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Petra and Sharon, two thirteen-year-old girls, are both desperately in love with a world-famous pop star. Together they pore over his photos, read ...

Ahdaf Soueif, the bestselling author of The Map of Love, writes poignantly and beautifully about love, and about finding one’s place in the world. ...

“What is the scene or incident in European history that you would like to have witnessed-and why?” With lively and detailed accounts of some of th...

Elwood Reid first appeared on the literary stage with a powerful and bruising story called "What Salmon Know," which appeared in the March 1997 iss...

"If you want to understand the strange workings of the human body, and the future of medicine, you must read this illuminating, engaging book." —Si...

Four friends, all graduates of Hampton Institute, keep a collective journal they call "If This World Were Mine," and share their personal diaries e...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story—the terrifying, “electrifying” novel (Stephen King) about a man who flees the wreckage...

This classic Cold War-era history looks at the way President Dwight Eisenhower managed America’s secret operations as general and as commander in c...

A groundbreaking investigation of how illicit commerce is changing the world by transforming economies, reshaping politics, and capturing governmen...

Thirty-nine, recently divorced, jobless, Benedick Hunter is an actor heading in the exact opposite direction of happily ever after: everything fro...

At once chilling and beguiling, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. McEwan, the bests...

At once chilling and beguiling, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. McEwan, the bests...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic  for Time magazine comes the  tremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive,  argument that our ...

Oskar and Sebastian, both brilliant physicists, have been close friends ever since they first met at university. But now their relationship is stra...

A marvelous collection of wide-ranging essays from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, exploring her lifelong relatio...

A wide-ranging, surprising, and eloquently argued book that offers a pragmatic and erudite look at the innate human inclination toward nepotism—fro...

An "elegant and eloquent" (New York Times) exploration of the frontiers of noise and silence, and the growing war between them. Between iPods, musi...

An acclaimed Arab Studies scholar and bestselling author offers a groundbreaking new interpretation of the status and vision of Muslim women—and ch...

With In  Search Of Satisfaction, Cooper gracefully portrays men and women, some good and others wickedly twisted, caught in their individual thicke...

A fascinating study of American life and an explanation of how American life is studied through the everyday details of ordinary living, colorfully...

As the world's largest democracy and a rising international economic power, India has long been heralded for its great strides in technology and tr...

This fascinating history of a literary and religious masterpiece explores the forces that obstructed and ultimately led to the decision to crea...

Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady de...