This lean, raw, and surprising debut is a deeply moving and powerful story of Moses, a nine-year-old survivor of the harsh streets of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Moses longs for something outside the gri
A Profound New Look at the Italian Master and His Lasting LegacyNow celebrated as one of the great painters of the Renaissance, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio fled Rome in 1606 to escape retributio
This timely, bestselling novel about a military coup in Turkey, told through the eyes of two children, resonates deeply with events there today.Ankara, the capital city in the heart of Turkey at the c
An Exhilarating, Magical Blend of History and Fantasy Set during the Original Game of ThronesFor Fans of T. H. White, George R. R. Martin, and Philippa Gregory.Beginning with the Palm Sunday bat
The first book to explore menstruation in the current cultural and political landscape and to investigate the new wave of period activism taking the world by storm.After centuries of being shrouded in
The Funny, Wise, Bighearted Story of a Bonding Road Tripand the Healing Power of Human ConnectionWhen Claudia's sixteen-year-old son, Ross, announces he's quitting high school and leaving home a
Generations of children have fallen in love with the pioneer saga of the Ingalls family, of Pa and Ma, Laura and her sisters, and their loyal dog, Jack. Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books have
Until John Wilson met the warm, wise woman who became his fourth wife, the object of his most intense devotion had always been the work of William Shakespeare. From his feat of memorizing Romeo and Ju
Inspired by the legendary work of Slim Aarons, a photographic narrative tour of a beautiful, unique, historical city and the remarkable people who live there.Author Ned Brown kicks off the Good Life s
Thrilling sequel to LUCKY SUPREME. Time is up in Old Town. As the pace of gentrification reaches frenzy in Portland, Oregon, Darby Holland’s beloved tattoo parlor, Lucky Supreme, is destroyed by a bom
In this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured
Named on Booklist's Top Ten Religion and Spirituality Books of 2016, Threading My Prayer Rug is a richly textured reflection on what it is to be a Muslim in America. It is also the luminous story of m
MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALISTLOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALISTNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2016 BY NEWSWEEK, NPR, THE GUARDIAN, THE TELEGRAPH, AND THE SUNDAY TIMESA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE"THOUGHT PROV
FIRE IN THE HEART is a powerful memoir by a woman, once a shy, insecure schoolgirl, who reinvented herself as a professional wildlands firefighter. Determined to forge herself into a stronger, braver
A Distinguished and Bestselling Historian and Vietnam Vet Revisits the Culture War that Raged around the Selection of Maya Lin's Design for the Vietnam Memorial
Rachel, Max, and their daughter Ellie had the perfect life?until the night Rachel’s heart stopped beating. She was thirty-six.Just as her family can’t forget her, Rachel can’t quite let go of them eit
Finally, one of the most of the most beloved books every publishedexplained. The Little Prince is revered around the world. Two hundred million copies have been sold in 270 languages; it is the
A Bestseller in Korea, a Psychological Thriller about Loneliness and the Dark Truths We Try to BuryIn this tense, gripping novel by a rising star of Korean literature, Ogi has woken from a coma after
Like Guns, Germs, and Steel, a work of breathtaking sweep and originality that reinterprets the human story.Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors b
Wendy Fairey grew up among books. As the shy and studious daughter of famed Hollywood columnist Sheilah Graham?F. Scott Fitzgerald’s lover during the last years of his life?she began as a child readin
At the heart of every life there lies a secret.Alex Smyth, of Irish birth but living for many years with his wife in rural Canada, receives a trout fly in the mail, with no message and no return addre
A thriller about a group of extremely wealthy businesspeople who form a hunting club in which the prey is humans, in this case, two hikers in the mountains of Norway, who are selected and made to flee
?An intriguing story that’s also packed with details.” ?Library Journal, starred reviewRaymond Ditmars (1876?1942), the first curator of reptiles at New York’s famous Bronx Zoo, brought cold-blooded a
A sumptuous novel inspired by one of history’s most intriguing forgotten chapters?the arrival of Japanese Samurai on the shores of Europe.In 1614, forty Samurai warriors and a group of tradesmen from
"Available in book form for the first time, the FBI's secret dossier on the legendary and controversial writer. Decades before Black Lives Matter returned James Baldwin to prominence, J. Edgar Hoover'
Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Revolution, and featuring a cast of iconic characters such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and the Marquis de Lafayette, The Hamilton Affair t
?Readers who miss the magisterial pronunciamentos of the late Max Lerner . . . will relish this collection of Lerner’s writings on a subject that preoccupied him.” ?BooklistMax Lerner taught generatio
A 2016 Edgar Award finalist, the ?intimate, luminous portrait of a friendship” of two American literary icons (Kirkus, starred review).In 1970, Ross Macdonald wrote a letter to Eudora Welty, beginning
The Infuriating Tale Of A Young Palestinian Punished For Exercising His Freedom Of Speech.Like many of his generation, Waleed Al-Husseini began a blog in his twenties. However, unlike many, Waleed als
Ever dreamed of strolling through a Dali print? Or stepping into a fairy tale? Open A Man Jumps Out of an Airplane and experience the rush of having reality yanked from underfoot.This is the book that
The follow up to Smuggler’s Blues, Richard Stratton’s memoir of his outlaw days in the Hippie Mafia, Gulag America recounts his years in the Federal pen, which transformed him into a jailhouse lawyer
The Matrimonial Flirtations of Emma Kaulfield is an often laugh-out-loud comedy of conflicting manners, values, and customs, set against the backdrop of a Russian immigrant family’s struggle to assimi
From the suburbs of Seattle to the villas of Jordan and the refugee camps of the West Bank, Where Jasmine Blooms is an emotional journey of love and selfhood, telling the story of the Mansours, a spra
Greenwich, Connecticut, 1922. Newspaperman Joe Henry finds himself the primary suspect when his friend and fellow reporter Wynton Gresham is murdered. Both were veterans of French battles during World
The mothers of some of the most illustrious Jewish men in recent history?Albert Einstein, Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, Woody Allen, the Marx Brothers?are chatting in heaven. The subject: their respec
The night world of Old Town, Portland, has gone mad in the grip of gentrification, and at the center of it all is Lucky Supreme, a seedy tattoo parlor, whose proprietor is a street-bred artist with a
In the tradition of Hamilton and Angels in America, a powerful, politically charged, dystopian drama that couldn’t be more timely.Written in a “white-hot fury” on the eve of the 2016 election, the stu
