Isabel Allende   Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 2000: Until Isabel Allende burst onto the scene with her 1985 debut, The House of the Spirits, Latin American fiction was, for...

Michael Ondaatje   In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself – at once both shadowed and luminous – Warlight is a vivid, thrilling novel of violence and love, intrigue...

Albert H Friedlander Dr. Friedlander argues that the Jewish people must move out of the shadow of the Holocaust. He insists that the Jewish emphasis on the Holocaust is not...

Andrew David Stedman Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasing Hitler's Germany has been widely condemned. However, historians (and politicians) have been divided about the viability of alternative courses of action. Andrew...

Anthony Reid If you are considering a new life in Israel then Toto, I Don't Think We Are in Golders Green Anymore is essential reading. This is an often humorous...

Anita Desai To the family living in the shabby, dusty house in Delhi, Tara's visit brings a sharp reminder of life outside tradition. For Bim coping endlessly with their problems,...

Greg Iles A thriller that is ‘on fire with suspense’ (Stephen King) from the New York Times No. 1 bestseller Greg Iles. A secret mission into the dark heart of...

Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre   The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975) by two fine journalists who conducted hundreds...

Yehuda Avner Looks at the lives of Israeli prime ministers Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, and Menachem Begin, and the events surrounding their leadership in Israel.

Author: George RR Martin Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As...

Jane Smiley The first novel in a dazzling new epic trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize; a literary adventure that will span a century in America. 1920. After...

Jeff Shesol "A stunning work of history."—Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of No Ordinary Time and Team of RivalsBeginning in 1935, the Supreme Court's conservative majority left much of FDR's agenda...