Birth of Britain (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

Where do fairy godmothers come from? When Birdie goes to visit her grandmother for the first time, she learns that her grandmother is a fairy godmother-which means Birdie's a fairy godmother too! Trai...

From Publishers WeeklyIn her fourth novel (after The Way Life Should Be), Kline traces the construction and collapse of two long-term relationships. On her way home to New Jersey ...

From Publishers WeeklyVigorous, self-assured, self-consciously youthful and proudly bilingual, Naca's debut should get many times the attention afforded most poets' first books. Poems...

Review“This is one of the most startling of the century's varied achievements in Irish writing.”—Seamus Deane "John Banville is one of the greatest masters of the English lang...

Product DescriptionGlobal stability and the New World order are in peril, and American businessman Roger Gordian, star of POLITIKA and SHADOW WATCH, must again mobilize the full resources ...

Michael Crichton writing as John Lange

Product DescriptionThe best-loved comedian in Britain hits the most famous highway in the world on an unforgettable journey.Billy Connolly, music-lover, biker, and scourge of the beige and...

Product DescriptionMelville's short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual depth. Se...

Amazon.com ReviewIn the Bronx of the 1930s, 15-year-old Billy Bathgate hooks up with a legendary mobster, Dutch Schultz. Schultz becomes an unlikely surrogate parent to the boy, introducin...