Returning to Vienna after World War II to help rebuilding efforts and reunite with her unfaithful husband, Anna bonds with young student Robert, who tends to a sick stepfather while navigating his unr
A visually stunning, brilliantly original reference on the colors of the rainbow, from Sweden's "black socks of envy" to the pink-colored machismo of the British empire.
Traces the author's five-year effort to document New Orleans' rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Katrina, revealing how the city served as a reinvention of American ideals as advocated by urban planne
A provocative assessment of the controversial playwright challenges the opinions of her detractors while exploring contradictions in her character, from her non-practice of Judaism and her impassioned
#1 New York Times Bestseller2014 National Book Award FinalistWinner of the inaugural 2014 Kirkus Prize in nonfictionWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Winner of the 2014 Books for a Bett
For fifteen years, sports agent Josh Luchs made illegal deals with numerous college athletes, from top-tier, nationally recognized phenoms to late-round draft picks. Flagrantly flaunting NCAA and NFL
The loveable full time priest and part time detective Canon Sidney Chambers continues his sleuthing adventures in late 1950's Cambridge. Accompanied by his faithful Labrador Dickens, and working in
"I think people marry far too much; it is such a lottery, and for a poor woman--bodily and morally the husband's slave--a very doubtful happiness." --Queen Victoria to her recently married daughter Vi
There are so many ways to find out. From a cell phone. From a bank statement. From some weird supermarket encounter. One morning in early January 2005, Wendy Plump’s friend came to tell her that her h
Renowned ornithologist Tim Birkhead opens this gripping story as a female guillemot chick hatches, already carrying her full quota of tiny eggs within her undeveloped ovary. As she grows into adulthoo
In this revelatory study of modern living, Robert Colvile inspects the various ways in which the pace of life in our society is increasing and examines the evolutionary science behind our rapidly acce
The explosive collection by the celebrated author of Thirst and PEN/Faulkner Award finalistPu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies, Coup de Foudre is the kind of groundbreaking work of literary invention K
Bandy Dorner, home from Vietnam, awakes with his car mired in a canal, his cabin reduced to ashes, and his pregnant wife preparing to leave town with her lover. Within moments, a cop lies bleeding in
"He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one…"Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappoin
"He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one…"Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappoin
Most men of stature wouldn't marry their betrothed after she'd been kidnapped and forced to join a harem, but wealthy merchant Paul Pindar is not most men. When Paul and his wife return to London from
For all the pessimistic talk about the apocalypse, we still really don't know what humanity's future will ultimately look like. Where will our sea levels be? Will avian flu wipe us off the planet? Wil
Leading military historian Victor Davis Hanson returns to non-fiction in The Savior Generals, a set of brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five generals who single-handedly saved their nations
In this sweeping and deeply imagined historical novel, acclaimed classicist Victor Davis Hanson re-creates the battles of one of the greatest generals of ancient Greece, Epaminondas. At the Battle of
