112 Mercer Street
Einstein, Russell, Godel, Pauli, and the End of Innocence in Science
A piquant narrative restoring to modern science its full human...
Across the Savage Sea
The First Woman to Row Across the North Atlantic
Inspirational memoir by the first woman to ever cross the North Atlantic by...
Across the Savage Sea
The Epic Journey of the First Woman to Row Across the North Atlantic
The first woman to cross the Atlantic from west to east accomplishes the Everest of sea...
Adultery and Other Diversions
This collection of 13 essays looks for philosophical inspiration in the...
The Adventure of English
The Biography of a Language
“The ideal tour guide . . . both entertaining and...
Africa Doesn't Matter
How the West Has Failed the Poorest Continent and What We Can Do About It
Africa, a continent enormously rich in resources and people, remains the sick child of the modern...
Agamemnon's Daughter
A Novella and Stories
The novella follows one day in the life of a young, unnamed journalist about to attend a celebratory May Day...
The Agony of Victory
When Winning Isn't Enough
What makes some men drive themselves to succeed in their chosen sport, no matter how daunting the...
Alaskan Travels
Far-Flung Tales of Love and Adventure
“America’s most intelligent and wide-ranging essayist-naturalist.”
—Philip...
Alistair Cooke
A Biography
BBC broadcaster Clarke, who had Cooke's cooperation, tells the story of Cooke's peripatetic life...
All Gall is Divided
The Aphorisms of a Legendary Iconoclast
The aphorisms of the intellectual rebel, poet, and philosopher who lived on the margins of the modern...
All Quiet On The Orient Express
A striking allegory of labor and capital, purgatory and judgment, and the uncanniness of manual...
Allan, Burning
A Novel
Allan Daniels's life is in crisis—triple crisis, in fact—but is there any way...
Alone
The Man Who Braved the Vast Pacific and Won
D'Aboville's description of his journey is a gripping story not just of physical endurance but of mental and spiritual...
Alone
The True Story of the Man Who Fought the Sharks, Waves, and Weather of the Pacific and Won
The incredible true story of one man's heroic battle against impossible odds to cross the vast...
Alternating Current
Octavio Paz on literature and art, drugs, the murder of God, and ethical and political...
American Character
Curious Life of Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Rediscovery of the Southwest
An engaging and spirited biography detailing the rise and fall of a man as colorful as he was...
Anathemas and Admirations
“Instead of accumulating wisdom, he has shed certainties. Instead of reaching out to touch someone, he has fastidiously cultivated his exemplary solitude. If he is an aphorist, he's one who resembles Nietzsche, not Kahlil Gibran.”—Edmund White, The...
And All Our Wounds Forgiven
A Novel
In this striking fictional reimagining of the Martin Luther King, Jr. story, Julius Lester offers a moving and tender love story about one of this century’s most charismatic black leaders and the two women he...
The Angel Tree
The Enchanting Quest for the World
A vastly entertaining, utterly charming adventure in search of the oldest olive tree in the world, told by the talented landscape artist assigned to find it no matter the...
Anna
A Daughter's Life
“Inspiration, a word that
has lost its usefulness, regains it in this book.”—Frederick Busch, author of Don’t Tell Anyone and A Memory of...
Anna
A Daughters Life
An exorcism of grief, an outpouring of a father's fiercely tender love and an agnostic's attempt to come to terms with what seems a senseless, devastating...
The Ascent of Eli Israel and Other Stories
And Other Stories
“Papernick’s penetrating, clear-sighted stories ring true.”—The New York Times Book...
Assignment: Oswald
From the FBI agent assigned to investigate Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the JFK assassination, comes the first authoritative, insider's...
Atheist Manifesto
The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
“Wonderful, invigorating. . . . a passionate and coolly reasoned advocacy of atheism.”—Times Literary...
Audrey Hepburn
A Charmed Life
Audrey Hepburn is a sumptuously designed celebration of Audrey Hepburn’s life, containing 177 superb...
Auschwitz
A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
“The best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available.”—The New York Review of...
Babel
A Kathy and Brock Mystery (Kathy and Brock Mysteries)
David Brock and Kathy Kolla return for their sixth...
The Bachelor's Cat
A Love Story
A cynical bachelor gets a new outlook on life after he adopts a stray...
Bad Animals
A Father's Accidental Education in Autism
Joel Yanofsky gives us the funny, heartwrenching account of a year in the life of a father who struggles to enter his son’s world, the world of autism, using the materials he knows best, including self-help books, literary classics, and old...
Balthasar's Odyssey
An ambitious, stunning new novel by Goncourt Prize–winner Amin Maalouf, set in the tumultuous, fateful Year of the...
The Bay of Love and Sorrows
An unflinching and hard-hitting tale of ambition and...
A Bear and His Boy
A lonely little boy teaches a grouchy, type-A bear to stop and smell the lilacs—called “charming” and “fanciful” by School Library...
Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett
A Centenary Celebration
A collection of the notoriously private Beckett's reminiscences about his life and remembrances of Beckett fromthose who knew...
Belief or Nonbelief?
A Confrontation
An enlightened, spirited exchange that will resonate with believers and nonbelievers...
The Best Intentions
From the world-renowned stage and film director, comes a touching love...
Big Breasts & Wide Hips
A Novel
Mo Yan, arguably China's most important contemporary literary voice, recreates the historical sweep and earthy exuberance of his much acclaimed novel Red...
Big Breasts and Wide Hips
A Novel
China's most important contemporary literary voice delivers a portrait of twentieth-century China full of historical sweep and earthy...
Bin Laden
Behind the Mask of a Terrorist
The definitive biography of the man behind the September 11th...
Blood of Revolution
From the Reign of Terror to the Rise of Khomeini
An engaging account of selected revolutions in modern...
Boat
A Memoir of Friendship, Faith, Death, and Life Everlasing
The unlikely relationship between Boat, an old Hawaiian sage, and a young boy in need of a father...
The Boxer
A Novel
A powerful, deeply moving story of a man’s search for his son in the aftermath of the...
A Boy and His Bunny
“Amusing . . . warrants repeated readings.”—School Library Journal...
A Bridge Across the Jordan
A rare upbeat view in a particularly dim season for Mideast...
A Brief History of the Future
A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-First Century
“Brilliant and provocative. . . . His conclusions will be as controversial as they are difficult to dismiss.”—Henry...
The Calypso Directive
A Novel
A biological thriller that exposes the chilling potential of genetic hijacking and...
Capital Punishment
An Indictment by a Death-Row Survivor
“A searing condemnation and a powerful guide to the futility and arrogance of death penalties.”—Sister Helen Prejean, from her...
Capture or Kill
The Pursuit of the 9/11 Masterminds and the Killing of Osama bin Laden
"A hair-raising thriller." —Sunday...
Car Wars
Fifty Years of Backstabbing, Infighting, And Industrial Espionage ....
An unorthodox history of competition and corporate backstabbing among the automotive...
Cary Grant
Dark Angel
An illustrated biography of Hollywood's most glamorous and enigmatic leading...
Casey's Law
If Something Can Go Right, It Should
“It is refreshing, in days of pessimistic forecasts, to find a former CEO as positive and optimistic as...
Cats' Miscellany
A must-have book for cat lovers...
Challenging the Pacific
The First Woman to Row the Kon-Tiki Route
Fontenoy follows Across the Savage Sea (2005), the account of her solo row across the Atlantic with a new challenge: crossing the Pacific along the "Kon-Tiki" route from Peru to the...
Chewing Gum in Holy Water
A Childhood in the Heart of Italy
A warm, tender, and richly nostalgic look at growing up in a remote village in a postwar Italy on the brink of...
Chronicle in Stone
A Novel
In Kadare’s words, and this lyrical WWII coming of age story, Albania has found its national...
The Cinema of Cruelty
From Buñuel to Hitchcock
An amazing collection of essays from the father of film...
The City and the House
This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy from 1939 to 1944, from the anxious months before the country entered the war, through the war years, to the Allied victory with its trailing wake of anxiety, disappointment, and...
Cleaver
A Novel
Why would a man who has it all suddenly turn his back on the world at the height of his...
Cold Pursuit
The 11th novel about San Diego homicide cop Tom...
The Complete Fables of La Fontaine
A New Translation in Verse
“Full of life, an excellent rendering, and a
pleasure to read.”—Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer
Prize-winning...
Complete Fables of La Fontaine, The
A New Translation in Verse
“Full of life, an excellent rendering, and a
pleasure to read.”—Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer
Prize-winning...
The Concert
Under communism, foreign relations between a smaller country and the huge country that serves as its "host" affect the day-to-day lives of many individuals, especially in the smaller...
Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer
A Novel
“Brilliant. . . . exquisitely wrought.”—The New York...
Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer
A moving novel, telling of the longing and devastation that happen when both dreams and realities come crashing...
Conjunctions and Disjunctions
Exploring the duality of human nature in all its variations in cultures around the...
The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
A Novel
“Moving, seductive, creepy, sad, and provocative. . . . One of this year’s most remarkable novels.”—Detroit Free...
The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
Beginning with a grim discovery and moving backward, this novel tries to find the erotic transgressions and terrible secrets that separate an exile from the tired and ordinary...
Crossing into Medicine Country
A Journey in Native American Healing
A riveting account of initiation into ancient wisdom and the healing power of a Native American...
Crossing the Lines
A Novel
This absorbing novel follows the intertwined fates of people crossing boundaries in their...
Crossing the Lines
A Novel
The Cuisine of the French Republic
Cooking with the Cream of France's National Assembly
Members of the French National Assembly share advice, expertise, and family lore in this beautiful, full-color celebration of French...
Cycle of Violence
The author of the well-reviewed Divorcing Jack returns with another side-splittingly funny, irreverent tale of violence in Northern...
The Da Vinci Notebooks
A Dazzling Array of da Vinci's Celebrated and Inspirational Inventions, Theories, and Observations
Sketches, diagrams, and writings reveal the depth and genius of one of the most famous figures in the...
The Dance of Time
The Origins of the Calendar
A miscellany of history and myth, religion and astronomy, festivals and feast...
The Dance of Time
The Origins of the Calendar: A Miscellany of History and Myth, Religion and Astronomy, Festivals and Feast Days
Our changing concept of time and the surprising, often mysterious origins of the calendar come to life in this richly informative, beautifully written...
Danny's Mom
A Novel
A compelling and timely novel about a grief-stricken mother who launches a one-woman campaign against bullying in the volatile high school where she...
Daughter of Heaven
A Memoir with Earthly Recipes
Novelist Li weaves stories of her family with the recipes of her...
The Dawn of Hope
A Memoir of Ravensbruck
A stirring memoir by General de Gaulle’s niece, who as a young woman in the French Resistance was arrested, tortured, and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp in...
The Death and Life of Miguel De Cervantes
In this imaginative tour-de-force, Marlowe convincingly speaks in the voice of Cervantes, who at one stage looks into the future to witheringly mock the literary critics who judge his...
Death By Publication
More of a psychological case study than a mystery, this tale of revenge should be of considerable interest to book...
Dictionary of Word Origins
The Histories of More Than 8,000 English-Language Words
For reference or for fun, here are the origins of thousands of English words. A mini...
Dina's Book
This spellbinding novel calls to mind Eliot's Middlemarch and the film Babette's...
Doing Time
25 Years of Prison Writing (A PEN American Center Prize Anthology)
This anthology, selected from roughly 1700 prisoners' submissions, showcases efforts that range widely in form, subject matter and...
Doing Time
25 Years of Prison Writing
A stunning collection of prison writing with singular voices and surprising...
Drawn and Quartered
"A brilliant and original exponent of a rare genre, the philosophical essay. Once read, Cioran cannot fail to provoke reaction.”—New York Times Book...
Dream of Fair to Middling Women
A Novel
“Opened at last, the chest brims with treasures.” —The New...
Dream of Fair to Middling Women
A Novel
“Opened at last, the chest brims with treasures.”—The New...
Dreams of My Russian Summers
A Novel
Andrew Makine’s luminous and haunting novel—a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the...
Duke of Egypt
A Novel
The heartaches, loves, fortunes and losses of a wandering gypsy whose family is torn apart by the cruelty of post-WWII...
Dunkirk
Retreat to Victory
The fascinating and inspiring story of how a probable defeat became an incredible...
Dying Without God
Francois Mitterrand's Meditations On Living and Dying
Is one ever truly ready to face death? Can one, without faith, view death as a beginning rather than an end? François Mitterrand is the man "dying without God," and he offers these pages as his final, unforgettable...
The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme
A novel
Makine closes his epic 20th-century Russian trilogy with a poignant, tender ode to the power of wartime...
Einstein's Genius Club
The True Story of a Group of Scientists Who Changed the World
From the acclaimed author of The Nobel Prize comes this fascinating portrait of four of the greatest minds in the history of science and the impossible turning point they...
Elegy for Kosovo
A Novel
“One of the most compelling novelists now writing in any language.”—Wall Street...
Elegy for Kosovo
Stories
A retelling of the legendary battle in which a combined force of Serbs, Bosnians, Romanians, and Christian Albanians was defeated by the superior military of the Ottoman Empire in...
The Elephant, The Tiger, And the Cell Phone
Reflections on India - the Emerging 21st-Century Power
An engaging collection of essays about...
The Elephant, The Tiger, and the Cellphone
India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power
Over the past twenty-five years, India has moved from a largely impoverished, underdeveloped country to an innovative, fast-changing society. This entertaining and informative book shows how and...
The Elgin Affair
The True Story of the Greatest Theft in History
This story of the Elgin marbles re-creates in full detail “the greatest art theft in...
Elvis
In the Twilight of Memory
“This loving memoir of an achingly passionate—and achingly chaste—romance is an invaluable addition to the growing body of intelligent Elvisiana.”
—The New...
Elvis in the Twilight of Memory
This memoir of an American icon is bathed in the light of remembered...
The Emperor's Codes
The Thrilling Story of the Allied Code Breakers Who Turned the Tide of World War II
Utilizing declassified information, Michael Smith sheds light on the brilliant, eccentric group of code breakers who turned the tide of World War...
The End of White World Supremacy
Four Speeches
“The best examples of why, even in print, Malcolm X is a man to measure oneself against.”—The New York Times Book Review...
The Essay
A Novel
“Yocum writes like the reporter he used to be. He’s observant and
still has his eye for detail and...
The Essence Of Provence
The Story Of L'Occitane
The remarkable rags-to-riches tale of Olivier Baussan and the road-side soap stand that became...
Eureka Street
A Novel of Ireland Like No Other
Set in Belfast, Eureka Street takes us inside the lives of two unlikely friends as they try to carve out lives for themselves in the war-zone that they call...
Europa
This darkly comic and inherently tragic novel charts the emotional disintegration of a 45-year-old man mourning the end of an...
Evergreen Review Reader
1957-1966
Beckett, Kerouac, Ginsberg and more return in the classic pages of Evergreen...
Expatriate Paris
A Cultural and Literary Guide to Paris of the 1920s
“Expatriate Paris corroborates Cole
Porter’s line, ‘You may know Paris, you don’t know Paree.’ It’s a
well-structured guide to Paree, a lost civilization like Carthage or Troy. For
that reason the guide is also a reading experience. . . . Hansen is a...
Falstaff
A Novel
This delightfully raucous, slyly insightful fable gently closes the book on Falstaff as a bittersweet metaphor for the foibles of...
Family Outing
What Happened When I Found Out My Mother Was Gay
Like most teenagers, Troy Johnson was obsessed with sex, but his coming of age took a sharp turn when, in the era before "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" he learned his mother was a...
Famine
This brooding variation on the detective tale turns the hunger for human feeling into rich food for...
Favorite Sons
A Novel
A riveting novel in which old friends must excavate the formative event of their childhood—a murder—and determine how to pit truth against...
A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels, and Other Subversive Spirits
Melds folklore and mythology, presenting a surprisingly evenhanded view of the world's...
A Field Guide to Demons, Vampires, Fallen Angels and Other Subversive Spirits
The field guide to some of the most horrific and fascinating creatures found in mythology and...
Fields of Glory
A Novel
“This boldness with
chronology, this richness of detail . . . are quite remarkable in a first
novel. Fields of Glory deserves its
success.”—The New York Times Book...
Fields of Glory
This book represents a dialog between two generations seemingly far apart: three elderly veterans of the post-World War I era and their...
Fight of the Century
Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling
"A rich portrait of Louis, Schmeling, and the era to which they belonged."...
The File on H.
A Novel
Part spy novel, part comedy of errors, The File on H. is a work of inventive genius and piercing...
The Five Dollar Smile
And Other Stories
“He writes elegantly and often colorfully.”
—The New York Times Book...
Five Works by Octavio Paz
Conjunctions and Disjunctions / Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare / The Monkey Grammarian / On Poets and Others / Alternating Current
“Octavio Paz is a virtuoso of several genres. . .
an intellectual one-man band.”—Irving Howe, The New York Times
Book...
A Floating Life
A Novel
“Equal parts science fiction, magic realism, and hard-boiled detective story, A Floating Life is a dizzying journey through a fragmented landscape of ideas deftly rendered into a seamless, spellbinding narrative in the lineage of Borges, Castaneda...
France On the Brink
A Great Civilization Faces a New Century
The one book that explains what has gone wrong with one of the most admired and influential countries in the...
A Free House!
Or, The Artist as Craftsman
The classic,
witty exploration of Manet, Pissaro, Rodin and...
The Freemasons
A History of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society
“Captures the organization’s fundamental outlook, and its morality. . . . Ridley is an enchanting storyteller.”—The Wall Street...
Fun & Games With Alistair Cooke
The renowned journalist and beloved former host of Masterpiece Theatre writes about his lifelong fascination with the worlds of sports and...
Galileo's Mistake
A New Look at the Epic Confrontation between Galileo and the Church
Wade Rowland questions one of the great turning points in the history of science and though in this provocative reexamination of Galileo's...
I Gave You All I Had
An impressive picture of Havana before, during, and in the wake of the Castro Revolution, through the eyes of a former country...
The General of the Dead Army
A moving and timely meditation on war and its...
Gentleman Volunteers
The Story of the American Ambulance Drivers in the First World War
The tale of the American volunteer ambulance drivers of the First World...
Georges Braque
A Life
A comprehensive and buoyant look at this deeply private man, a philosophical artist utterly devoted to his work, who found new ways of understanding nature and perception, dissonance and...
Getting Away With Murder
The True Story Behind American Taliban John Walker Lindh and What the U.S. Government Had to Hide
An explosive investigation into the death of an American hero and the case of the "American...
A Girl and Her Gator
A hilarious follow-up to the acclaimed A Boy and His Bunny, showing kids that being different can be all right and even...
Godsent
A Thriller
“A fresh and exciting thriller, Godsent takes you on an unexpected journey. People of all faiths will be talking about this book.” —Dan Nathan, co-host of CNBC’s Options...
The Gold of the Sunbeams
And Other Stories
The miraculous author of The Mind Tree breaks the silence of autism once more with a second collection of poetic stories and startling leaps of...
Gold of the Sunbeams, The
And Other Stories
The miraculous author of The Mind Tree breaks the silence of autism once more with a second collection of poetic stories and startling leaps of imagination.
Golf
The Marvelous Mania
Legendary journalist and beloved TV host Alistair Cooke shares his life-long passion for...
Golf
The Marvelous Mania
The Good Works of Ayela Linde
A Novel in Stories
In 16 interconnected stories, the reader is presented with a 360-degree view of the enigmatic Ayela Garzon...
The Great Expectations School
A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle
The touching story of a fourth-grade class abandoned by the system and the teacher who tried to help...
Great Expectations School, The
A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle
The Great Indian Novel
Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, The Mahabharata, from twentieth-century Indian...
Greed, Inc.
Why Corporations Rule Our World
A searing indictment of modern corporations, which enjoy the legal status of individuals but are not bound by the same legal and moral...
Greed, Inc.
Why Corporations Rule the World and How We Let It Happen
Greed, Inc. is a seething indictment of modern corporations that enjoy the legal status of individuals but are not bound by the same legal and moral...
Green Ribbons and Turbans
Young Iranians Against the Mullahs
Journalist Armin Arefi gives voice to the new generation of Iranians in his account of the Green...
Greentown
Murder and Mystery in Greenwich, America's Wealthiest Commuinity
“Dumas brings an unusual sensitivity and clarity to this
disturbing tale.”—Publishers...
Haiku
This Other World
This volume reproduces Wright's own selection of 817 of these short, imagistic poems, most previously...
Haiku
The Last Poems of an American Icon
The haiku of acclaimed novelist Richard Wright, written at the end of his...
The Half Brother
A Novel
Epic yet startlingly contemporary, this massive novel charts 50 years in the life of an unconventional Oslo...
Happiness
A Guide to the Good Life, Aristotle for the New Century
Using Aristotle as his launching pad, a contemporary philosopher explores, in the context of today’s world, the notion of happiness and how each of us might best obtain...
Happy Accidents
Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs
The most significant breakthroughs in medical research usually came about when people were looking for something else...
Happy Accidents
Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century
A fascinating and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity has played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the twentieth...
Harry's Bar
The Life and Times of the Legendary Venice Landmark
The complete history of the legendary Venice landmark where Hemingway, Welles and others were...
Haunted Traveller
Yourgrau offers an imaginary travel memoir whose nameless narrator undergoes outlandish, nightmarish escapades in variegated, unnamed locales and psychic...
Hell and Back
Reflections on Writers and Writing from Dante to Rushdie
This title collects 19 essays by novelist Parks, many of which first appeared in the New York Review of...
Henry Miller
The Paris Years
“Wonderfully evocative. . . . leaves one pleasantly hungry.”—The New York...
Her Name Was Lola
A Novel
Hoban spins a light, wry fantasy about a middle-aged writer's past misdeeds, faltering career and misapprehensions about...
A Hero's Daughter
A Novel
A novel showing the lasting and devastating effects of Stalin's brutal reign of...
Hidden Minds
A History of the Unconscious
A brilliant synthesis that reevaluates, in accessible language, one of the major concepts of twentieth-century science in light of the latest...
The Hinge Factor
How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed History
From the wooden horse at Troy to a harrowing photograph snapped in Vietnam, world history has been shaped as much by chance and error as by courage and...
Hitler
The Memoir of the Nazi Insider Who Turned Against the Fuhrer
An intimate friend of Adolf Hitler’s who turned
against him during the Nazi rise to power
delves into the character of one of history’s
most evil...
The Hitler Virus
The Insidious Legacy of Adolph Hitler
More than a half-century after Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a Berlin bunker, the dictator's legacy lives on in this chilling...
Hitler's Gift
The True Story of the Scientists Expelled by the Nazi Regime
The true tale of how Hitler threw away victory in World War II before a shot was...
Hitler's Last Secretary
A Firsthand Account of Life with Hitler
Hitler's personal secretary reveals the experience of day-to-day life beside one of history's true...
Hitler's Savage Canary
A History of the Danish Resistance in World War II
A comprehensive history of extraordinary courage and...
The Holy Place
Saunière and the Decoding of the Mystery of Rennes-le-Château
From the coauthor of Holy Blood, Holy Grail comes a deeper exploration of the secrets of...
Horses Don't Fly
A Memoir of World War I
The true story of the cowboy who became a WWI ace and the first pilot to fly the American colors over enemy...
How Can I Talk If My Lips Don't Move?
Inside My Autistic Mind
An astounding new work by the author of The Mind Tree that offers a rare insight into the autistic mind and how it thinks, sees, and reacts to the world. When he was three years old, Tito was diagnosed as severely autistic, but his remarkable mother...
Human Love
A Novel
Love for another person. Love for humanity as a whole. Are the two compatible or mutually...
Images
My Life in Film
“An incomparably honest self-revelation of the artist.”—The New York Times Book...
Imperial Legend
The Mysterious Disappearance of Tsar Alexander I
In 1825 Czar Alexander I—a sovereign of untold power and wealth and
the vanquisher of Napoleon—died in a remote village near the Crimea. Or did...
In My Skin
A Memoir
What happens when a bright, well-loved young woman gets hooked on heroin and turns to prostitution to keep up her...
In Search of King Solomon's Mines
A Modern Adventurer's Quest for Gold and History in the Land of the Queen of Sheba
The Indiana Jones of travel writing takes you on yet another riotous ride in his quest to find the source of King Solomon's gold in Ethiopia, the land of the Queen of...
In the Name of Identity
Violence and the Need to Belong
“An eloquent introductory exploration of why, in this age of globalization, we need to abandon our historical idea of identity as a single religious or national alliance.” —New...
In the Name of Identity
Violence and the Need to Belong
A personal, sometimes even intimate, account of...
India
From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond
Tharoor explores the birth of a modern nation from the wreckage of empire, its beguiling diversity and its troubled path to becoming the world's largest...
Ivy League Stripper
The true story of a small-town girl who mixed a prestigious Ivy-League education with the down and dirty world of...
Jackal
The Complete Story of the Legendary Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal
The biography of the twentieth century’s most potent and ruthless terrorist, Carlos the Jackal, with exclusive revelations about his life, his missions, and his ultimate...
Jimmy Stewart
A Wonderful Life
“I
sensed [in Jimmy] the character and rock-ribbed honesty of a Gary Cooper, plus
the breeding and intelligence of an Ivy League idealist.”—Frank...
The Johns
Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It
“Read it, weep, and begin to humanize the idea that ‘masculinity’ requires dominance and humiliation.”—Gloria...
The Journey of Adam Kadmon
A Novel
A powerful novel that explores the conflicts of the human soul, where the desire for understanding is at war with the need to run from trouble, and courage does not always...
Juggling the Stars
This comic thriller is the hugely enjoyable prequel to Mimi’s...
Katharine Hepburn
An Independent Woman
“This dame is terrific—and expert in her craft and so electrifying on set that if you don’t watch out, you’re likely to wind up as part of the scenery.” -Bob...
The Kennedy Brothers
The Rise and Fall of Jack and Bobby
A thoroughly readable and historically important look at the relationship between JFK and...
Kinfolks
Falling Off the Family Tree
Lisa Alther searches for her mixed-race Melungeon ancestors and discovers a unique piece of American history in this warm, sharply funny...
Kinfolks
Falling Off the Family Tree
King of a Small World
A novel about...
Kitchen Con
Writing on the Restaurant Racket
A passionate, intelligent exposé of the restaurant business, from the world’s first restaurant after the French Revolution to today’s most fashionable...
The Kreutzer Sonata
A Novel (Kreutzersonate)
Dutch novelist de Moor traces narrative arabesques around the terrible romantic jealousy suffered by a blind music critic in this spare, delicate...
The Last Explorer
Hubert Wilkins, Hero of the Great Age of Polar Exploration
The incredible story of the first truly modern explorer, whose death-defying adventures and uncommon modesty make this book itself an extraordinary...
The Last Love of George Sand
A Literary Biography
The story of how the pioneering,
rule-breaking literary wild child George Sand found love and stability in an
unexpected...
The Last Song of Dusk
A Novel
A brilliant new voice tells an exuberant and tender story of love and loss, sex, karma, and colonialism set in 1920s...
The Late Interiors
A Life Under Construction
An honest, funny, beautifully written memoir that explores the author’s “growing up” into middle age while rediscovering love, home, gardening, and...
The Late Mr. Shakespeare
A Novel
“Nye must know more about
William Shakespeare and his work than anyone." -- Boston...
The Late Mr. Shakespeare
One by one, chapter by chapter, Pickleherring teases out all the theories that have been embroidered around Shakespeare over the...
Letters and Dispatches 1924-1944
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Letters from an Unknown Woman
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Letters to Sartre
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Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
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“A wildly visceral and creative novel . . . A vast, cruel, and complex story.”
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Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
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The Life and Ideas of James Hillman
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A Life in Music
This book reviews five decades of the rich and uniquely varied musical life of Daniel...
A Life in the Balance
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Linda McCartney's Home Cooking
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308 Quick, Easy, and Economical Vegetarian Dishes
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Lines On the Water
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The Little Black Dog Buccaneer
The famous Black Dog of Martha’s Vineyard goes treasure hunting and be- comes a heroine on Captain Bob Douglas’s schooner, the...
The Little Black Dog Has Puppies
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The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches
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A wickedly inventive fabulist tale of two children whose bizarre existence is shattered by their father’s death and of the terrible and haunting truth his death...
Long Way Back to the River Kwai
Memories of World War II
The astounding memoir of a World War II veteran who spent three and a half years in the slave labor camps made famous by The Bridge on the River...
Long Way Back to the River Kwai
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The Lost Brother
A gripping murder mystery that runs straight at the urban American racial...
Lost on Treasure Island
A Memoir of Longing, Love, and Lousy Choices in New York City
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Louse
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Lovely Green Eyes
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A Man Jumps Out of an Airplane
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Masquerade
The Incredible True Story of How George Soros' Father Outsmarted the Gestapo
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Max Factor
The Man Who Changed the Faces of the World
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Memoir in Two Voices
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Memories of the Great and the Good
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Mercy Among the Children
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Set in an isolated, wind-besieged house with bullet holes in the tarpaper walls, Richards's novel wonders whether goodness is merely a...
The Mind Tree
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Mrs. Freud
A Novel
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Music of a Life
A Novel
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The Music of a Life
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My Father, His Son
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My Longest Night
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My Love Affair with Modern Art
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My New Mediterranean Cookbook
Eat Better, Live Longer by Following the Mediterranean Diet
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My Path Leads to Tibet
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The Mystified Magistrate
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The Mystified Magistrate
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Napoleon
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The Natashas
The Horrific Inside Story of Slavery, Rape, and Murder in the Global Sex Trade
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The Nazi Hunter
A Novel of Suspense
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Nehru
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Nick & Jake
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The Nobel Prize
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The Nobel Prize
A History of Genius, Controversy and Prestige
The first comprehensive and critical survey ever written of the world's most famous award, The Nobel...
Not Dead Yet
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An NPR Book of the Year, “worth, oh well, its weight in gold. . . . vivid and eloquent.”—The New York Times Book...
The Obvious Diet
Your Personal Way to Lose Weight Without Changing Your Lifestyle
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Oedipus on the Road
A Novel
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boldness, and with considerable originality.” —Times Literary...
Oedipus on the Road
A wise and ambitious novel of Oedipus's time before he arrived in...
Of Illustrious Men
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Once Upon the River Love
A novel of love and growing...
One Day in September
The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation "Wrath of God"
“A page-turner . . . Highly skilled and detailed.” —David Denby, The New...
Only With the Heart
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The Ordeal
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Origins
Speculations on the Cosmos, Earth and Mankind
Three eminent scientists ponder the basic questions that have obsessed humankind for ages and offer enlightening...
Oscar Wilde's Last Stand
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The full drama of the Billing...
The Other Side of Loneliness
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The Palace of Dreams
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“Spare, suspenseful, and quietly terrifying, this
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The Pastures of Beyond
An Old Cowboy Looks Back at the Old West
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Patpong Sisters
An American Woman's View of the Bangkok Sex World
A shrewdly-researched memoir of three years spent in the midst of Bangkok's sex...
People of the First Crusade
The Truth About the Christian-Muslim War Revealed
Michael Foss tells the stories of these men and women of the First Crusade, bringing the time and events brilliantly to...
Perfume
The Alchemy of Scent
The exclusive in-house perfumer to Hermès reveals for the first time the secrets behind the art and business of creating...
Phobias
The History and Science of Fear from Hippocrates to Freud to the Present Day
Helen Saul draws on vivid examples from history, literature, and personal testimonies to explore one of mankind's oldest medical...
Phobias
Fighting the Fear
For the millions of people who suffer from one phobia or another, an enlightening, informative, and immensely helpful...
Playback
A Graphic Novel
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Poems for Life
Famous People Select Their Favorite Poem and Say Why It Inspires Them
An unforgettable collection of poems recommended by famous...
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A special collection of poetry as selected by Allen Ginsberg, Yo-Yo Ma, Kurt Vonnegut, and Tom...
Poisons
From Hemlock to Botox and the Killer Bean of Calabar
“Uses history, science, and fun poison facts to make lively reading of all things lethal.”—The Boston...
Private Confessions
The poignant tale of the scandal provoked by an adulterous affair between a pastor's wife and a young theology...
Prohibition
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“An excellent and honest book.”—The New York Times Book...
Promised Virgins
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Promised Virgins
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Psychopathia Sexualis
The Classic Study of Deviant Sex
This classic nineteenth-century work on so-called sexual deviation is the pioneering collection of case studies that cataloged and defined “perversion” from fetishism to...
The Pyramid
In a refreshingly clear, bold style, Kadare ably depicts the misuse of power and the hollow results for all...
The Queen & Di
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The complex and highly charged relationship between the Queen of England and her daughter-in-law Diana, Princess of...
The Queen's Bastard
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The Queen's Bastard
A Novel of Elizabeth I and Arthur Dudley
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Race Manners
Navigating the Minefield Between Black and White Americans
“An enlightening and balanced view of racial conflict.”—The Los Angeles...
Rapids
A Novel
A riveting white-water ride down a raging river in the Italian Alps, pitting people against...
Rather Die Fighting
A Memoir of World War II
“A gripping story of suffering, endurance, and the triumph—against massive odds—of the human spirit.”—Sir Martin Gilbert, from his...
Ready for the People
My Most Chilling Cases as a Prosecutor
A veteran female prosecutor takes you behind the facade of the criminal justice system and presents three of her most difficult and terrifying...
Reluctant Genius
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“Splendid . . . Reluctant Genius is a winner.”—Washington...
Removal
A Novel of Suspense
A compromised president, his murdered mistress,
enemies foreign and domestic, a rogue shadow agent lusting for power: in Peter
Murphy's Removal, impeachment is the
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The Republic of Wine
A Novel
“Both clever and deeply
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New York Times Book...
Requiem for a Lost Empire
A Novel
“Doctor Zhivago refracted through the language of Marcel Proust.”—Chicago...
Requiem for a Lost Empire
Three generations of a Russian family, caught in the violent political struggles of the 20th...
The Restraint of Beasts
A Comedic Novel
Good fences make bad labors in this mordant satire of tensions among the rural British working...
Ring of Hate
Joe Louis Vs. Max Schmeling: The Fight of the Century
The definitive book on one of the greatest sports events of the twentieth...
Riot
A Murder Mystery of Late Twentieth Century India
“A splendidly readable novel of memorable characters and complexity.”
—Washington...
Ripley Bogle
A grand novel about the dregs, and a vagrant with a soul large enough to take in the...
River of the Brokenhearted
A beguiling, big-hearted story of one woman’s resolute struggle to overcome small-town prejudice and...
Roanoke
Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony
Lee Miller conducts a remarkable example of historical detective work as she goes back to the original evidence to try and solve the mystery of the lost colony in...
Roaring Silence
John Cage: A Life
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Roman's Journey
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Roman's Journey
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Roman Halter was a spirited school boy in 1939. This is the incredible story of his epic six-year struggle to escape Nazi...
Sacred Fire
Sacred Fire splices Orwell to Atwood, Crichton to Huxley, and takes readers deep into the rich mysteries of human...
The Science of Everyday Life
An Entertaining and Enlightening Examination of Everything We Do and Everything We See
“Uses the science of everyday life to illustrate amazing, but invisible scientific principles. . . . Puts the fizz in physics.”—Entertainment...
Scrolling Forward
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Scrolling Forward takes a common, everyday object--the document--and illuminates what it reveals about us, both in the past and as we move into the digital...
The Search for Cleopatra
The True Story of History's Most Intriguing Woman
A fascinating portrait of the legendary queen who nearly brought down the Roman...
A Season with Verona
Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Character, and . . . Goals!
“Parks’ keen attention to detail brings the game to life, alive even to the most casual observer.”...
A Season with Verona
Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Character, and...Goals!
Part travelogue, part mediation, and part football...
The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn
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In this absorbing re-creation of Anne Boleyn's tragic life-and death-Robin Maxwell offers a pitch-perfect version of a bawdy and exuberant time filled with lust, betrayal, love, and...
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
A Biography
An epic biography of a hugely talented and hugely conflicted man, now in paperback for the first...
Secret Societies
Inside the World's Most Notorious Organizations
A comprehensive, behind-the-scenes look at the world’s most notorious secret...
Secret Societies
Inside the Freemasons, the Yakuza, Skull and Bones, and the World's Most Notorious Secret Organizations
They generate fear, suspicion and above all fascination. Secret Societies gives us a smart, surprising look at the best known and often least understood covert...
Secrets of the Sands
The Revelations of Egypt
“A 400,000-year epic narrative that is both personal and timeless.”—Wayne Grady, author of The Bone...
Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh
A Novel
“Mo Yan’s voice will find its way into the heart of the American reader, just as Kundera and García Márquez have.”—Amy...
Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh
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“Mo Yan’s voice will find its way into the heart of the American reader, just as Kundera and García Márquez have.”—Amy...
Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh
A dozen astonishing stories by China’s leading and most innovative...
The Shooting of Rabbit Wells
A White Cop, a Young Man of Color, and an American Tragedy
A powerful and haunting memoir about race and the place we call...
A Short History of Decay
“In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that
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foolish...
Show Business
A Novel of India
On-screen and off-screen reality intertwine seamlessly to weave a tapestry of power, privilege, seduction, betrayal, and...
Sir John Gielgud
A Life in Letters
A remarkable autobiography of one of the greatest actors of the 20th century, seen through his frank, mesmerizing, and intimate...
Sitting Up With the Dead
A Storied Journey through the American South
An inspired road trip through the South to uncover some of America’s most talented and colorful storytellers, their tales, and the lush land that links...
Socialism
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The Soldier's Return
A taut, profoundly moving, and powerful...
Somewhere in a Desert
A haunting novel of the Gulf...
The Song of Jacob Zulu
A work of fiction inspired by the actual story of a nineteen-year-old black man who in 1985 set off a bomb in a shopping center at Christmastime, killing five people and injuring over...
Sorcerer's Apprentice
An Incredible Journey into the World of India's Godmen
“Tahir Shah has a genius for surreal travelling,
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Spin
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Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
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A New York Times Notable Book A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the...
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
Albania, at the end of the twentieth century, a decade after the fall of the Communist...
Spymistress
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The first full-fledged biography of Vera Atkins, of whom Ian Fleming said, "In the real world of spies, Vera Atkins was the...
Spymistress
The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II
Here is the extraordinary account of the woman whose intelligence, beauty and unflagging dedication proved the key in turning the tide of...
Starbucks Nation
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A devastating, hilarious satire of coffee-swilling, celebrity-obsessed Southern California pop...
Starbucks Nation
A Satirical Novel of Hollywood
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The Stem Cell Dilemma
Beacons of Hope or Harbingers of Doom?
Everything you ever wanted to know about stem...
The Stem Cell Dilemma
The Scientific Breakthroughs, Ethical Concerns, Political Tensions, and Hope Surrounding Stem Cell Research
An up-to-date guide on the stem cell controversy and the discovery, hope, and fear that surrounds...
The Stoning of Soraya M.
A Story of Injustice in Iran
A moving look at justice run amok in Iran—now more timely than...
The Story of the Little Black Dog
The beautifully illustrated, first story of the Little Black Dog collection that tells how it all...
The Stowaway
A Novel
An adventure story of the highest caliber and a riveting tale of good and evil, all the more moving because it is based on actual...
Strange Times, My Dear
The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature
A rich and varied collection of contemporary short stories, extracts from novels, and poetry that showcases the latest developments in Iranian...
Strange Times, My Dear
The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature
“We are writers. . . . It is our natural, social, and
civil right to see that our writing—be it poetry or fiction, drama or film script,
research or criticism, or the translation of works written by other writers of
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The Substance of Civilization
Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon
"What Sass does—and does well—is convey the richness of the material world and the ingenuity of humankind in making use of it." —Kirkus...
The Successor
A Novel
A powerful political novel based on the sudden, mysterious death of the man who had been handpicked to succeed the hated Albanian dictator Enver...
Sunday's Children
A novel of the traumas and joys of childhood and of the difficult relationship between fathers and...
Swimming with Crocodiles
The True Story of a Young Man in Search of Meaning and Adventure Who Finds Himself in an Epic Struggle for Survival
“Chaffey elevates a tale of survival and adventure into a beautifully written meditation on the beauty of the natural world in a unique country.”—Sunday...
