The new comic novel Larry McMurtry hails as: A"a delight, lively, freewheeling, surprising, vivid. And funny.A" When Rowdy Talbot loses his silver belt buckleA-the prize for winning the Crockett Coun
From the New York Times bestselling author, one of the most critically acclaimed novels of the year. In the days before the Civil War, a runaway slave named Liz Spocott breaks free from her captors a
The intriguing, inspiring history of one small, impoverished area in the Dominican Republic that has produced a staggering number of Major League Baseball talent, from an award-winning, bestselling
A powerful and redemptive novel of love and family, from the author of the bestselling Blue Shoe, Grace (Eventually), and Operating Instructions. Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy th
The Walter Mosley and his new hero, Leonid McGill, are back in the new New York Times-bestselling mystery series that's already being hailed as a classic of contemporary noir. Leonid McGill-the p
The Stirring True Story of the Seventeenth-Century Pirates of the Mediterranean---The Forerunners of Today's Bandits of the Seas---And Hoe Their Legendary Conquests Shaped the Divisions Between Chris
From Lewis Black, the uproarious and perpetually apoplectic New York Times-bestselling author and Daily Show regular, comes a ferociously funny book about his least favorite holiday, Christmas. For
A New York Times columnist delivers an eye-opening big idea: Embracing mistakes can make us smarter, healthier, and happier in every facet of our lives. In this persuasive book, journalist Alina Tu
From the bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates, an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn. Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we be
For anyone who has ever wanted to step into the world of a favorite book, here is a pioneer pilgrimage, a tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a hilarious account of butter-churning obsession. Wendy M
Leonid McGill is back, in the third-and most enthralling and ambitious-installment in Walter Mosley's latest New York Times- bestselling series. The economy has hit the private-investigator busines
A major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama-his mother. Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but little is k
A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the New York TimesA-bestselling author of Cod and Salt. Award-winning New York TimesA-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Ten-Year Nap, a funny, provocative, revealing novel about female desire. When the elliptical new drama teacher at Stellar Plains High School choose
A celebration of the cabaret era and the magical ascent of cinema, set against the rise and fall of BerlinA- A"a dazzling epic [novel] of survival.A" (Emma Donoghue, author of Slammerkin)The orphaned
The extraordinary New York Times bestselling masterpiece from "one of the most eloquent yet earthbound spiritual writers of our time (San Francisco Chronicle). Kathleen Norris had written several mu
From the celebrated author of the bestselling Lazarus Project-"a dazzling collection of stories...further cementing [Hemon's] position among the finest fiction writers working in English" (GQ). The
A dazzling new novel of obsession, impulse, and adolescent desire from an acclaimed, prize-winning writer. Noel thinks he's been allowed into the inner circle of his elite boarding school when he d
Exciting new research suggests that puzzles have become more than just a fun pastime. Solving different kinds of puzzles can actually help your brain improve itself and—perhaps just as important—ward
