Ivan Klima The great Czech writer pens a new novel set in Prague and centered around Kristyna, a divorced mother trying to raise her rebellious teenage daughter Jana. October 7,...

Judith Herman, MD When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, Herman’s volume has changed the way we think about...

Bettina Selby Bettina Selby's latest journey by bicycle takes her to the cradle of civilization, where the Tigris and the Euphrates rise. It is the corridor of ancient invasion fought...

Ivo Andric A vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late sixteenth century to the beginning of World War I, The Bridge on...

Roberta Rosenthal Kwall A myth exists that Jews can embrace the cultural components of Judaism without appreciating the legal aspects of the Jewish tradition. This myth suggests that law and...

Rabbi Y Green Pirkei Avos in the Light of Chassidus is one of the many works of Rabbi Yekusiel Green which convey the light of Chassidic thought and insight in a...

Sigmund Freud Freud's discovery that the dream is the means by which the unconscious can be explored is undoubtedly the most revolutionary step forward in the entire history of psychology....

Rachel Joyce From the author of the world-wide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a new novel about learning how to listen and how to feel; and about second chances and...

Antony Beevor This is a timely analysis and re-creation of the turning point of World War II. In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote "Stalingrad is no longer a town...Animals...

Harriet Doerr Richard and Sara Everton, just over and just under forty, have come to the small Mexican village of Ibarra to reopen a copper mine abandoned by Richard's grandfather...

Thomas Friedman A Second Edition of Thomas Friedmans stunning book, the first edition of which won the American National Book Award.If youre only going to read one book on the...

Irvin D Yalom Bestselling author of Love's Executioner and The Gift of Therapy,   psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom probes further into the mysteries of the therapeutic encounter in this entertaining...