From the author of the critically acclaimed The Nightingale's Song ("An amazing piece of work...This is a stunning book" -- Boston Globe), comes an evocative, elegiac and rollicking portrait of America. The Nightingale's Song was Robert Timberg's extraordinary tale...

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Everything fans want to know about the hotly anticipated Twilight movie and much more! Designed as a celebration of the film, this lavishly illustrated paperback edition is an exclusive behind-the-scenes guide featuring full-color photos of the cast, locations, and sets,...

In the twenty-some years since award-winning writer Diane Ackerman first visited the Tequesquite ranch in New Mexico, she has delighted readers with her rich, observant prose in such books as A Natural History of the Senses and, most recently, Cultivating...

This third and final volume of Bunin's biography tells of his life in exile, and of the efforts of an emigré community to maintain the traditions of patriarchal Russia. It depicts Bunin's longing for a homeland, his intense drive to...

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It is 1943 and the quiet of Harrowbeer, in Devon, is disrupted by increased activity at the nearly airfield, built at the beginning of the War. Among the squadrons moving in are pilots from Britain, Canada, and Poland. The airfield,...

Crews focuses on Valdés's service as an imperial courtier and how his employments in Italy influenced both Spanish diplomacy and his own religious thought....

Yeates was an Irish poet and dramatist. He was one of the founders of the Abbey Theatre and was its playwright in its early years. The characters in these stories include fairies, spirits, ghosts and sorcerers. Yeates heard these stories...

Together with Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev was one of the leading novelists of Russia's Golden Age and the first Russian writer to capture a Western audience.No less sensational than his novels was his personal life. For forty years, until...