In an illuminating memoir, the former president of the Czech Republic details his odyssey from dissident playwright to politician, his battle against communism, and his thoughts on the future of the European Union, the role of national identity in today's world, the war in Iraq, his battle with lung[...]

I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills. She fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries. Her [...]

"A Charmed Life" tells the story of Liza Campbell, the last child to be born at the impressive and renowned Cawdor Castle, the same locale featured in Shakespeare's "Macbeth." It was at the historical ancestral home that Liza's seemingly idyllic fairytale childhood began to resemble a nightmare.

Dear Uncle Morton: Your dragons are still here. They have eaten the entire contents of the fridge and most of the cans in the pantry too. Arthur also swallowed three spoons and the remote control. Mom says they will probably come out the other end, but I'm not really looking forward to that. --Eddie[...]

Why is everyone so afraid of the castle on the hill, and what dark secrets lurk inside its walls? When flashing lights are seen in a distant tower, Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Jack decide to investigate -- and discover a very sinister plot concealed within its hidden rooms and gloomy underground pas[...]

END OF THE QUEST

It had all begun with the theft of the Orb that had so long protected the West from the evil God Torak. Before that, Garion had been a simple farm boy. Afterward, he discovered that his aunt was really the Sorceress Polgara and his grandfather was Belgarath, the Eternal M[...]

David Eddings' acclaimed series, "The Belgariad," reaches its stunning conclusion in these final two gripping novels. Continue on this magnificent journey and be entranced by a saga of strange lands and peoples, of prophecy and strife set against the background of a seven-thousand-year war of men, K[...]

Who was Adolf Hitler? It's a question writers have been trying to answer for more than sixty years. But after thousands of biographies, histories, novels, and films, many fundamental questions remain: How do we explain Hitler's hatred? Where did it come from? Could it happen again? Norman Mailer set[...]

Halloween-with its tricks and treats-is a dust bunny's dream come true. Just ask Lyle, Sedona Snow's faithful sidekick. But for Sedona, it's a nightmare. Though her new job managing a small hotel and tavern on Rainshadow is helping her move on from her tragic past, a bizarre disaster down in the cat[...]

"Captured by her enemy"Drago Cassari would stake his multinational business on the fact that Jess Harper is a thief and a liar. In order to protect his family, he must keep her close. But captive in his palazzo, feisty Jess soon gets under his skin. Drago knows he is a fool, but Jess is like a fire [...]

Falling for her new boss Maddison Carter is determined to build her perfect lifeone that provides the security she's always craved. But arriving in London for a six-month job swap, she's tempted by a man who's totally off-limitsher delectable boss, Kit Buchanan When Kit whisks Maddison to his Scotti[...]

Published in 1931, "Axel's Castle" was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism--a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six major twentieth-century writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valery, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, Jam[...]