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...

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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...

Sandor Marai Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a...

Author: LM Montgomery Emily Starr was born with the desire to write. As an orphan living on New Moon Farm, writing helped her face the difficult, lonely times. But now...

Author: LM Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery has been beloved by generations of readers for her Anne of Green Gables stories. In the celebrated Emily trilogy, of which Emily of New...