Uli von KapffIn a single decade, between 1818 and 1828, Shaka transformed a modest chieftaincy into one of the most powerful kingdoms in southern Africa. His empire, whose heartland lay...

Eric Van Lustbader, Robert LudlumJASON BOURNE RETURNS FROM THE SHADOWS AS THE WORLD'S #1 ASSASSIN…Once, Jason Bourne was notorious in the clandestine world of covert-ops as one of the CIA's...

Miguel DeCervantesDon Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits...

Philip RothIt is 1988, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, it...

Susan Vreeland   From extraordinary highs - patronage by the Medicis, friendship with Galileo and, most importantly of all, beautiful and outstandingly original paintings - to rape by her father's...

Azar Nafisi Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female...

Nadine GordimerSeven stories of South Africa deal with a missing body, a mysterious Rhodesian visitor, a pass law protest, a white geologist and his Black secretary, and a pair of...

Ivan VladislavicThis dazzling portrait of Johannesburg is one of the most haunting, poetic pieces of reportage about a metropolis since Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City. Through precisely crafted snapshots, Ivan Vladislavic...

Fruma Stern, Devorah Bell(Editor), Yehudis Cohen(Editor), Rivkah Katzen(Editor), Bassie Morris(Editor)

Richard FlanaganA novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love.What would you do if you saw the love of your life, whom you...

Piet HeinWhat in the world is a Grook?A grook is a short, aphoristic poem, accompanied by an appropriate drawing, revealing in a minimum of words and with a minimum of...

Chungliang Al HuangThis text describes Master Chungliang Al Huang's techniques of Tai Chi.