Matthew J Bruccoli, editor In 1924 F. Scott Fitzgerald told his editor Maxwell Perkins about a young American expatriate in Paris, an unknown writer with a "brilliant future." When Perkins...

Eric Blehm "The one book you must read if you have any hope of understanding what our fine American soldiers are up against in Afghanistan.” —Former Congressman Charlie Wilson From...

RL StineAl's stink bomb doesn't explode... And it doesn't smell. It just sits there.Some chemistry set, Al thinks. Big deal.And then it starts to ooze. It oozes all over the...

Eoin Colfer   After his last run-in with the faeries, Artemis Fowl had his mind wiped of his memories of the world belowground. Any goodness he had grudgingly learned is...

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...