Linda Warren They say everyone has a double…And, according to private investigator Ethan Ramsey,Serena Farrell's double is a stripper working in aDallas nightclub.Serena doesn't believe it—but she can't help wondering.After...

Mortimer J Adler For the first time in paperback, the illuminating critique of modern thought from America's "Philosopher for Everyman" (Time). March 1, 1987 by Scribner Paper Fiction

Tom Rabbe A hilarious guide for book lovers that brings book addiction out of the closet. Have you ever... awakened, the morning after a book-buying spree, unable to remember how...

Vivian Gornick Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's romantic depression over the...

Kaye Gibbons A story that traces the bonds between four generations of resourceful Southern women through stories passed from one generation to another. January 3, 1991 by Algonquin Books

Beppe Severgnini The English must be explored carefully, because they still remain a mysterious continent. This book does so with wit and irony. It describes how the English dress, what...

Colin McGinn McGinn sets out to make philosophy accessible to the layperson "by describing what it is like to be a philosopher from the inside". The result is part memoir,...

Elizabeth Ehrlich Like many Jewish Americans, Elizabeth Ehrlich was ambivalent about her background. She identified with Jewish cultural attitudes, but not with the institutions; she had fond memories of her...

NIcholson Baker A selection from Baker's essays and journalism which form some of his most popular writing. The subjects range from extinct forms of punctuation to the tribulations of reading...

Bryan Magee Now updated and with a fresh new look, the highly successful The Story of Philosophy traces more than 2,500 years of Western philosophy, from Plato and Aristotle in...

Jose Faur The Horizontal Society is an exposition of rabbinic thought as exemplified by Maimonides. The thought streams of Greece, Rome, and Christendom serve as a contrast. This work is...

Cressida Connolly 'I always wanted to be friends with both my sisters. Perhaps that was the source, really, of all the troubles of my life...'It is the summer of 1938...