**IN VERY DELICATE CONDITION**Henry AdamsAn instant bestseller when first published in 1880, Democracy is the quintessential American political novel. At its heart is Madeleine Lee, a young widow who comes...

Beatrice GormleyPresident Barack Obama's early involvement with politics was inspired by his mother's interest in the controversial social issues of her times -- a passion that she passed on to...

Adam Gopnik On every page of this delicious book you will meet characters and situations that tell you this could only be New York. The parents who are determined to...

Avi Wenger In the beginning there is a dream. A boy lays aslumber, sleeping the sleep of a thousand years. A wOman enters the space of his sleep. A kiss...

Jonathan Raban From the best-selling author of Passage to Juneau—“Raban at his best,” wrote Ian McEwan—an unsettling, tender, and always surprising novel set in Seattle at the turn of the...

Joseph J Ellis Following his subject from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jeffersonian character. A marvel...

Alison Lurie Originally published in 1974, a humorous novel set against an American academic background, telling of how a professor's stable relationship and family life comes apart when he embarks...

Brian Doyle Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year AwardIn his first year in high school, Hubbo O'Driscoll is torn between his poor but fun friends and...

Philip Roth No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you’re not superior to...

Brian Doyle A Phoenix Honor Award BookYoung Tommy is seeing Angel Square through new eyes since his best friend's father was beaten up just because he's Jewish. Brian Doyle brings...

Daniel Drennam "Half my time and energy as a New Yorker is given to keeping all aspects of the outside world outside; to such a degree that it might seem...

Robert E Babe Canada has a rich heritage of English-language communication thought. For the first time "Canadian Communication Thought" assembles much of this erudition by introducing and examining the writings...