Dean KoontzLiterary critic Shearman Waxx can kill a good book with just a few acidly worded bon mots. And as one unlucky author is about to discover, that’s not all...

Keith Thomas Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the...

Louise Bruit Zaidman and Pauline Schmitt Pantel This book considers how religious beliefs & cultic rituals were given expression in ancient Greece. The chapters cover ritual, then myth, rooting the...

Jacob Neusner (Editor), Ernest S. Frerichs (Editor), Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher (Editor) Every culture makes the distinction between "true religion" and magic, regarding one action and its result as "miraculous,"...

Richard C Foltz During the latter decades of the nineteenth century, popular European fascination with the world beyond reached an all-time high. The British and French empires spanned the globe,...

Douglas Preston and Lincold ChildHidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret...

Alain De Botton A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it.Then, one night,...

Tracy Chevalier From the moment she's struck by lightning as a baby, it is clear Mary Anning is different. Though poor and uneducated, she learns on the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches...

Shaun O'ConnellFrom Old New York to the Harlem Renaissance, the Algonquin Round Table to the New York Intellectuals, the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth,...

Janel Lee BergSylvie Rosenberg escaped the holocaust—but can she escape the past?Angela Martino is haunted by events from her childhood and struggles to resolve her guilt.Can these two women from...

Stanley D Frank Now you can join the millions of people of all ages who have reaped the rewards of the famous Evelyn Wood Speed Reading and Learning Program. All...

Mary Higgins ClarkA killer turns a young family's dream holiday into an unfathomable nightmare....Menley Nichols and her husband, Adam, a criminal attorney, rent a house on Cape Cod, in the...