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New York Times BestsellerMonths after foiling an international terrorist attack, Doctors Without Borders physician Jonathan Ransom is working under...

Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to attend Harvard, he has nothing but a senior thesis on Bugs Bunny to show for himself. Whi...

The story of visionary American running coach Bob Larsen's mismatched team of elite California runners who would win championships and Olympic glor...

Winner of the Booker PrizeLiverpool, 1752. William Kemp has lost a fortune in cotton speculation, and must recoup his losses if his son is to marry...

London, summer of 1584: Radical philosopher, ex-monk, and spy Giordano Bruno suspects he is being followed by an old enemy. Instead, he is shocked ...

A beautifully crafted and inviting account of one woman’s life, Safekeeping offers a sublimely different kind of autobiography. Setting aside a st...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on a journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed t...

A New York Times Notable Book • "A complex, engaging novel...Sapogonia will establish Castillo as one of our finest Chicana novelists." --Rudolfo A...

Bombay journalist Narasimhan here offers an unnerving, carefully documented study of the Indian ritual whereby widows bring glory on themselves and...

When Marita Golden decided to write her personal account of the challenges of raising a black son in today's world, she didn't intend to write more...

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Science & TechnologyIn its 4.5 billion-year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least h...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARWhen Peggy Orenstein's now-classic examination of young girls and self-esteem was first published, it set ...

A devastating critique of the American way of education and a hopeful blueprint for change which can unlock the creativity and joy of learning inhe...

A science book for the general reader that is informative enough to be a popular textbook and yet well-written enough to appeal to general readers....

Based on the life of the great short-story writer Raymond Carver, Scissors is a compassionate and convincing portrayal of the creative life. An alc...

Isadora Myung Hee Sohn—Isa—has just spent ninety-five days in a pediatric burn unit in Albany, New York, recovering from the fire that burned her ...

In this haunting and riveting firsthand account, a survivor of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple opens up the shadowy world of cults and shows how anyone ...

This Anchor edition includes both poems and letters, as well as the only contemporary description of Emily Dickinson, and is designed for readers w...

Through extensive research and interviews with five notorious serial killers, author Joel Norris demonstrates that serial killers have specific bio...

Lost in the surf of the South Pacific lies a speck of volcanic rock. Home to thirty-eight islanders--descendants of the Bounty mutineers--Pitcairn ...

In his classic book, T.E. Lawrence—forever known as Lawrence of Arabia—recounts his role in the origin of the modern Arab world. At first a shy Oxf...

Cultural historian Marjorie Garber offers incisive and witty commentary on what men and women today really want in her enlightening study of what m...