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It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the internationally acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to ...

This groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Eman...

REVISED AND UPDATED WITH A NEW PREFACEToday’s working class is a sleeping giant. And as Tamara Draut makes abundantly clear, it is just now waking ...

Introduced in Dan Jenkins’s previous uproarious novel of the pro golf tour, The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist, Bobby Joe Groove...

Growing up in a bizarre cave-dwelling cult in Colorado, seven-foot, eight-inch Maurice "Slo-Mo" Finsternick knows nothing about the NBA--that is un...

A well-intentioned English family unwittingly becomes complicit in state violence while traveling through China. A ploddingly respectable London la...

Readers of The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and Arcadia by Iain Pears are sure to be mesmerized by Dan Vyleta’s thrilling blend of Dickensian h...

India is a land of contrasts. It is the world's most populous democracy, but it still upholds the caste system. It is a burgeoning economic superpo...

In 1835, the city of Washington simmered with racial tension as newly freed African Americans from the South poured in, outnumbering slaves for the...

SHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for FictionA riveting story of erotic obsession, self-deception and moral free-fall, set in post-communis...

In the crowded greenroom of a porn-movie production, hundreds of men mill around in their boxers, awaiting their turn with the legendary Cassie Wri...

Is it possible to be in love with two women at the same time? This is a question Jon has been asking himself frequently these days. He's loved his ...

An anthology of basic statements by the most influential social and political philosophers of Western civilization. Includes Plato, Aristotle, M...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement, this “totally gripping and entirely hilarious” novel (The W...

In February of 1945, 350 American POWs, selected because they were Jews, thought to resemble Jews or simply by malicious caprice, were transported ...

Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best NovelTwenty years ago, teenager Tara Martin disappeared in the dense English forest known as the Outwo...

Whether through her stories or her legendary readings, J. California Cooper has an uncanny ability to reach out to readers like an old and dear fri...

For generations Eula Too’s family has been making a journey North, year after year, step by painful step; and she’s determined to be the one to mak...

From one couple's engagement to their first anniversary—"a charmingly candid take on what happens when a worldly urban couple decides to get hitche...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first book in the divinely thrilling Songs of the Seraphim series about an assassin with the choice to turn from darkness...

The second book in nationally bestselling Songs of the Seraphim series is a gripping metaphysical thriller in which angels partner up with assassin...

Politics and culture, culture and politics. They’ve never been normal in America, but today they’re weirder than ever. Millionaire populists like B...

A collection of essays that are "like being seated beside the most entertaining guest at a dinner party" (Atlanta Journal Constitution)—from the Ne...

Twenty-six years before the #metoo movement, Anita Hill sparked a national conversation about sexual harassment in the workplace.After her astonish...