Ma Jian On very rare occasions, a book can be so fresh, vivid and sincere that its integrity will be apparent almost before you have begun reading it. This brilliant...

Joe Queenan   Red Lobster, White Trash, & the Blue Lagoon: Joe Queenan's America   The author of "The Unkindest Cut", whose popular column appears weekly in "TV Guide", sets...

Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st CenturyWilliam J MitchellChristopher E Borroni-BirdLawrence D BurnsThis book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive...

Ruth GruberRescue is the moving account of the lives, struggles and persecutions of the isolated black Jews of Ethiopa--and of their valiant journey across the country to their long-awaited rescue...

Corinne Hofmannourteen years after fleeing Kenya with her baby daughter, Corinne returned in the summer of 2004 to meet Lketinga and his family again in their village, Barsaloi. Nervous as...

Paul TherouxPaul Theroux left Victoria Station on a rainy Saturday in April thinking that taking eight trains across Europe, Eastern Europe, the USSR and Mongolia would be the easy way...

Mike Marriner, Nathan GebhardSO WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO WITH YOUR LIFE? “You should be a lawyer, a doctor, an accountant, a consultant, blah, blah, blah. Everywhere you turn people...

John Updike A born-again computer whiz kid bent on proving the existence of God on his computer meets a middle-aged divinity professor, Roger Lambert, who'd just as soon leave faith...

Laurence Oliphant Cologne (Koln) Konemann Travel Classic, 1998. 4.75" x 7" tall; The Russian Shores of the Black Sea - 304pp; A Journey to Katmandu 160pp. January 1, 1998 by...

Sara NicklesWhere there's an ocean, there are always adventure tales to be told. In the good old-fashioned tradition of story-telling, S.O.S. collects 19 intriguing tales--both fictional and true, classic and...

Sam Apple   Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd   In the tradition of Confederates in the Attic comes a hilarious...

Heinrich Harrer A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer’s escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World...