DescriptionCloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media: Has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? In his most enduring masterpiece, Huxley creates the world of the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity) and prophesizes how Utopia will destroy humanity. Since its publication in 1932, Brave New World remains one of the most controversial and compelling works in English literature.
DescriptionWe are all travelers in the 'wilderness of the world' - travelers with a donkey. So Robert Louis Stevenson wrote to a friend on completing this enchanting account of a journey in rural France in 1878. Alone with his pack-donkey Modestine, and showing total disregard for discomfort, Stevenson relishes to the full his walking tour of the Cevennes. Freedom was the important thing: "I bless God that I was free to wander, free to hope, and free to love." This diary will find many kindred spirits.
DescriptionWhat Spenser is to Robert B. Parker, or Alex Cross is to James Patterson, Dismas Hardy is to New York Times best selling author John Lescroart. Hardy, the former bartender, loving husband and father, and reluctant defense attorney of Lescroart's bl…
DescriptionNancia's vision of human nature was shattered on her first voyage. Now she's bound for NX-928, and the last thing she needs is a "brawn" partner like Forister - he's the epitome of cynicism. Nevertheless, the idealistic Nancia and the worldly-wise Forister must band together to save the galaxy. This tale is narrated by television and stage actress Constance Towers ( Capitol ).
DescriptionThe second volume of Simon Schama's A History of Britain brings the histories of Britain's civil wars - full of blighted idealism, shocking carnage, and unexpected outcomes - startlingly to life. These conflicts were fought unsparingly between the…
DescriptionIt may be difficult to imagine a life-affirming book which begins with the main character, a 14-year-old girl, recounting her rape and murder, but Alice Sebold's debut novel is just such a book. Having received advance critical acclaim that before now was…
