Alice Walker and Pratibha Parmar expose the secret of female genital mutilation, a practice that ...
A personal selection reflecting 50 years of publication by the winner of the National Medal for L...
'An admirable and thought-provoking consideration of the underlying themes of The Hobbit, followi...
Orchids are the largest family of plants in the world. With 30,000 known species, you could acqui...
Ed McBain made his debut in 1956. In 2004, more than a hundred books later, he personally collect...
A simplified version of the full-sized field guides makes it easy and fun to get started in the f...
'A multifaceted journey that is geographical, personal and political . . . A complex, nuanced vie...
An immensely moving, powerfully romantic novel about the vagaries of love and the legacy of war, ...
The Hermit's Story is Rick Bass's best and most varied fiction yet. In the title story, a man and...
A comprehensive history of the Battle of Gettysburg by one of today's leading historians.The grea...
In the depths of his Cornish hideaway, retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder's solitary life is...
Thirty-five sketches, including pieces on Voltaire, Frederick the Great, Rousseau, Gibbon, Walpol...