Kathleen Norris Why would a married woman with a thoroughly Protestant background and often more doubt than faith be drawn to the ancient practice of monasticism, to a community of...

Jay M Shapiro In early 1917, several attempts by Allied Forces to invade Turkish Palestine along the ancient Coastal route through Gaza ended in disaster. The British government, desperate for...

James McBrideTouches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son.Who...

Mary Henley Rubio and Elizabeth Hillman Waterston L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942) had begun keeping a private journal before she turned fifteen. From 1918 onward, she had carefully copied out her entries....

Deborah Baker *A 2011 National Book Award Finalist* A spellbinding story of renunciation, conversion, and radicalism from Pulitzer Prize-finalist biographer Deborah BakerWhat drives a woman raised in a postwar New York...

Franz KafkaMany of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works...

Anne FrankOne of the most powerful personal accounts of the Twentieth Century.Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic account of an ordinary life lived...

Jean-Dominique Bauby ‘Locked-in syndrome: paralysed from head to toe, the patient, his mind intact, is imprisoned inside his own body, unable to speak or move. In my case, blinking my...

Primo LevyThe author tries to understand the rationale behind Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Dismissing stereotyped images of brutal Nazi torturers and helpless victims, Levi draws extensively on his own experiences to...

Tom Wolfe"I looked around and people's faces were distorted...lights were flashing everywhere...the screen at the end of the room had three or four different films on it at once, and...

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnev CHBefore Alex Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help defend men accused of murder, they think their position is clear. The...

Fran LebowitzFran Lebowitz inPublic SpeakingA Martin Scorsese PictureNow an HBO® Documentary FilmThe Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together in one volume, with a new preface, two bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social...