Author: Maeve Binchy "It was sometimes called the echo cave, and if you shouted your question loud enough in the right direction, you got an answer instead of an echo..."Clare...

Ken Follett   As the decisions made in the corridors of power bring the world to the brink of oblivion, five families from across the globe are brought together in...

Alan LightmanA modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant...

Alan LightmanIt is 1905 in Berne, Switzerland. A young patent clerk has been dreaming marvellous dreams about the nature of time. He is Albert Einstein and he has almost finished...

Rainbow Rowell #1 New York Times Best Seller!"Eleanor & Park reminded me not just what it's like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it's like to be...

SophoclesThis volume contains four plays by Sophocles (496-496 B.C.), was the first to give ancient Greek drama I structure recognizably related to its modern descendants. In Electra he objectively presents...

John Sweeney As the Second World War rages, the Japanese Imperial Army enters Burma and the British rulers prepare to flee. But the human legacy of the British Empire will...

Wilbur Smith January 1, 1995 by Pan

Joan Aiken A Young Woman Longing for Adventure and an Artistic Life... Because she's an illegitimate child, Eliza is raised in the rural backwater with very little supervision. An intelligent,...

Kathryn Lasky As a new edition to The Royal Diaries series, this factual tale offers young readers an insight to the life and times of this famous royal prior to...

Laurie Fabiano“Basing her story on her own family narratives and a deep understanding of Italian Americans, [Fabiano] paints a vivid portrait not just of immigrants’ lives in the first ten...

Kate KerriganRural Irish girl Ellie loves living in New York, working as a lady's maid for a wealthy socialite. She tries to persuade her husband, John, to join her but...