Jane Smiley In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world’s great literary...

A Little Golden Book Classic After a parrot makes fun of Sooki’s big ears, long nose, and wrinkled skin, the “saggy baggy” elephant isn’t too sure of himself—until he meets...

Michael McCollum Tory Bronson--a software engineer aboard the first Earth starship--becomes the intercessory between a shipload of aliens fleeing a dying sun and her own world, which is reluctant to...

Leslie Charteris Contains 3 stories:The Simon Templar FoundationThe Higher FinanceThe Art of Alibi“I know that all the men you've robbed and killed,” Claud Eustace Teal said, “they’ve all deserved it...

Ruth Rendell'Someone had told Dex that the Queen lived in Victoria. So did he, but she had a palace and he had one room in a street off Warwick Way....

Donna Everhard It takes courage to save yourself...In the dense pine forests of North Carolina, turpentiners labor, hacking into tree trunks to draw out the sticky sap that gives the...

Clive Bonny All the techniques for successful selling are here, from planning a sales campaign and prospecting for business, through to making the sales pitch and developing customer relationships. A...

Matt Beynon ReesPraise for the Omar Yussef series:“Astonishing.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review“Matt Beynon Rees has taken a complex world of culture clash and suspicion and placed upon...

Amos Oz‘In a world full of hype, noise, and confusion, the simple lucidity of The Same Sea is totally unexpected’ New York TimesAn intimate, everyday tale of unrequited love and...

Lesley Downer  Today when the summer thrushCame to sing at Heron’s NestI crossed the Bridge of Dreams.Have decided on the title for my new book: Across a Bridge of Dreams....

Gail TsukiyamaA 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared...

The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market Cookbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Impeccable Produce Plus 130 Seasonal Recipes Peggy Knickerbocker, Christopher Hirsheimer Internationally known as one of the most magnificent...