Christina Guillaumier The first book in the English language to engage with Prokofiev's operatic output in its entirety.The operas of Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) mark a significant contribution to twentieth-century music...

Hard-boiled mystery.

Amy Tan Amy Tan was born into a family that believed in fate. In The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings, she explores this legacy, as well as American...

Marina Keegan Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York...

Tsvi Bisk The purpose of this book is to stimulate imagination and activate energy and idealism in a Jewish contextto inspire the development of a 21st century Jewish paradigm as...

Peter Taylor "Taylor is a master of the short story form....[His] is an extraordinary gift, too often absent in contemporary fiction."THE BOSTON GLOBEIn eleven lyrical, moving, and eerie tales, and...

Elizabeth RosePerseus, the demi-god son of Zeus, races against time to capture the dangerous prize that will save his mother's life. But when the feisty Princess Andromeda uses her wits...

Yochi BrandesThis spellbinding historical novel by celebrated Israeli author Yochi Brandes tells the story of the venerated yet enigmatic Rabbi Akiva, placing him in the context of his contemporaries, the...

Drusilla Modjeska How does a woman find the shape of her own life? How does she come into a maturity that is truly her own?Taking the essay as 'a porous,...

Faith Jaques This bestselling collection of classic nursery rhymes includes favourites such as 'Pat-a-Cake', 'Rock-a-Bye Baby', 'Baa, Baa, Black Sheep' and 'Humpty Dumpty', as well as ABCs, lullabies, finger games,...

Shena Mackay When Percy and Betty Harlency abandon their seedy Streatham pub, for the Copper Kettle Tearoom in Kent, life for their daughter April changes dramatically. She is befriended by...

Amanda Coplin At the turn of the 20th century, in a remote stretch of Northwest America, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were his...