Carol Ann RinzlerThis text helps identify over 100 diseases and medical conditions, and gives some simple guidelines on how to reduce risk. It is arranged alphabetically, and provides information on...

Author: SY Agnon These stories span the lifetime of a quintessential wandering Jew - born in Buczacz, Poland, living in Germany, and finally settling in Jerusalem - and they bring...

Pat ConroyPAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo,...

Author: Iris Murdoch As an old man lies on his deathbed reliving his past in reverie, each person involved in his life undergoes a subtle transformationPublished November 18th 1976 by...

War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples...

JRR TolkienThe Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in this perilous quest is Bilbo Baggins,...

Paul TherouxPaul Theroux left Victoria Station on a rainy Saturday in April thinking that taking eight trains across Europe, Eastern Europe, the USSR and Mongolia would be the easy way...

Meet Kirsten: An American Girl(American Girl: Kirsten #1)Janet Beeler ShawIn the summer of 1854, after a long & dangerous journey on a small ship, Kirsten Larson & her family arrive...

Peter Little and David EnglishThere's more to motor racing than speed and noise. A Lot goes on behind the scenes and this book gives you an inside view. Find out...

PL Travers 'When Jane and Michael Banks draw up an advertisement for a nanny, Mary Poppins arrives on a gust of the East Wind and slides up the bannister, changing...

Marilynne RobinsonA modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two...

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson David Balfour, an honest subject of King George, faces a number of sticky problems before entering his inheritance as Laird of Shaws. Without David's intervention, "James...