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When Sarajevo-born siblings Antonia and Paul join a wealthy Midwestern family in the 1990s, a series of events with deadly consequences is set in m...

When Sarajevo-born siblings Antonia and Paul join a wealthy Midwestern family in the 1990s, a series of events with deadly consequences is set in m...

This stunning “dystopian feminist eco-thriller” from an award-winning South Korean author “takes on climate change, sexual assault, greed, and dark...

The Dogs are Eating Them Now is a highly personal narrative of our war in Afghanistan and how it went dangerously wrong. Written by a respected and...

In this autobiographical novel, Albania’s most renowned novelist and poet Ismail Kadare explores his relationship with his mother in a delicately w...

What happens to a regular guy who dopes? Surprised to learn that pro athletes aren't the only ones taking performance–enhancing substances, journal...

This landmark work, first published by Sierra Club Books in 1988, has established itself as a foundational volume in the ecological canon. In it, n...

In 1961, a thief broke into the National Gallery in London and committed the most sensational art heist in British history. He stole the museum's m...

A founder of the Deep Ecology Movement, Arne Naess' has produced articles on environmentalism that have provided unmatched inspiration for ecologis...

In 1816, five years after being captured and sold into slavery, Kau, a pygmy tribesman, flees south into the Spanish Florida wilderness, determined...

"Biespiel’s supple memoir of becoming a poet will surely inspire other writers to embrace the bodily character of writing and feel the power and, s...

An instant classic in the literature of friendship: the witty, affectionate 40-year correspondence between a great story-writer and her editor . . ...

Inspired by true events, this vivid and moving story of a young woman zookeeper and the elephant she's compelled to protect through the German blit...

Inspired by true events, this vivid and moving story of a young woman zookeeper and the elephant she's compelled to protect through the German blit...

This debut collection received critical acclaim and is now available for the first time in trade paper. The stories in The End of the Straight and ...

W. S. Merwin is widely acknowledged as one of the finest living poets in English. Less well known is the power and range of his work in prose. For ...

When a jury returns to a packed courtroom to announce its verdict in a capital murder case every noise, even a scraped chair or an opening door, re...

With an introduction by Barbara Kingsolver, this collection of essays from leaders in the community is an excellent introduction to the agrarian ph...

The Etiquette of Freedom is an all–encompassing companion to the film The Practice of the WildGary Snyder joined his old friend, novelist Jim Harri...

Upending Christianity's popular notion of Jesus the comforter, the good shepherd, the Lord, and the Savior, this completely new exploration of Mark...

In the 1800s, the young Clarence King was an icon of the new America: a man of adventure and intellect, a flash–in–the–pan celebrity who combined s...

Formidably talented, Rebecca West was a towering figure in the British literary landscape. Lorna Gibb's vivid and insightful biography affords a da...