Of the three late masterpieces that crown the extraordinary literary achievement of Henry James, "The Wings of the Dove" (1902) is at once the most personal and the most elemental.
James drew on the memory of a beloved cousin who died young to create one of the three central characters, Milly Th[...]

The stunning novel that explores the secret life of Mecca by the first woman to win the international prize for Arabic fiction. When the body of a young woman is discovered in the Lane of Many Heads, an alley in modern-day Mecca, no one will claim it, as they are all ashamed of her nakedness. As Det[...]

The gripping new novel in the internationally renowned Sister Fidelma crime series. AD 670. An Irish merchant ship is attacked by a pirate vessel off the coast of the Breton peninsular. Murchad, the captain, and a prince from the kingdom of Muman, are killed in cold blood after they have surrendered[...]

The new novel from Jordanian-British writer and human rights activist Fadia Faqir is a gripping tale of forbidden love, violated honor, and exile. Salma has committed a crime considered punishable by death among her Bedouin tribe of Hima in the Levant: she had sex out of wedlock and became pregnant.[...]

A transporting and brilliant novel narrated by an unforgettable woman: Karen Nieto, an autistic savant whose idiosyncrasies prove her greatest giftsAs intimate as it is profound, and as clear-eyed as it is warmhearted, "Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World" marks an extraordinary debut by the aw[...]

An incisive introduction by Amy Bloom, a preface by the author, and new endnotes complement the classic novel of romantic suspense, about a young couple, Kate Croy and her lover, journalist Merton Densher, who plan to extort money from a naive and trusting American heiress who is terminally ill. Rep[...]

This anthology brings together important classical works and contemporary scholarship for a complete anthropological evaluation of the relationship between culture and climate change. The essays cover a range of topics, including environmental determinism, climatic events as social catalysts, and cl[...]

With the Adobe Creative Suite 6 release, Adobe has transformed InDesign into a layout program not only just for print, but also for the web and for tablet devices like the iPad. "Adobe Indesign CS6 Interactive: Digital Publishing For The Interenet And The Ipad" is a brand new text that goes the full[...]