How we walk, where we walk, why we walk tells the world who and what we are. Whether it's once a day to the car, or for long weekend hikes, or as competition, or as art, walking is a profoundly unive
The gripping true story of how three men used espionage, betrayal, and sexual deception to help win the American Revolution. Unlikely Allies is the story of three remarkable historical figures. Silas
This deluxe illustrated edition of A Thousand Splendid Suns is filled with striking and memorable photographs that bring Khaled Hosseini's compelling story to life. Since its publication in 2007, A Th
Behind the allure of their esoteric lyricism and imagery, there's vast depth behind the Wu-Tang Clan's interest in kung fu films, chess and comic books, as well as their ties to the Five-Percent Nati
From the New York Times bestselling author-the shooting script to his award-winning film, with an original Introduction and vivid stills from the movie. Jenny is a 16-year-old girl stifled by the ted
An incredible debut and National Book Award-nominated novelA-itA's A"Memento meets Augie March. Didion meets HitchcockA" (Esquire). It is August 15, 1953, the day of a boisterous and unwieldy street
An original and hilarious memoir by an ex-greeting card writer, virgin fundamentalist, and This American Life contributor that chronicles how, in the belly of the "social expression" industry, he lea
An updated edition of a beloved classic, the original book on happiness, with new material from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Dr. Howard Cutler. Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at
From the author of The Ghost Map and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new national bestseller: the A"exhilaratingA"( Los Angeles Times) story of A"a founding father long forgotten.A"(Newsweek)Nation
A challenging, controversial, and highly readable look at our lives, our world, and our future. In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the
From the senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission, a mesmerizing real-time portrayal of that day, why we weren't told the truth, and why our nation is still at risk. As one of the primary authors of the
Genie Toledo is a spitfire who married the wrong guy young, had a daughter, and divorced. Now in her forties, she has compensated by throwing herself into her work as a top-notch cardiologist in Colu
Jonathan Marcus, a young American lawyer and a former doctoral student in classics, has become a sought-after commodity among less-scrupulous antiquities dealers. But when he is summoned to Rome to e
The celebrated literary memoir and chronicle of one manA's search for the elusive gift of authenticity.Troubled by the lack of substance in contemporary life, Richard Todd suspects that much of what
When Gabriel Santoro's book is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a famous Bogota rhetorician, Gabriel is both shocked and devastated by the icy rebuke. A volume that catalogues the life of longt
A celebration of the cabaret era and the magical ascent of cinema, set against the rise and fall of BerlinA- A"a dazzling epic [novel] of survival.A" (Emma Donoghue, author of Slammerkin)The orphaned
A A"dark and funny debutA"(Seattle-Times) about a young police officer struggling to maintain a sense of reality in a town where the dead outnumber the living.Colma, California, the A"cemetery cityA"
The New York Times bestseller from A"the only person I know who can actually yell in print formA" (Jon Stewart). Lewis Black, the bitingly funny comedian, social critic, and bestselling author comes
A magical new novel A"of loss and love across more than a century of CubaA's past.A"(Chicago Sun-Times)Alone in a city that haunts her, far from her family, her history, and the island she left behin
The definitive book on Mexico City: a vibrant, seductive, and paradoxical metropolisA-the second-biggest city in the world, and a vision of our urban future.First Stop in the New World is a street-le
A new book of linked stories by the author of the National Book Award finalist The Lazarus Project. Aleksandar Hemon earned his reputationA- and his MacArthur A"genius grantA"A-for his short stories,
A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the New York TimesA-bestselling author of Cod and Salt. Award-winning New York TimesA-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes
A brilliantly colorful memoir of becoming a monk and a young man's spiritual journey in India. Nikolai Grozni, a Boston jazz piano prodigy struck by spiritual ennui, suddenly abandoned 15 years of
A"A marvelous, compelling taleA"(Rocky Mountain News) from the New York Times bestselling author of Salt and Cod.Gloucester, Massachusetts, AmericaA's oldest fishing port, is defined by the culture o
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A leading neuroscientist and New York Times-bestselling author of Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot distills the research on the brain and serves up practical, surprising, and illuminating recommen
A novel of warmth and true feeling, The Well and the Mine explores the value of community, charity, family, and hope that we can give each other during a time of hardship. In a small Alabama coal-min
Whimsically recounts the author's experiences of being raised by parents who believed that the working world was a man's domain and that her priority was to marry into wealth, describing the refocus t
One of the most original, dazzling, and critically acclaimed debut novels this year.In this debut novel, hailed by Stephen King as A"terrifying, touching, and wildly funny,A" the stories of two stran
A hilarious re-imagining of the heroes of the Old Testament for a modern worldA-and the neurotic, demanding reader.In the beginning...there was humor. Sure, itA's the foundation for much of Western m
The scandalous story of AmericaA's first supermodel, sex goddess, and modern celebrityA-Evelyn Nesbit.By the time of her sixteenth birthday in 1900, Evelyn Nesbit was known to millions as the most ph
The acclaimed and inspiring international bestseller that is a tribute to the human spirit. In a city ravaged by war, a musician plays his cello for twenty-two days at the site of a mortar attack, in
Leonid McGill, Private Investigator. Being a black man with a funny name isn't quite the same burden it once was. Ex-boxer, hard drinker, in a business that trades mostly in cash and favors - Leonid
If ever there was a figure who changed the game of baseball, it was Walter OA'Malley. Criticized in New York and beloved in Los Angeles, OA'Malley is one of the most controversial owners in the histo
The New York Times bestselling novel that woke up critics, book clubs, and women everywhere. For a group of four New York friends the past decade has been defined largely by marriage and motherhood,
Drawing from his own experience and the lives of some of the worldA's great writers and poets, David Whyte brings compelling insights to our three most important commitmentsA- to another, to our work
Now in paperback: the novel thatA's A"unabashedly emotional, refreshingly devoid of New York City cynicism, and tenderly funnyA" (People).Jarvis MillerA's artist husband has been in a coma for six ye
The new comic novel Larry McMurtry hails as: A"a delight, lively, freewheeling, surprising, vivid. And funny.A" When Rowdy Talbot loses his silver belt buckleA-the prize for winning the Crockett Coun
Bestselling author Steven Johnson recountsA-in dazzling, multidisciplinary fashionA-the story of the brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for AmericaA's
The award-winning debut novel that A"brings to mind the atmosphere and tension of Gabriel GarcA-a MA-rquez.A"( Katharine Weber, author of The Little Women)NA-tido AmA-n knows he was born in Guatemala
