William Goldman No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of Marathon Man , Tinsel , Boys and Girls...

Author: Guy Hunting Guy Hunting began his career working as a footman directly for her Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace. During a state banquet he was befriended by the...

Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn isn't very happy living with a stuffy old widow who tries to "civilize" him. But when his cruel scoundrel of a father steals him back, Huck's...

Author: Sholom Aleichem January 1, 1961 by Collier Books

Jason Schoonover (Editor) In Adventurous Dreams, Adventurous Lives, 120 outstanding individuals representing a who s who of international exploration recall the indelible moment in their youth when the dream that...

His Holiness the Dalai Lama In this ground-breaking book, the Dalai Lama advises us to gain familiarity with the process and practices of death so that, when we are physically...

Aesop As legend has it, the storyteller Aesop was a slave who lived in ancient Greece during the sixth century B.C. His memorable, recountable fables have brought amusing characters to life and...

Sarah Waters An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative...

Oliver James There is currently an epidemic of "affluenza" throughout the world—an obsessive, envious, keeping-up-with-the-Joneses—that has resulted in huge increases in depression and anxiety among millions. Over a nine-month period,...

FodorWhere to stay and eat on a budget--hundreds of choices· Great money-saving tips, including when to go and the best ways to save money when dining· The best sights views,...

John Miller Chernoff "We have in this book a Rosetta stone for mediating, or translating, African musical behavior and aesthetics."—Andrew Tracey, African Music"John Miller Chernoff, who spent 10 years studying...

Joan R Sherman Rich selection of 74 poems ranging from the religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753–1784) to 20th-century work of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen....