Howard NormanHoward Norman's The Bird Artist, the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. Its narrator, Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds...

Peter Matthiessen “You don’t have to be a ‘craniac’ . . . to appreciate [this book] . . . All you really need is a passion for prose as good...

Peter Matthiessen “You don’t have to be a ‘craniac’ . . . to appreciate [this book] . . . All you really need is a passion for prose as good...

Paul Scott William Conway, half English and half Indian, reflects on his Indian childhood, education in England, and ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during World War II January 1,...

Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France in 1979, The Birth of Biopolitics, pursue and develop further the themes of his lectures from the previous year, Security, Territory,...

Joanna Kavenna From the winner of the Orange Award for New Writers, an epic novel of childbirth—past, present, and futureThe year is 1865. In Vienna, Dr. Ignasz Semmelweiss has been...

Sarah Dunant Turning fifteen in Renaissance Florence, Alessandra Cecchi becomes intoxicated with the works of a young painter whom her father has brought to the city to decorate the family's...

Stephen Leather Tony Freeman rescued Mersiha when she was fighting for her life in war-torn Yugoslavia. Now she is his adopted daughter, the perfect all-American girl - and the past...

Dr Rachel Naomi Remen From Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, the New York Times bestselling author of Kitchen Table Wisdom , a modern retelling of a timeless story about healing the...

Faye Couch Reeves The arrival of a mysterious package on her doorstep just before her tenth birthday launches Wynnie on an adventure. January 1, 1994 by Troll

Andrew M Greeley Bishop Blackie Ryan is feeling a little out of place on an aircraft carrier on duty hundreds of miles from land, but the ship troubled by the...

Steve Berry Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. A young lawyer named Cotton Malone happened upon an explosive secret about what really happened that day—one that...