Robert Jourdain What makes a distant oboe's wail beautiful? Why do some kinds of music lift us to ecstasy, but not others? How can music make sense to an ear...

Jiri Weil Set during the Nazi occupation of Prague, "Life with a Star" records the day-to-day life of Josef Roubicek, an ex-bank clerk, who discovers that the prosaic world he...

Virginia Andrews Such wonderful children. Such a beautiful mother. Such a lovely house. Such endless terror! It wasn't that she didn't love her children. She did. But there was a fortune...

Virginia Andrews They were such brave children to withstand such suffering. Such clever children to escape such terror!For Carrie, Chris and Cathy, the attic was a dark horror that would...

Virginia Andrews They escaped their mother’s hellish trap years ago, but a cruel history of lies and deceit has come full circle…The forbidden love that blossomed when Cathy and Christopher...

Virginia Andrews Christopher and Cathy have made a loving home for their handsome and talented teenager Jory, their imaginative nine-year-old Bart, and a sweet baby daughter. Then an elderly woman...

Miriam Rothschild Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild was a British natural scientist and author with contributions to zoology, entomology, and botany. First published January 1, 1983

Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black It all started with a mysterious letter left at a tiny bookstore for authors Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. Its closing lines: "We just want...

Anita Brookner In one of her most delicate and suspenseful novels to date, Anita Brookner brings us an exquisite story of friendship and duty. Rachel Kennedy and Oscar Livingston were...

Grace Paley Seventeen stories written over the past fifteen years reveal the author's vision of human love and tragedy.Wants --Debts --Distance --Faith in the afternoon --Gloomy tune --Living --Come on,...

Per Petterson We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I...

David Cordingly For centuries, the sea has been regarded as a male domain, but in this illuminating historical narrative, maritime scholar David Cordingly shows that an astonishing number of women...