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Critics across the country have raved about Joyce Carol Oates’s ground-breaking memoir A Widow’s Story, lauding its blazing honesty and raw emotion, ca...

With the 2006 publication of The God Delusion, the name Richard Dawkins became a byword for ruthless skepticism and "brilliant, impassioned, articulate, im...

An automotive and tech world insider investigates the quest to develop and perfect the driverless car—an innovation that promises to be the most disrupti...

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the warAt the start of WWII, the US found itse...

Product Description New York Times bestseller An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew him be...

The sequel to Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestselling memoir and the basis for the PBS series Call the Midwife When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth...

this Critical Edition Of Mann's 1912 Modernist Novella Reprints The Widely Praised Translation By David Luke. Accompanying This Text, Five Critical Essays ...

The Frontman Of The Classic Rock Band Aerosmith Tells His Story, Including His Rise To Rock Stardom In The 1970s, The Band's Drop In Popularity, And Their C...

Elon Musk, The Entrepreneur And Innovator Behind Spacex, Tesla, And Solarcity, Sold One Of His Internet Companies, Paypal, For $1.5 Billion. Ashlee Vance Ca...

A Sequel To Doc Is Based On The True Events Of The Gunfight At The O.k. Corral And Wyatt Earp's Survival Against A Backdrop Of Volatile Politics In 1881 Ame...

"Alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny."—New York Times “Deliciously readable . . . Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought...

An enchanting short story from Madeline Miller that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion, now in hardcover for the first time **A small har...

A Candid, Compulsively Readable, Hilarious, And Heartbreaking Memoir Of Resilience And Redemption At Age Four, Molly Shannon's World Was Shattered When She ...

A Literary Cavalcade ... Featuring More Than Fifty Pieces Of The Greatest Comic Writing Of Our Time. The Book Includes Such Masters Of The Form As Roy Bloun...

Amagisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's ...

From One Of The World’s Most Renowned Cave Divers, A Firsthand Account Of Exploring The Earth’s Final Frontier: The Hidden Depths Of Our Oceans And The ...

Two Of America's Leading Experts On Violent Extremism And Terrorism Explain The Genesis, Evolution, And Implications Of Today's Most Barbaric Jihadist Army,...

From Roger Rosenblatt, author of the bestsellers Making Toast and Unless It Moves the Human Heart, comes a moving meditation on the passages of grief, the ...

A Magnetic Novel About Two Families, Strangers To Each Other, Who Are Forced Together On A Long Weekend Gone Terribly Wrong Amanda And Clay Head Out To A Re...

“Ms. Haigh is an expertly nuanced storyteller long overdue for major attention. Her work is gripping, real, and totally immersive, akin to that of writers...

"The trick to cooking is that there is no trick." ––Mario Batali The only mandatory Italian cookbook for the home cook, Mario Batali's MOLTO ITALIANO ...

Ex-kgb Colonel Anna Heads To America, Where She Is Sought Out By Adrian, The Former Boss Of Her Deceased, Ex-spy Husband, Who Wants Answers And Information ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Kirkus Reviews * USA Today * Entertainment Weekly * Garden & Gun * Vox * Atlanta Journal-...

In 1943, Lsd Is Synthesized In Basel. Two Decades Later, A Coterie Of Grad Students At Harvard Are Gradually Drawn Into The Inner Circle Of Renowned Psychol...

Looks At The History Of The Rise Of Christianity As Experienced By The Adherents Of The Traditional Religions Of The Ancient World Who Directly Experienced ...

A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss--and attempting to reshape the narrative of her life--from PEN/Faulkn...

Seventy-year-old F.X. Toole has exploded onto the literary scene with this astonishing first collection of stories drawn from his own experiences in boxing...

Recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, "Strange Fruit" is considered to be the first significant song of the civil rights movement and the first ...

Product Description From bestselling and award-winning author T.C. Boyle, a lively, thought-provoking novel that asks us what it would be like if we co...

National Bestseller “a Juicy Melodrama Cast Against The Sultry, Stylish Imagery Of North Africa In The Fifties.” —the New Yorker The Last Person Alice...

For Four Years, The Author Interviewed Extremist Members Of Three Religions Around The World: Christians, Jews, And Muslims. Traveling Extensively To Refuge...

A different kind of White House memoir, presidential speechwriter David Litt's comic account of his years spent working with Barack Obama and his reflection...

Of the two hundred stories that Anton Chekhov wrote, the twenty stories that appear in this extraordinary collection were personally chosen by Richard Ford...

Performance Artists Caleb And Camille Fang Dedicated Themselves To Making Great Art. But When An Artist's Work Lies In Subverting Normality, It Can Be Diffi...

A Riveting Medical Mystery About A Young Woman's Quest To Uncover The Truth About Her Likely Fatal Genetic Disorder That Opens A Window Onto The Exploding F...

Now a television miniseries, as seen on Masterpiece on PBS Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam—a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion...

In 1903 a mysterious young woman flees alone across the West, one heart-pounding step ahead of the law. At nineteen, Mary Boulton has just become a widow—...

From Msnbc Correspondent Steve Kornacki, A Lively And Sweeping History Of The 1990s--one That Brings Critical New Understanding To Our Current Political Lan...

“[A] vivid and lively account of those hectic and historic three days….The best fly-on-the-wall account, tantamount to having had a backstage pass to a...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL, JOHN C. REILLY AND JOAQUIN PHOENIX A BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST AND A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Publis...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL, JOHN C. REILLY AND JOAQUIN PHOENIX A BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST AND A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Publis...

Soon to be a TV Series on AMC starring Pierce Brosnan and co-written by Philipp Meyer.Now in paperback, the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestsellin...

Achilles, "the best of all the Greeks," son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful— irresistible ...

A Tale Reminiscent Of Hamlet That Also Celebrates The Alliance Between Humans And Dogs Follows Speech-disabled Wisconsin Youth Edgar, Who Bonds With Three Y...

“Unpredictable and amusing and informative and original, cavorting between biology, history, travel writing, and memoir.” —Mark Kurlansky The Whale...

Fittingly, it is in Las Vegas, boxing's capital, in a faded casino bar with only a hooker for company that author Jonathan Rendall, a young British boxing e...

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Winner of the James Beard Award for the Best Restaurant in America, the acclaimed Union Square Cafe serves some of the most imaginative, interesting, and t...