Miles KellySome of the most thrilling and suspenseful adventure plots imagineable are included in this volume of more than 20 extracts and short stories. The book twists and weaves its...

Author: Sholom Aleichem January 1, 1961 by Collier Books

His Holiness the Dalai Lama In this ground-breaking book, the Dalai Lama advises us to gain familiarity with the process and practices of death so that, when we are physically...

Aesop As legend has it, the storyteller Aesop was a slave who lived in ancient Greece during the sixth century B.C. His memorable, recountable fables have brought amusing characters to life and...

Sarah Waters An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative...

Helen Fremont “Fascinating . . . A tragic saga, but at the same time it often reads like a thriller filled with acts of extraordinary courage, descriptions of dangerous journeys...

Clare MacintoshMax and Pip are the strongest couple you know. They're best friends, lovers—unshakable. But then their son gets sick and the doctors put the question of his survival into...

Aldous Huxley "After the Fireworks is a major work and a turning point for Huxley, leading directly to Brave New World.” —Gary GiddinsIn After the Fireworks, three lost classic pieces...

Tom Palmer Summer 1945. The Second World War is finally over and Yossi, Leo and Mordecai are among three hundred children who arrive in the English Lake District. Having survived...

Alice McDermott On a wild, windy April day in Manhattan, when Mary first meets John Keane, she cannot know what lies ahead of her. A marriage, a fleeting season of...

Julie Buxbaum The complexities of a friendship. The unexplored doubts of a marriage. And the redemptive power of literature...Julie Buxbaum, the acclaimed author of The Opposite of Love, delivers a haunting, gloriously...

Maggie O'Farrell AFTER YOU'D GONE is the groundbreaking debut novel from the Costa Award winning Maggie O'Farrell, author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE....