Set in the early 18th century and featuring a diverse cast of characters that includes alchemists, mathematicians, thieves, pirates, and royalty, The System of the World follows Daniel Waterhouse to ... Read More

Banned Books Week is observed each year at the end of September to remind us of our first amendment rights. Each year, books in our schools and libraries are challenged as ... Read More

Anybody can repeat a Rodney Dangerfield joke, but nobody can tell one like the man himself. That's because his humor, built on the premise that he "don't get no respect," ... Read More

The Man Booker Prize, now in its 35th year, is awarded to the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the British Commonwealth or the Republic of ... Read More

Read without knowledge of the music and you will enjoy a perfectly fine mystery. Add knowledge of the music and you will find a literary basis seldom if ever achieved ... Read More

Two months after her 30th birthday, celebrated journalist, Stephanie Williams, was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. Williams, wanting to be an exception to the Oliver Wendall Holmes' statement, "Most ... Read More

In Joanna Scott's breakthrough novel the Austrian artist, Egon Schiele, comes to prismatic life. A self-professed genius and student of August Klimt, Scott's Schiele repeatedly challenges the boundaries of early ... Read More

Prowl the streets of Victorian London and learn all about them from the Dickens' characters you'll meet there. As Kit, the young street urchin, you'll maneuver through the ... Read More

Two magicians shall appear in England. The first shall fear me; the second shall long to behold me… Susanna Clarke's breakthrough novel of magic in 19th Century England has gotten a ... Read More

In a time when "what you do" is interpreted as "who you are," when we no longer graciously accept the work of our fathers as our own, people are ... Read More

Simon Winchester's The River at the Center of the World, recently re-released in paperback, has a premise both simple and audacious: Winchester travels the length of the Yangtze river-the third ... Read More