Drawn from personal experience, these stories offer vivid and beautifully rendered snapshots of the adoptive parenting experience. Featuring: Marcelle Clements, Laura Shaine Cunningham, Christina Fra
Hot on the heels of the #1 bestsellers The Onion's Our Dumb Century and Jon Stewart's America comes The Areas of My Expertise, the brilliant and uproarious #15 bestseller (i.e., a runaway phenomenon
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The scandalous story of AmericaA's first supermodel, sex goddess, and modern celebrityA-Evelyn Nesbit.By the time of her sixteenth birthday in 1900, Evelyn Nesbit was known to millions as the most ph
The psychologist-author of Reviving Ophelia examines the impact of modern culture--psychology, technology, and the media--on the family, discussing the changing roles of parents and their effects and
A A"dark and funny debutA"(Seattle-Times) about a young police officer struggling to maintain a sense of reality in a town where the dead outnumber the living.Colma, California, the A"cemetery cityA"
A A"stealthily originalA" (The New York Times Book Review) debut novel of two people who find each other when they least expect it in a city haunted by history.BR>Walter Baum has one of the most famo
The New York Times bestseller by Famous Minor Television Personality John Hodgman-The Daily Show's "Resident Expert" and the "PC" in the iconic Apple ads-picks up exactly where his first book left of
The acclaimed and inspiring international bestseller that is a tribute to the human spirit. In a city ravaged by war, a musician plays his cello for twenty-two days at the site of a mortar attack, in
A hilarious re-imagining of the heroes of the Old Testament for a modern worldA-and the neurotic, demanding reader.In the beginning...there was humor. Sure, itA's the foundation for much of Western m
One of the most original, dazzling, and critically acclaimed debut novels this year.In this debut novel, hailed by Stephen King as A"terrifying, touching, and wildly funny,A" the stories of two stran
The acclaimed novel is now a major motion picture directed by Spike Lee, coming to theaters Sept. 28. For more information, click here. Four soldiers from the army's Negro 92nd Division find the
Whimsically recounts the author's experiences of being raised by parents who believed that the working world was a man's domain and that her priority was to marry into wealth, describing the refocus t
This box set includes Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen’s national bestseller My Grandfather’s Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging, and the 10th anniversary edition of the New York Times bests
Otto Starks is a "pulse" - a highly specialized security guard who has hyperdeveloped senses and a nervous habit of popping tabs of cyanide. Otto was once a rising star but then he was rolled three t
From the authors of the New York Times bestseller The Pact, a A"timely, healing and hope-filledA" exploration of fatherhood (Detroit Free Press).Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt di
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From the national bestselling author of Best Friends: a touching novel about five very different people navigating workA-and life.Alicia, Brice, and Caroline are the ABCsA-three close friends who hav
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