Lieve JorisThrough her friendship with a Syrian woman and her family, Lieve Joris leads readers into the fascinating world that lies beyond the gates of Damascus, presenting an intimate portrait...

Serhii Plokhy 'An indispensable guide to the tragic history of a great European nation' (David Blair Sunday Telegraph)Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the...

Chaim Potok"REMARKABLE . . . A WONDERFUL STORY."--The Boston GlobeThe father is a high-ranking Communist officer, a Jew who survived Stalin's purges. The son is a "refusenik," who risked his...

Conn Iggulden The ultimate Rome story From the spectacle of gladiatorial combat to the intrigue of the Senate, from the foreign wars that secure the power of the empire to...

Elie Wiesel Gregor—a teenaged boy, the lone survivor of his family—is hiding from the Germans in the forest. He hides in a cave, where he meets a mysterious stranger who...

Bodie Thoene Out of the ashes of the Holocaust, a magnificent novel of indomitable courage and hope.Ellie, a young American photojournalist, finds herself in the Jerusalem of 1947. She unwittingly...

Frederik Pohl Here is a collection of short pieces about the many marvelous discoveries made by humankind using Heechee technology. Each piece includes illustrations by Kelly Freas. First published November...

Anne EnrightAnne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish...

Kelley ArmstrongAn ordinary town...full of deadly secretsStrange things have been happening in sixteen-year-old Maya's small Vancouver Island community - from the mountain lions that have been constantly approaching her to...

Siddhartha Mukherjee** NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER **The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of The...

Burton L VisotzkyBurton L. Visotzky, one of America's most respected scholars of religion, guides readers through a close reading of the narratives of the Book of Genesis, exposing their brutal...

The Genesis of Justice: Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice That Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Morality and Law Alan M. Dershowitz From the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties...