Sir Walter Scott  Romance and Adventure! King Richard the Lion-Hearted. . . Robin Hood. . . the fair princess Rowena. . . the bewitching Rebecca. . . and the most...

Peter Carey The year is 1837 and ex-convict Jack Maggs has returned illegally to London from Australia. Installing himself in the household of a genteel grocer, he attracts the attention...

Fedora HorowitzFedora Horowitz, born in Romania, is a professional musician who continued her musical career in Israel and in United States. Living amongst Arabs and Jews in Israel inspired her...

Loup Durand An explosive thoroughly intriguing espionage thriller from the author of the international bestseller Daddy. After he claims to be a notorious spy called "Jaguar", in order to impress...

Jurek Becker One of the most remarkable novels of the Holocaust ever written, Jakob the Liar is a tale of everyday heroism and the extraordinary power of illusion. Set in...

Charlotte BronteJane Eyre...is a book after our own hearts." So wrote the influential literary critic of Charlotte Brontë's day. George Henry Lewes.Immediately recognized as a masterpiece when it was first...

Toni Morrison   In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover...

David GatesFrom Holden Caulfield to Moses Herzog, our best literature has been narrated by malcontents. To this lineage add Peter Jernigan, who views the world with ferocious intelligence, grim rapture,...

Cecelia HollandThe author of The Bear Flag and Pacific Street presents a remarkable novel about the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem--an epic of war and political intrigue, of passion and religious...

Lion FeuchtwangerThe novel tells the story of a Jewish businessman, Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, who, because of his exceptional talent for finance & politics, becomes the top advisor for the Duke...

Bret LottJewel is the story of how quickly a life can change; how, like lightning, an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass.In the backwoods...

Philip LarkinA subtle and moving account of a young English undergraduate from the provinces, this portrait of Oxford during the war is now regarded by man critics as a classic...