A New York Times Book Review’s Editors’ Choice "Ismail Kadare's readers are astonished every year when the Nobel committee overlooks him. . . . A Girl in Exile, published in Albanian in 2009, may rek
What if the Islamic State captured the most valuable hostage in history?“The president of the United States . . . is missing.” With these words, New York Times journalist J. B. Collins, report-ing fro
“A love letter to the book as a physical object, a source of intellectual ardor, and a form of emotional salvation” (Salon)—and a nod toU and I, Nicholson Baker’s classic memoir about John Updike—from
This book prepares students and teachers for the requirements of the 2015 AQA A Level English Literature B specification. Structured and written to develop the skills on which students will be assesse
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There is no better time in life to begin developing literacy and linguistic skills than as a toddler. Authors Pascal and Vickie Soman put this wisdom into practice in their new children's book, "ABC f
These fourteen stories show Jeffrey Archer's great skills with a wide variety of character, of subject and of setting, but all with that trademark twist in the tail. Every reader will have their own f
A forty-year-old Brazilian journalist reduced to living in a dilapidated building inhabited by a bizarre human fauna—fortune-tellers, transvestites, tango-loving Argentinean hustlers—is called upon to