Like countless Gloucester fishermen before and since, Howard Blackburn and Tom Welch were trawling for halibut on the Newfoundland banks in an open dory in 1883 when a sudden blizzard separated them f
Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent Engl
Diane McKinney-Whetstone's lyrical first novel, Tumbling, vividly captures a tightly knit African-American neighborhood in South Philadelphia during the forties and fifties. Its central characters
You're pregnant! And excited, yet at the same time wondering: * How can I combat morning sickness? * How can I exercise if I have no energy? * How do I control my weight when I'm eating for two? * Ho
Mikhail Gorbachev's former interpreter gives an insider's views on Gorbachev's meetings and power struggles with the world's leaders, such as Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Margaret Thatcher. 25,000
Focusing on four key areas of civil rights and liberties--racial discrimination, abortion, criminal law, and First Amendment freedoms--an in-depth look at the Supreme Court documents the battle betwee
Stop the Insanity!, Susan Powter's first bestselling book, changed the way millions of people look at the diet-and-fitness industry and helped them get lean, strong, and healthy. Now, is Sober...and S
Smart, beautiful and desperate for a husband, Charlotte Heywood must escape the clutches of two impossible suitors in order to claim the heart of a charming and fickle young man, in a story originally
Hailed as extraordinary from coast to coast and winner of both the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Medicis, France's top literary prizes, the national bestseller Dreams of My Russian Summers traces a sent
A moving collection of writings by teens across America who have lived through such trauma as sexual abuse and gang revenge shares insights into how sensitive young adults are to the violence that sur
Miss Lucy Pym, a popular English psychologist, is guest lecturer at a physical training college. The year's term is nearly over, and Miss Pym -- inquisitive and observant -- detects a furtiveness in t
Inspired by his Cherokee grandmother's healing ceremonies, Lewis Mehl-Madrona enlightens readers to "alternative" paths to recovery and health. Coyote Medicine isn't about eschewing Western medicine
Floating in My Mother's Palm is the compelling and mystical story of Hanna Malter, a young girl growing up in 1950's Burgdorf, the small German town Ursula Hegi so brilliantly brought to life in her
In the first book on the subject, a popular novelist interviews German Americans born in Germany during and immediately after World War II as they reveal the impact of the Holocaust on their parents'
The voices of America's past and present live on in this timeless portrayal of small-town America, which, through two hundred years of letters to one town's newspapers, evokes the most memorable mome
An enchanting tale of faith, love, and miracles Do miracles occur? That is what smart, handsome Father Frank Moore must determine. When a young girl in Queens is inexplicably cured of a deadly disea
A well-reviewed debut novel recreates the hippie world of Denver in the 1970s, where a girl is left to scheme and scrape her way through childhood, carving out an identity for herself and a family of
Hailed as "a chilling portrait" by The Boston Globe and "a crafty thriller" by Newsweek, this astonishing story of an obsessive hacker promises to change the way you look at the Internet forever.At L
The battle of Shiloh, fought in April 1862 in the wilderness of south central Tennessee, marked a savage turning point in the Civil War. In this masterful book, Larry Daniel re-creates the drama and
"This book is about my relationship with jam, my soul, music, and the world in which I live. When I make jam I slow down, my actions become rhythmical, my thinking clear. The repetitive motions of was
In this "energetic" (Kirkus Reviews) re-creation of Anne Boleyn's tragic life -- and death -- Robin Maxwell offers a pitch-perfect version of a bawdy and exuberant time filled with lust, betrayal
Back in print at last, the nine beautifully crafted tales in Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories display Doris Betts at the top of her form: compassionate, witty, and unforgettable."The Ug
David Levy brings these "ghostly apparitions" to life. With fascinating scenarios both real and imagined, he shows how comets have wreaked their special havoc on Earth and other planets. Beginning wi
Dr. Oliver Sacks's books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars and the bestselling The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat have been acclaimed for their extraordinary compassion in the treatment of pa
Don't get even -- get mad, and get over it!When your love life is boring, maybe you don't fight enough? When sex leaves a person cold, is frozen anger the problem? If you work too much, eat too much,
0n September 1, 1994, I flew to Israel and met in Jerusalem with a close friendof Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the poet Chaim Guri. I gave him a letterwhich he immediately gave to the Prime Minister
Free yourself from destructive behaviorMany of us know that self-destructive patterns are rooted in self-dislike, but few of us understand how to break them. In this wise and compassionate book, best
Lust brings out the liar in everyone. Every erection has Pinocchio written up and down its lengthyes, everybody wants to be REAL, a real boy, an honest woman, unafraid and uprightbut then
A real-life technological thriller recalls a group of scientists whose invention of radar during World War II changed the course of the war and chronicles the post-war accomplishments of the scientist
In this account, Rodney Barker tells the full and terrifying story of a microorganism popping up along the Eastern seaboard - far closer to home than the Ebola virus and equally frightening.In the co
A much anticipated compilation of literary masterpieces collected from some one hundred workshops contains extraordinary works by well-known authors and the daring and alluring voices of a new generat
With a winning combination of bemusement, frustration, and affection, John Seabrook takes us along on his personal journey from "newbie" to old hand in cyberspace. Along the way, he sheds light on th
The story of a cunning wolf mother, Marta, chronicles her struggle to protect her family and her adventures trying to return home to the wilderness with her pups, after a group of well-meaning but mis
Jim Grimsley returns to the Southern landscape evoked so powerfully in his previous award-winning novels, Winter Birds and Dream Boy, to tell an unforgettable story of a woman's search for the meanin
Conflicting Accounts is the story of the rise, crash, and rebirth of the largest and arguably most significant advertising agency in the world - Saatchi and Saatchi. Author Kevin Goldman, former dail
The Road Less Traveled and Beyond is the culmination of a lifetime of Dr. M. Scott Peck's counseling, lecturing, and writing, and the conclusion of the "Road" trilogy. In it, we are led to a deeper a
