Medieval history comes alive in Frances and Joseph Gies s Life in a Medieval City, used as a research resource by George R. R. Martin in creating the world of A Game of Thrones. Reissued...
National Bestseller"A tour de force... A remarkable achievement. " --New York Times Book Review"A marvelous book... This is history: richly textured, provocative and wise. " --Plain...
"Maupin's San Francisco saga careens beautifully on. " --New York Times Book ReviewThe fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco...
"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D. C. " --H. R. McMaster...
"This work may well stand as one of the very best works of the century. " --Atlantic ReviewAcclaimed writer Thomas Pynchon's wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men--one...
International Bestseller - Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction"Far more than a conventional novel. It is a meditation on life, on the erotic, on the nature of men...
"An absolutely dazzling entertainment... Arousing on every level--political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous. " --Newsweek"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself...
New York Times Bestseller"Inspired... Kundera's most brilliantly imagined novel... A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last. " -- Cleveland Plain DealerMilan...
From New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich comes a haunting novel that continues the rich and enthralling Ojibwe saga begun in her novel Tracks. After taking her mother's...
Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible...
From the award-winning author of Always Running comes a brilliant collection of short stories about life in East Los Angeles. Whether hilariously capturing the voice of a philosophizing...
One of the greatest books ever written on the subject, Dynamics of Faithis a primer in the philosophy of religion. Paul Tillich, a leading theologian of the twentieth century, explores...
There is a divine restlessness in the human heart, our eternal echo of longing that lives deep within us and never lets us settle for what we have or where we are. In this exquisitely...
"A truly great work--massive, monumental... A wonderful story of heroism, a superb feat of research... The best book of its kind. " --Baltimore SunRelive all the thrills and adventure...
Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during...
National Bestseller"A blend of breathtaking artistry, encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world... and ardent commitment to the supremacy of nature. " -- San Francisco ChronicleIn...
"A thoughtful, intricate, ambivalent novel with the reach of greatness in it. " --John Updike"It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy, and wisdom of this very...
The man the New York Times has called "the preeminent scholar of the Holocaust" tells the stories of those who caused, experienced, and witnessed the great human catastrophe...
John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood--not found on any map--to...
"Lowry's masterpiece... has a claim to being regarded as one of the ten most consequential works of fiction produced in [the twentieth] century. " -- Los Angeles TimesUnder the Volcano...
"Impossible to put down... Who, in the end, needs to talk about Kevin? Maybe we all do. " -- Boston GlobeAcclaimed author Lionel Shriver's gripping international bestseller about motherhood...
"A thing of beauty... A wildly funny, infinitely wise, near to tragic tale of man against the bog god machine. " --Houston ChronicleEdward Abbey's classic comic gem of destructive mayhem...
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Adrien Brody and Salma HayekIn the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a...
Hidden in the shadow cast by the great western expeditions of Lewis and Clark lies another journey every bit as poignant, every bit as dramatic, and every bit as essential to an understanding...
In the The Misunderstood Jew, scholar Amy-Jill Levine helps Christians and Jews understand the "Jewishness" of Jesus so that their appreciation of him deepens and a greater interfaith...
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