Elizabeth Gilbert   Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia   A celebrated writer's irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly...

Frank McCourtThe sequel to Frank McCourt's memoir of his Irish Catholic boyhood, Angela's Ashes, picks up the story in October 1949, upon his arrival in America. Though he was born...

Frank McCourtImbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion. This is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic."When I look back on my...

Julie PowellNearing thirty and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell resolved to reclaim her life by cooking, in the span of a single year, every one of the...

Edmund De Waal264 wood and ivory carvings none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment...

Isabel Allende"Listen, Paula. I am going to tell you a story so that when you wake up you will not feel so lost." So says Chilean writer Isabel Allende (The...

Daniel MendelsohnIn this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic--part memoir, part reportage,...

Mitch AlbomMaybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound...

Anne FrankOne of the most powerful personal accounts of the Twentieth Century.Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic account of an ordinary life lived...

Robert Asprin Skeeve was a magician's apprentice until an assassin struck and his master was killed. Now, with a purple-tongued demon named Aahz as a companion, he's on a quest...

Piers Anthony Piers Anthony, the mastermind behind the worlds created for the Apprentice Adept and Xanth series, now journeys to a different world--his own. Millions of fans will eagerly join...

June MottersheadWhen George Mottershead moved to the village of Upton-by-Chester in 1930 to realise his dream of opening a zoo without bars, his four-year-old daughter June had no idea how...