Tom Shachtman Science and experimentation were at the heart of the Founding Fathers' philosophies and actions. The Founders relentlessly tinkered, invented, farmed by means of scientific principles, star-gazed, were fascinated...

Dr Seuss This follow-up to The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories features familiar Seuss faces and places — including Horton the Elephant, Marco, Mulberry Street, and a Grinch — as well...

Alice Schroeder Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Prize 2008 The Snowball is the first and will be the only biography of the...

M Jakubowiez It’s summer vacation, and for Devorah Leah Dubin that means long summer days stretching endlessly before her. Her best friend Kayla is at sleep-away camp; her three lively...

James Lee Burke Creole Belle begins where the last book in the Dave Robicheaux series, The Glass Rainbow , ended. Dave is in a recovery unit in New Orleans, where...

Bob Woodward "Plan of Attack" by Bob Woodward is a comprehensive account of the events leading up to the 2003 Iraq War. The book provides a detailed narrative of the...

Mitch Albom Mitch Albom creates his most unforgettable fictional character—Frankie Presto, the greatest guitarist to ever walk the earth—in this magical novel about the bands we join in life and...

Author: Faye Kellerman Her name is Elise Freeman, and her chilling cry for help comes too late to save her. On a DVD found near her lifeless body, the emotionally...

Toni Morrison This is the story of Macon "Milkman" Dead, heir to the richest black family in a Midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically...

Ruth Benedict A recognized classic of cultural anthropology, this book explores the political, religious, and economic life of Japan from the seventh century through the mid-twentieth, as well as personal...

Devon Monk Allie would rather moonlight as a Hound than accept the family fortune - and the strings that come with it. All magic use has costs -- hers include...

Robert J Sawyer FLASHFORWARDTwo minutes and seventeen seconds that changed the worldSuddenly, without warning, all seven billion people on Earth black out for more than two minutes. Millions die as...