Bailey White In this national bestseller, Bailey White--whose accounts of Southern eccentricity have enchanted millions of listeners to National Public Radio--offers a humorous, touching, story-filled memoir of her home in...

Agnes Newton Keith This book tells the experiences of a family imprisoned in a Japanese internee camp during World War II. In 1942, Japan occupied Borneo and the author Agnes...

HG Kahn This isn't another Holocaust book, it's an adventure story, says author Hans Kahn, a Holocaust survivor who escaped from the Nazis with no more than the shirt on...

Teaching Tolerance Project The teachers of young children who speak to us so earnestly in the stories in Starting Small work in different communities but share a common that children...

Susie FishbeinSusie Fishbein has done it again! A new cookbook with all of the elegance and flair of the original best-selling Kosher by Design, with more magnificent photography, great ideas...

NIcholson Baker A selection from Baker's essays and journalism which form some of his most popular writing. The subjects range from extinct forms of punctuation to the tribulations of reading...

Colin McGinn McGinn sets out to make philosophy accessible to the layperson "by describing what it is like to be a philosopher from the inside". The result is part memoir,...

Beppe Severgnini The English must be explored carefully, because they still remain a mysterious continent. This book does so with wit and irony. It describes how the English dress, what...

Vivian Gornick Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's romantic depression over the...

Mortimer J Adler For the first time in paperback, the illuminating critique of modern thought from America's "Philosopher for Everyman" (Time). March 1, 1987 by Scribner Paper Fiction

Robin Davina Meyerson Ever wonder why coincidences occur? Have you ever ignored a gut feeling, only to realize later you should have trusted your instincts? Are you truly spending enough...

Nigel Rees A galaxy of quotations and quizzes on Love, Death and the Universe."