Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark In this Franklin Classic Storybook, Franklin likes being a big brother ... most of the time. But when his little sister, Harriet, wants to play...

Roy Jenkins A masterly work by the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and GladstoneA protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only...

Max Brod Max Brod, a successful novelist, was a boyhood companion of Kafka's and remained closely tied to him until Kafka's death in 1924. He was undoubtedly the one man...

Author: Joyce Carol Oates "Later, I would think of it as crossing over. From a known territory into an unknown. From a place where people know you to a place...

Cecelia Ahern What if the people who have the power to change your life are the ones who have been there all along…Like stars in the night sky, freckles are...

Howard SounesThe true crime bestseller about Fred and Rose West a couple virtually unique in British criminal history who loved and killed together as husband and wife.During their long relationship...

David W Blight **Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History**“Extraordinary…a great American biography” ( The New Yorker ) of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the...

Ronald Sutherland Ronald Sutherland's Frederick Philip Grove is a comprehensive biography drawing upon numerous archival sources to provide an in-depth look at the life of one of Canada's most influential...

William Golding Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is taken as...

Craig Kielburger " This is the story that launched a movement. At only 12 years old, Craig Kielburger was shocked to discover the realities of child labour faced by kids...

Nikos KazantzakisFreedom or Death by Nikos Kazantzakis is a novel on the heroic or epic scale about the rebellion of the Greek Christians against the Turks on the island of...

Anne McCaffrey Kristin Bjornsen lived a normal life, right up until the day the spaceships floated into view above Denver. As human slaves were herded into the maw of a...