From Penguin's The Originals collection, The Outsiders is an outstanding story of teenage rebellion, written when the author was only 17.__________Teenagers in a small Oklahoma town have split into two...

Nikolai Gogol Gogol's stories are admired for their skillful mingling of fantasy and reality, quiet good humor and use of mundane details — as Gogol put it — "to extract...

Author: Michael Connelly The Dark Hours(Harry Bosch #13)In his first case since he left the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch is called out...

Richard PowersIt seems that the legendary composer Franz Schubert is alive—well, sort of—in the twenty-first century: His soul has taken up residence in the body of Brooklyn lawyer Liza Durbin....

Richard PowersAn Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic...

Samuel Bjork 'Gives Jo Nesbo a run for his money' Sunday ExpressFrom the author of the bestselling Richard and Judy bookclub pick I'm Travelling AloneNo one is safe in the...

Jill TomlinsonA heart-warming classic full of animal antics by Jill Tomlinson.Plop, the Baby Barn Owl, is like every Barn Owl there ever was, except for one thing – he is...

Jan MarkCovering a vast historical range, this anthology is the only book to document the evolution of the children's story in writing over the last 250 years. Jan Mark, herself...

John Gross "Comic verse," writes editor John Gross, "is verse that is designed to amuse--and perhaps that is as far as any attempt at a definition ought to go." In...

Edited by Patricia Craig This collection of thirty-three stories shows the scope, vigour, and enduring fascination of the detective story, as well as indicating its importance as a barometer of...

Edited by Ilan Stavans In this remarkably wide-ranging anthology, Ilan Stavans has collected the work of more than fifty notable Jewish writers from around the globe, weaving these diverse viewpoints...

Edited By Kenneth O Morgan January 1, 1989 by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS