Twenty years ago, in 1954, novelist Shelby Foote began this monumental work with these words: "It was a Monday in Washington, January 21; Jefferson Davis rose from his seat in the Senate..."In the thi
The bestselling collaboration of two masters of the macabre is available once more. Thirteen-year-old Jack Sawyer has been chosen for a quest across America--and into another realm. To save his moth
In the boldly eclectic title poem of his collection, John Updike employs the meters of Dante, Spenser, Pope, Whitman, and Pound, as well as the pictographic tactics of concrete poetry, to take an inve
Move over, Uncle John. Here comes a hipper book with engrossing-and just plain gross-articles on subjects other bathroom books barely touch: celebrities, sex, drugs, computers, and crime, along with p
For readers of Station Eleven and The Martian, Lily Brooks-Dalton’s haunting debut is the unforgettable story of two outsiders—a lonely scientist in the Arctic and an astronaut trying to return to Ear
The author describes her experience hidden away by her wealthy Chicago parents in a dreary government facility for impoverished pregnant teens after she discovered she was accidentally expecting at ag
Bento's Sketchbook is an exploration of the practice of drawing, as well as a meditation on how we perceive and seek to explore our ever-changing relationship with the world around us.From the Hardcov
In this unprecedented work two decades in the making, leading historian Robert S. Wistrich examines the long and ugly history of anti-Semitism, from the first recorded pogrom in 38 BCE to its shocking
This easy-to-understand retelling of Hanukkah, The Jewish Festival of Lights, teaches children about the defilement and reconsecration of the Temple, the formation of the Maccabees, and the great mira
Sally, now 25, is comfortably settled with her child, Harriet, her work, and her London friends. But when a complete stranger claims to be both her husband and Harriet's father, Sally's whole world co
