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The Complete Novels of Jane Austen (Wordsworth Special Editions)

by Jane Austen

Published: 2005-02-05

Paperback: 1436 pages

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Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first publis...

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Sacred Time: A Novel

by Ursula Hegi

Published: 2004-09-07

Paperback: 256 pages

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The bestselling author of Stones from the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but also flawed, Italian American family. In December 1953 Anthony Amedeo's world is nested in his Bronx neighborhood, his parents' Studebaker, th...

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Maus : A Survivor's Tale. I. My Father Bleeds History. II. And Here My Troubles Began

by Art Spiegelman

Published: 1993-10-19

Paperback: 300 pages

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Now in a paperback boxed set, the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker).A brutally moving work of art—w...

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Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Pantheon Graphic Novels)

by Art Spiegelman

Published: 1992-09-01

Paperback: 144 pages

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The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker).A brutally moving work of art—widel...

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Consequences of Sin

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne

Published: 2008-01-29

Paperback: 272 pages

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For fans of Maisie Dobbs, a riveting new Edwardian mystery series featuring detective heiress Ursula Marlow Ursula Marlow, the star of this richly detailed, beautifully paced, deeply romantic mystery, is a strong female heroine with whom fans of Dorothy Sayers, Sarah Waters, Anne Perry, a...

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The Serpent and the Scorpion: An Ursula Marlow Mystery

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne

Published: 2008-09-30

Paperback: 304 pages

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A gripping mystery of scandal and intrigue starring a spirited and beautiful Edwardian heiressIt?s the end of 1911 and Ursula Marlow, struggling to maintain control over her father?s textile empire, finds her business trip to Egypt interrupted by two violent deaths. The first victim is her...

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City of Glass: The Graphic Novel (New York Trilogy)

by Paul Auster

Published: 2004-08-01

Paperback: 144 pages

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A graphic novel classic with a new introduction by Art SpiegelmanQuinn writes mysteries. The Washington Post has described him as a "post-existentialist private eye." An unknown voice on the telephone is now begging for his help, drawing him into a world and a mystery far stranger than any...

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The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire

by Linda Himelstein

Published: 2009-05-12

Hardcover: 416 pages

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“A operatic tour-de-force.” —Tilar J. Mazzeo, author of The Widow Clicquot“An impressive feat of research, told swiftly and enthusiastically.” —San Francisco ChronicleFrom Vanderbilt and Rockefeller to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, America’s captains of industry are paragons of ...

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Too Big to Fall: America's Failing Infrastructure and the Way Forward

by Barry B. LePatner

Published: 2010-11-09

Hardcover: 268 pages

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In August 2007, the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis collapsed, killing 13 people and injuring 145 others. Investigations following the tragedy revealed that it was not an unavoidable accident, but one that could have been prevented—and one that threatens to be repeated at many thousands of b...

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The Freedom Writers Diary Teacher's Guide

by Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers

Published: 2007-10-02

Paperback: 256 pages

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Designed for educators by the teacher who nurtured and created the Freedom Writers, this standards-based teachers’ guide includes innovative teaching techniques that will engage, empower, and enlighten.In response to thousands of letters and e-mails from teachers across the country who l...