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An Enchanting Love Story Set In The Amazon, By The Award-winning And Bestselling Author Of Journey To The River Sea.weekly Ballet Classes Are Harriet Morton...

A New York Times Bestseller An Unlikely Political Star Tells The Inspiring Story Of The Two-decade Journey That Taught Her How Washington Really Works—and...

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspe...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceFor eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her a...

AbsolutionCategories: Literature & Fiction Historical Fiction20th Century

The 2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist, International Bestseller, and a Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2017!“Marsh has retired, which mean...

In these lively and fascinating essays, scientists from around the world weigh in on the latest advances in the search for intelligent life in the universe...

ArrivalCategories: Religion & Spirituality Religious StudiesScience & Religion

Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in t...

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Short-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fict...

Thirty-eight-year-old Sherman McCoy, who lives on Park Avenue, has a wife and a high-maintenance mistress, and is a successful Wall Street bond trader, fac...

amazing taleCategories: RomanceRomantic Comedy

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe New York Times • Los Angeles Times • The Boston GlobeHer stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of "Bloomington" reads,...

The hero of Christine Falls, Quirke, is a surly pathologist living in 1950s Dublin. One night, after having a few drinks at a party, he returns to the morgu...

1930s Shanghai Could Give Chicago A Run For Its Money. In The Years Before The Japanese Invaded, The City Was A Haven For Outlaws From All Over The World: A...

A Researcher For Human Rights Watch Describes The Refugee Camp In Dadaab, Home To Those Fleeing Civil War In Somalia, And Highlights The Life Of Various Res...

Hailed as a classic, Tim Winton's masterful family saga is both a paean to working-class Australians and an unflinching examination of the human heart's ca...

over The Course Of Two Years, London-based Documentary Film Maker And Writer Streatfeild Interviewed Some 150 Traffickers, Scientists, Academics, Journalis...

An essential collection from one of the finest thinkers and stylists in contemporary letters. The celebrated author of The New York Trilogy, The Book of I...

In this hallucinatory novel, an automobile provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experi...

From the historian Dan Bouk, a lesson in reading between the lines of the U.S. census to uncover the stories behind the data. The census isn't simply data...

Brilliantly written in language eerily reminiscent of sixteenth-century England and filled with the dazzling color and drama of Tudor England, Firedrake's ...

Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR; O, The Oprah Magazine; Vogue; San Francisco Chronicle; Esquire; Huffington Post; Nylon; Entertainment Weekly; BuzzFee...

"Set between Ireland and London in the first two decades of this millennium, the stories in Hearts and Bones, Niamh Mulvey's debut collection, look at the c...

Wall Street Journal, "Favorite Books of the Year 2013"Cosmopolitan, "Best Books of the Year for Women"Library Journal, "Best Books of 2013"Salon, "Best Boo...

In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Wo...

For fifty years, economists have been developing elegant theories or how markets facilitate innovation, create wealth, and allocate society's resources effi...

Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's first full-length drama, hailed in Europe as "the play of the decade" and compared in importance to Waiting for Godot Kas...

Interlinked stories in this collection range from the love for an Egyptian writer for Jane Fonda to the discovery of an ice-preserved stone age man. All the...

A Personal And Empowering Blueprint—from One Of America’s Rising Democratic Stars—for Outsiders Who Seek To Become The Ones In Charge Leadership Is Ha...

Walker Percy's mordantly funny and wholly original contribution to the self-help book craze deals with the Western mind's tendency toward heavy abstractio...

Praise for Augusten Burroughs "A wrenching, edifying journey...with the added benefit of being really entertaining." - The New York Times Book Review on D...

A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of THE VIRGIN SUICIDES—the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek...

Winner Of The Edgar Award For Best First Novel The “gripping... Page-turner” (time) Hitting All The Best Of Summer Reading Lists, Miracle Creek Is Perfe...

A Winner Of The Alex Award, A Finalist For The Los Angeles Times Book Prize For First Fiction, Named A Best Book Of The Year By Npr, Los Angeles Times, And ...

In this now classic work, Barbara Ehrenreich, our sharpest and most original social critic, goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side...

On ship-tracking Web sites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. In postindustr...

A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year Twenty contemporary authors introduce twenty sterling examples of the ...

The #1 New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year Now a Major Motion PictureRunning with Scissors is the true story of a b...

Running with Scissors is a 2002 memoir by American writer Augusten Burroughs. The book tells the story of Burroughs's bizarre childhood life after his mothe...

Winner of the Man Booker PrizeWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in FictionWinner of the John Dos Passos Prize for LiteratureNew York Times Be...

One evening while drugged out of his mind and picking over garbage in the backstreets of San Juan, a fifteen-year-old homeless boy is singing boleros in a m...

It’s time for eighteen-year-old James Sveck to begin his freshman year at Brown. Instead, he’s surfing the real estate listings, searching for a sanctu...

The locals in the southern Italian town where he lives call him Signor Farfalla--Mr. Butterfly: for he is a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies....

From the winner of the IMPAC Award and the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, a fierce and devastating novel about a young woman's discovery of betrayal in th...

Howard Norman's The Bird Artist, the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. Its narrator, Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the ...

Aron Kelinfeld is the ringleader among the boys in his Jerusalem neighborhood, but as his 12-year-old friends begin to mature, Aaron remains imprisoned in ...

A New York Times Bestseller In his latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives a...