Muriel Spark Mrs. Hawkins, a fat young war widow worked for a mad, is a near-bankrupt publisher in 1950s London. Looking back on shady literary doings and a deadly enemy,...

Author: Thomas Hardy Far From The Madding Crowd is one of the greatest love stories ofThomas hardy wherein he shows a deep understanding of human emotion. It concernsthe love affairs...

Robin Benway 'Sometimes, family hurts each other. But after that's done you bandage each other up, and you move on. Together … You've got us now, like it or not,...

Andrew Solomon In this seminal new study of family, Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who learn to deal with their exceptional children and find profound meaning in doing...

Linwood BarclayThe second spine-chilling thriller set in the troubled town of Promise Falls.After the screen of a run-down drive-in movie theater collapses and kills four people, the daughter of one...

Author: Robert Silverberg Edited by Robert SilverbergThe universe of the mind is a limitless expanse of wonder filled with worlds and secrets that cannot be fully explored within the pages...

Alison PickThe Man Booker Prize finalist Far to Go by acclaimed author Alison Pick is historical fiction at its very best.When Czechoslovakia relinquishes the Sudetenland to Hitler, the powerful influence...

Christina Lamb From the award-winning co-author of ‘I Am Malala’, this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to...

Jennifer WorthWhen 22-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the poorest section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies...

Ann M MartinClub member Dawn finds herself torn between her nostalgia for California and her Connecticut friends, especially Mary Anne, her best friend and stepsister.

Gene Baur Leading animal rights activist Gene Baur examines the real cost of the meat on our plates -- for both humans and animals alike -- in this provocative and...

Philip Lymbery with Isabel Oakeshott Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what...