Throughout the 1990s, pictures of Albanian youngsters studying in makeshift classrooms became a symbol of Serbian state repression in Kosovo. The establishment of so-called parallel education in private houses and businesses in Kosovo became part of Albanian resistance to Serbian rule and an important ... more »

Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes more »

It's the most annoying question and they just can't help asking you. You'll be asked it at family gatherings, weddings, and on first dates. And you'll ask yourself far too often. It's the question that has no good answer. It's the question that when people stop asking it, makes you feel even worse: Why ... more »

A classic love story, The Last Summer chronicles a young man on the verge of growing up and an older woman running away from a life out of control. It is the summer of 1968: The world is poised on the cusp of radical change. Politicians question the status quo, blacks react to decades of oppression, ... more »

From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting ... more »

Every woman has a wild side...Shy, sweet and reserved, Connie Jefferson is the classic good girl. Her boyfriend, Victor, is attentive and romantic, but she can't forget one afternoon of mind-blowing ecstasy she shared with another manâEURŠa wild, carnal encounter that left her primed and aching for more ... more »

Meet author Michelle Cunnah, a fresh new voice, and the lovable characters she creates. It's Emma's thirty-first birthday, and everything is going swimmingly with her new love. Sure, he's been called away for a business trip on her birthday, and sure, this business trip also involves a gorgeous, perfect ... more »

I have no pride. I tell anything, Jill Conner Browne is fond of saying. As Her Royal Highness, Boss Queen of the Sweet Potato Queens?, she has told legions of fans, known as SPQ Wannabes, her delectable secrets to living, loving -- and eating -- like a queen. In her words, More is more. How much more ... more »

Welcome to the model dorm, where you're not mad that your roommate, Christiane, is hooking up with a Brazilian male model on your bunk, but that she's wearing your Dior heels while doing it; where the alcoholic Kylie leaves stains from her Metamucil martinis on the carpet; and where you help Svetlana ... more »

The small New England town of Dorsetville is filled with quirky, loveable characters much like those who populated Andy Griffith's Mayberry. Dorsetville is all aflutter. The housekeeper at St. Cecilia's rectory, Mrs. Norris, has quit in a huff, and the rectory is beginning to look like a college dorm ... more »

Laney McLeod's life changes the minute she finds herself stuck in a high-rise elevator in Manhattan. Fighting her rising panic, she relies on a handsome stranger to help overcome her claustrophobia. The man, Deke Sargent, is just as attracted to this beautiful and vulnerable woman as she is to him.When ... more »

Phyllis Mindell, an acclaimed expert on professional communications, shows women how to transform themselves by transforming their language; shed weak words, phrases, and gestures; empower themselves to win attention and respect; and get their ideas across with confidence and power. Perhaps the best ... more »