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With empathy, insight, and humor, I’ll Come to You chronicles the intersecting lives of one unforgettable family over the course of a year—1995—anc...

If Only You People Could Follow Directions is a spellbinding debut by Jessica Hendry Nelson. In linked autobiographical essays, Nelson has reimagi...

Set in the early 1900s, the novel follows young Lucia Rutkowski who, thanks to the influence of her beloved grandmother, escapes the Warsaw ghetto ...

Susan Sontag meets Hanif Abdurraqib in this fascinating exploration of the unexpected connections between how we consume images and the insidious n...

Susan Sontag meets Hanif Abdurraqib in this fascinating exploration of the unexpected connections between how we consume images and the insidious n...

“Berry's latest collection of essays is the reminiscence of a literary life. It is a book that acknowledges a lifetime of intellectual influences, ...

The national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book about a young single mother living in New York, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they ...

Chapel Hill college student Maria finds herself in a predicament—unexpectedly pregnant at nineteen. Still reeling from the fresh discovery of her m...

With stunning illustrations and color photographs, this expanded edition of In Maremma recounts the restoration of a dilapidated 1950s farmhouse in...

This observant and insightful novel reveals, in rich and poignant detail, the interior lives of three generations of people in their quest for love...

For readers of Jeannette Walls and Barbara Kingsolver, in this love story set in rural Appalachia during the Vietnam War, a young couple is torn ap...

In the spring of 1964, Joel Agee, not quite at home in his native New York (having spent much of his boyhood and youth behind the Iron Curtain), ac...

“I just plain loved In the Land of Temple Caves. Frederick Turner makes a compelling case for civility organized in response to culture–shaping art...

Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress–Armstrong Fellowship—a ‘living memorial' t...

A collection of bold stories set in downtown Los Angeles that examine large issues like love, class, and race, and how they influence and define ou...

The phenomenon of false allegations of mental illness is as old as our first interactions as human beings. Every one of us has described some other...

Edgar Award finalist, Best Fact CrimeAmerican Masters (PBS), “1 of 5 Essential Culture Reads”One of CrimeReads’ “Best True Crime Books of the Year”...

A living lizard nailed to a pillar and a young man bound by a family misfortune—a tale that poses questions about life, death, and karma by one of ...

A beautifully written book set in Marin County, Innocence is a philosophical novel that follows John Gegenuber, a former Episcopal priest who has g...

Jerry Maxwell and his good friend Roary are both handicapped. They divide their time between Max's bar in San Francisco and the bleachers of the Oa...

In the fateful month of March 2000, shortly after opening a hugely successful show in New York that unveiled the more nefarious financial connectio...

In the fateful month of March 2000, shortly after opening a hugely successful show in New York that unveiled the more nefarious financial connectio...

“Delightful debut travelogue by botanist Malusa, who cycled to the lowest point on each of six continents.” —Kirkus ReviewsWith plenty of sunscreen...

After his expulsion from Russia, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn secretly worked on a memoir that would acknowledge the courageous efforts of the people who...