Before she was two years old, a scarlet fever destroyed Helen Keller's sight and hearing. At seven, alone and withdrawn, she was rescued by Anne Sullivan, her teacher and friend. She learned to read...
This series introduces, in words and music, the plot and background of major operas. Using the principal themes and arias, taken from the Naxos recording of the complete work, Thomson Smillie is...
A Supreme Court Justice is assassinated in a terrifyingly precise execution in the heart of Washington, D.C. In a quieter corner of the nation’s capital—the rare book room of the Library of...
In Charles Frazier’s follow-up to the runaway bestseller, Cold Mountain, comes the story of one man’s remarkable life, spanning a century of relentless change. At the age of twelve, an orphan...
Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who...
New York Times bestseller Walter Mosley's sizzling new novel pits Easy Rawlins against his greatest challenge ever--a terrifying murder during the Summer of Love.
The secret wisdom of the Kabbalah is a secret no more! Rabbi David Aaron, bestselling author of Endless Light, Seeing G-d and The Secret Life of God, has helped readers and students of all faiths find...
In 1872 lands once thought uninhabitable are coveted by the white settlers, traders and miners headed West. In far Northern California the last few bands of Modoc cling to their ancestral lands,...