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Joy in the Morning' is another novel from the wonderful series of books about Bertram Wooster and Jeeves by English humorist P.G. Wodehouse. It was first published in 1946. The novel was concluded amid the horrors of wartime Germany, and was something of a miracle, "The supreme Jeeves novel of all time." Bertie is a young gentleman of inherited means and no present occupation. He is a good-humored and well-meant chap, however, is clearly not t...

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First published in 1947, 'Five Chimneys' by Olga Lengyel, a Hungarian Jewish prisoner at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, who later wrote about her experiences in this book. Olga Lengyel recounts, honestly and without compromise, one of the most frightening stories of all time. This authentic, registered chronicle is the personal, day-to-day journal of a beautiful woman who endured the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birkenau. This book i...

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Nostradamus (Michel de Nostradame) was born on December 14, 1503 in St. Remy, Provence, France. Nostradamus came from a long line of Jewish doctors and scholars. He is considered by many as one of the most famous and important writers of history prophecies. He is famous mainly for his book 'The Prophecies, ' consisting of quarantine in rhyme. Supporters of the trustworthiness of these prophecies attribute to Nostradamus the ability to predict ...

The Sound and the Fury' is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy, the manchild Benjy, haunted, neurotic Quentin, Jason, the brutal cynic, and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character's voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the t...

E.M. Forster's 1924 political and philosophical masterpiece, 'A Passage to India', is among the greatest novels of the twentieth century. The book mirrors the troubled politics of colonialism and questions whether a friendship between a British person and an Indian would have been possible in those prejudiced times. Adela Quested and her fellow British travelers, set to experience the 'real' India, develop a friendship with the suave Dr. Aziz....

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Generally regarded as Nella Larsen's best work, Passing was first published in 1929 but has received a lot of renewed attention because of its close examination of racial and sexual ambiguities. It has achieved canonical status in many American universities. Clare Kendry is living on the edge. Light-skinned, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a racist white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed all ties to her pa...

E.M. Forster's 1924 political and philosophical masterpiece, 'A Passage to India', is among the greatest novels of the twentieth century. The book mirrors the troubled politics of colonialism and questions whether a friendship between a British person and an Indian would have been possible in those prejudiced times. Adela Quested and her fellow British travelers, set to experience the 'real' India, develop a friendship with the suave Dr. Aziz....

The Sound and the Fury' is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy, the manchild Benjy, haunted, neurotic Quentin, Jason, the brutal cynic, and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character's voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the t...

Stress is a lot like love - hard to define, but you know it when you feel it.In this classic work, 'How to Stop Worrying and Start Living', Carnegie offers a set of practical formulas that you can put to work today. It is a book packed with lessons that will last a lifetime and make that lifetime happier!This book will explore the nature of stress and how it infiltrates every level of your life, including the physical, emotional, cognitive, re...

One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years-due largely to initial audiences' rejection of its strong black female protagonist-Hurston's classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the ca...

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A Wrinkle in Time' is the winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal. It is now a major motion picture from Disney, directed by Ava DuVernay. It was a dark and stormy night-Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.