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The current and 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, inspires perennial fascination.

A legendary beauty and outback identity by the time she was 20. She handled snakes, horses and trucks in her fifty years behind the bar, and she could spin a yarn with the best of them.

On Valentine's Day 1985, biologist Stacey O'Brien first met a four-day-old baby barn owl -- a fateful encounter that would turn into an astonishing 19-year saga.

Most readers know Jane Brody as a staunch advocate of living a healthy life, to the fullest. But even the healthiest of lives end.

A Darkness at Sethanon is the third and final book in The Riftwar Saga.

Ypres, centre of First World War remembrance, was once home to a thriving British community that played a heroic role in the WWII.

"With more than 3 million copies sold, the #1 New York Times bestseller is now available in a special gift edition.

COPING WITH ILLNESS. While speaking at a memorial event for her father, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down.

Dirk Pitt must descend to the bottom of the Hudson River to recover a copy of the secret North American Treaty signed in 1914, but Great Britain is racing to find and destroy the same document.

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces.

"Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. Michael L.

This story of a 1933 kidnapping gone terribly wrong recreates the lawlessness of the era, and discusses how this case-followed breathlessly by the media and a fascinated public-became the first hig

Summary: The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414

Brings together the late young author's essays, poems, artwork, and e-mail correspondence with former President Jimmy Carter to share his message of hope for universal peace.

A collection of short stories including: Burning faith; The assassin; The lead bird; The crossword puzzle murders; Real characters; The hen party; Priscilla's new word; Project