Samuel Pepys‘With one’s face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops . . .’A selection from Pepys’s startlingly vivid and candid diary. Originally written in...

Jack StackThe Great Game of Business: Unlocking the Power and Profitability of Open-Book ManagementIn the early 1980s, Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation (SRC) in Springfield, Missouri, was a near bankrupt division of...

F Scott FitzgeraldGenerally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the "Jazz Age"....

M Al GathafiThe Green Book is broken into three sections:The Solution of the Problem of Democracy: The Authority of the People.The Solution of the Economic Problem: Socialism.The Social Basis of...

Oscar Wilde In these delightful tales, Oscar Wilde employs all his grace, artistry and wit. The Happy Prince tells of the statue of a once pleasure-loving Prince which, with the...

Edmund De Waal   264 wood and ivory carvings none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the...

Mikhail Bulgakov A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man....

Ellis Peters Mystery set in medieval times. January 1, 1988 by Futura

Douglas Adams Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the...

JRR TolkienThe Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in this perilous quest is Bilbo Baggins,...

Robert Ludlum After WWII the surviving children of the leaders of a Nazi covenant must redistribute the wealth of their fathers/leaders to the survivors of the Halocaust. September 1, 1978...

A mass-market paperback edition of The Horse and His Boy, book three in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, featuring cover art by Cliff Nielsen and black-and-white interior...