Literature & Fiction

In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched Algerian beach, Camus was exploring what he te...

The remarkable story of two Southern friendships. Flagg's novel weaves together the past and the present through the blossoming friendship between ...

An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only cr...

In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of ...

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excite...

Based on Chaucer's Knight's Tale, The Two Noble Kinsmen was written at the end of Shakespeare's career, as a collaboration with the rising young dr...

Beloved, bumbling Detective Dirk Gently returns in this standalone novel--in trade paperback for the first time--from Douglas Adams, the legendary ...

A moving story of a man, deeply troubled by the circumstances of his life, who travels to Hawaii in hopes of finding peace. Richard finds answers b...

The author recounts her experiences as the English wife of a German lawyer, living in Hamburg, Germany during World War II

Bestselling author James P. Hogan presents a riveting, near-future, high-tech thriller about the rise to power of a third American political party-...

Gathers selections from Wharton's memoirs, short stories, poetry, and major novels

First published in 1975, this collection includes many of the best critical responses to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice, and the editor has electe...

Learning by doing is the key to Markle's excellent new volume on the fascinating force of electricity. 17 black-and-white photos; 22 line drawings.

At a Bible-focused summer camp for boys, their obsessive need to be "the best" transforms a group of campers into boys obsessed with revenge

Nick Delan, a U.S. secret agent, is ordered to assassinate the man likely to be elected U.S. president, and a top operative planted by the KGB

The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a d...

For the Good of the Earth and Sun is for teachers at all levels, especially for those teachers who feel anxious about introducing poetry to student...

This exciting workbook shows you how to eliminate physical and emotional blocks from the body. The author discusses integrating various therapies t...

John Monegal, a.k.a. Joshua Kampa, is torn between two worldsùthe Early Pleistocene Africa of his dreams and the twentieth-century reality of his w...

Cam McKenna joins the jet-set world of advertising and, seduced by the bi-coastal, fast-paced life it necessitates, she encounters excitement, betr...

The Tin Flute, Gabrielle Roy’s first novel, is a classic of Canadian fiction. Imbued with Roy’s unique brand of compassion and compelling understan...

An ideal stocking stuffer, here is a collection of nearly 1,000 witty and wicked sayings issued by female coiners of apothegms, from Elizabeth Regi...

Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known play, as ...

Bill Peet tells his life story, including his years with Disney, with illustrations on every page.

An invaluable guide for both casual opera fans and afficionados, this volume contains act-by-act descriptions of operatic works ranging from the ea...

For this new critical edition of The Canterbury Tales, the editors have selected the most popular and admired of Chaucer's tales, together with the...

During the Cultural Revolution in China in the mid-1960s, a French diplomat falls in love with a singer in the Beijing Opera, not knowing that the ...

"The same kind of skillful writing that brought respectability to the erotic works of Henry Miller, Anaís Nin, and D. H. Lawrence."--UPIThere is Li...

"Catch-22" is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and fo...

Presents a collection of humorous accounts of travel adventures taking the author to the rapids beneath the Himalayas, the "grand terror" of Montan...

CAPTIVES OF HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY Zandramas had stolen King Garion's infant son and fled to use the child in some ritual that would make the Dark De...

At the fashionable German spa town Bad Nauheim, two wealthy, fin de siecle couples -- one British, the other American -- meet for their yearly assi...

Written by Newbery Medalist, National Book Award winner, and Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal recipient Katherine Paterson Park can't figure out why his...

In Mutation, Robin Cook's masterpiece of techno-medical suspense, Dr. Cook tells a story as chilling and real as today'sheadlines. On the forefront...

An enchanting collection of stories from the heartland of India Ruskin Bond's simple characters, living amidst the lush forests of the Himalayan fo...

After her world is shaken by a series of unexplained events, young widow Sarah Grey soon comes to realise that she is the victim of a terrifying ha...

From the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast comes Waldo, a comic novel about a bright young man who goes from rabble-rouser to writer. Sure to ...