Diana Athill In England half a century ago, well-brought-up young women are meant to aspire to the respectable life. Some things are not to be spoken of; some are most...

Marilyn Yalom In this provocative, pioneering, and wholly engrossing cultural history, noted scholar Marilyn Yalom explores twenty-five thousand years of ideas, images, and perceptions of the female breast--in religion, psychology,...

Lin Ci Chinese painting can be dated back to prehistoric times and the earliest paintings of art were found on pottery pieces unearthed from several early civilizations in Yellow River...

AB Yehoshua The father of three grown children comes back to Israel to get a divorce from his wife of many years; another woman, newly pregnant, awaits him in America....

Doris Lessing In the title novel, two friends fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, vowing a respectable...

Valerio Massimo Manfredi A huge international bestseller, Alexander: Child of a Dream is the first in Valerio Massimo Mandfredi's outstanding trilogy of brutal passion and grand adventure in Ancient Greece.Who...

Nancy Boyd Webb (Editor) From the editor of the widely acclaimed Play Therapy with Children in Crisis , this new volume explores a related and still neglected area\m-\childhood bereavement. Drawing...

John Updike On a spring day in Vermont, seventy-nine-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn, a young interviewer from New York. Questions send Hope back...

Richard Yeats Here is more than fine writing; here is what, added to fine writing, makes a book come immediately, intensely and brilliantly alive...a masterpiece' Tennessee Williams. 'Easily the best...

Bonnie J Gisel (Editor) Whether he is cheering for untamed mountain sheep or braving a high-country storm that would sweep away lesser mortals, John Muir—naturalist, author, and advocate—is forever passionate, often...

David A Crenshaw, PhD Offers advice on helping preschool and school age children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly deal with grief. March 1, 1995 by Crossroad

John Blofeld Drawing on Chinese legend, anecdotes, and poetry, in addition to his travels in China, the author presents a history of tea as well as instructions for the purchase,...