Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy History. The Amber Room was one of mankind's greatest treasures, a masterpiece of staggering ambition and value. Commissioned by Frederick I of Prussia in 1701,...

Morris West The politics of terrorism touch the papacy as an ailing Pope is compelled to reconsider his long-standing conservatism when his life is threatened by a dissident group, the...

Estelle Chasen When grief-stricken Dr. Hannah Lallouche leaves San Francisco for a six-month sojourn on the Island of Djerba, Tunisia, she wonders how she will cope with the challenges that...

Ottavio Cappellani Part Tarantino-style operetta, part soap opera, Ottavio Cappellani's hilarious novel takes place in a twenty-first-century Sicily rife with moody aristocrats, vain politicians, inept gangsters, shabby theater actors, and...

Madeleine St John From the Booker short-listed author of The Essence of theThing. Madeleine St John's new novel is a poignant, perceptive and deliciously funny portrait of modern life and...

Professor Konrad Knopp Careful presentation of fundamentals of the theory by one of the finest modern expositors of higher mathematics. Covers functions of real and complex variables, arbitrary and null...

Lynne Kositsky When trapped or frightened, Esther sees windows -- and flying out of them -- as her only salvation. Young, Jewish and on the run from the Nazis, Esther...

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 🎧Listening Length = 7 hours and 54 minutes A “richly drawn” multigenerational novel (Kirkus Reviews) performed by three Earphones Award–winning narrators: Haunted by her mother’s past choices, Bela leaves...

Megan Clawson Despite living in an actual castle, happily ever after is evading Margaret ‘Maggie’ Moore.From her bedroom in the Tower of London, twenty-six-year-old Maggie has always dreamed of her...

Anna Levine What would your life be like if military service was compulsory, not voluntary? Aggie is eighteen and getting ready to do her service for the Israeli Army. She...

Henry Gilbert Robin Hood is the best-loved outlaw of all time.In this edition, Henry Gilbert tells of the adventures of the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest - Robin himself, Little...

Glenn Meade From the award-winning international bestseller whose "FAST, SLY, AND SLICK THRILLERS DELIVER THE GOODS . . . UNTIL THE SMOKE FINALLY CLEARS" ("Booklist") comes a riveting blend of...