Legend of culinary writing, M.F.K. Fisher introduces readers to the gastronomical writing that most influenced her—now with a new introduction by legend in her own right, Betty Fussell, author of Eat,
From the B&N Discover Great New Writers Award-winning author of The Lightkeepers, comes a page-turning new novel that explores the bond between siblings and the animal instincts that threaten to destr
A look at life in contemporary Palestine through the lens of its literary cultureMarcello Di Cintio first visited Palestine in 1999, and as with most outsiders, the narrative he knew was one defined b
An NPR Best Book of 2017An official Book of the Month Club selection"[A] cooly enigmatic debut."—O Magazine In Erika Carter's fierce and darkly funny debut novel, Lucky You, three women in their early
Long-listed for the National Book Award and named a New York Times Notable Book, A Kind of Freedom is a moving tale of love and the consequences of American racial inequality spanning three generation
“In this powerful new collection, the noted poet, essayist, and fiction writer returns to Port William, Kentucky, the fictional town introduced in The Wild Birds. Berry's narrator roams easily through
"[And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy] doubles as a catalogue of America’s 'divergent prophetesses' such as Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, the astrologer Linda Goodman, and the silve
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This collection will cement Valerie Trueblood’s standing asone of the finest American short story writers at work today:gathered together for the first time are stories spanning her acclaimed career,
Featuring a new foreword that responds to the troubling and surreal events in American politics since its first publication, journalist Jared Yates Sexton’s book remains precisent and necessary, a boo
Criminals is a brilliant and lovingly told story of one family's progress through the years, from Robert's childhood in NYC in the 1970s to his father's death in 2002.The Siegels of New York are a sin
A mountaineering mathematician’s lyrical meditation on the duality of wilderness and those poets and explorers who have traversed itYes, every inch of the globe has been seen, mapped, photographed, an
"Sharp observations about motherhood and womanhood . . . Audacious, confident, smart, seductive." —The New York Times Book ReviewPages for Her is the story of two women, Flannery and Anne, each at a p
"Jeff Biggers has the unblinking gaze of the honed journalist, a novelist's sense of image and story, and a prophet's cache of outrage. He stands in my very short list of American literary heroes." —L
The next installment of Verdon's internationally bestselling series featuring retired NYPD detective Dave Gurney, who must solve a deadly puzzle amidst murder and racial strife in one small town.Tensi
One of O: The Oprah Magazine's Top Books of Summer "Old in Art School is a glorious achievement--bighearted and critical, insightful and entertaining. This book is a cup of courage for everyone who w
Based on popular pieces that have appeared in The New York Times, Parents, Men's Health, Real Simple and O: the Oprah Magazine, McGlynn captures the joys, terrors, moral ambiguities, and absurdities o
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE"Kadare is inevitably linked to Orwell and Kundera, but he is a far deeper ironist than the first, and a better storyteller than the second. He is
A young editor at a Los Angeles art museum finds herself pulled into the strange and disturbing world of a famous artist who goes missing on the opening night of her exhibitionKim Lord is a giant in t
The fifth installation of Eliot Pattison's Bone Rattler series follows the exiled Scotsman Duncan McCallum to the stepping-stones of the American RevolutionAcclaimed author Eliot Pattison continues hi
In the tradition of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild comes this funny and gritty debut memoir in which Jan Redford grows from a nomadic rock climber to a mother who fights to win back her future."Compassionate a
"The need to reexamine assumptions about how we feed ourselves becomes ever more important. McWilliams does not shy from imagining radical solutions to these issues . . . Sure to be controversial." ?B
"Robison has a poet's eye for the unconscious surrealism of commercial America." —The New York Times Book ReviewTell Me reflects the early brilliance as well as the fulfilled promise of Mary Robison's
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"What keeps you reading is not just the quality of the writing, which is just absolutely wonderful, but also to find out: Is [Dulcy] going to [remake hersel
The award-winning author of The Revolution of Little Girls and Terminal Velocity concludes her grand survey of political activism twenty years later with her provocative new novel, Tomb of the Unknown
"Todd Robert Petersen is crazy-talented, and the wild, weird, hilarious stories of It Needs to Look Like We Tried are just what's called for in these bizarre, frightening times." —Richard Russo, autho
"This upsetting account of a Los Angeles serial killer, written with passion by Christine Pelisek, an investigative crime reporter who spent 10 years working the case, blurts out a hard truth that no
“Babitz’s talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures.” —The New York Times Book Review“On the page, Babitz is pure pleasure—a perpetual-motio
"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
"Barthelme's art was pre-eminently one of surprises, darting from satire to lyricism to poker-faced banality in a single paragraph.... The Teachings of Don B. is a small education in laughter, melanch
Published in time for the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, Killing King uncovers previously unknown FBI files and sources, as well as new forensics to convincingly make
"It is a triumph, a work of great honesty and insight. It is a necessary book for our time." —Karen E. Bender, author of Refund, a finalist for the National Book AwardIn Flunk. Start., Sands Hall chro
"John Winters offers a master class in literary sleuthing, untangling the many lives and unearthing the origin story of America's foremost Renaissance man of letters, Sam Shepard." —Kelly Horan, WBUR
"[A] remarkable story." —The New York Times Book ReviewHenry Fielder, solitary and unmoored in his thirties, runs into an old lover and finds himself ready to tell the story he has harbored for two de
"Award-winning writer Bahrami is a delightful guide in this thoroughly enjoyable look into the research and recovery of a group of Neandertal remains in the French Dordogne region." ––Booklist, Starre
"Timmy Reed writes like a whacked-out angel." —Amber Sparks, author of The Unfinished World and May We Shed These Human BodiesMiles Lover is an imaginative but insecure adolescent skateboarder with an
"This book is an ancient call from our first mothers to connect to our bodies—for our own good and for the good of humanity . . . It is healing, illuminated." —Laura Munson, New York Times bestselling
The historical novel by the author of The Little Russian that follows a young Polish girl through the kitchens and séances of the City of Light, now in paperbackSet in the early 1900s, the novel follo
How much of our memory is constructed by imagination? And how does memory shape our lives? As a nine-year old, Elizabeth Farnsworth struggled to understand the loss of her mother. On a cross-country t
