Carl Hiaasen   New York Times bestselling author Carl Hiaasen serves up a humorous helping of "taut, fast-paced action...crisp and hot"After dispatching a pistol-packing intruder from his home with the...

Author: Pam Jenoff Paris, 1919. The world's leaders have gathered to rebuild from the ashes of the Great War. But for one woman, the City of Light harbors dark secrets...

Dovid KatzWords on Fire offers a rich, engaging account of the history and evolution of the Yiddish language. Drawing on almost thirty years of scholarship, prominent Yiddish scholar Dovid Katz...

Carla Kannaford, PhDNeurophysiologist and educator Dr. Carla Hannaford brings the latest insights from scientific research to questions that affect learners of all ages. Examining the body's role in learning, from...

William Faulkner   This postbellum Greek tragedy is the perfect introduction to Faulkner’s elaborate descriptive syntax.Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard roommate, are obsessed with the tragic rise and fall...

Jeffrey ArcherThe third novel in Jeffrey Archer’s compelling saga, the Clifton Chronicles1945. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended...

Michio KakuPhysics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Traveleleportation, time machines, force fields, and interstellar space ships—the stuff of science...

Shan San a remote Manchurian town in the 1930s, a sixteen-year-old girl is more concerned with intimations of her own womanhood than the escalating hostilities between her countrymen and their...

Anita ShreveA newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational ax murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. (Can you guess...

Etaf RumIn her debut novel Etaf Rum tells the story of three generations of Palestinian-American women struggling to express their individual desires within the confines of their Arab culture in...

Alfred Rosa and Paul EschholzIt's a simple, best-selling combination that's worked for over 20 years -- short, accessible essays and helpful, thorough writing instruction. "Models for Writers" continues to offer...

Brigitte HamannWhat turned Adolf Hitler, a relatively normal and apparently unexceptional young man, into the very personification of evil? To answer this question, acclaimed historian Brigitte Hamann has turned to...