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Twelve shocking paintings. Eleven famous murders. One missing artist . . . and one woman driven to find her—this Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine...

"We watch what is moving fast from a platform that is also moving fast," writes Geoffrey O'Brien in the beginning of Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shado...

"Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry—with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's like...

A West Virginia family struggles amid the booms and busts of the Appalachian coal industry in this “powerful, sure-footed, and haunting” novel with...

Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a story of loneliness and love that defies ageTsukiko, thirty–eight,...

"Robison raises sitcom wit to the level of real emotional situations, real comedy and real art." —The Chicago Tribune"Subtraction stands out as a h...

America today is a mobile society. Many of us travel abroad, and few of us live in the towns or cities where we were born. It wasn't always so. "Tr...

"[A] memorable portrait of a struggling young person who finds unexpected resilience and peace . . . Hilarious, heartbreaking, and poignant." —Book...

“Masterfully rendered and mercilessly readable. Kohnstamm populates these pages with insight, hilarity, emotion, and unforgettable characters. Supe...

“Masterfully rendered and mercilessly readable. Kohnstamm populates these pages with insight, hilarity, emotion, and unforgettable characters. Supe...

Surprise Attack explores sixty plus years of military and terror threats against the United States. It examines the intelligence tools and practic...

From the critically acclaimed author of Line of Sight and All These Ashes comes the exciting final installment of the Russell Avery series: Survivi...

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year An “impressive, highly readable” exploration of “atrocity, trauma, and memory” that examines the l...

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year An “impressive, highly readable” exploration of “atrocity, trauma, and memory” that examines the l...

Many thought the election of our first African American president put an end to the conversation about race in this country, and that America had m...

Charismatic, beautiful Sally Flynn was the center of her daughters' imaginations, particularly Laura's. Without warning, life as they knew it chang...

Centuries ago, when books were rare, those who owned them would lend them to friends, who in turn would copy out passages they especially liked bef...

Table Talk is a portable dinner party and a book to read alone while laughing out loud. Table Talk is a salon attended by your smartest friends and...

If you've witnessed the preferential treatment of men in America's houses of worship, you will not be surprised to learn that there is a surge of w...

If you've witnessed the preferential treatment of men in America's houses of worship, you will not be surprised to learn that there is a surge of w...

Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the period 1750–1914, when they vied to be the world's greatest cit...

"Priscilla Stuckey shines a brilliant light on the relationship we long to cultivate with the deepest wellsprings of our wisdom and love . . . This...

An expert on Chinese poetry and philosophy offers a definitive modern translation of Lao Tzu’s Taoist classic—considered the most influential spiri...

Two beautifully paired essays, “Tawny Grammar” and “Good, Wild, Sacred," serve to offer an autobiographical framework for Gary Snyder's long work a...