Thomas Oatley In Buildups, Booms, and Busts, Thomas Oatley explores how America's military buildups have produced postwar economic booms that have culminated in monetary and financial crises. The 2008 subprime...

Rosally Saltsman Each Torah portion offers insights into doing chesed, acts of kindness. Acts of kindness are one of the three pillars on which the world stands. Doing kindness is...

Sebastian Faulks Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket ground in Hampshire.Across the courtyard...

Umberto EcoAn inspired twisting of history and fiction by the best-selling author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE. Nineteenth-century Europe-from Turin to Prague to Paris-abounds with the ghastly and the...

John Irving   Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument; he is.This is John Irving's most comic novel; yet Owen Meany...

Gayatri DeviShe is the daughter of the Maharaja of Cooch Behar and the widow of the Maharaja of Jaipur. She was raised in a sumptuous palace staffed with 500 servants...

Philip Jose Farmer First "Tiers" novel featuring Earth-born Kickaha. Jadawin and his wife have disappeared, leaving the World of Tiers threatened by invasion and chaos. Human bodies taken over by...

Eva Vogiel   Published November 1st 1985 by Feldheim Publishers

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction'A devastating indictment' SUNDAY TIMES'An important book, a superb piece of reporting' OBSERVER'With great narrative verve, and a sober and subtle intelligence, she carries...

Zhores A. Medvedev, Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev January 1, 1974 by Penguin Books

Penny VincenziA QUESTION OF TRUST is vintage Penny Vincenzi: rich with characters, life-changing decisions, love, desire and conflict.'There are few things better in life than ... the latest novel by...

Nelson DeMille After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, life seems to be getting quieter for maverick Federal Agent John Corey. Professionally sidelined, away from...