1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a “doffers” on their mothers’ looms in the mill. Grace’s mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grac...

The adventure continues in this exciting companion to The Castle in the Attic.As William turns twelve, he wonders if Jason is still his best friend. In the past year, Jason has grown a foot taller, while William is still a shrimp. Whe...

At just past seventy, Alex Witchel's smart, adoring, ultra-capable mother began to exhibit undeniable signs of dementia. Witchel reacted as she'd been raised: If something was broken, she would fix it. But as medical reality undid tha...

Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge has hit upon a foolproof plan to get rich quick: he's starting a chicken farm. Dragging his adoring wife Millie and his long-suffering friend, novelist Jeremy Garnet with him to Dorset, he begins his ...

At that time it had become my habit to begin my day by rising before breakfast and taking a swim in Fermain Bay which lies across the road in front of our cottage.

Ita TMs finally time for Dinah Davis to go home. The world-weary correspondent wants to settle down with the sweet guy she left behind in South Carolinaa TMs Low Country. Instead, shea TMs confronted by his black-sheep brother, and a ...

[Read by Tony Roberts] In Swimming to Catalina, ex-cop-turned-Manhattan-attorney and investigator Stone Barrington is back, still smarting from his sudden breakup with brilliant, beautiful magazine writer Arrington Carrington, who ha...

Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's LiteratureJacqueline Woodson's first middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming celebrates the healing that can occur when a group...

In this fascinating yet little-known chapter of World War I history, journalist Marc Wortman provides a group portrait of young men of privilege--with names like Rockefeller and Morgan--who served in the U.S. Navy Air Reserve, flying ...

For more than fifty years, legendary author Herman Wouk has dreamed of writing a novel about the life of Moses. Finally, at age ninety-six, he has found an ingeniously witty way to tell the tale in IThe Lawgiver, a romantic and suspen...

Darwin's The Origin of Species was defiantly radical. Yet it emerged long before paleontologists and geologists worked out the chronology of life on Earth. Not until the late twentieth century was the true scope of its power revealed....

John Conlan and Lorraine Jensen have to tell about something that just happened to them, about an experience too overwhelming to keep private.The two high-school sophomores come from constricting, unhappy homes, and although life seem...

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Ellen DeGeneres published her first book of comic essays, the #1 bestselling IMy Point...and I Do Have One, way back in 1996. Not one to rest on her laurels, the witty star of stage and screen has since dedicated her life to writing a...

Three terrifying murders in the South culminate in a relentless manhunt in the North that centers on a ruthless assassin, the woman he loves, and the beloved leader he is hired to kill with extreme prejudice. Reprint. NYT. LJ.

Bonus feature includes an original afterword by James Ellroy, titled 'Hillikers,' read by Stephen Hoye.On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as t...

A sublime comedy of contemporary manners, this is the novel Jane Austen might well have written had she lived in twenty-first-century California. Nothing ever moves in a straight line in Karen Joy Fowler's fiction, and in her latest,...

Setting the record straight on folk remedies, traditional cures, and medical myths, an entertaining but informative medical reference furnishes informative answers to such questions as 'Do microwaves cause cancer?,' 'Is sperm nutritio...

The Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it, showing us just how uncommon common sense can be. Meet the absentminded terrorist who opens a mail bomb returned to him for insufficient po...

Wigfield is a small bucolic hideaway, situated in front of a massive dam which is about to be torn down by the state government to restore the salmon run. Wigfield's only hope lies in the self-righteous, self-involved 'journalist' Rus...

Many years ago, when she was a tomboyish child, Lady Adriana Sutton was betrothed to the handsome Colton Wyndham. Even then, Adriana worshiped Colton but Colton, who wanted nothing to do with his controlling father's plans, rejected A...

This erudite and thought-provoking book is an excellent introduction to three major religious faiths--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--and their differing views of God, as well as the way these views have shaped the world. Karen Arms...

In THE POWER OF THE MIND TO HEAL, the Borysenkos look at the new era in metaphysics, healing, spirituality, and psychology, and explore the idea of Era III medicine, where time and space are not limits to the ability to heal. Examples...

44 Scotland Street' is vintage McCall Smith, tackling issues of trust and honesty, snobbery and hypocrisy, love and loss, but all with great lightness of touch. Clever, elegant and funny, this is an audiobook that provides huge entert...

Why do some people struggle financially while others seem destined for more prosperous lives? What if you could enjoy a more abundant lifestyle without sacrificing anything you now hold dear—your values, your health, your spirit...

Tully Mars lights out from Wyoming for a warmer climate after he incurs the wrath of his boss, who raises poodles for a living and has hired a squad of goons to track him down. As he heads south, Tully meets the woman of his dreams, l...

Read by the author, Don Gabor'You'll be amazed at how fast you can learn how to start a conversation just by listening to this audiobook and by practicing the skills with everyone you meet! Just think how much more confident, poised, ...

Robert Greene's previous bestseller, The 48 Laws of Power, distilled 3,000 years of scheming into a guide People praised as "beguiling... literate... fascinating" and Kirkus denounced as "an anti-Book of Virtues."I...

For nearly two decades, since the publication of her iconic first novel, The Good Mother, Sue Miller has distinguished herself as one of our most elegant and widely celebrated chroniclers of family life, with a singular gift for layin...

On this CD, Judith Orloff shares her inspirational life story with Deepak Chopra. Together, they explore the mysterious and often misunderstood world of intuition. Learn how both of these renowned physicians rely on intuition in their...