Dan Wittorio Serge This memoir brings to life Dan Vittorio Segre's childhood as a Jew raised in fascist, pre-World War II Italy. February 19, 1987 by Peter Halban Publishers Ltd...

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 1986, this volume of stories, selected by the author from her own...

Lynne Sharon Schwartz Lynne Sharon Schwartz's third novel established her as one of her generation's most assured writers. This is a acutely absorbing story. According to Lydia Rowe's friend George,...

EV Walter This is a philosophical and historical interpretation of the experience and meaning of place. Searching for a way of knowing and living in the world that does not...

Anatoli Rybakov The German occupation breaks up a harmonious community of Russian Jews, Ukrainians, Poles, and Belorussians and turns it into a ghetto that almost none survive September 30, 1982...

Robertson Davies A glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived trilogy of novels.... November 6, 1983 by King Penguin

Chaim Potok "Rivals anything Chaim Potok has ever produced. It is a book written with passion about passion. You're not likely to read anything better this year."THE DETROIT NEWSTwenty years...

Carl Djerassi In Menachem's Seed , Carl Djerassi , world-renowned scientist and inventor of the birth-control pill, brings us a new novel that explores the human--and passionate--side of science. Melanie...

Taube S Kaufman Because of the significant rates of divorce and remarriage in the United States, the stepfamily is becoming an increasingly mainstream way of life alongside the traditional nuclear...

Carol Shields and Blanche Howard Originally published in 1991, this remarkable collaboration came about when Carol Shields and her friend Blanche Howard decided to tell two sides of the same...

Robert Markman The life of secret agent James Bond has begun to fall into a pattern that threatens complacency… until the sunny afternoon when M is kidnapped. The action ricochets...

David Hare Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge." Gauguin's epigram serves as the motto for this moral tale of two women, both in their sixties, whose lives...