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From the acclaimed author of Warriors of God comes a riveting account of the pivotal events of 1492, when towering political ambitions, horrific re...

From the acclaimed author of Warriors of God comes a riveting account of the pivotal events of 1492, when towering political ambitions, horrific re...

A practical and motivating gameplan that shows us how to battle complacency and fight for the causes we support. Tavis Smiley is the host of "Black...

A bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess from an award-winning humorist.Whether David Rakoff is contrasting the elegance of one of the ...

Called to the hospital when his fifteen-year-old daughter, Angela, is injured in a potentially fatal accident, a prominent surgeon sits and waits,...

“Don’t play in the sun. You’re going to have to get a light-skinned husband for the sake of your children as it is.”In these words from her mother...

An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation's most famous benchwarmer and author of the pop...

Welcome to Purgatory. Chuck Palahniuk style.  After a botched Halloween ritual, Madison Spencer, the snarkiest dead girl in the universe, finds he...

December 1, 1941It is seven days before the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Days that are numbered for Sondegger, a Nazi spy captured in London while...

In the opening pages of Moby Dick, Herman Melville called New Bedford, Massachusetts, “the dearest place to live in, in all of New England.” But th...

One of our most incisive and committed journalists—author of the classic All the Livelong Day—shows us the real human cost of our economic follies....

London, 1890. Mina Murray Harker, the rosy-cheeked, quintessentially pure Victorian heroine, becomes Count Dracula’s object of desire. To preserve ...

His scam was as simple as it was brazen. Before and during the Great Depression, Oscar Hartzell persuaded tens of thousands of Midwesterners to par...

Born in 1938 in rural Kenya, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o came of age in the shadow of World War II, amidst the terrible bloodshed in the war between the Mau ...

With wit, adventure, and style to spare, this gripping and utterly original thriller is "a spy story that sticks" (The Dallas Morning News). When C...

Twice the speed, twice the trouble, twice the fun—Charlie and Drummond Clark return in this riveting, fast-paced sequel to Once a Spy. Charlie and ...

WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD • William Melvin Kelley's final work, a Joycean, Rabelaisian romp in which he brings back some of his most memora...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes a brilliant literary thriller set in Manhattan that’s “as taut and chilling as any...

A vibrant, vital anthology of stories that  portray the lives of Native Americans today, featuring  the work of N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich,  ...

This delicious memoir celebrates a lifetime of pleasure in cooking and eating well, taking us on a culinary tour of the life of the legendary edito...

This delicious memoir celebrates a lifetime of pleasure in cooking and eating well, taking us on a culinary tour of the life of the legendary edito...

At last, a book about eating (and eating well) for health -- from Dr. Andrew Weil, the brilliantly innovative and greatly respected doctor who has ...

From the Foreword by Nadine Gordimer: "These pieces are meditations which echo that which was, has been, and is the writer Mahfouz. They are--in th...

First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they...