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Intended for the general reader, "the illustrated natural history of canada" will be a visually stunning, simply written and authorative presentation of this country's natural history. The text and 200...

Reveals the most intimate writing of one of Australia's most loved and acclaimed authors. Through these pieces we discover where Elizabeth's writing has come from and how her thinking has...

This useful and practical book provides the college student, seminarian, church study group, and interested lay person with a much-needed introductory guide on the "how" (method) and the "what" (message)...

After years of being moved from place to place Greg has finally put down some roots and he likes his life just as it is. He works hard in his...

In this intriguing and very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P. D. James considers the twelve months of her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays, and looks back...

In his first full length work since Shortcomings in 2007, Adrian Tomine has produced another unforgettable collection of stories and characters: 'Amber Sweet' shows the disastrous impact of mistaken identity...

Alone in his New York loft our hero, the private detective Kinky Friedman, reflects on friendship and why his friends are out of town. The phone rings. It's Kinky's old...

Dismas Hardy defends Maya Townshend, the beautiful socialite niece of the San Francisco's mayor, who is suspected of killing a charming ex-convict. This is a timely legal thriller filled with...

New York Times bestseller Lescroart returns with an ambitious, torn-from-today's headlines thriller featuring his trademark blend of real people and real suspense.

An electrifying thrill-ride of a novel that peeks behind the white picket fences of suburbia, The Innocent is at once a twisting, turning, emotionally-charged story, and a compelling tale of...

The call comes at midnight. It looks like a tragic and petty murder -- a rising star in San Francisco's legal firmament found shot in a dark alley. But for...

An important tribute to the work and life of an extraordinary Aboriginal activist. William Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights and...

William Butler Yeats was not only one of the most beloved and honored poets of this century. Playwright, essayist, theatrical impresario, occultist, politician, famously hapless lover--he was also one of...

Cultivated by slaves, consumed by the elite, paid out as a tribute to conquerors, this tale of one of the world's favourite foods draws upon botany, archaeology, socio-economics and culinary...

The Seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World traces the course of human ingenuity and innovation from the first crude stone tools of our earliest ancestors two and a half...

Make coins disappear, bend spoons, and read through sealed envelopes! Anyone can be a magician with the help of this guide, which explains how to perform mystifying sleight-of-hand maneuvers and...

London, 1660: Ready to throw off a generation of Puritan rule, all England rejoices when Charles Stuart returns to reclaim the throne. Among those welcoming him is young Barbara Villiers...

The Nancy Drew series, first published in 1930, has sold more than 65 million copies! This new edition, with a stylish new cover that harkens back to the era in...

In San Francisco, Dan Kearny Associates raids a classic car dealership, while in Los Angeles, a Gypsy's dying words finger a Gypsy princess for his murder. In Hong Kong, a...

A recent graduate of Notre Dame, Pierce Duncan embarks on a cross-country odyssey across postwar America, a quest that leads to fateful encounters with a redneck chain-gang guard, a vicious...

In the early days of World War II, Great Britain and Australia fell tragically at odds. Australia had always rallied to the British colors, confident the Mother Country would reciprocate....

This novel begins in the 1960s in a small Wisconsin town, when a young boy, Mac, finds out that his beautiful handicapped older sister, Madeline, is in fact his father...

New Year's Day, 1965. The body of Father George Sedgewick is discovered on a snow-covered runway of Logan Airport, brutally murdered. No leads. Missing: four thousand hosts, consecrated by Pope...

A frightening--and funny--debut comes to paperback. Adelaide Foss, Maggie Borland, and Beatrice Alfred are known by their classmates at Widowsbury's Madame Gertrude's School for Girls as "scary children." Unfairly targeted...

Meet George Mahoney, designer of refrigerators and a real middle-of-the-road kind of guy. Even his wife describes him as "passive-passive." What changes all this is the arrival of a new...

'Grace and intelligence . . . [her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack Obama ' Jack is the fourth in Robinson's luminous, profound Gilead...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old...

When a plot of land is being developed in Vermont against the will of a local Native American tribe, strange things begin to happen - and Ross Wakeman, a paranormal...

Richie Benaud was captain of Australia in 28 of the 68 Tests he played. Now he is a TV commentator and columnist in England and Australia. In this book he...

In the near future, when danger is in the mind and violence lurks behind every smile, a rural community foster a terrorist group called The Little Red Hen to defend...

The second book in a dazzling four-volume fantasy epic of war and virtue, sorcery and betrayal The Briar King has woken and, with the aid of monsters formerly found only...

In a kingdom of merciless tyrants, Jebel Rum's family is honored as royalty because his father is the executioner. But Rashed Rum is near retirement. And when he goes, there...

At the nexus of high finance and sophisticated computer programming, a terrifying future may be unfolding even now. Dr. Alex Hoffmann's name is carefully guarded from the general public, but...

In the dramatic years between 1870 and the end of World War II, a number of prominent French Jews-pillars of an embattled community-invested their fortunes in France's cultural artifacts, sacrificed...