Tax the Rich
An Oral History of Occupy Wall Street
“My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionairefriendly
Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about
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The Templars
The Secret History Revealed
A groundbreaking history of the medieval world’s most powerful military order, the Templars—and the momentous discovery that finally allows the full story to be...
The Temple and the Lodge
The Strange and Fascinating History of the Knights Templar and the Freemasons
Dispelling myths and challenging the traditional evaluations of European and American history, here is an illuminating investigation into the evolution of...
The Temptation to Exist
“A brilliant exponent of a rare genre, the philosophical essay.”—The New York Times Book...
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Theo's Odyssey
An extraordinary journey through the world's religions that does for spirituality what Sophie's World did for...
They Shall Not Have Me
The Capture, Forced Labor, and Escape of a French Prisoner in World War II
A moving and engrossing symbol of resilience and integrity, Hélion’s daring story of imprisonment and escape under the Nazi regime is available again in this beautiful, new...
Thine is the Kingdom
A stunning, epic debut novel from one of the most exciting new voices in Cuba...
The Three-Arched Bridge
This elliptical novel chronicles the events surrounding the construction of a bridge to illustrate the bitter history of cultural enmity in the...
Trace Evidence
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Trail of Feathers
In Search of the Birdmen of Peru
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Travel in My Borrowed Lives
New and Selected Poems
A rich new collection of poems, a testament to Axinn's steady and evolving...
The Trouble with Being Born
“One of the most delicate minds of real power writing today.”—Susan...
The Truth Book
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This is the utterly gripping account of a young girl who endured abuse and the disturbing effects of religious hypocrisy within one of the most enigmatic sects of Christian...
Twentysomething Girl
Quick Tips for Surviving and Thriving in Your Twenties
Quick tips for surviving and thriving in your...
Under the Eye of the Clock
The stirring, and inspiring, autobiography of a young man who almost died at birth but survived—though unable to speak or...
Universe on a T-Shirt
The Quest for the Theory of Everything
The search for a Unified Theory is full of quirky personalities, interesting tales, and moments of brilliance—high science and high...
Urban Animals
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A hilarious and brilliantly illustrated guide to the everyday urban...
Virtue, Valor, And Vanity
The Founding Fathers and the Pursuit of Fame
See the Founding Fathers as you never have...
Virtue, Valor, and Vanity
The Inside Story of the Founding Fathers and the Price of a More Perfect Union
In this fresh, informative work, Burns brings the Founding Fathers down off their pedestals to reveal the flesh-and-blood men who overcame their faults to establish a new...
Visions of Liberty
The Evolution of America's Bill of Rights
Lifelong champion of civil liberties and Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from 1978 to 2001, Ira Glasser portrays the trials and triumphs of the great rights contain in the Bill of...
Voices of the Rainbow
Contemporary Poetry by Native Americans
This haunting volume of poetry proves yet again that the powerful and moving voice of Native Americans must be...
The Voyage of the Destiny
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A thrilling depiction of the Elizabethan era through the eyes of the legendary Sir Walter...
Voyage to a Stricken Land
Four Years on the Ground Reporting in Iraq: A Woman's Inside Story
An intimate, accurate portrait of Iraq and the deadly Iraqi war as it has evolved month to month over the past three...
Voyage to a Stricken Land
A Woman Reporter's Battlefield Reporting on the War in Iraq
Sara Daniel, a star European corresponded and one of the few women reporters covering Iraq, dares to venture where few have gone in this gripping and fascinating...
Wallenberg
The Incredible True Story of the Man Who Saved the Jews of Budapest
Raoul Wallenberg defied Adolf Eichmann and saved 100,000 Jews. Then he disappeared. This is his...
War
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This tour de force gives a grunt’s-eye view of an urban battlefield in an unknown land where nothing is clear and everything is at...
Warriors of Disinformation
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Alvin A. Snyder's blistering expose of how the government spins information to the voting public and the...
I Was Saddam's Son
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Washington Irving
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Policy analyst and speechwriter Jones traces the life of America's first bona-fide best-selling...
Washington Irving
The Definitive Biography of America's First Bestselling Author
The definitive biography of the author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van...
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The Weather Factor
How Nature Has Changed History
A riveting examination of the human experience as Mother Nature wreaks...
Wedding By the Sea
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Weighing the Soul
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One of the first and only issue-based nonpartisan guides to contemporary American...
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William & Harry
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Wise Thoughts for Every Day
On God, Love, the Human Spirit, and Living a Good Life
“A treasury of timeless wisdom.”—Catholic...
Witness to Nuremberg
The Many Lives of the Man who Translated at the Nazi War Trials
“It is unlikely anyone alive has as many firsthand memories of the Nazi leaders. . . . A thoroughly remarkable life.”—The New York...
The Women Who Wrote the War
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“These women must not be forgotten; their stories must be told now. . . . Through her determined inquiry and elegant writing, Nancy Caldwell Sorel proves herself a reporter worthy of their legacy.”—Dan...
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The Writing on the Wall
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When
Vera decides to travel to an old house in the New England countryside for a
month-long escape from some devastating news about her daughter, Cassie, she
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Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada
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The Young Hitler I Knew
The Definitive Inside Look at the Artist Who Became a Monster
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Young Turk
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The Zebra Murders
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“Offers crucial lessons in how to deal with— and not deal with—acts of terrorism.”—San Francisco...
Zelda Fitzgerald
Her Voice in Paradise
The first major biography in more than 30 years to focus on the "high priestess of the Jazz Age" breaks new ground by giving full space to the woman and artist behind the...
Zelda Fitzgerald
The Tragic, Meticulously Researched Biography of the Jazz Age's High Priestess
The definitive biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife, who became "the first American...
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The Incredible Wartime Exploits of Double Agent Eddie Chapman
Eddie Chapman, con man, womanizer, safe-cracker, was the most remarkable double agent of World War II. Nicholas Booth delivers an enthralling account of his long and extraordinary...
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The Incredible Wartime Exploits of Double Agent Eddie Chapman
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