By Mark Twain,
Everett H. Emerson (Afterword)
This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two boys...
By Neal Stephenson
Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of...
By Arthur Golden
A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel presents with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true...
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 Malcolm X,
Alex Haley
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Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential...
By Dava Sobel
During the great ages of exploration "the longitude problem" was the greatest of scientific challenges. Lacking the ability to determine their...
By Isabel Allende ,
Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator)
Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her...
By David Sedaris
Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its proverbial ear,...
By Madeline Miller
Achilles, "the best of all the Greeks," son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful,...