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Chronicles The Military Career Of Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, Profiling His Military And Civilian Roles In The Vietnam War. The Funeral -- Going To War -- Ante...

The lawyer had not wanted the case at first -- it was too big, too complicated, too risky. It concerned a cluster of childhood leukemia victims in a small t...

In the India of the mid-1970s, Indira Gandhi's government has just come to power. It institutionalizes corruption and arbitrary force, most oppressive to ...

The writer with a claim to being the world’s foremost literary escape artist is back, with an intoxicating novel about the business and pleasure of wine, ...

Well, this was when Bill was sighing a lot. He had decided that after our parents died he just didn't want any more fighting between what was left of us. H...

In this marvelous book, acclaimed around the world, Alberto Manguel takes us on a fascinating exploration of what it means to be a reader of books. A Histor...

cambridge Literature Is A Series Of Literary Texts Edited For Study In English-speaking Classrooms. new York Times Books Of The Century the Manew York Sto...

From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940...

Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that solid foundation, bringing delight and beauty to her eld...

this Hugely Successful Retelling Of The Fall Of Sir Thomas More Has Gained Plaudits For Its Stage, Movie, And Television Versions. Categories: Biographies...

When civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in January 1991, two-thirds of the city’s population fled. Among them was eight-year-old Asad Ab...

When It Was First Produced In 1959, A Raisin In The Sun Was Awarded The New York Drama Critics Circle Award For That Season And Hailed As A Watershed In Ame...

bob Arctor Is A Dealer Of The Lethally Addictive Drug Substance D. Fred Is The Police Agent Assigned To Tail And Eventually Bust Him. To Do So, Fred Takes...

They had been there often as tourists. They had cherished the dream of someday living all year under the Provencal sun. And suddenly it happened. Here is ...

Lipsky, a Rolling Stone writer and an award-winning novelist, chronicles daily life at the U.S. Military Academy during the most tumultuous period in its ...

How Did The Early Christians Come To Believe That Sex Was Inherently Sinful? When Did The Fall Of Adam Become Synonymous With The Fall Of All Humanity? What...

I want to change. I need to change. I'm gradually losing touch with myself. Adultery, the provocative new novel by Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The...

Wade Whitehouse, divorced, estranged from his young daughter, spends his days as a well-driller, snow-plow operator, and policeman, his nights in a wind-swe...

Henning Mankell's Last Novel About An Aging Man Whose Quiet, Solitary Life On An Isolated Island Off The Coast Of Sweden Is Turned Upside Down When His Hous...

Symbolic of turbulent times of the 1960s, the explosion of a bomb in his own bucolic backyard sweeps away the innocence of Swede Levov, along with everyth...

We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination—in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles...

Sarat Chestnut, Born In Louisiana, Is Only Six When The Second American Civil War Breaks Out In 2074. But Even She Knows That Oil Is Outlawed, That Louisian...

This Novel Is Centred On A Suspicious Death, That Of Robert Grove, Fellow Of New College. Four Witnesses Each Give Their Own Account Of The Proceedings, But...

2013 Orion Book Award Winner2013 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award WinnerOurs is not a stable planet. It is prone to sudden, violent natural disasters an...

This Book Is An Account Of The History, Ecology, And Mystique Of The Arctic Region. The Author Offers A Thorough Examination Of This Obscure World, Its Terr...

from The Actor And Writer Ethan Hawke: A Piercing Novel Of Love, Marriage, And Renewal.jimmy Is Awol From The Army, But With Characteristic Fierceness And ...

From the assassination that set off World War I to the ethnic warfare sweeping Bosnia and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the 20th century--t...

In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fen...

A New York Times Book of the Year A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Winner of the Salon Book Award A Village Voice Book of the Year Birds of A...

Set Before And During The Great War, Birdsong Captures The Drama Of That Era On Both A National And A Personal Scale. It Is The Story Of Stephen, A Young En...

following The Best-selling Triumph Of Kafka On The Shore, Comes A Collection That Generously Expresses Murakami's Mastery. From The Surreal To The Mundane...

In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence—which is loosely based on the not...

with This Novel, Booker Prize-winning Author Anita Brookner Confirms Her Reputation As An Unparalleled Observer Of Social Nuance And Deeply Felt Longings....

Meet Benoît Courrèges, aka Bruno, a policeman in a small village in the South of France.  He’s a former soldier who has embraced the pleasures and slow rh...

After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslav...

"A dozen stories that overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life...Carver is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty...hi...

The Idea Of Childhood -- Ages Of Life -- Discovery Of Childhood -- Children's Dress -- Modest Contribution To The History Of Games And Pastimes -- From Immo...

Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award A Washington Post Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Ann Patchett on PBS NewsHour...

the Definitive Book On China's Uneasy Transformation Into An Economic And Political Superpower By Two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Reporters. An ...

New York City, 1976. Meet Regan And William Hamilton-sweeney, Estranged Heirs To One Of The City's Great Fortunes; Keith And Mercer, The Men Who, For Better...

One Of The Best Books Of The Year: O, The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, The Christian Science Monitor Willa Drake Has Had Three Opportunities To Start Her Li...

Inman, An Injured And Disillusioned Confederate Soldier, Embarks On A Harrowing Journey Home To His Sweetheart, Ada, Who Herself Is Struggling To Run The Fa...

A Vintage Books Original--copyright Page.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government Elections & Political ProcessElections ...

The New Novel--a Book That Sold More Than A Million Copies The First Week It Went On Sale In Japan--from The Internationally Acclaimed Author, His First Sin...

Buddy Bolden, A New Orleans Barber, Cornet Player, And Full-time Editor Of A Gossip Sheet, Disappears For Two Years, And When He Returns, He Goes Berserk An...

One Of The Most Original American Writers, Edgar Allan Poe Shaped The Development Of Both The Detective Story And The Science-fiction Story. Some Of His Poe...

National Bestseller  When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the ...

Through the story of the brilliant but conflicted young Raskolnikov and the murder he commits, Fyodor Dostoevsky explores the theme of redemption through su...