The Portrait of a Lady is Henry James’s classic novel featuring the strong and spirited Isabel Archer, the embodiment of women’s independence and strength.
The heroine of this powerful novel, often considered James’s greatest work, is the vivacious young American Isabel Archer. Blessed by nature and fortune, she journeys to Europe to seek the full realization of her potential—or in modern terms,...

The highly anticipated sixth and final book of the Earth's Children series, "The Land of Painted Caves" will be an international publishing event. Auel gives fans the finale they've been waiting for as she continues the story of Ayla and Jondalar and their little daughter Jonalya. A remarkable re-creation of the way life was lived millions of years ago. Print run 1,000,000.

Shoot-outs, kidnappings, and international terror plots follow Gabriel Allon.

This spellbinding creation by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi interprets the Gothic cathedral through Gaudi's visionary, modernist style. Study the striking sculpted decoration of the exterior portals, the dreamlike interior with its columns fashioned as stylized trees, and the powerful Christian iconography of this unique melding of the traditional and the radically new.

"The Elephant's Journey" is based on a true story, an elephant named Suleiman or Solomon was given to the Hapsburg Archduke Maximilian by King Joao III of Portugal in 1551, and to reach Austria, the elephant traveled on foot and by boat through Europe accompanied by the Prince and a royal retinue. Solomon was a sensation everywhere. Saramago has transformed this into a marvelous novel that re-creates a lost world and features one of his most appealing...

In the three centuries after the explorer Vasco de Gama first landed in India in 1492, meetings, trade and exchanges of all kinds flourished between the peoples of Europe and Asia. These encounters and the hybrid cultures that developed have left an extraordinary legacy of exquisite works of art and compelling human stories. Produced alongside the V&A's landmark 2004 exhibition, Encounters explores both the western fascination for the exotic materials...

A bold account of the decline of the West’s economic supremacy and radical solutions to reverse the drift.

Bestselling author Dambisa Moyo gives a fresh insider’s perspective on the erosion of Western power over the past 50 years. She examines how the West’s flawed financial decisions and blinkered political and military choices have resulted in an economic and geopolitical seesaw that is now poised to favour the emerging...

The Rape of Europa tells the epic story of the systematic theft, deliberate destruction and miraculous survival of Europe's art treasures during the Third Reich and the Second World War. On a journey through seven countries, the film takes the audience into the violent whirlwind of fanaticism, greed, and warfare that threatened to wipe out the artistic heritage of Europe. For twelve long years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art on a scale unprecedented...

*io9's New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books You Need to Put On Your Radar This Fall From the modern master of alternate history and New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove, Through Darkest Europe envisions a world dominated by a prosperous and democratic Middle East-and under threat from the world's worst trouble spot. Senior investigator Khalid al-Zarzisi is a modern man, a product of the unsurpassed educational systems of North Africa and...