John SteinbeckIn the two years after the 1939 publication of Steinbeck’s masterful The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck and his novel increasingly became the center of intense controversy and censorship. In...

James ReasonModern technology has now reached a point where improved safety can only be achieved through a better understanding of human error mechanisms. In its treatment of major accidents, the...

Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel MicroworldsMitchel ResnickDoes every group have a leader? Does every pattern have a central cause? Most people tend to think so. Increasingly,...

Edeet RavelTEN THOUSAND LOVERS is a heartbreaking story of love in an impossible world.

Sheila RobertsMoira Wellman has always loved makeovers--helping women find their most beautiful selves. Funny how it's taken her five years with her abusive boyfriend, Lang, to realize she needs a...

Author: Michael Connelly When Detective Harry Bosch catches the case of a gunned-down liquor-store owner it looks like a slam-dunk. But in the last desperate seconds of his life, Mr...

Anne TylerIn 1965, the happy Bedloe family is living an ideal, apple-pie existence in Baltimore. Then, in the blink of an eye, a single tragic event occurs that will transform...

Etgar KeretIn this collection of brilliant, bite-sized satiric tales, as painfully funny as they are brief, Keret covers a remarkable emotional and narrative terrain, confirming his status as both Israel’s...

Jasper FfordeLeaving Swindon behind her, to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots --- the place where all fiction is created --- Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one...

Author: Nora Roberts Owen is the organizer of the Montgomery clan, running the family's construction business with an iron fist - and an even less flexible spreadsheet. And though his...

Edeet RavelA Wall of Light(Tel Aviv Trilogy #3)“I am Sonya Vronsky, professor of mathematics at Tel Aviv University, and this is the story of a day in late August. On...

John UpdikeA deftly satirical portrait of life and love in a suburban town as only Updike can paint it.Updike's eighth novel, subtitled "A Romance" because, he says, "People don't act...