William Golding When a plane crashes on a remote island, a small group of schoolboys are the sole survivors. From the prophetic Simon and virtuous Ralph to the lovable Piggy...

James Matlack Raney A gypsy curse…A shadow pirate…An ancient treasure…An adventure beyond mystery and magic!Eleven year-old Jim Morgan once had a home, a life of comfort, and a future full...

Samih Al-Qasim, Adinis, Mahmud Darwish Since pre-Islamic days, poetry has been the mass art form of the Arabic language. In modern times poets in the region have had a greater...

Richard Hyatt January 1, 1984 by Thorsons Publishers

Tess de Loo A woman falls in love with a man who may or may not be her brother in this searing novel by de Loo (The Twins), which traces...

Jesmyn Ward  A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award–winner Jesmyn Ward.In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings...

Paula Wagner At eighteen, Paula is already a seasoned traveler, having begun life in England, crisscrossed the US as a young child, and survived a year in a London boarding...

Saigyo Translated by Burton Wwatson Poems of a Mountain Home contains translations of two hundred of Saigyo's poems. His poems are almost all written in the thirty-one syllable tanka form,...

Erma Bombeck Here in one volume are three of Bombeck's hilarious books on family humor. Includes At Wit's End, "Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!" and I...

George Saunders The stories In Persuasion Nation are easily his best work yet. "The Red Bow," about a town consumed by pet-killing hysteria, won a 2004 National Magazine Award and "Bohemians," the...

Peter Matthiessen “You don’t have to be a ‘craniac’ . . . to appreciate [this book] . . . All you really need is a passion for prose as good...

Matti Friedman “A book about young men transformed by war, written by a veteran whose dazzling literary gifts gripped my attention from the first page to the last.” — The Wall Street...