 | Muhammad: A Story of the Last Prophet
Release Date: September 21, 2010In this riveting novel, beloved international bestselling author Deepak Chopra captures the spellbinding life story of the great and often misunderstood Prophet.Islam was born in a cradle of tribal turmoil, and the arrival of one God who vanquished hundreds of ancient Arabian gods changed the world forever. God reached down into the life of Muhammad, a settled husband and father, and spoke through him. Muhammad's divine and dangerous task was to convince his people to renounce their ancestral idols and superstitious veneration of multiple gods. From the firs...
 |  | The Maid: A Novel of Joan of Arc
Release Date: October 18, 2011The girl who led an army, the peasant who crowned a king, the maid who became a legend It is the fifteenth century, and the tumultuous Hundred Years’ War rages on. France is under siege, English soldiers tear through the countryside destroying all who cross their path, and Charles VII, the uncrowned king, has neither the strength nor the will to rally his army. And in the quiet of her parents’ garden in Domrémy, a peasant girl sees a spangle of light and hears a powerful voice speak her name. Jehanne . The story of Jehanne d’Arc, the visio...
|  | Scenes from Provincial Life: Boyhood, Youth, Summertime
Release Date: April 24, 2012The Nobel Prize–winning author's brilliant trilogy of fictionalized memoirs—now available in one volume for the first timeFew writers have won as much critical acclaim and as many admirers in the literary world as J. M. Coetzee. Yet the celebrated author rarely spoke of himself until the 1997 arrival of Boyhood, a masterly and evocative tale of a young writer's beginnings. Continuing with the fiercely tender Youth and the innovative Summertime, Scenes from Provincial Life is a heartbreaking and often very funny portrait of the artist by one of the worl...
|  | Tropic of Capricorn
Publication Date: June 4, 2012Tropic of Capricorn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Henry Miller, first published in Paris in 1938. The novel was subsequently banned in the United States until a 1961 Justice Department ruling declared that its contents were not obscene. It was also banned in Turkey. It is a sequel to Miller's 1934 work, the Tropic of Cancer.The novel is set in 1920s New York, where the narrator 'Henry V. Miller' works in the personnel division of the 'Cosmodemonic' telegraph company. Although the narrator's experiences closely parallel Miller's own time in New York working...
|  | A Man of Parts
Release Date: September 15, 2011 A riveting novel about the remarkable life-and manyloves-of author H. G. Wells.H. G. Wells, author of The Time Machine and War of theWorlds, was one of the twentieth century's most prophetic andcreative writers, a man who immersed himself in socialist politics andfree love, whose meteoric rise to fame brought him into contact withthe most important literary, intellectual, and political figures of histime, but who in later years felt increasingly ignored anddisillusioned in his own utopian visions. Novelist and critic DavidLodge has taken the compelling true s...
|  | The Other Queen: A Novel
Release Date: September 16, 2008Now in paperback from “the queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory— a unique novel about the intriguing, romantic, and maddening mary Queen of scots. For years Philippa Gregory’s readers have been asking her to write a novel about Mary Queen of Scots—a request she now fulfills with a tale as engrossing as any she has ever written. A heroine everyone recognizes but few truly know, Mary Queen of Scots is remembered mostly for her death on the scaffold than for her turbulent, romantic life. In The Other Queen, Philippa G...
|  | Agnes Grey (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: July 1, 2010| Series: Oxford World's Classics Anne Brontë's first novel, Agnes Grey, combines an astute dissection of middle-class social behavior and class attitudes with a wonderful study of Victorian responses to young children which has parallels with debates about education that continue to this day. In writing the novel, Brontë drew on her own experiences, and one can trace in the work many of the trials of the Victorian governess, often stranded far from home, and treated with little respect by her employers, yet expected to control and educate her young ch...
|  | The DeValera Deception
Publication Date: September 21, 2010In the summer of 1929 Weimar Germany still has a secret military agreement with the USSR to develop new weapons beyond the Ural Mountains. Ultimately, both want to dismember the newly revived independent Poland, but to distract Britain from helping the Poles, the new Irish Free State is placed at risk by conspirators and arms dealers intent on fomenting an IRA coup d'état.Winston Churchill is about to travel to North America when the new Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald asks him to handle a secret assignment. The IRA intends to buy large quantities of ...
|  | 1996 (English and English Edition)
Publication Date: June 1, 2007This fictionalized memoir of the award-winning author, Gloria Naylor, tells a story of a massive covert surveillance operation perpetrated against her by an official of the U.S. government. This domestic spying both destroys the peace and tranquility of the writer’s home and raises serious questions about the use of surveillance and technology by the government. ...
|  | The Ballad of Tom Dooley: A Ballad Novel
Release Date: September 13, 2011A literary triumph—what began as a fictional re-telling of the historical account of one of the most famous mountain ballads of all time became an astonishing revelation of the real culprit responsible for the murder of Laura FosterHang down your head, Tom Dooley…The folk song, made famous by the Kingston Trio, recounts a tragedy in the North Carolina mountains after the Civil War. Laura Foster, a simple country girl, was murdered and her lover Tom Dula was hanged for the crime. The sensational elements in the case attracted national...
|  | Drugs: A Novel
Release Date: May 22, 2012A modern homage to William S. Burrough’s classic Junky, the new novel Drugs is the sparse, beautifully unassuming account of one man’s life of drug use. As Robert Crumb, who illustrated the book jacket, says, “J.R. Helton really speaks to me—starkly honest, darkly funny, acutelyobservant, and captures the tragic absurdity of human life. . . . [H]e’sright up there with the best of them.”Thisfictionalized memoir is told in masterfully wry, Spartan prose with noapologies for a drug-user’s lifestyle, and instead looks back on ...
