Felicia Berliner In this witty, provocative, and “compulsively readable coming-of-age story” (Cosmopolitan), a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get married fears she will never find a groom because...

Jonathan C Slaght A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding reaches of eastern Russia.I saw my first Blakiston’s fish owl in the Russian...

Lynn Knight Clarice Cliff was one of the most significant ceramic designers of the twentieth century. Her work - a 'gargantuan feast of colour' - is avidly collected and is...

Rosalie Greenberg, MD Once considered an adult illness, bipolar disorder is one of the fastest growing categories in child psychiatry, touching the lives of an estimated one million children. But...

Judith Lederman and Candida Fink, MD HELP IS HEREBipolar disorder has recently been identified as one of the most misunderstood and underdiagnosed conditions affecting children -- and it is dramatically...

Orhan Pamuk On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. The...

Rebecca Hanover When six clones join Emmaline’s prestigious boarding school, she must confront the heartbreak of seeing her dead best friend’s face each day in class.The Similars are all anyone...

Raj Kumar Pruthi Since the dawn of civilization, people all over the world developed their native systems of medicines and therapies to overcome their health problems - which often varied...

Iain BanksKit doesn’t know who his mother is. What he does know, however, is that his father, Guy, is dying of cancer.Feeling his death is imminent, Guy gathers around him...

Roland SmithThe only thing you’ll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below. – Peak MarcelloAfter fourteen-year-old Peak Marcello...

Tom HanksA collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives...

Jaycee Dugard   On 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California. It was the last her...