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...

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...

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...

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...

Kenneth L Marcus "What does it mean to be Jewish? This ancient question has become a pressing civil rights controversy. Despite a recent resurgence of anti-Semitic incidents on American college...

Edited by Alex Gitterman and Lawrence ShulmanTopics include the fundamentals of the mutual aid process, the institutional benefits of group service, and specific clinical examples of mutual aid groups. New...

Author: Michael Moore Stupid White Men - ...and other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!Published 2002 by Penguin (first published February 19th 2001)

Susan SontagNational Book Award, Fiction, 2000The Volcano Lover, Susan Sontag's best-selling 1992 novel, retold the love story of Emma Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson with consummate power. In this enthralling...

Lawrence HillKeita Ali has nothing: no bank account, no papers, no legal identity. A runner, he has fled home - a brutal dictatorship that produces the world's fastest marathoners -...

Edward Rutherfurd The best-selling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day. Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in...

Guy LarsonWar Dogs: The True Story of How Three Stoners From Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History Soon to be a major motion picture from the director...

Susan Schmidt and Michael WeisskopfWhat drove the man who nearly toppled a presidency and forced the most serious constitutional crisis in twenty-five years? Conventional wisdom portrays Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr...