The Holocaust memoir of a Dutch family who evaded arrest and deportation by the Nazis. Told throu...

Ever since the Greeks coined the language we commonly use for scientific description, mythology a...

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 brilliant tour de force.'--India Today

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 ...

Two great poets thinking through life and literature in an unequalled correspondence: Charles Ols...

'Birds, Beasts, and Flowers! is the peak of Lawrence's achievement as a poet....The lucidity of h...

In this startling and illuminating book, Leo Rubinfien's 'map' is neither precise nor defined by ...

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...

A fiction anthology of 22 stories that celebrate the many sides of rock and roll and its cultural...

Edward Field writes poetry that is literate, immediate, funny and completely personal-like small ...

America's most popular 19th century poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow devoted himself to providing...

A treasure trove of stage and screen actor portraits by a renowned British photographer.The photo...

'One of the great novels of the century. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the late 20th century has pro...

It was going to be a great summer for the Amazons until their great aunt came to stay. She's deci...

Poetry grounded in Vermont¿s Northeast Kingdom and that speaks to us clearly and directly. Kinsey...

Introduction by Octavio Paz -- front cover.

With Hymn to the Rebel Cafe (1994), Chekhov (1995) and 1968: A History in Verse (1997), Ed Sander...

Three classic novels in one volume: Summer in Williamsburg (1934), Homage to Blenholt (1936), and...

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 ...

In a unique style of biographical poetry, Edward Sanders recounts the short life and revolutionar...

For seven years (1919-1926), Thomas Seltzer was one of New York City's most influential small pub...

In a rural English village, young Ruth Bryce is struggling to deal with the sudden and accidental...

Two great poets thinking through life and literature in an unequalled correspondence: Charles Ols...

Poetry from a major observer on the Asian-American experience and much more in life and on this e...