Hillerman, author of the Joe Leaphorn mysteries, and Herbert, editor of The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, trace this short-story genre fr...

Man and Boy is a moving story told with amazing insight by Tony Parsons. Sincerity of feelings, humor, irony of the narrative, modern attitude to the issues ...

The author invites you to learn from the great personalities of the past and present a deep and correct understanding of people and events in the world aroun...

USA, 1940s. A dysfunctional black family - parents and their small children, a brother and sister - flees from racists from Texas to Georgia to the town of L...

The book includes stories by stars of American science fiction of yesteryear, unknown to a wide circle of Soviet readers. Some stories were translated specif...

"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary work from a storyteller. Toni Morrison's first novel s...

The main character of the novel by Australian Toni Jordan is not like you and me. She is counting. He counts the letters in his name, the steps to the neares...

The book by a modern English author, a master of detective and thriller, includes exciting stories about the legendary detective that fans of Conan Doyle can...

With this book, you will learn how to do the work you need to do by focusing all your energy and time on what will bring the greatest benefit to you and your...

The editors of the New York Times bestselling Death's Excellent Vacation bring home a new collection...with a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse sto...