The first volume of Edmund Morris's biography of Theodore Roosevelt covers his life up to 1901, when he assumed the presidency...
A provocative study of the gnostic gospels and the world of early Christianity as revealed through the Nag Hammadi texts.
The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the...
THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLE takes place in St. Botolph's, Massachusetts, a fishing village in which a storm causes ferry pilot Leander...
From a National Book Award-winning author comes this postmodern masterpiece. After a deadly toxic accident and his wife's...
Through a portrait of military advisor John Paul Vann, a journalist traces the arc of Americans' disillusionment and ambivalence...
This new edition celebrates the 10th anniversary of Walker's Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner. "If it is true that...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, The Soul of a New Machine was a bestseller on its first publication in...
An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she...
In his 18th appearance ladykiller Travis McGee, finally loses his heart to a lovely lady named Gretel. But just as he begins to...
Isabel and her five-year-old sister Ruth are slaves owned by a Loyalist couple living in New York City in this novel set during...
"As a child (Alice Rumphius) dreamed of travel . . . and of a house by the sea; but Grandfather had made one further request: 'You...
Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are surrounded by thousands...
From the unsettled lives of three people emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together. Utterly...
Coming of age in mid-1950s Cuba where the local sugar and nickel production are controlled by American interests, Everly Lederer...
"[One morning] in the early spring, I woke up with the remembrance of a girl Id once known, Sophie. It was a very vivid...
Life changes for 12-year-old Rob Horton when he finds a caged tiger in the woods behind the Kentucky Star Motel. On the very same...
This groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning book sets the standard for interdisciplinary writing, exploring the patterns and...
In American Sphinx, Ellis sifts the facts shrewdly from the legends and the rumors, treading a path between vilification and hero...
In this dazzlingly unique novel, Colum McCann examines the trajectories of the l...
Something of a modern classic, this is the story of T. S. Garp, who is raised by his eccentric feminist mother and spends most of...
Tells of the life and transformation of Frankie Landau-Banks who began her teena...
The first volume in McCarthy's Border Trilogy, ALL THE PRETTY HORSES begins with the death of John Grady Cole's grandfather. John...
A young prince joins forces with a master wizard on a journey to discover a cause and remedy for the loss of magic in Earthsea.
Melinda Sordino finds herself an outcast at her high school for calling the cops on an end of summer party, and, although she...