In ISTANBUL, Nobel Prize winning author Orhan Pamuk has written a mesmerizing blend of memoir and ode, a book that is simultaneously about Pamuk's adolescence in Istanbul and about the nature of the city itself. Pamuk paints Istanbul as a lovely but melancholic world, a place always yearning to be something other than it is, haunted by its glorious...more

Hermann Abert's classic biography, first published in German more than eighty years ago and itself based on the definitive mid-nineteenth century study by Otto Jahn, remains the most informed and substantial biography of Mozart in any language. The book is both the fullest account of the composer’s life and a deeply skilled analysis of his music....more

"Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight--how to get from shore to food and back again," writes author Richard Bach, in this allegory about a unique bird named Jonathan Livingston Seagull. "For most gulls it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight." F...more

Una sensación literaria y bestseller internacional presenta con perfecta autenticidad y exquisito lirismo las fieles confesiones de una de las geishas más famosas de Japón. En Memorias de una geisha entramos a un mundo donde las apariencias son de suma importancia; donde la virginidad de una niña es subastada al mejor postor; donde las mujeres...more

This new epic trilogy set in a feudal Japan, has already become a best-selling sensation, earning comparisons to The Lord of the Rings. It begins with the legend of a nightingale floor in a black-walled fortress―a floor that sings in alarm at the step of an assassin. It will take true courage and all the skills of an ancient Tribe for one orphane...more

In this "energetic" (Kirkus Reviews) re-creation of Anne Boleyn's tragic life -- and death -- Robin Maxwell offers a pitch-perfect version of a bawdy and exuberant time filled with lust, betrayal, love, and murder. When the young Queen Elizabeth I is entrusted with Anne Boleyn's secret diary, she discovers a great deal about the much-maligned mothe...more