Since the first publication in 1914 it has passed through eight editions in the United States—a sufficient proof of its utility as “a comparatively comprehensive reference book for use in the ...

Seasoned hiker Valerie Gillis vanishes shortly before reaching the end of the Appalachian trail. A Maine game warden works to find Valerie, as does a septuagenarian armchair detective in a ...

When the U.S. military refused to let women pilots enlist and the editor of an aviation magazine scoffed at “the woman who thinks she ought to be flying a high-speed bomber when she really has not the ...

Whether you are new to philosophy or already interested in deep ideas, these ten books offer valuable wisdom and are worth ... ideas from ancient Greece to modern times, making it a great reference ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba introduced the reference to "coercion" in the context of stepped-up Chinese military pressure against Taiwan at a summit last ...

Centering mostly on rabbis and their wayward, modernity-seeking children, the novel — a melancholy book that also happens to be hopelessly, miraculously, unremittingly funny — offers an ...

Four years after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, writer Abdulrazak Gurnah returns with a spellbinding family saga set in his home country of Tanzania. After graduating from university ...

“Thrilled to Death” is a selection of Lynne Tillman’s fiction from the 1980s to the present day. Kate Folk’s novel offers a sharp satire of the dating scene through the story of a woman ...