|  | Friedrichsburg: Colony of the German Furstenverein (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)
Publication Date: May 1, 2012Founded in 1846, Fredericksburg, Texas, was established by German noblemen who enticed thousands of their compatriots to flee their overcrowded homeland with the prospect of free land in a place that was portrayed as a new Garden of Eden. Few of the settlers, however, were prepared for the harsh realities of the Texas frontier or for confrontation with the Comanche Indians. In his 1867 novel Friedrichsburg, Friedrich Armand Strubberg, a.k.a. Dr. Schubbert, interwove his personal story with a fictional romance to capture the flavor of Fredericksburg, Texas, during...
|  | Mistress Shakespeare
Release Date: January 5, 2010 A bold and intriguing novel about the woman who was William Shakespeare's secret wife, by the national bestselling author.As historical records show, Anne Whateley of Temple Grafton was betrothed to William Shakespeare just days before he was forced to wed the pregnant Anne Hathaway. Here, Anne Whateley takes up her pen to tell the intimate story of her daring life with Will. Obliged to acknowledge Will's publicly sanctioned marriage, Anne Whateley nevertheless follows him from rural Stratford-Upon-Avon to teeming London, where they honor their secret union, t...
|  | Life and Fate: A Novel
Publication Date: February 1986Suppressed by the KGB, Life and Fate is a rich and vivid account of what the Second World War meant to the Soviet Union.On its completion in 1960, Life and Fate was suppressed by the KGB. Twenty years later, the novel was smuggled out of the Soviet Union on microfilm. At the centre of this epic novel looms the battle of Stalingrad. Within a world torn apart by ideological tyranny and war, Grossman’s characters must work out their destinies. Chief among these are the members of the Shaposhnikov family – Lyudmila, a mother destroyed by grief for her d...
|  | Sally Hemings: A Novel (Rediscovered Classics)
Publication Date: April 1, 2009| Series: Rediscovered Classics One of the greatest love stories in American history is also one of the most controversial. Thomas Jefferson had a mistress for 38 years whom he loved and lived with until he died—the beautiful and elusive Sally Hemings. But it was not simply that Jefferson had a mistress that provoked such a scandal in both his time and ours. It was that Sally Hemings was a quadroon slave and that Jefferson fathered a slave family whose descendants are alive today. In this moving novel, originally published in 1979 and having sold over two ...
|  | Me llaman la tequilera (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: August 25, 2012Esta novela retrata a una mujer extraordinaria: Lucha Reyes, la cantante que revoluciono para siempre la musica mexicana, brindandole el sello caracteristico que ha cautivado a generaciones dentro y fuera del pais. Combinando la emotividad de la ficcion y la documentacion precisa de la cronica, con testimonios y datos reales, Alma Velasco narra la trayectoria de este personaje que creo el genero de la musica de mariachi tal y como la conocemos actualmente. Me llaman la Tequilera no solo nos descubre a una cantante fuera de serie, sino a un personaje real, con...
|  | Signora Da Vinci
Publication Date: January 6, 2009Following the “absolutely superb”(Diane Haeger, author of The Secret Bride) Mademoiselle Boleyn, novelist Robin Maxwell delves into the life of Caterina—the adventurer, alchemist, and mother of Leonardo da Vinci.Caterina was fifteen years old in 1452 when she bore an illegitimate child in the tiny village of Vinci. His name was Leonardo, and he was destined to change the world forever. Caterina suffered much cruelty as an unmarried mother and had no recourse when her boy was taken away from her. But no one knew the secrets of her own childhood,...
|  | Miss Fuller: A Novel
Release Date: April 3, 2012She was the most famous woman in America.And nobody knew who she was. It is 1850.Margaret Fuller--feminist, journalist, orator, and "the most famous woman in America"--is returning from Europe where she covered the Italian revolution for The New York Tribune.She is bringing home with her an Italian husband, the Count Ossoli, and their two-year-old son.But this is not the gala return of a beloved American heroine.This is a furtive, impoverished return under a cloud of suspicion and controversy.When the ship founders in a hurricane off Long Is...
|  | Girl in a Blue Dress: A Novel Inspired by the Life and Marriage of Charles Dickens
Release Date: August 3, 2010At the end of her life, Catherine, the cast-off wife of Charles Dickens, gave the letters she had received from her husband to their daughter Kate, asking her to donate them to the British Museum, “so the world may know that he loved me once.” The incredible vulnerability and heartache evident beneath the surface of this remark inspired Gaynor Arnold to write Girl in a Blue Dress, a dazzling debut novel inspired by the life of this tragic yet devoted woman. Arnold brings the spirit of Catherine Dickens to life in the form of Dorothea “Dodo”...
|  | Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore: A Novel
Release Date: September 27, 2011"A bravura performance: a witty, moving, sexy book that burstswith as much color and excitement as the city of Constantinopleitself." -Financial TimesRoman historian Procopius publicly praised Theodora ofConstantinople for her piety-while secretly detailing her salaciousstage act and maligning her as ruthless and power hungry. So who wasthis woman who rose from humble beginnings as a dancer to become theempress of Rome and a saint in the Orthodox Church? Award-winningnovelist Stella Duffy vividly recreates the life and times of a womanwho left her ma...
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