The singular remarkable fact about the Basques is that they still exist, best selling author Mark Kurlansky says...

Eco fuses historical events of the 11th century--told by a survivor from Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire sacked by knights of the Fourth Crusade--with myths and fables, juicy romance, real political issues, and deep questions of faith.

One of the most important works ever written on investment theory, Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits lays out the fundamental principles of intelligent investing...

Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is universally regarded as one of literature's finest...

Dawn is an eloquent meditation on the compromises, justifications, and sacrifices that human beings make when they murder other human beings.

The publication of Day restores Elie Wiesel's original title to the novel initially published in English as The Accident and clearly establishes it as the powerful conclusion to the author's classic trilogy of Holocaust literature…

Alexis de Tocqueville's renowned analysis of American democracy still has relevance today. In 1831...

A world classic, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes has been called the first and greatest of all modern novels.

When young Mattie Silver arrives at her cousin Zeena Frome's farm in the New England village of...

The bestselling author of "The Plot Against America" now turns his attention to one man's lifelong confrontation with mortality in this fiercely intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism.

Philip Roth is the most decorated American writer of his generation.

When Arcady Kirsanov returns from college to the country manor of his father, he brings along his...

The novel begins with an explorer, Robert Walton, spotting an enormous creature speeding across...

Esteemed translator and best-selling author Stephen Mitchell energizes a heroic tale so old it predates Homer's Iliad by more than a millennium....

On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb destroyed the city of Hiroshima, Japan. This book, a masterpiece by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Hersey, reveals what happened on that day.

Quasimodo was born disfigured, hunchbacked and lame, and years spent ringing the bells of the Cathedral...

When a plane is forced to land in Israel because of a storm, five of the survivors are given shelter in a nearby home, where their host announces that he is their judge and the least worthy of them must die.

Written by a master of leadership education and author of 13 books, Leadership A to Z is the ideal guide...

The startling story of the Plymouth Colony, from the flight to religious freedom to the war that ravaged New England, is told by the bestselling author of "In the Heart of the Sea."

The Shimerda family come to Nebraska from Bohemia - but they find the promised land of opportunity a harsh and unforgiving reality.

Yambo, a sixtyish rare book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory--he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name…

Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the Congressional Gold Medal, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel offers an unforgettable account of Hitler's horrific reign of terror in Night.

The Osama bin Laden I Know is the definitive history of the world's most wanted man. Author Peter Bergen is CNN's terrorism analyst and an acclaimed journalist who actually spent time with bin Laden prior to the events of September 11, 2001.

These 2 stories from the pen of one of America's earliest and most popular writers draw upon the myths...

I wanted to drive the American roads at the century's end to look at the country again, from border to border and beach to beach...