Aravind AdigaThis is a collection of short stories from the author of the Man Booker Prize winning "White Tiger". Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare...

A Little Golden Book January 1, 2001 by Golden books

Ta-Nehisi Coates In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race and America has remained a brutally...

Maisie MoscoBeloved and bestselling author Maisie Mosco spins a WWI-era tale of magnetic heroine Alison Plaintaine, who dreams of becoming a London actress like her mother and grandmother before her....

Stefan Zweig Stefan's Zweig's Beware of Pity is an almost unbearably tense and powerful tale of unrequited love and the danger of pity. The famous novel is published by Pushkin...

Author: Edmund Crispin Who burglarised the train heading for Victoria Station, and whatever became of its conductor?Did the village idiot or Mrs Foley murder the mean-spirited Edgar Foley, or could...

RL Stine NO MELTING ALLOWED!Jaclyn used to live with her aunt Greta in Chicago. But not anymore. They've moved to a place called Sherpia. It's a tiny village on the...

Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg The newest book in Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg’s award-winning series of commentaries on the hebrew bible. The book of Numbers is the narrative of a great failure. What should...

Constance O'Day-FlanneryIf there's one thing Suzanne and her New Age friend Leslie agree on, it's that men aren't what they used to be. Until Leslie offers to conjure up a...

Anna PointerAn intimate, definitive celebration one of the world's most influential artistsAs a painfully shy six-year-old singing in her parents' kitchen back in the late 1980s, it was impossible to...

CLR JamesBeyond A Boundary(The C. L. R. James Archives)Great claims have been made for [Beyond a Boundary] since its first appearance in 1963: that it is the greatest sports book...

Bettina Selby Bettina Selby's latest journey by bicycle takes her to the cradle of civilization, where the Tigris and the Euphrates rise. It is the corridor of ancient invasion fought...