Confusion, fury, and disbelief filled Rucker McClure's soul when he saw his wife across the airport waiting room. ?A year ago, Dinah had vanished without a trace, but he'd never stopped looking for he
Maps of Manhattan show the location of hospitals, museums, churches, nightspots, libraries, theaters, restaurants and shops, and are accompanied by useful addresses and telephone numbers
Abundant close-view photographs and detailed descriptions of seashells fill the National Audubon Society Pocket Guide to Familiar Seashells of North America, yet the guide is designed to be slim enoug
S. is the story of Sarah P. Worth, a thoroughly modern spiritual seeker who has become enamored of a Hindu mystic called the Arhat. A native New Englander, she goes west to join his ashram in Arizona,
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
Highly controversial because of its frank look at the sexual hypocrisy of Victorian society, Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles was nonetheless a great commercial success when it appeared in 189
Perhaps the first truly important book about the divergence of American English from its British roots, this survey of the language as it was spoken-and as it was changing-at the beginning of the 20th
For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and The Hare with Amber Eyes comes a propulsive, haunting journey into the secret history of brain science by Luke Dittrich, whose grandfather perfo
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
From one of our foremost experts on Asia and its history comes this brilliant dissection of the relationship between East and West. ?In three succinct essays, Patrick Smith investigates the East’s end
A lavishly illustrated book on the close relationship between de Lempicka’s art and the world of fashion. Tamara de Lempicka (May 16, 1898–March 18, 1980)—an icon of the Jazz Age and Art Deco style—wa
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
For centuries Chinese ceramics have been the objects most coveted in the West by collectors with an interest in the arts of Asia. The extraordinary innovations of Chinese potters court among the most
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
John Thomas, a boy who lives in the woods of Tennessee with his stern guardian Luke, leads a lonely, solitary life. One morning after a storm, he finds an injured bird and makes his pet. When another
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
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
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