In this panoramic history of Islamic culture in early Europe, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian reexamines what we once thought we knew.

At the beginning of the eighth century, the Arabs brought...

Jesus is a fresh and inspirational re-imagining of a young man’s transformational journey from carpenter’s son to revolutionary leader to the man many believe to be the savior of the world....

Ten years ago, devastated by an ugly scandal, Brooke Martin fled the small town of Hayden to pursue a career as a stained glass artist. Now Brooke has returned on business to discover that some...

The First Book of the Kings, also referred to as The Third Book of the Kings, tells of the reign of Solomon and the split of Israel (the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the Southern Kingdom,...

Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never traveled further than forty miles from his home in Königsberg. How appropriate it is then that in his philosophy he...

The Reverend Curtis Black is surely one of the cleverest ne'er-do-wells ever to set foot in a church. In this new tale, Curtis is starting over. He has a new job, a new wife (again), and a newfound...

Shipwrecked and cast ashore onto an uninhabited island, Robinson Crusoe ingeniously carves out a solitary, primitive existence for twenty-four years. Eventually, he meets a young native whom he...

This debut novel by Shelby Foote, a major Southern writer whose masterpiece is The Civil War: A Narrative, introduces Hugh Bart, a farmer confronting life's problems in the post-bellum South....

Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time.

So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron's prized client.

But when Christian gets a phone call from a former...

Once a year, Mary Morstan receives an anonymous package containing a magnificent costly pearl. Aware that the gifts are somehow connected to the disappearance of her father ten years previously, she...

On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever ... On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson...

In 1944, 15 year old Wiesel's village Sighet in Hungary was overtaken by Hitler's army. The jews in the village were deported to concentration camps, including young Wiesel and his family. NIGHT is...

"I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers." January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of...

The Reverend Curtis Black is surely one of the cleverest ne'er-do-wells ever to set foot in a church. In this new tale, Curtis is starting over. He has a new job, a new wife (again), and a newfound...

The first homicide that Canadian Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef, acting chief of the Port Dundas police, has had to investigate in almost three years is that of cancer patient Delia Chandler, a...

Myron Bolitar, sports agent and reluctant sleuth, is happily basking in the Caribbean sun with a woman he hardly knows. Interrupting this bliss, Win, his loyal but morally questionable sidekick,...

The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation's history: On this single day, the battle claimed nearly 23,000 casualties. In...

The audacious new adventure of the At Risk team from America's #1 bestselling crime writer.

When Patricia Cornwell introduced the quicksilver, cut-to-the-bone style and extraordinary cast...

Telling his story in "three chapters," Ram Dass explains how he moved from the structured academic world to wide-open experiences with psychedelics (and the Harvard experiments with Timothy Leary)....

The conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Gemma Doyle trilogy is extraordinary in its scope, with thrilling prose and a heroine unrivaled in contemporary historical fiction. It has been a...

The Reverend Curtis Black is surely one of the cleverest ne'er-do-wells ever to set foot in a church. In this new tale, Curtis is starting over. He has a new job, a new wife (again), and a newfound...

The Russian and British navies are conducting joint military maneuvers in the Irish Sea. Suddenly, a Russian sub suffers a radiation leak--or at least that's what everyone thinks. In reality, the...

In 1944, 15 year old Wiesel's village Sighet in Hungary was overtaken by Hitler's army. The jews in the village were deported to concentration camps, including young Wiesel and his family. NIGHT is...

Weaving between heartbreaking memories of her marriage and the pressing needs of her new day-to-day routine, Roiphe constructs an elegant literary pastiche, not of grief but of renewal. She begins...

Instant Immersion™ Arabic Audio Program

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The tragedy of King Lear receives an outstanding performance in an all-star cast led by Britain’s senior classical actor, Paul Scofield. He is joined by Alec McCowen as Gloucester, Ken Branagh as...

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One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daring new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. His poems have been woven into the very...

Joshua recounts the conquest and division of Canaan by Israel under Joshua, the successor to Moses.

The Book of Judges covers the period between Joshua's death and the rise of...

Combining skilled hypnotherapy techniques with high quality creative sound effects. This high quality recording, by the UK’s best selling hypnotherapist Glenn Harrold, combines the very latest...

Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense. Yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy. He didn't write about the world, he wrote about life, about how we live and how...