Author: Colin Dexter The Dead of Jericho is Colin Dexter's fifth outing featuring the popular detective, Inspector Morse. Morse switched on the gramophone to 'play', and sought to switch his mind...

Yigal Allon The Israeli foreign minister reviews his farmer father's life and ambitions and recounts his own interests and activities as farmer's son, kibbutz pioneer, World War II underground fighter,...

Graham GreeneWith superb skill and feeling, Graham greene retraces the experiences and encounters of a long and extraordinary life. His restlessness is legendary; he has travelled like an explorer seeking...

Weike Wang At first glance, the quirky, overworked narrator of this novel seems to be on the cusp of a perfect life: she is studying for a prestigious PhD in...

Judy Donnelly Describes the burial of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen and the discovery of his long-lost tomb by archaeologists more than 3000 years later. May 12, 1988 by Random House Books...

David LaskinA masterful portrait of a tragic crucible in the settlement of the American heartland - the 'Children's Blizzard' of 1888.The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed...

Darryl Cunningham Author of more than six acclaimed graphic novels and well-known for his economical drawing and clear, explanatory narrative, Cunningham shows how the West and its leaders have been...

Scott AndersonFrom the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a gripping history of the early years of the Cold War, the CIA's covert battles against communism, and the tragic consequences...

The Mezuzah in the Madonnna's Foot: Marranos and Other Secret Jews--A Woman Discovers Her Spiritual Heritage Trudi Alexy Describes the lives of Jews living in Spain as Catholics.

Svetlana Alexievich New English translation of original 1985 book by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World...

Mary Louise RobertsIn the raucous decade following World War I, newly blurred boundaries between male and female created fears among the French that theirs was becoming a civilization without sexes....

Dava Sobel Galileo Galilei (1524-1642) was the foremost scientist of his day, the man Albert Einstein was to call "the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science altogether."...