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In the 1930's, the last decade when many men and  women who were born under slavery and freed by the  Emancipation Proclamation.still lived, the Ne...

In his own words—JFK at his wisest, wittiest, and most eloquent In one volume, the writings and speeches of John F. Kennedy reveal a man and Presid...

Yes, there actually is a way to let everything become your teacher, to let life itself, and everything that unfolds within it, the “full catastroph...

In the critically acclaimed Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Manhattan journalist Susan Shapiro revisited five self-destructive romances. In her hilar...

Living In The Labyrinth is the story of how one woman found the strength and the courage to cope with a devastating disease that has afflicted five...

America is one killer organism away from a living nightmare that threatens all we hold dear....A deadly cloud of powdered anthrax spores settles un...

A novel of searing intelligence and startling originality, Lost in Translation heralds the debut of a unique new voice on the literary landscape.  ...

Discover the power of love through the mystical practice of magic in this wide-ranging collection of spells, rituals, and meditations from the auth...

Polly Evans had a mission: to learn everything possible about the howling, tail-wagging world of sled dogs. Fool’s errand? Or the adventure of a li...

What can elephant seals tell us about Homer’s Iliad? How do gorillas illuminate the works of Shakespeare? What do bloodsucking bats have to do with...

Brooklyn needs a saint. Ned Conti needs a stipend. So the struggling young historian agrees to trace the mysterious past of a Brooklyn nun for ev...

She vowed to find a better world for her children.  Even if she had to make it herself.A sweeping epic of contemporary history by Pulitzer Prize-wi...

“A book that will leave few readers unmoved.”–San Francisco ChronicleShe was the quintessential queen: statuesque, regal, dazzlingly beautiful. Her...

In the foothills of Pasadena, Mas Arai is just another Japanese-American gardener, his lawnmower blades clean and sharp, his truck carefully tuned....

From Summer of the Big Bachi to Gasa-Gasa Girl, Naomi Hirahara’s acclaimed novels have featured one of mystery fiction’s most unique heroes: Mas Ar...

From the time she was a child, Mas Arai’s daughter, Mari, was completely gasa-gasa–never sitting still, always on the go, getting into everything. ...

In some states by law, in others by tradition, judges imposing a sentence of death complete the grim ritual with the words "May God have mercy on y...

An extraordinary, explicitly masculine journey, Men In Love develops a startlingly honest portrayal of what it means to be a man in contemporary Am...

A Handbook for Relieving the Discomforts of PregnancyMassage is a sensuous, relaxing, and loving treatment that has the added bonus of being especi...

In her acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Motherless Daughters, Hope Edelman explored the profound and lasting effects of mother loss, as well as...

When Nancy Friday began her research for My Mother/My Self in the early 1970’s no work existed that explored the unique interaction between mother ...

A touching coming-of-age novel featuring a protagonist who’s the kind of girl every woman wishes she’d had as a best friend growing up Billie Weins...

He’d seen her somewhere once—he was sure of that. But the young woman gave no hint of recognition and before this could be explained, everything fe...

"We could bore ourselves to death, drink ourselves to death, or have a bit of an adventure..." It was absurd. It was foolhardy. And it was glorious...