The Holocaust memoir of a Dutch family who evaded arrest and deportation by the Nazis. Told throu...
A self-made writer from Black Los Angeles who lived every day with racism, poverty, violence. The...
Mr. B, an English historian in Pakistan working on a documentary, spies a young donkey that has b...
The celebrated, National Book Award-winning, translation of Baudelaire's masterpiece. 'It is the ...
Learn to read the Romans! This book is an exciting new way to discover the Latin language. Whethe...
A story of exile, memory, and first love, brutal, unforgettable. For readers of Khaled Hosseini, ...
The definitive guide to classical book design in the digital era.
From award-winning Financial Times journalist Sarah O'Connor, a deeply reported investigation int...
She was a servant with no voice. He was a predator with powerful friends. She refused to stay sil...
The thinking person's book of big answers to small questions. Applying tools for rationality from...
Stunning stories that explore the countless ways we pursue love and occasionally misplace it, or ...
'Flows with depth and power....wide-open wonder.'--Washington Post
One couple consumed by things. One man liberated by indifference. Two haunting explorations of th...
A journey through heaven and earth for the questing mind. Navigating from the clockwork music of ...
'Indelible escapades...heartfelt.'--New York Times, 'These Cozy Fall Books Feel Like a Hug'
A small masterpiece of world literature, set in Austria as the Nazis began their rise.
The life of Charles Bukowski-laureate of lowlife Los Angeles-a novelist and poet who wrote as he ...
How do simple words and images make a children's picture book so magical that one reading can cre...
This translation of Baudelaire's magnum opus '¬¬' perhaps the most powerful and influential book...
Here is a selection of letters, envelopes, and illustrations by an artist who could never resist ...
'Birds, Beasts, and Flowers! is the peak of Lawrence's achievement as a poet....The lucidity of h...
A large-scale biography of a major figure in American enterprise, the man who built General Elect...
Rich food for thought-a philosopher's guide to losing weight, and keeping it off, by embracing a ...
Catie Copley is a black Labrador retriever who lives an unusual life as Canine Ambassador at the ...
An enchanting story about an adventurous girl and her day at sea with Bonefish Joe, one of the be...
America's most popular 19th century poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow devoted himself to providing...
With Hymn to the Rebel Cafe (1994), Chekhov (1995) and 1968: A History in Verse (1997), Ed Sander...
Exquisitely powerful short stories by the masterful Andre Dubus. Originally published in two volu...
'The first biography of George Rickey, one of the greatest kinetic sculptors of the 20th century....
'A gripping and compassionate tale of family and faith, whispers and accusations, and the deeply ...
'For all those who want to understand American art and the art world, written by the best person ...
All of Dubus' writerly strengths are exhibited in this fourth, most impressive collection of his ...
Considering that much of his life was spent in poverty and ill health, it is something of a mirac...
Tom is happy with his new Aunt Bundlejoy Cosysweet who is delighted to be asked to join him in hi...
In December of 1940, twelve-year-old Donnie (aka Donald Hall) gets on a train from his comfortabl...
Be at home in nature, all through the year, with the old-timey, folksy wisdom in this classic cam...
The Boston Trustee provides both the background and the history of a unique Boston institution: t...
The story of Little Red Riding Hood reset in rural New England of the early nineteenth century.In...
The twelve essays in The Half-Life-the title is from Goethe's 'Experience is only half of experie...
The Austrian Robert Musil (1880-1942), a central figure in the modernist movement, is known prima...
Mowat and his family moved to Saskatoon in 1929. His father had (for reasons never completely exp...
'French cooking for Americans was never the same after Clémentine came into our kitchens . . . Th...
A mousy librarian is called to a remote Canadian island to inventory the estate of a secretive Co...
The story of urban development and the buildings-for whatever reasons-that wouldn't be moved.A 'h...
Stories of people that come and go from our lives and the indelible marks they leave. 'In this cr...
Twenty brief, witty, thoughtful essays about nature. Whether Jake Page writes about his own homem...