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To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
Category: Biography | Series: P. S. Ser.
"In his new book, Colin Thubron travels to Tibet, and takes the pilgrimage route to Kailas, the most sacred of the world s mountains, holy to one fifth of the earth s people, but rarely visited by westerners. Buddhists and Hindus have ritually circled the mountain for centuries, but its steepest slopes ...Show more
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. On the most fateful day of the consul's life--the Day of the Dead, 1938--his wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac, inspired by a vision of life tog ...Show more
Very Good Jeeves! by P G Wodehouse
Category: Humour | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of P G Wodehouse's death, the Everyman Wodehouse contains all the novels and stories, edited and reset. This collection of eleven short stories starring Bertie Wooster in eleven alarming predicaments from which he has to be rescued by his peerless gentleman's gen ...Show more
When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obssession by Irvin D. Yalom
Category: Reference | Series: P. S. Ser.
In nineteenth-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal des ...Show more
When the Cypress Whispers by Yvette Manessis Corporon
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
On a beautiful Greek island, myths, magic, and a colorful cast of mortals come together in a lushly atmospheric debut celebrating the powerful bond between an American woman and her Greek grandmother.The daughter of Greek immigrants, Daphne was brought up to believe in the American dream, but hers is sh ...Show more