It was the week before Thanksgiving when Kinsey Millhone first heard the sad story of the late Johnny Lee, the World War II fighter pilot of whom, rather mysteriously, the military authorities have...
Aleksandar Hemon grew up in a blissful Sarajevo, where his childhood was consumed żeby football, his adolescence żeby friends, movies and girls and where, as a young man, he poked at the...
Poor Ash is the laughing stock at school because, despite his unfashionably large star-shaped brand that marks him as a future dragon master, he has nothing to show for it. His dragon has never...
We all face death, but how many of us are actually ready for it? Whether our own death or that of a loved one comes first, how prepared are we, spiritually or practically? In Preparing to Die,...
'Lena Andersson's Wilful Disregard is a story of the heart written with bracing intellectual rigor. It is a stunner, pure and simple.' Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones Winner of...
This story is not a story at all. It all happened. On New Year's Day Becky Morley begins to write her diary. Aby March, her world has changed for ever. Foot-and-mouth disease breaks out on a...
SUMMERTIME SMACKDOWN Noe usually tries her best to stay away from her brother's wacky friends, but when Tama recruits her for a mission, she has no choice but to go along with it Together with...
In "The Silent Question," Packer provides fresh insights on using the experiences of life that are raw, messy, painful, and sometimes full of laughter, to open a way to compassion. She...
Accessible and practical teachings on the life of Naropa, with verse-by-verse commentary on his two most important Mahamudra songs aby a contemporary Karma Kagyu master. Naropa is one of the...
Women of Wisdom explores and celebrates the spiritual potential of all women, as exemplified by the lives of six Tibetan female mystics. These stories of great women who have achieved full...
Music is, in one sense, merely a series of fleeting vibrations that arise and subside. How could it be that something so insubstantial fills us, and calms us, and makes us weep? Because, says W. A....
The story of the early days of Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, heroes of Lonesome Dove. These are the days when Gus and Call - two of the most beloved figures in American fiction - were young Texas...
PARENT TRAP The Kazama residence has been hopping ever since Roka, Tsutsuji, and Takao came to live with Kenji. But now one more person has shown up: Kenji's father At first Kenji's dad is...
An all-new Mature Readers manga about monster girls for fans of Monster Girl Encyclopedia Whether they're part cat, part horse, or part spider, Daisuke has always been fascinated wi
The third volume of the fifteenth-century spiritual classic that condenses the enormous breadth of Buddhist teachings into one easy-to-follow meditation manual. The Great Treatise on the Stages of...
At a time of growing environmental crisis, a pioneer of Green Buddhist thought offers challenging and illuminating perspectives. With species rapidly disappearing and global temperatures rising,...
A haunting premonition...A deadly betrayal. Frankia 780AD: Sigwulf, a minor Saxon prince, is saved from execution after his family is slaughtered by the ruthless King Offa of Mercia. Sigwulf is...
A major new biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told through the prism of women in his life. Includes his mother, sister, wife, sisters-in-law, patrons, friends, lovers and artists who all...