Jennifer Montagu New York Octopus Books Limited, 1972. Complete with 137 illustrations in color & black and white. Recants of the rediscovery of bronzes in the Italian Renaissance, the methods...

Emily Barton A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearA Los Angeles Times Book Review Favorite Book of the YearSince her girlhood, Prudence Winship has gazed across...

Colm Toibin   It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for...

Ehud Sprinzak A prominent Israeli political scientist traces the history of extremist violence in Israeli politics, from the time of David Ben-Gurion to the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin,...

Ellis Peters A MORBID TASTE FOR BONES. In 1137 the head of Shrewsbury Abbey decided to acquire the remains of St Winifred for his Benedictine order. Brother Cadfael is part...

Crawford Kilian SCIENCE DISCOVERED IT.Tiny implants in the brain that enhanced intelligence and established mind-to-mind links between species that had previously been isolated and mute. Dogs, monkeys and man could...

Dean Koontz NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLoop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For...

JD Robb   Dennis Mira just had two unpleasant surprises. First he learned that his cousin Edward was secretly meeting with a real estate agent about their late grandfather’s magnificent...

Aaron Cohen At the age of eighteen, Aaron Cohen left Beverly Hills to prove himself in the crucible of the armed forces. He was determined to be a part of...

Chayym Zeldis A riveting, monumental novel about the life of the brother of Jesus Christ—hypnotic in its power and imagery, awesome in its conception and dramatic invention. Brothers is the...

Alex Rutherford 1530, Agra, Northern India. Humayun, the newly-crowned second Moghul emperor, is a fortunate man. His father, Babur, has bequeathed him wealth, glory and an empire which stretches 1000...

Brothers Grimm Jacob Grimm and his brother Wilhelm were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in...