Author: LM Montgomery Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. And now, with a new baby on the way and insufferable Aunt...

Author: LM Montgomery New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With her old friend Prissy Grant waiting in...

Suzanne Fisher Staples In India, Parvati, a talented dancer with supernatural powers, is invited to Madras to study with a great master and sacrifices friends and family for her art....

Piers Paul Read "Piers Paul Read is one of England's most accomplished novelists, and Scarpia is among his finest novels." -- The Wall Street JournalIt is the late eighteenth century...

Judith Warner An exploration of the world of modern motherhood describes the author's early parenting experiences in Paris and how they contrasted with anxiety-marked parenting expectations in the United States,...

Wally Lamb New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life—Felix Funicello, introduced in Wishin’ and Hopin’—and the trio of unforgettable women who...

Paul R Ehrlich Why do we behave the way we do? Biologist Paul Ehrlich suggests that although people share a common genetic code, these genes "do not shout commands at...

Cheri Tannenbaum How would you like to be unable to speak intelligibly? How would you enjoy having an awkward gait that makes you prone to falling and causes people to...

Martin Walker A pair of murders, a romance and rivals in pursuit of a long-lost vintage car of unfathomable value—Bruno, chief of police, is busy in another mystery set in...

Volker Weidermann It's as if they're made for each other. Two men, both falling, but holding each other up for a time.Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host...

Lauren Groff The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida—its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind—becomes its gravitational center: an energy, a mood, as...

Edith Hall Who were the ancient Greeks? They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. But what was it that enabled them to achieve so much?The ancient Greeks were a...