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When an old colleague comes to him for help solving the mysterious death of his town's most prominent resident, retired NYPD detective Dave Gurney ...

In 1965, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen gathered at the base of Mt. Tamalpais, a lovely small mountain in Marin County that anchors ...

With little more than a run–down Jeep and their newborn baby in tow, author Micah Perks' parents set out in 1963 to build a school and a utopian co...

Originally published more than twenty years ago and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, Paris Was a Woman is a rare profile of the female literati i...

Precious Cargo tells the fascinating story of how western hemisphere foods conquered the globe and saved it from not only mass starvation, but culi...

"The most intellectually exhilarating work published in 2018 . . . A lasting treasure." —Michael Dirda, The Washington PostHugh Kenner (1923–2003) ...

"Neil Shister's book skillfully traces the evolution of Burning Man and provides rare insights into how this cultural phenomenon is changing the wo...

Everyone has a face that they show to the outside world—but our thoughts, fears, and perversions lie just beneath.“Referred pain” describes the sen...

Spanning the underworld haunts of Montreal to Havana and Miami in the early days of the Cold War, Satellite Boy reveals the unlikely connection bet...

"Mr. Amelinckx is an adroit storyteller and thorough researcher, and in Satellite Boy he has written a good, engrossing yarn." —The Wall Street Jou...

A personal and highly original take on the history of six commercial plants, Seeds of Change illuminates how sugar, tea, cotton, the potato, quinin...

With the exception of sleep, humans spend more of their lifetimes on work than any other activity. It is central to our economy, society, and the f...

Named a Best Book of the Year by Esquire Winner of the 800–CEO–READ Business Book Award in Current Events and Public Affairs In an era when faith i...

A thoughtfully researched, movingly presented dual–biography of two iconic American writers, each trying to find the ideal friend with whom they co...

Starting with the classic Out of the Past, Christopher takes us on the grand tour of the great film noirs. With style and humor, he identifies the ...

One family’s secrets, betrayals, and hopes, are woven together through four generations into a tapestry of memory and love in this humorous novel o...

For fans of True Detective and Ozark—“Once you’re in the novel’s grip, it’s difficult to break free. A predator thriller with a difference, by a ri...

The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the modern age of AmericaOn January 21, 1958, ninetee...

Twelve shocking paintings. Eleven famous murders. One missing artist . . . and one woman driven to find her—this Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine...

"We watch what is moving fast from a platform that is also moving fast," writes Geoffrey O'Brien in the beginning of Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shado...

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year An “impressive, highly readable” exploration of “atrocity, trauma, and memory” that examines the l...

If you've witnessed the preferential treatment of men in America's houses of worship, you will not be surprised to learn that there is a surge of w...

“There is no exaggeration in pointing out that these essays are addressed to the soul of the reader. They are not academic exercises in erudition a...

“There is no exaggeration in pointing out that these essays are addressed to the soul of the reader. They are not academic exercises in erudition a...