Gayatri DeviShe is the daughter of the Maharaja of Cooch Behar and the widow of the Maharaja of Jaipur. She was raised in a sumptuous palace staffed with 500 servants...

Michael Doran“Deeply researched, tightly argued, and accessibly concise” (The New York Times Book Review) - a major retelling of the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, a seminal event in the...

Gary Greenberg   Be Prepared: A Practical Handbook for New Dads   An indispensable survival manual for guys entering the trenches of fatherhood, Be Prepared is loaded with one-of-a-kind insights,...

Marcie HershmanGrief, Love and What Endures"A wise, lyrical and deeply moving auscultation of a mourning heart and its possibilities for solace."--Publishers WeeklyIn Speak to Me, acclaimed novelist Marcie Hershman asks...

David Attenborough   In this unique book, David Attenborough has undertaken nothing less than a history of nature, from the emergence of tiny one-celled organisms in the primeval slime more...

Sue E EstroffEstroff describes a group of chronic psychiatric clients as they attempt life outside a mental hospital.

Leonard CohenBook of Longing is Leonard Cohen's astonishing new collection of poems, the first since Book of Mercy was published nearly three decades ago.Leonard Cohen made his name as a...

Claire FullerThe second novel from the author of Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize and was a 2016 Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.'Gil Coleman...

Nelson MandelaLong Walk to Freedom(Long Walk to Freedom #1-2)Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the...

Henri TroyatLeo Tolstoy embodies the most extraordinary contradictions. He was a wealthy aristocrat who preached the virtues of poverty and the peasant life, a misogynist who wrote Anna Karenina, and...

Lev GrossmanThe Magicians(The Magicians #1)A thrilling and original coming-of-age novel about a young man practicing magic in the real worldQuentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school,...

Catherine Cookson Bridget Gether's parents had been killed in the wartime blitz and she had lived with the Overmeers at Balderstone, their sprawling property in the Northumbrian countryside, since she...