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A piercingly powerful memoir, a grandson’s account of the coup that ended his grandfather's presidency of Haiti, the secrecy that shrouded that wou...

Drawing on ancient and modern sources, "a lucid discussion of Taoism and the Chinese language [that's] profound, reflective, and enlightening." —Bo...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR BY VOGUE, HARPER'S BAZAAR, W MAGAZINE, AND VANITY FAIR! •  MEET THE MILANIS. FAST-FOOD HEIRESSES, L.A. ROYALTY...

From the Thurber Prize-winning author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker comes a pioneering collection of Black humor from some of the most...

A breathtakingly illustrated and brilliantly evocative recounting of Alexander Von Humboldt's five-year expedition in South America—from the author...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a bestselling graphic novelist comes “a hugely ambitious, stylistically acrobatic work” (The New York Times Book R...

An illuminating, millennia-spanning history of the impact mathematics has had on the world, and the fascinating people who have mastered its inhere...

In this revealing and poignant story, Stefan Hertmans uncovers haunting details about the previous owner of his house and the crime he committed as...

It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of World War II in occupied Holland. A Nazi collaborator, infamous for his cruelty, is assassinated as...

WINNER OF THE STELLA PRIZEThe lives of three women weave together across centuries in this dazzling new novel.   Sarah, accused of being a witch, ...

In this latest and completely delightful installment of Alexander McCall Smith’s bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, the unflappable...

Why do people submit to authority and derive pleasure even others have over them? What is the appeal of domination and submission, and why are they...

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize • In this dazzling new biography, Richard Holmes, critically acclaimed author of The Age of Wonder, disco...

WINNER OF THE MIDLAND AUTHORS AWARD FOR HISTORY • LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Th...

The first book in more than ten years from “the creator of the last great American comic strip” (Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author): th...

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Now in a new edition with a foreword by Rumaan Alam, a modern classic from one of Australia’s grea...

The Chomsky Reader brings together for the first time the political thought of American's leading dissident intellectual—“arguably the most importa...

The stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have become part of the way children—and adults—learn about the vagaries of the real w...

The definitive edition of the graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street J...

***WINNER OF THE 1989 PYTHON PRIZE FOR THEIR OWN BOOKS***The complete scripts from the four Monty Python series, first shown on BBC television betw...

***ALMOST CERTAINLY NOMINATED FOR SOMETHING SOMEWHERE***The complete scripts from the four Monty Python series, first shown on BBC television betwe...

20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • Persepolis is a classroom staple, a feminist manifesto, and one of the most beloved graphic novels of all time. For the ...

Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up as a girl in Iran during the revolution...

Everyone’s favorite moral philosopher and amateur sleuth, Isabel Dalhousie, is back and once again finds herself facing a number of tricky situatio...