As one of the great ethical novels of the 19th century, "Ramona" was both a political and literary success and continues to move modern readers with its sympathetic characters and its...
Paine's daring prose paved the way for the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War. This volume also includes " The Crisis," " The Age of Reason," and "...
An irreverent and entertaining book for every mother who's been made to feel guilty or frazzled by society's impossible expectations. Analyzing data from the psychoanalyst's couch,...
Where did we come from? Where are we going?Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin continue the pioneering field work of Louis and Mary Leakey by fitting together the pieces of our past to discover new...
The antidote to "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" is an uproarious and very American word book for those who are tired of getting pulled over aby the grammar police.
The medusa is a tiny jellyfish that lives on the ventral surface of a sea slug found in the Bay of Naples. Readers will find themselves caught up in the fate of the medusa and the snail as a...
Witnesses to rape, torture, and executions, Agate Nesaule and her family survived against all odds in World War II Europe to emmigrate to America where Agate could receive the education her mother...
The horrors of this century's war in the South Pacific extended far beyond the detonation of atomic bombs. In this revelatory portrayal of the lives of the regular infantrymen who struggled to...
One of the greatest British philosophers, Bishop Berkeley (1685 1753) was the founder of the influential doctrine of Immaterialism the belief that there is no reality outside the mind, and that the...
Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true'Winter has come; and in a far distant land, a warrior...
The life and craft of Jack Kerouac are traced through some of his most personal and mesmerizing letters. Written between 1940, when he was a freshman in college, and 1956, immediately before his...
Drawing on a welter of original research, HITLER'S EMPIRE upends half a century of conventional wisdom on the Nazis' campaign to take over Europe. Mark Mazower is the author of numerous...
You will get to the Tiber alive. You will start to Jive. I am Apollo I will remember The former God Apollo, cast out żeby his father, Zeus, is having a pretty rough time of it. Well, for one thing,...
The volume includes: "Youth"; "The Secret Sharer"; "The Lagoon"; "An Outpost of Progress"; "Il Conde"; and, "The Duel". The intention is a range of...
Dory turns learning to read into a hilarious adventure through the power of imagination--perfect for fans of Junie B. Jones and Ivy and Bean Ever since Dory met Rosabelle, a real true friend whose...
Los mejores libros jamás escritosConsiderada por la crítica como laprimera obra maestra de Dostoievski, Crimen y castigo es un profundoanálisis psicológico de su protagonista, el joven...
The chronicle of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth offers an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. Exuberantly inventive, this coming-of-age story is a tour de force of...
Moving away from the family setting of her best-known works, Louisa May Alcott explores both her own personal conflicts as a woman, as well as those experienced by her contemporaries in the...
Ahmad's] "introduction is fiery and charismatic... This book encompasses the diversity of experience, with beautiful variations and stories that bicker back and forth." --Parul Sehgal,...
When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam....
From the prize-winning author of Reasons to be Cheerful comes a story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime'A true gift of a novel, I utterly adored it. For as long...
Now in paperback, the self-disciplined and glacially poised Bridget is back with another year's worth of unflinching self-analysis, as she lurches through self-help books, struggles with mad...