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A daring and brilliant novel that explores race and class in 1950s America, witnessed through the experiences of Nat King Cole and his driver, Nat ...

Rita Hayworth dancing by candlelight; Elizabeth Taylor tenderly wrapping him in her Pashmina scarf; streaking for Sir Laurence Olivier in a drafty ...

A delicious memoir about the eight months food writer David McAninch spent in Gascony—a deeply rural region of France virtually untouched by mass t...

“Arresting, powerful, and very much worth reading.”—Scott Simon (NPR)"A tale of violence and redemption in the Australian Outback....Fast-paced and...

“Sarah DiGregorio delves deeply into the fraught world of premature birth. With bracing honesty, she recounts her own story and the stories of othe...

A colorful, fearless portrait of the larger-than-life first family of NASCAR, the Earnhardts, and the rise of the world’s fastest stock car racing ...

"Dazzling. . . . In glittering prose, Momaday recalls stories passed down through generations, illuminating the earth as a sacrosanct place of wond...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2013A Kirkus Best Book of 2013A Bookpage Best Book of 2013Dazzling in scope, Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of th...

When photographer Christie Goodwin first met Ed Sheeran he was unknown and unsigned— just a young busker trying to make it big. But she could see s...

For the first time as a premium edition, a reissue of the first book in the Ali Reynolds series by New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance |...

“This is a delightful work with the urgency of a good detective story.” —Thomas McGuane“I loved it! A beautiful adventure story of one of the most ...

What Jane Goodall did for chimpanzees, international ecologist and conservation scientist Hannah Mumby now does for elephants in this compelling, e...

NOW A BBC ONE MOVIE STARRING GLENDA JACKSONHOW DO YOU SOLVE A MYSTERY WHEN YOU CAN'T REMEMBER THE CLUES?In this darkly riveting debut novel—a sophi...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women, the first ever authorized biography of the most famous movie star o...

In the bestselling tradition of Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, a wise and inspiring collection of life lessons drawn from one...

The bestseller from James Raffan, Emperor of the North tells the story of Sir George Simpson, whose extraordinary life coincided with the success o...

“Empire of Things isn't just an insightful and surprisingly entertaining read, but a crucial one.”—NPR What we consume has become a central—perhaps...

Diane von Furstenberg once called Diana Vreeland a "beacon of fashion for the twentieth century." Now, in this definitive biography by Amanda Macke...

Go beyond the ordinary with this charming and sophisticated Paris travel guide, a remarkable travelogue, guidebook, and coffee table keepsake—fille...

Encounter is the latest addition to the acclaimed body of literary criticism from beloved author Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being, ...

“A book that draws us in to the strange beauty of what we so often run away from.” — Robin Ince, author of The Importance of Being InterestedIn thi...

“[A] fun read….Batman and Superman meet in this retro-flavored novel set amid the Cold War sensibilities of the 1950s.”—USA TodayThe Dark Knight me...

Winner of the 2014 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political WritingThe co-author of the internationally bestselling The Rebel Sell brings us slow poli...

“Is it wrong that I wanted to underline every single word in this book? Simmons brilliantly crystallizes contemporary girls’ dilemma: the way old e...