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During one monumental month in 1848, gold is discovered in California, the United States wins its first foreign war, rebellion erupts throughout Europe, and an eager English gentleman named Benjami

An invisible wall ran down the center of the street, dividing the Jewish families from the Christians.

A crime of unfathomable horror has a ripple-like effect on four profoundly different souls.

One of the greatest works in literature, this allegory of the soul's journey from spiritual depths to spiritual heights is rendered through Dante's stunning visual imagination and exalted poetic to

Earth-scientist Rocannon has been living on a world shared by three native humanoid races: cave dwellers, elves, and warriors.

Barlowe, an African American in his forties, rents a ramshackle house in Atlanta's old Fourth Ward.

Through decades of Buddhist practice and teaching, Boorstein has discovered that the secret to happiness lies not in monastic solitude but in cultivating our connections with the world.

Relations are strained between the planet Werel's native people and its colony of stranded Earthmen, but they share a common genetic heritage as well as common enemies.

Since the golden age of the League of All Worlds, the people of Earth have fallen into semibarbarism and paranoia, ruled by the mind-controlling Shing.

When a Komarran merchant fleet is impounded in Quaddiespace, Miles Vorkosigan, as the emperor's troubleshooter, must answer the call of duty.

Waldman narrates the real story of how our nation's founders forged a new approach to religious liberty, a revolutionary formula that promoted faith by leaving it alone.

Published on the first anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, this is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace, imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humor.

Growing up in Queens in the 1960s, Alyse Myers watched her mother settle for a joyless existence.

When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappears, she leaves behind a single clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves almost exactly like her.

Rico and his ex-druggie friend head to the country in search of something better than 1960s New York City but discover that picket-fenced apple-pie people can be just as violent and judgmental as t