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Salamander

Summoned to Slovakia by an eccentric count who wants to create the 'infinite book, ' 18th-century...

A Stranger’s House

For years, Claire and Tom Templeton have wished for a child--only to be consoled with a charming ...

Displaced Persons

In this touching account, veteran New York Times reporter Joseph Berger describes how his own fam...

The Handbook of Good English

Now substantially revised and updated, this essential guide is arranged in an easy-to-follow, top...

Dream Catcher

In her much-anticipated memoir, Margaret A. Salinger writes about life with her famously reclusiv...

Icefields

Set amidst the beauty of the Canadian Rockies in 1897, this 'stunning debut' (Joy Gugeler, Ottawa...

Girls Like Us

A groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artis...

Salt Water

In the summer of 1963 I fell in love and my father drowned ....So begins this luminous story of a...

The Mystery of the Aleph

'Aleph' tells the story of Georg Cantor (1845-1918), a Russian-born German who created set theory...

Pendulum

He was neither a mathematician nor a trained physicist and yet Léon Foucault always knew that a m...

Neither East Nor West

Fusing travelogue, historical inquiry, and interviews with Iranians from all walks of life, Neith...

The New Pocket Anthology of American Verse