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A deeply revealing novel from the master of the hardboiled, Andrew Vachss, about an assassin whose love forced him to kill his own conscience. Execution looms, but no prison can hold Esau Till’s mind.

Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person’s camp in Austria, to a Jewish mother and non-Jewish father; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewis

Never before available in paperback and all but invisible for twenty years, a personal account of the origins of America's longest war.In 1982, the young William Vollmann worked odd jobs, including as

The solar system most of us grew up with included nine planets, with Mercury closest to the sun and Pluto at the outer edge. Then, in 2005, astronomer Mike Brown made the discovery of a lifetime: a te

1. Wasserstein says in the preface that most of these essays were written in response to a To Do list she’d composed when she turned forty: “lose weight, exercise, read more, improve female friendship

"A funny, warm, and inspiring memoir from E! News host, Fashion Police panelist, red-carpet correspondent, author, and reality show star Giuliana Rancic. Giuliana Rancic is best known for interviewing

A fascinating fusion of memoir, manners, and cultural history from a successful businesswoman well versed in the unique challenges of working in contemporary China.During the course of a career that h

In the epicenter of the world financial crisis, a comedian launched a joke campaign that didn’t seem so funny to the country’s leading politicians .?.?.It all started when Jon Gnarr founded the Best P

A witty, warm, and inspiring memoir from the E News! host, Fashion Police panelist, red-carpet correspondent, author, and reality show star Giuliana Rancic.Giuliana Rancic is best known for interviewi

An entertaining and inspiring account of conquering his fear of rejection, offering a completely new perspective on how to turn a no into a yes.Jia Jiang came to the United States with the dream of be

"A fascinating fusion of memoir, manners, and cultural history from a successful businesswoman well-versed in the unique challenges of working in contemporary China. During the course of her long and

The former comedian, Night Shift actor and mayor of Reykjavik describes how the devastated economy of Iceland compelled him to invent the Best Party and run for public office, detailing how his advoca

From Maria Menounos, self-proclaimed EveryGirl and host of Extra, comes a lasting weight-loss program based on the Mediterranean diet of her childhood that will encourage women to think “smarter, simp

A narrative history of the infamous ultra-conservative John Birch Society, written by one of its founder's daughters, traces the organization's notorious role in numerous high-profile fundamentalist m

Who is the Holy Spirit, and exactly what does He do?Many people find the Holy Spirit mysterious and confounding. Why is the third person in the Godhead—the one Jesus said would be the believer’s ulti

A noted comedian argues that the United States is in a horrible situation, with low-ranking literacy and life expectancy, yet Americans remain complacent and do nothing to fix the problem, but now he

A celebration of Montaigne, the most enjoyable and yet profound of all Renaissance writers.?In the year 1570, at the age of thirty-seven, Michel de Montaigne gave up his job as a magistrate and retire

Intuition was something that Laura Chamorro knew not to ignore. So when it told her to change her name to Stella Osorojos, she listened—and that’s when things started to get strange. ? Following the I

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERTRANSLATED INTO 23 LANGUAGES, WITH MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD?What is truth? What is love? Does life have meaning? Bestselling author Richard David Precht, “the Mick

The Wall Street Journal called him “a living legend.” The London Times dubbed him “the most famous art detective in the world.”?In Priceless, Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team

"Oh, screw it, let's do it."That's the philosophy that has allowed Richard Branson, in slightly more than twenty-five years, to spawn so many successful ventures. From the airline business (Virgin Atl

Kim Brittingham struggled for years with her weight and body image before she learned how to love her self unconditionally, find her confidence, and fully enjoy her life.? In this unflinching, humorou

Here are two acclaimed memoirs in one remarkable volume. In an extraordinarily compelling voice, Dorothy Gallagher tells stories taking us from her parents’ beginnings in the Ukraine to her own childh

Readers have asked for more from Chicago talk show cohost Michelle McKinney Hammond—especially women from her huge following of Christian singles. If Men Are Like Buses will pick them up where two pre

From The New Yorker's fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic, a collection of "confident, dauntless criticism -- smart and spiky, brilliantly sure of itself and the medium it depicts" (The New York Times)From her creation of the "Approval Matrix" in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prizewinning columns for The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum has argued that we've been looking at TV all wrong. In this collection, including two never-before-published essays, Nussbaum writes about her passion for television, beginning with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the show that set her on a fresh intellectual path. She explores the rise of the female screw-up, how fans warp the shows they love, the messy power of sexual violence on TV, and the year that jokes helped elect a reality-television president. There are three big profiles of TV showrunners as well as examinations of the legacies of Norman Lear and Joan Rivers. The book also includes a major new essay written during the

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most i

The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer and, as the first of the great quantitative investors, ushered in a revolution on Wall

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Award-winning actor Alan Alda tells the fascinating story of his quest to learn how to communicate better, and to teach others to do the same. With his trademark humor

The incredible real-life story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer and helped start a revolution on Wall Street

Have you ever met someone with the perfect job? To the outside observer, it seems like they've won the career lottery -- that by some stroke of luck or circumstance they've found the one thing they lo

“Here are some of the things I try to fight: undemocratic power, corruption, deception of the public, environmental destruction, injustice, inequality and the misallocation of resources, waste, denial

A FRIEND IN NEEDInspired by Mei, Yamato has decided to pursue a career as a photographer. But no matter how much he practices, he can't help but feel that something is missing. Mei notices that someth

Are you in need of a little self-love? Do you want to let someone else know how special you think they are? If so then this perfect little 'pick me up' book is just what you need. The simple A - Z for

A beloved crime reporter revisits some of her biggest assignments and passes judgement on our judicial system and especially its judges.When Christie Blatchford wandered into a Toronto courtroom in 19

When outdoorsman, avid hunter, and nature writer Steven Rinella stumbles upon Auguste Escoffier’s 1903 culinary milestone,Le Guide Culinaire, he’s inspired to assemble an unusual feast: a forty-five-c

“Oh, my word, I’m living this.”Dear friend,If you and I are new to each other, let me start here: This is not how this was supposed to go! In the portrait I had long ago painted of my family, I didn’t

Oscar-nominated actress Rosie Perez’s never-before-told story of surviving a harrowing childhood and of how she found success—both in and out of the Hollywood limelight. Rosie Perez first caught our a

AT LAST, YOU’LL HEAR MY VOICEMei Tachibana was once filled with anxiety over her blossoming relationship with popular boy Yamato Kurosawa. Would she know what to do in a romantic relationship? How wou

You’ll Never Make a Decision the Same Way Again Should I take this job? Buy this house? Marry this person? We ask questions every day about the choices we face. But are we asking the most important q

A LOVE WORTH FIGHTING FORIt's hard for the once-loner Mei to believe that she's been going out with Yamato for six whole months! He's taught her a lot about how sweet love can be, but now she's about