Jewish communities around the world, the deep connection of Jews to their homeland, and the rich mosaic...

Hanoch Teller The King of Storytellers is back with true, short stories from around the world - each one a multifaceted gem of inspiration, luminosity and unexpected depth, a beacon...

Andrew Ross SorkinBrand New for 2018: an updated edition featuring a new afterword to mark the 10th anniversary of the financial crisisThe brilliantly reported New York Times bestseller that goes...