Best Sellers - Individual titles

The new Nick Stone thriller from the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero. Somalia - a lawless, violent land, ignored by the West, ripped apart by civil war and famine,...

The bestselling novel. When a new NASA satellite detects evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory...a victory...

Strangers become friends, and friends become a family... THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Everything is falling to pieces for Francesca Thayer. Her beautiful, old house is full of leaks...

One woman's quest to find her family...and herself. Someday is Brigitte Nicholson's watchword. Someday she and the man she loves, Ted, will clarify their relationship. Someday she'll have children. Someday...

For Alice Pettiford, living near Gloucester in the late 1940s, leaving school as soon as she could and taking a job as a railway secretary in the city made perfect...

A moving and funny testament to a friendship born out of adversity. In 1986 Brian Keenan and John McCarthy were forced to take a journey without maps. For the next...

In Granny Dan, Danielle Steel's extraordinary forty-sixth bestselling novel, a simple box, filled with mementos from a grandmother, offers the greatest legacy of all- an unexpected gift of a life...

The compelling story of a woman who must struggle to overcome a shattering betrayal, and the cruellest kind of malice. At seventeen, on the night of her mother's funeral, Grace...

"It is impossible not to be impressed by [Grass's] inexhaustible desire to experiment with the novel and by the many good stories and passages of exquisite writing in The Box...

From bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater, a gripping tale of darkness, miracles, and family. Here is a thing everyone wants: A miracle.Here is a thing everyone fears: What it takes to...

History has a way of repeating itself. In the Sunken City that was once Paris, all who oppose the new revolution are being put to the blade. Except for those...

The revelatory, poignant story of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest and eventually secreted-away Kennedy daughter, and how her life transformed her family, its women especially, and an entire nation. "[Larson] succeeds...

Outspoken and irresistable as always, Anastasia Krupnik finds that when you exaggerate the truty, things don't always turn out as planned. Unfazed by her friends' decision to give up boys,...

Incredible desserts with layers and swirls of flavor that are beautiful and delicious--inside and out When you marble, layer, and swirl doughs, batters, toppings, or frostings, good looks and good...

"A bolt of lightning on my kicks . . . The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering," raps twelve-year-old Josh Bell....

If one small act can create a ripple across the universe . . . what happens when a whole group of kids join together and act? Told in eight perspectives--including...

Words matter. And good writing matters. Especially in the information society, in which more writing than ever is disseminated and read. There may be a lot of dross out there,...

This stunning book of photographs by Robyn Stacey, one of Australia's greatest photographers, is the first of its kind. Together with essayist, Ashley Hay, they throw open the closed doors...

Essential Microeconomics is designed to help students deepen their understanding of the core theory of microeconomics. Unlike other texts, this book focuses on the most important ideas and does not...

The second edition of H. P. Lee's The Australian Judiciary provides a timely update to this seminal text. The only definitive survey of the entire Australian judiciary, this text describes...

This fascinating book takes a very different look at Australia's most popular sporting hero, Sir Donald Bradman. Unlike the mostly reverent literature on 'The Don', this 2003 book explains how...

This Companion provides a unique introduction and guide to the works and life of one of the key figures in English literary history. The source of endless familiar aphorisms, the...

The 110 galaxies, star clusters and nebulae catalogued by the comet hunter Charles Messier in the late 1700s are still the most widely observed celestial wonders in the heavens. They...

A prose retelling of Shakespeare's play in which a jealous general is duped into thinking that his wife has been unfaithful, with tragic consequences.

Book VIII is one of the most attractive and important books of Virgil's Aeneid. It includes the visit of Aaneas to the site of the future Rome, the story of...

This is a vivid and highly readable account of the most complex and disturbing series of events in French history since the Revolution, which makes use of literature and films...

Richly illustrated with full-color images, this book is a comprehensive, up-to-date description of the planets, their moons, and recent exoplanet discoveries. This second edition of a now classic reference is...

Game theory is concerned with strategic interaction among several decision-makers. In such strategic encounters, all players are aware of the fact that their actions affect the other players. Game theory...

Wolves excitedly greet each other as members of the pack come together; a bumble bee uses its long tongue to reach the nectar at the base of a foxglove flower;...

Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned...

Fuentes' bold and timely study discusses the origins and nature of the tumultuous events that have recently transformed Mexican politics and society. The rebellion in Chiapas, a rash of assassinations,...

Uniquely comprehensive and comparative, praised for its devotion to social and cultural developments as well as politics and economics, The Epic of Latin America is once again revised and brought...

A sinfully sensuous story of a family plagued by scandal-and a shy young woman who discovers a passion beyond her wildest dreams... When her beloved father passes away, Florence Fairleigh...

Why is a flamingo pink? Can a parrot talk? Is a bald eagle really bald? This follow-up to the hugely successful The Big Book of Bugs, The Big Book of...

In 1943 the American inventor and scientist Edwin H. Land was asked by his daughter why she couldn't see immediately the photograph he had just taken. Within an hour, Land...

We can't save the world if we don't care about the world. Visual imagery plays a huge role in helping us to care about what is happening around us. Endangered...

Stuart Harrison writes about residential architecture again, this time exploring how the constraints of space often have the most innovative results. With the largest houses in the world and ever-increasing...

Containing uncensored and on-the-spot observations of Picasso at home and in company, Visiting Picasso is a wonderfully vivid, spontaneous and lively record of Roland Penrose's many encounters with the artist...

The greatest mass extinction in Earth's history happened some 251 million years ago. In this cataclysm at least 90% of life was killed, both on land and in the sea,...

"The StyleCity" series was the first to bring lifestyle to city guides. Along with HIP Hotels, it launched a revolution in what has become known as the 'lifestyle travel' market....

Bill Viola began experimenting with video art in the early 1970s; today, he is considered one of the foremost proponents of the medium, captivating audiences around the world with his...

In one of the world's most famous and influential books, Meditations, Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121 180) describes the stoic precepts he used to cope with his life as...

This concise text offers an introduction to discrete mathematics for undergraduate students in computer science and mathematics. Mathematics educators consider it vital that their students be exposed to a course...

Although it was only designed for a ninety-day surface mission, the Viking 1 lander ultimately transmitted science messages to Earth for seven years. This authoritative history chronicles the remarkable achievements...