Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Under the Frog follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the anti-Soviet upr...
The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and ap...
When she finally lures Simeon Jermyn back to London, his dark handsomeness puts Isidore's worst fears to restuntil disaster strikes.The duke demands an annulment.Forsaking his adventuresome past, S...
Published when the author was just twenty-three, Life Goes On was Hans Keilson's literary debut, an extraordinary autobiographical novel that paints a dark yet illuminating portrait of Germany betw...
1948 Edgar Award Winner Ed Hunter is eighteen, and he isn't happy.
Then his father doesn't come home one night, and Ed finds out how good he had it.
Author Brown won the Edgar award in ...
Americans are addicted to happiness.
When we're not popping pills, we leaf through scientific studies that take for granted our quest for happiness, or read self-help books by everyone from a...
Across the centuriesTu Fu lived in the T'ang Dynasty (731-770)his poems come through to us with an immediacy that is breathtaking in Kenneth Rexroth's English versions.
The translator then mo...
See an alternate cover edition here .Written in the eleventh century, this portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world's first novel. The Tale of Genji is a very lo...
Has the Bible bound Christians to a narrow and mistaken notion of Jesus?
Should we listen to other gospels, other sayings of Jesus, that enlarge and correct a mistaken story?
Christophe...
Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot t...
How do we hear his voice?
What if what God says to us is not clear?
The key, says best-selling author Dallas Willard, is to focus not so much on individual actions and decisions as on b...
While African Americans managed to emerge from chattel slavery and the oppressive decades that followed with great strength and resiliency, they did not emerge unscathed.
...Dear Reader,Here is the first of my new "Brides" trilogy, in which three unconventional young women vow they will never marry--only to be overtaken by destiny.
Bride #1 is the outspoken Porti...
With intelligence and humor, Susan Brownmiller explores the history and unspoken rules of the burden of "feminine perfection"What is femininity?
How are women meant to dress, look, think, act...
Rainer Erd, Frankfurter Rundschau, 21.
...When biologist Chris Bacon headed for the unspoiled rainforests of Papua New Guinea in search of medicinal plants, he had no idea that he would bring home a rare flower rumored by a tribal shaman t...
DS Logan McRae and the police in Aberdeen hunt a child killer who stalks the frozen streets.
Four-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch, strangled, mutilated and a long time dea...
Reminiscent of the illustrated tales of old, here is a lyrical, atmospheric novel of the paranormaland a chilling allegory for the nature of war.
Why do dead men rise up to torment the living...
An instant blockbuster in Italy where it has sold over 700,000 copies, and now an international literary phenomenon, 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed is the fictionalized memoir of Melissa P., a...
Led by a mysterious man know as "Oliver Stone," they study conspiracy theories, current events, and the machinations of government to discover the "truth" behind the country's actions.
and be...