Plato Chronicling the life and death of the father of western philosophy, and charting his influence on the most influential ancient Greek philosophers, Plato's The Last Days of Socrates is translated from...

Valerio Massimo Manfredi The story opens on the day that the Western Roman Empire collapses finally in 470AD, as the last emperor of Rome is encamped protected by the Nova...

James Fenimore Cooper   It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans...

Binyomin Forst Volume 2 The previous works of Rabbi Binyomin Forst have established him as a halachic expositor of the first order. His The Laws of B'rachos and The Laws...

Binyomin Forst The previous works of Rabbi Binyomin Forst have established him as a halachic expositor of the first order. His The Laws of B'rachos and The Laws of Kashrus...

Washington IrvingIn The Sketch-Book (1820-21), Irving explores the uneasy relationship of an American writer to English literary traditions. In two sketches, he experiments with tales transplanted from Europe, thereby creating...

Fay WeldonThe Life and Loves of a She Devil(She Devil #1)Ruth Patchett never thought of herself as particularly devilish. Rather the opposite in fact -- simply a tall, not terribly...

Jane Carruthers and Marion ArnoldThomas Baines, an intrepid Victorian adventurer travelled extensively in South Africa and was selected to accompany David Livingstone in exploring the upper reaches of the Zambezi...

Einhard A vivid life of Charlemagne, written ca A.D. 830 by a member of his court.ForewordEinhard's PrefaceThe Life of the Emperor CharlesNotesGenealogical TableMap First published January 1, 818 May 15,...

CS Lewis They open a door and enter a world NARNIA...the land beyond the wardrobe, the secret country known only to Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy...the place where the adventure...

Laura Ingalls Wilder Meet Laura Ingalls, the little girl who would grow up to write the Little House books.Pa Ingalls decides to sell the little log house, and the family...

Antoine De Saint-Exupery Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. More than a half...