Kate Atkinson   The no.1 Sunday Times bestseller by award winner Kate Atkinson.In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure...

Vince Flynn   Mitch, top counterterrorism agent, makes his way to the White House and discovers the president is not as safe as Washington's power elite thought. Mitch rushes to...

Passport to Reading 1Meet BOULDER! He turns into a bulldozer and works with his team, the RESCUE BOTS. After rescuing a pet cat from a tree, BOULDER wants a pet...

Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh The Ba'al Shem Tov, the 18th century founder of the Chassidic movement whose teachings are rooted in Kabbalah, revealed that any process of spiritual growth must proceed...

Author: Donna Leon When two young American women are badly injured in a boating accident, joy riding in Venice's Laguna with two young Italians, Commissario Guido Brunetti's curiosity is aroused...

Iain M Banks There is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the...

Artscroll Hebrew/English"ASHRAY." If you can read this, you can pray in Hebrew.For thousands of years, Jews have been reciting Tehillim (Psalms). The majestic words of King David punctuate liturgy and...

Gene I Rochlin Voice mail. E-mail. Bar codes. Desktops. Laptops. Networks. The Web. In this exciting book, Gene Rochlin takes a closer look at how these familiar and pervasive productions...

Judith Herman, MD When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, Herman’s volume has changed the way we think about...

Michael RothbergLiterary Theory/Cultural Studies Analyzes the impact of historical trauma on contemporary culture. How to approach the Holocaust and its relationship to late twentieth-century society? While some stress the impossibility...

Author: John Muir In the late 1800s, John Muir made several trips to the pristine, relatively unexplored territory of Alaska, irresistibly drawn to its awe-inspiring glaciers and its wild menagerie...

Mary H KingsleyUpon her sudden freedom from family obligations, a sheltered Victorian spinster traded her stifling middle-class existence for an incredible expedition in the Congo. Mary Kingsley traversed uncharted regions...