David MaloufThe year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, Carney, an illiterate Irishman,...

Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex tells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor...

Tzvia Ehrlich-KleinOur Sages said:Even the [mundane] conversations of the people who livei n the Land of Israel are Torah. (Vayikra Rabba 34:7)This cheerful, inspiring book will introduce you to some...

Joshua LevyThe Agony of the Promised Land is an excellent introduction to the fascinating and complex history of Israel and Palestine. Starting with the story of Abraham, it guides the...

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Set among a community of cadets in a Lima military school, it is notable for its experimental and complex employment of multiple perspectives. The novel was...

Ka-Tzetnik 135633House of Love is in a very real sense the sequel to House of Dolls, the five million copy bestseller which has been translated into 15 languages.To those who...

Sol T PlaatjeMhudi, the first full-length novel in English by a black South African, was written in the late 1910s. A romantic epic set in the first half of the...

Gabriel Garcia MarquezWritten just before One Hundred Years of Solitude, this fascinating novel of a Colombian river town possessed by evil points to the author's later flowering and greatness. Translated...

Noam Chomsky   Chomsky's linguistics work has revolutionized our understanding of language. These nontechnical Reflections consider the point & purpose of studying language, exploring some of the more general intellectual...

Tamsin PickeralMachintosh follows the rise and fall of one of Britain's most fascinating and original artists and designers of the twentieth century. Covering everything from his early architecture, furniture and...

Edna Kadman This book lets you learn in on your own.English transcription alongside the Hebrew makes pronunciation easy.Learn to read, write speak and understand Hebrew.Acquire a broad vocabulary and familiarity...

Author: Rudyard Kipling Kipling's own drawings, with their long, funny captions, illustrate his hilarious explanations of How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, How the...