By Michael Chabon
For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake...
By Arthur Conan Doyle,
Richard Lancelyn Green (Editor)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine in which they were first published,...
By Michael Chabon
Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded...
By Anne Frank,
Eleanor Roosevelt (Introduction), B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday (Translator)
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has become a world classic—a powerful reminder...
By Cassandra Clare
Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what's normal when you're a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a...
By Toni Morrison
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a...
By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
Ralph Parker (Translator), Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Introduction), Eric Bogosian (Afterword), Alexander Tvardovsky (Foreword)
Solzhenitsyn's first book, this economical, relentless novel is one of the most forceful artistic indictments of political oppression in the Stalin-...
By Dan Simmons
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it....
By Dava Sobel
During the great ages of exploration "the longitude problem" was the greatest of scientific challenges. Lacking the ability to determine their...