Shmuel Pinchas Gelbard This fact-filled volume explains 1050 Jewish customs, their reasons, and sources. Why do we make hand matzos round? Why do we eat dairy foods on Shavuos? Why...

Mo Hayder Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there's no body...

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Margaret Visser Eating is a strange phenomenon, if you think about it: to survive, we must kill and then incorporate other living things into ourselves. It is this basic strangeness...

Wilbur Smith For Tanus, the fair-haired young lion of a warrior, the gods have decreed that he will lead Egypt's army in a bold attempt to reunite the Kingdom's shared...

Tad Williams   Otherland. In many ways it is humankind's most stunning achievement: a private, multidimensional universe built over two generations by the greatest minds of the twenty-first century. But...

Amitav Ghosh   In September 1838, a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to...

Guy Gavriel Kay In his critically acclaimed novel Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay told a vivid and powerful story inspired by China’s Tang Dynasty. Now, the international bestselling and multiple award-winning...

Breeda ClarkeThe acclaimed bestseller -- a selection of Oprah's Book Club -- that brings vividly to life the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, circa 1925, and a community reeling from...

Meredith Tax A feminist viewpoint informs the story of Hannah Levy, who brings her family from Russia to America, her daughters--socialist Sarah and fashion-minded Ruby--and defiant and sensual Rachel Cohen....

Robin Hobb The third book in The Soldier Son Trilogy, from the author of the bestselling Farseer, Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies.The people of Gettys town believe their cemetery...

Ruth Rendell Winner of multiple Edgar and Gold Dagger awards including the most prestigious Edgar of them all, the Grand Master, Ruth Rendell returns with a novel that pits Chief...