Jack LondonThe Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London about a literary critic Humphrey van Weyden.The story starts with him aboard a San Francisco ferry, called Martinez,...

Vanessa GreeneThe Seafront Tea Rooms is a peaceful hideaway, away from the bustle of the seaside, and in this quiet place a group of women find exactly what they've been...

Sally Magnusson In 1627 Barbary pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted some 400 of its people, including 250 from a tiny island off the mainland. Among the captives...

Frances de Pontes Peebles Winner of the Friends of American Writers Award for Fiction As seamstresses, the young sisters Emìlia and Luzia dos Santos know how to cut, mend, and...

Author: Isaac Bashevis SingerIt is no longer a secret, as Catherine Hughes pointed out in her America review of The Manor, that Isaac Bashevis Singer is “a teller of tales....

Roland and Francoise Etienne A critical study of ancient Greek culture and its dramatic influence on the course of Western civilization also examines the development of archaeology in nineteenth- and...

Natalie Babbitt Natalie Babbit's memorable first novel, The Search for Delicious , about a boy who nearly causes a civil war in the kingdom all because of his work on...

Ari L GoldmanIn 1985 Ari L. Goldman took a year’s leave from his job as a religion reporter for The New York Times and enrolled in Harvard Divinity School. What...

Charles Allen The idea of a hidden refuge, a paradise far from the stresses of modern life, has universal appeal. In 1932 the writer James Hilton coined the word 'Shangri-La'...

Elizabeth Singer Hunt In one of his most daring exploits, Jack goes down under -- literally -- to investigate the disappearance of a diver off the Great Barrier Reef of...

Tony DiTerlizzi  Eva Nine is a curious and sensitive twelve-year-old who has existed only in a subterranean home called Sanctuary, cared for by a robot named Muthr. Eva's great desire...

Tana French Retired detective Cal Hooper moves to a remote village in rural Ireland. His plans are to fix up the dilapidated cottage he's bought, to walk the mountains, to...