Michael Palin   In the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the first, she ventured further south...

Eric Carle From leaping, flying fish to dancing butterflies, and camels that "trollop along," Eric Carle 's brilliant and colorful collage designs bring to life animal poems from such diverse...

Meir ShalevEsau is a saga of several generations in a family of bakers spanning the period from World War I and the inception of the British Mandate in Palestine through...

Jay Mathews Chronicles the remarkable life and work of man who, himself and immigrant, coached and inspired underpriviledged Hispanic students thought to be "hopeless" to excel to unprecedented standards in...

Kathryn HockettFramed for a murder he didn't commit, Logan Donovan is determined to clear his name and reclaim his life. But he never imagined he would be traveling with a...

Walter SatterthwaitIn the summer of 1921, thirteen distinguished guests gather for a weekend party and seance at a stately Devon manor house. Their host, the Earl of Axminster, is found...

Barbara DelisnskyEmily Aulenbach is an idealistic young lawyer who once dreamed of representing victims of corporate abuse. Instead, she now spends her days in a cubicle arguing victims of corporate...

John SandfordWhenever you hear the sky rumble, it usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two storms. The exceptional new thriller, written by the author whose books...

Blaine Harden Shin Dong-hyuk was born in the early 1980s inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. Located about 55 miles north...

Erich Fromm If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of Escape from Freedom, a landmark...

Avigail Myzlik   Incarcerated in a Bombay jail built for 800, Ronen is crammed in with 3500 prisoners, many waiting years just to stand trial, without knowing when their ordeal...

Frank EphraimWith the rise of Nazism in the 1930s more than a thousand European Jews sought refuge in the Philippines, joining the small Jewish population of Manila. When the Japanese...