Winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award “Tonic for the spirit: a charming, deeply moving, unerringly human story, perfectly shaped and beautifully told.” —The Globe and MailLife in Winni
This engrossing work of literary nonfiction is a deep dive into our surroundings--cities, countryside, and sprawl--exploring change in the meaning of place, and reimagining our American landscape Fol
"Kauffman has done something remarkable with The Gunners . . . There's so much generosity and spirit and humor shared by whatever characters are on the page at any given time that I was always happy t
"Excellent . . . Tracks the history of that greatest of all cultural institutions." --The Washington Post Libraries are much more than mere collections of volumes. The best are magical, fabled places
"Robison is both wise and entertaining, a technician with a sense of humor, a minimalist with a good eye for what can be salvaged from lives of quiet desperation." —The New York Times Book ReviewConti
Championing the activism of young people around the world, Generation Citizen is an empowering reminder of the positive power of politics, and an inspiring, actionable guide for anyone ready to be a f
“In The Lost Prince Michael Mewshaw sets down one of the most gripping stories of friendship I’veever read.” —Daniel Menaker, author of My Mistake: A Memoir Pat Conroy was America’s poet laureate of f
"A marvelous collection." —The New York Times Book Review Traversing decades and continents, The Romance of Elsewhere captures the dilemma of the expat with Lynn Freed’s signature honesty and humor.
"Every word here feels set down with care and fierce conscience. The resulting narrative glows as if distilled." —San Francisco ChronicleUlli is a young woman squatting in a dismal, empty Berlin apart
"A wry, scary, heartfelt ode to the traverses we have to make in life." ––ElleFrom the beloved and award-winning author of All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness comes this reissue of Miriam T
An arresting debut novel which bears witness to American racism and abuse of power, tracing one woman's shift from acquiescence to resistance.When an unnamed narrator moves her family from the city of
This hilarious, sometimes harrowing, and ultimately heartening novel is the companion to the critically acclaimed, national bestseller Perfect Agreement"Beautifully and economically written, and very
A New York Times Book Review’s Editors’ Choice "Ismail Kadare's readers are astonished every year when the Nobel committee overlooks him. . . . A Girl in Exile, published in Albanian in 2009, may rek
"Through personal stories, insights gleaned from decades of working to end gender-based violence, and practical advice for those men ready to step up to the plate, Kaufman has produced a special book.
"A darkly funny and provocative novel." —O, The Oprah MagazineFrom the beloved and award-winning author of All My Puny Sorrows comes this welcome reissue of one of Miriam Toews' most celebrated novels
"The Art of Loading Brush is singular in Berry's corpus." —The Paris ReviewWendell Berry's profound critique of American culture has entered its sixth decade, and in this gathering he reaches with dee
"Kohnstamm delivers a blistering, clear-eyed, and sure-footed debut novel about the perils and pitfalls of misdirected ambition. More than that, Lake City is a hilarious and sneakily incisive examinat
A remarkable story of a forgotten seventeen-year-old Jew who was blamed by the Nazis for the anti-Semitic violence and terror known as the Kristallnacht, the pogrom still seen as an initiating event o
Winner of the 2017 PEN Southwest Book Award for FictionAn NPR Best Book of 2017"With the kind of grace not usually seen in accessible modern fiction, Egerton also invokes many other things with this c
This correspondence, full of warmth, candor, and humor, reflects the friendship of two men who worked to reconcile their intense spirituality with an urgent sense of social justice in a violent and tr
Winner of the 2014 Prix du Style "Rolin proves to be a comforting and companionable guide to a gruesome period of history . . . Stalin's Meteorologist serves two functions: for readers to pay tribute
"An obsessive, mystical, terrifying, and even phantasmagorical exploration of anesthesia’s shadowy terra incognita." —The New Yorker Anesthetize: to render insensible First there’s the injection, then
Multi-layered, subtle, insightful short stories from the inimitable Booker-prize winning author, Ruth Prawer JhabvalaCaught between cultures herself, nobody has written so powerfully of the relationsh
"Read [him] with pencil in hand, make notes, and hope that somehow our country and the world will soon come to see the truth that is told here." —The New York Times Book ReviewIn this collection of es
The New Order shows a singular writer at the top of her form dealing with contemporary themes and ideas, shining a spotlight on the dark corners of our nature, our instincts, and our country. The crit
"James Salter honed over the course of 60 years the lean, elegant prose style that graces each page in this new collection, Don't Save Anything. . . . There's much to admire in the values Salter conve
WINNER FOR THE 2018 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONNamed 1 of 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2017 by The Washington Post Named 1 of 10 Top Fi
An Amazon Best History Book of the Month"[A] narrative with resonance well beyond seekers of Texas history. The Last Sheriff in Texas would be an amazing allegory for our times, were it fiction. Inste
"Voices isn't just illuminating and thought-provoking and clever; it is exciting." —Roddy Doyle, author of The CommitmentsA personal exploration of what singing means and how it works, Voices is a boo
"At first, Oh! seems a satire, a sitcom stripped of its sentiment and foolishness. But it is far more. Mary Robison is trying to show us how the the incredibly complicated dance of family life works."
Long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceA New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice"Here in Berlin is one of the most interesting new works of fiction I've read . . . The voices are r
An Official Junior Library Guild Selection, Adult Crossover Nonfiction Justice Failed is the story of Alton Logan, an African American man who served twenty-six years in prison for a murder he did not
A beautifully rendered memoir about creative beginnings in the vein of Umberto Eco's classic Confessions of a Young NovelistThe Education of a Young Poet is David Biespiel's moving account of his awak
"Winik has many gifts as a writer, but one I appreciate the most is her ability to write about the hardest, darkest subjects with a light, knowing hand." —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild, in praise for
First printed in 1995 by Gray Zeitz of the beloved Larkspur Press in Monterey, Kentucky, this is gift edition is a beautiful reproduction of Berry's book-length poem, illustrated with the original dra
This international bestselling historical novel follows two children and a mysterious narrator as they navigate the wreckage of their home in WWII-era Berlin.Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their
Leslie Zemeckis continues to discover the forgotten feminist histories of the golden age of entertainment, turning her sights on the lost stories of Sally Rand and Faith Bacon—icons who each claimed t
An anecdotal history of how humans developed our capacity for conversation—and what might happen now that computers are catching upTrevor Cox has been described by the Observer as "a David Attenboroug
In this funny, grouchy, wryly tender novel—first published in 1991—Mary Robison gives us a portrait of a marriage in very rough shape careening toward the breaking point, and of two magnetic and carel
"Robison's minimalism is more like a slap in the face: it's short, it stings, and you wonder who in tarnation did that to you." —The New York TimesEnter Eve. Based in New Orleans, she's a location sco
