Pegasus: 922 books

“Moody and affecting prose buoys this strange and troubling account of an Arctic ocean voyage to the end of the earth, and the end of a species” (Publishers Weekly). The year is 1845 and young researcher Eliot Saxby is paid to go on an expedition to the Arctic in the hope of finding remains...

In a volatile society ruled and divided by its citizens' zodiac signs, a serial killer is on the loose: is it a misguided revolution or something more sinister? A starting new thriller with one of the most original concepts in years, where the line between a life of luxury and an existence...

In looking back over a span of thirty years, Bobbie Webb realized that her soul had been speaking directly to her through her poems, urging her to discover and experience love, passion, hope, healing, survival and forgiveness. In this collection of her verse, Bobbie’s most private writings...

The study of Abhidhamma is central to an understanding of Buddhism. Abhi (great, excellent, distinct, sublime) Dhamma (natural law, teaching, phenomena), is the Third Basket of the tripartite Buddhist Canon (Tripiṭaka). It offers a detailed analysis of the process of dying, death and rebirth. Buddhists...

A gorgeous work of literary journalism that follows a nomadic family’s fraught migration to the high Himalayan plains, as a changing world closes in around them. Following his vivid account of traveling with one of the last camel caravans on earth in Men of Salt, Michael Benanav now brings...

A witty, authoritative, and often provocative guide to the use and abuse of the English language, by the London Times's lead grammar columnist.** Are standards of English alright—or should that be all right? To knowingly split an infinitive or not to? And what about ending a sentence...

An eye-opening and provocative tour of our solar system, from one of Britain’s celebrated astronomists. Have you ever dreamed of being an astronaut, traveling through the universe on your very own space mission? What would it be like to tour the solar system, visiting the sun and the planets,...

A galvanizing look at constitutional freedoms in the United States through the prism of attacks on the rights of American Muslims. Religious liberty lawyer Asma Uddin has long considered her work defending people of all faiths to be a calling more than a job. Yet even as she seeks equal protection...

An extraordinary novel portraying one of the greatest untold love stories in American politics. In 1932, New York City, top reporter Lorena “Hick” Hickok starts each day with a front page byline—and finishes it swigging bourbon and planning her next big scoop. But an assignment...

In an evocative Celtic novel set in a time when druids roamed the land, lively young sister Deirdre embarks on a mission to find the stolen bones of her convent’s patron saint. In ancient Ireland, an island ruled by kings and druids, the nuns of Saint Brigid are fighting to keep their monastery...

A young Irish nun finds herself the guardian of a mysterious manuscript claiming to be the lost gospel of Mary, when she realizes that church authorities are willing to kill to get their hands on it . . . An old and dying nun has turned up at Deirdre's monastery in Ireland with an ancient manuscript...

A “thought-provoking” look at the psychiatric profession, the overprescribing of pharmaceuticals, and the cost to patients’ health (Booklist).   In an effort to enlighten a new generation about its growing reliance on psychiatry, this illuminating volume investigates why psychiatry has...

In a gripping World War II mystery, a young naval intelligence officer goes undercover to solve a murder and prevent the Soviets from stealing the secrets of America’s atomic bomb project. Washington D.C., 1945. Victory in the war looms, but a new fear transfixes the wartime capital. Fear...

A spirited and sweeping account of how the crusades really worked—and a revolutionary attempt to rethink how we understand the Middle Ages. The story of the wars and conquests initiated by the First Crusade and its successors is itself so compelling that most accounts move quickly from describing...