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Edgar Award finalist, Best Fact CrimeAmerican Masters (PBS), “1 of 5 Essential Culture Reads”One of CrimeReads’ “Best True Crime Books of the Year”...

A living lizard nailed to a pillar and a young man bound by a family misfortune—a tale that poses questions about life, death, and karma by one of ...

A beautifully written book set in Marin County, Innocence is a philosophical novel that follows John Gegenuber, a former Episcopal priest who has g...

Jerry Maxwell and his good friend Roary are both handicapped. They divide their time between Max's bar in San Francisco and the bleachers of the Oa...

In the fateful month of March 2000, shortly after opening a hugely successful show in New York that unveiled the more nefarious financial connectio...

In the fateful month of March 2000, shortly after opening a hugely successful show in New York that unveiled the more nefarious financial connectio...

“Delightful debut travelogue by botanist Malusa, who cycled to the lowest point on each of six continents.” —Kirkus ReviewsWith plenty of sunscreen...

After his expulsion from Russia, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn secretly worked on a memoir that would acknowledge the courageous efforts of the people who...

From the author of Red Star Sister“An excellent biography. Brody has made the world a better place by telling [Mitford’s] saga so skillfully” (San ...

Following on the heels of her exciting and widely acclaimed A Monster's Notes, and with Sheck's characteristic brilliance of language, Island of th...

An impassioned and rigorous appeal for reconnection to the land and human feeling by one of America’s most heartfelt and humble writers.When he acc...

"Todd Robert Petersen is crazy–talented, and the wild, weird, hilarious stories of It Needs to Look Like We Tried are just what’s called for in the...

A novel of crime and passion in post–Civil War Maryland, based on a true story, from a “wonderfully talented” author (Michiko Kakutani, The New Yor...

In 1951, just days before her scheduled lobotomy after years in a mental hospital, New Zealand author Janet Frame's first collection of short stori...

In this magisterial account, Jean Lacouture portrays the sweep of five hundred years of world history, from the dungeons of the Vatican to the jung...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: An “exquisitely wrought memoir” about how “love can flourish even in the harshest climates”—for readers of The Liar’s Cl...

"If love is details, so is storytelling, and Anne Lamott excels at it. Her way with analogy, metaphor, and evocative detail is subtle; her ability ...

John Milton — poet, polemicist, public servant, and author of one of the greatest masterpieces in English literature, Paradise Lost — is revered to...

“McGraw is wise and occasionally laugh–out–loud funny, with a seventh sense for the perfect turn of phrase . . . This quintessential collection of ...

"Peasant civilization possesses as a gift human qualities which philosophical civilizations spend centuries first defining, then desiring, and fina...

Confident and robust, Jubilee Hitchhiker is an comprehensive biography of late novelist and poet Richard Brautigan, author of Troutfishing in Ameri...

This fascinating biography “asks Christians and non–believers alike to look anew at Judas”, revealing the Apostle’s cultural significance and impac...

“Blue Deer Thaw is a delight.” —The Seattle Times “The fourth book in the Blue Deer series is another gem.” —The Washington PostAlcohol and art, ...