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A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography ALA Stonewall Honor Book Finalist for Jam...

Celebrated in His Prime, Forgotten in His Final Years, only to be championed anew by our greatest contemporary authors, Richard Yates has always exposed rea...

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

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

from It's Inception By Dj Kool Herc To Its Modern Form, Can't Stop, Won't Stop Follows The History Of The Most Pivotal Music Phenomenon's Of Our Time, Hip...

To some it's the classic "gateway drug," to others it is a harmless way to relax, or provide relief from pain. Some fear it is dangerous and addictive, wh...

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...

A New York Novelist Named Quinn Is Mistaken For A Detective Named Paul Auster. Out Of Curiosity, He Accepts A Case Protecting A Young Man Named Peter Stillm...

How artists work, how they ritualize their days with the comforting (mundane) details of their lives: their daily routines, fears, dreams, naps, eating habi...

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and the Financial TimesA completely fresh view of one of the most gifted―and fascinating...

A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo. They work at home as freelance writers. They no longer have very much to...

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...

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...

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 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 ...

From the million-copy bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs's most intimate and transcendent collection of stories yet Publ...

FEATURED IN: The New York Times Book Review ("New and Noteworthy") • Essence • Newsweek • People • Bustle • PopSugar • Refinery 29 • HelloG...

Stephen Macknik And Susana Martinez-conde, The Founders Of The New Discipline Of Neuromagic, Have Convinced Some Of The World's Greatest Magicians To Allow ...

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...

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...

The Stolid Landscape of Chicago Suddenly Turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek's classic story collection. A lowly right fielder's inexplicable ...

About the Author\Linda Scott is the Emeritus DP World Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Oxford and a Senior Consulting Fello...

An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy. “Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to mysel...

"The Informers" follows the lives of interconnected characters. Each chapter in this book of short stories has a different first person, or narrator. The ch...

Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times, The Pianist is now a major motion picture directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody...

roberto Bolaño's Masterpiece Is An Utterly Unique Achievement—a Modern Epic Rich In Character And Event. . . . [he Is] The Most Important Writer To Emerge...

As Soon As Adam Kay Set Foot On A Hospital Ward For The First Time, He Realised There's Quite A Lot They Don't Teach You At Medical School ... His Diaries F...

An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable debut book chronicles what has h...

A New York Times BestsellerWith a New AfterwordIn an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky examines the way that...

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was...