"Pattison has few peers when it comes to integrating historical events into a complex but plausible whodunit plot." —Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review)When a ship arriving from London explod
From acclaimed author and ardent bibliophile Stuart Kells comes an exploration of the quest to find the personal library of the world’s greatest writerMillions of words of scholarship have been expend
"Schelling's biography of Jaime de Angulo—'cattle puncher, medical doctor, bohemian, buckeroo,' among other things—presents a fascinating, full-bodied portrait of a man and an era, as well as delving
"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
Taking its title from an affecting speech given by renowned author Barry Lopez, Because It Is So Beautiful is a response to desperate questions surrounding the protection and preservation of America’s
California, with its scores of native languages, contains a wealth of old time stories?a bedrock literature of North America. Jaime de Angulo’s linguistic and ethnographic work, his writings, as well
James Brown gained a cult following after chronicling his turbulent childhood and spiraling drug addiction in The Los Angeles Diaries. This River picks up where his first memoir left off, describing
From the shadows of the correspondences and the contradictions of biography, the elusive Salomé emerges in this boldly revealing fiction to tell her own story through the three major relationshi
Although best known today for his singular, stunning “anti-novels” dazzlingly conjured from anecdotes, quotes, and small thoughts, in his early days David Markson paid the rent by writing
Meet Arthur Blume: a charming guy, small-town English professor, struggling writer, and occasional murderer. In this debut novel, R. M. Kinder channels Arthur's voice to reveal the aberrant thought p
Best-selling author and Berkeley professor of thirty years Frederick Crews has always considered himself a skeptic. Forty years ago he thought he had found a tradition of thought ? Freudian psychoanal
Other than the publication of his correspondence between himself and Paul Bowles, Ned Rorem has never published the vast correspondence he shared with a sublime mix of people - Leontyne Price, Virgil
Baghramian (philosophy, U. College, Dublin) compiles the seminal writings on the linguistic turn of philosophy that began at the beginning of the 20th century. They trace the developments and trends f
Named a Best Book of 2018 for Aging Well "A smart, funny and compelling case for going after your heart's desires, no matter your age." --Essence Following her retirement from Princeton University,
"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
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
"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
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
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
"Rarely has a marriage so come alive in a work of fiction. . . So intense, beautifully written, shining with 'felt life,' it is truly gripping—riveting." —Joyce Carol OatesAbigail McCormick and Ray St
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
"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
It’s been two years since the events of Gangsterland, when legendary Chicago hitman Sal Cupertine disappeared into the guise of Vegas Rabbi David Cohen. It’s September of 2001 and for David, everythin
In The Lightkeepers, we follow Miranda, a nature photographer who travels to the Farallon Islands, an exotic and dangerous archipelago off the coast of California, for a one-year residency capturing t
In this conservation classic, originally published fifty-five years ago, Fred Bodsworth tells the story of a solitary Eskimo curlew’s perilous migration and search for a mate. The lone survivor
In Paris: A Journey Through Time, Leonard Pitt presents a stunning array of archival and contemporary photos that peel away the many layers of this iconic city to document its architectural transform
In a circular valley beneath the looming peaks of the Himalaya lies Kathmandu, Nepal. It’s a city of shimmering prayer flags, sacred cows, lavish festivals, and violent political turbulence
Father Duncan MacAskill has spent most of his priesthood as the Exorcist”an enforcer employed by his bishop to discipline wayward priests and suppress potential scandal. He knows al
Prominent wine critic Richard Wilson makes a living elevating and destroying winemakers’ reputations with the stroke of his pen. When he disappears after a tasting at Napa Valley’s Norton
In this mesmerizing debut novel, Michael Sledge creates an intimate portrait of the beloved poet Elizabeth Bishop — of her life in Brazil and her relationship with her lover, the dazzling, aris
Ever since her daughter rescued a fledgling rook years ago, Esther Woolfson has been fascinated with corvids, the bird group that includes crows, rooks, magpies, and ravens. Today, the rook, named Ch
In Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell, a consummate storyteller, artfully crafts a portrait using the finest of details in everyday events and confrontations. With a surgeon’s skill, Connell cuts awa
Mark Sternum, a professor who teaches spelling and grammar at Boston's McClintock College, is full of droll observations about the rules that govern our language, but he leads a diligent if somewhat
For more than four decades, Robert Aitken Roshi has taught thousands of people the Buddhist practice of Zen meditation, and has led hundreds through their practice of the study of traditional koans.
For more than four decades, Robert Aitken Roshi has taught thousands of people the Buddhist practice of Zen meditation, and has led hundreds through their practice of the study of traditional koans.
A debut collection of short fiction exploring the surreal banalities and weird outrages of everyday American life includes the title story, "The Littlest Hitler," in which a nine-year-old boy devises
By 1929, the brief, brilliant career of Bix Beiderbecke--self-taught cornetist, pianist, and composer--had already become legend. From the summer of '26 at Hudson Lake, Indiana, when his genius blaze
After his expulsion from Russia, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn secretly worked on a memoir that would acknowledge the courageous efforts of the people who hid his writings and smuggled them to the West. Befo
"Unusual and engaging . . . A subjective, Whitmanesque meditation on the way we live today . . . What makes this book compelling is not so much where the author goes, but how she reflects on what she
This captivating history of the Burning Man festival and its promise for America's future proposes that what Florence was to the Renaissance, Black Rock City is to an unfolding cultural epoch that rem
