Browse by category
1421 - The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies
Category: Asian History | Series: P. S. Ser.
The incredible true story of the discovery of America before Columbus was even born.Gavin Menzies's extraordinary findings rewrite history. On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the f ...Show more
A Crack in the Edge of the World - America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative look at the tumultuous sub ...Show more
A Life Full of Holes by Larbi Layachi
Category: Cult Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
One of the most unusual literary innovations ever produced, A Life Full of Holes is the result of a singular collaboration between two remarkable individuals: Driss ben Hamed Charhadi, an illiterate North African servant and street vendor, and legendary American novelist and essayist Paul Bowles. The po ...Show more
Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund; Chris Wormell (Illustrator)
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
This is destined to be remembered as one of the most-recognized first sentences in literature -- along with "Call me Ishmael." And Una Spenser, the transcendent hero at the center of Ahab's Wife may well become every bit as memorable as Ahab. Inspired by a brief passage, in Moby, Dick, Sena Jeter N ...Show more
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
Category: Culture | Series: P. S. Ser.
First published in 1975, Animal Liberation created a sensation upon its release, shaking the world's philosophical and animal-protection circles to their cores. Now, forty years later, Peter Singer's landmark work still looms large as a foundational and canonical text of animal advocacy. Arguing that al ...Show more
Arthur Rimbaud Complete Works by Paul Schmidt; Arthur Rimbaud
Category: Poetry | Series: P. S. Ser.
One of the world's most influential poets, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings, almost all of which he produced before the age of twenty. Paul Schmidt's acclaimed collection brings together his complete poetry, prose ...Show more
As Nature Made Him - The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto
Category: Biography | Series: P. S. Ser.
In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment that would alter his gender. The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine--and a total failure. As Nature Made Him tells the extraordinary story of David Reimer, who, when finally ...Show more
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
Winner of the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The poignant - and at times very funny - novel from the author of State of Wonder and Commonwealth. Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honour of the powerful ...Show more
Blue Angel by Francine Prose
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
The National Book Award Finalist from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose--now the major motion picture Submission "Screamingly funny ... Blue Angel culminates in a sexual harassment hearing that rivals the Salem witch trials." --USA TodayIt's been years since Swenson, a professor ...Show more
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
From Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller "The Alchemist," comes a poignant, richly poetic story that reflects the depth of love and life. Rarely does adolescent love reach its full potential, but what happens when two young lovers reunite after eleven years? Time has transformed Pilar i ...Show more
Checker and the Derailleurs by Lionel Shriver
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
From the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin this is a novel about what it takes to make it in music. How charisma is worth its weight in gold. And how jealously can grow until it has eaten away at a musician's heart. He has that thing that they'd all pay for but can't buy: on sta ...Show more
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
A magnificent sweeping tale from the international bestselling author of 'The House of the Spirits'. Set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the nineteenth century, this magnificent romance tells the story of English foundling Eliza Sommers who grows up in the bustling ...Show more