Gerhard Gruitrooy These handsomely illustrated volumes offer insight into the lives and works of those few unique individuals whose extraordinary creative genius has affected suceeding generations of artists and altered...

James Belich Why are we speaking English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a 'settler revolution' that took place from the early nineteenth century that...

Paul Auster'In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . .'Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter...

Nikos Kazantzakis   Kazantzakis's autobiographical novel 'Report to Greco' was one of the last things he wrote before he died. It paints a vivid picture of his childhood in Crete,...

Mitchell SmithSuch a nice young lady. So giving, so understanding, so loving. She's the perfect friend. We just thought we'd warn you...First published May 1, 1999

Robyn Young THE CRUSADES ARE OVER AND EUROPE IS IN CHAOS.After years of fighting in the desert sun - and secretly working for peace with the Brethren - Will Campbell...

Banjamin Tammuz"Requiem for Naaman" is a novel by Israeli writer Benjamin Tammuz, first published in Hebrew in 1989. The story revolves around a man named Naaman Diller, a former Israeli...

Anita ShreveA rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage.Peter Webster pulls a young woman...

Ruth GruberRescue is the moving account of the lives, struggles and persecutions of the isolated black Jews of Ethiopa--and of their valiant journey across the country to their long-awaited rescue...

Shelly Spilka The story of an Israeli woman's struggle to forge her personal and professional identity. March 29, 2001 by State University of New York Press

Philip Kerr The rolling strip across the bottom of the screen shouts the news:BESTSELLING NOVELIST JOHN HOUSTON’S WIFE FOUND MURDERED AT THEIR LUXURY APARTMENT IN MONACO.Houston is the richest writer...

John Burnham SchwartzA New York Times Notable Book of the Year"A dark and irresistible miracle: a heartbreaking thriller."--Los Angeles Times"Haunting. . . . A powerful and affecting novel."--The New York...