A remarkably candid biography of the remarkably candid―and brilliant―Carrie FisherIn her 2008 bestseller, Girls Like Us, Sheila Weller―with heart and a profound feel for the times―gave us a surprising
"One of the funniest writers in America." That’s what The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz calls Jenny Allen—and with good reason. In her debut essay collection, the longtime humorist and performer declares
For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical. It often begins in childhood in a darkened theater, grows i
Fierce, timely, and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist Terry Tempest Williams is one of our most impassioned defenders of public lands. A naturalist, fervent ac
This century has seen the costliest hurricanes in U.S. history—but who bears the brunt of these monster storms?Consider this: Five of the most expensive hurricanes in history have made landfall since
A brave, brilliant, and unprecedented examination of menopauseMenopause hit Darcey Steinke hard. First came hot flashes. Then insomnia. Then depression. As she struggled to understand what was happeni
From the New York Times bestselling author Dominic Smith, a radiant novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent-film director and his museDominic Smith’s The Electric Hotel winds through the nasce
A cinematic Reconstruction-era drama of violence and fraught moral reckoningIn Dawson’s Fall, a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinson’s great-grandparents, we see America at its most fragile, fr
Blending history and memoir, a beautiful and innovative portrait of motherhoodIn Mother Is a Verb, a highly original interpretation of mothering, the writer, feminist and historian Sarah Knott weaves
From “one of the most perceptive, compassionate writers of fiction in America” (Michael Schaub, NPR), a historical saga about love, class, and the past we never escape.The Peacock Feast opens on a Jun
How the blinding of Sergeant Isaac Woodard changed the course of America’s civil rights historyOn February 12, 1946, Sergeant Isaac Woodard, a returning, decorated African American veteran, was remove
A New York Times Bestseller!An extraordinary look at what it means to grow old and a heartening guide to well-being, Happiness Is a Choice You Make weaves together the stories and wisdom of six New Yo
“I’ll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his.”In Bringing Down the Colonel, the journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely nineteenth-century women’s
"She was like a storm." —Leonard CohenJoni Mitchell may be the most influential female recording artist and composer of the late twentieth century. In Reckless Daughter, the music critic David Yaffe t
*One of The Boston Globe's Best Books of 2017*From the five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova, the candid, captivating story of her rise to tennis stardomIn the middle of the night, a father and
From the bestselling author Christobel Kent, a high-strung, bone-chilling, heart-stopping plunge into the desolate byways of England’s Essex, in search of a missing barmaid named BethSome say Beth’s d
"A masterpiece." —The Washington Post"It was impossible. All of China was a prison in those days."Mao Zedong’s labor reform camps, known as the laogai, were notoriously brutal. Modeled on the Soviet G
Based on the popular New York Times series, life-changing wisdom from an unexpected source: America’s oldest oldIn 2015, the award-winning New York Times journalist John Leland set out to meet some of
An intimate new biography of Joni Mitchell, one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth centuryJoni Mitchell is a cultural touchstone for generations of Americans. In her heyday she released ten ex
Humorous essays about Jenny Allen’s attempt to make sense of the baffling and annoying world around herIn Can I Borrow That?, a collection of first-person essays and humor pieces, Jenny Allen asks the
Our best-laid plans will yield to fate.And we will say, “We lived. We ate.”Roy Blount Jr. is one of America’s most cherished comic writers. He’s been compared to Mark Twain and James Thurber, and his
A taut and absorbing thriller about a murdered husband who may not have been so loving after allFran Hall and her husband, Nathan, live in a run-down farmhouse on the edge of the Fens, where they rece
The true story of the war on cancer from one of its generalsCancer touches everybody’s life in one way or another. But most of us know very little about how the disease works, why we treat it the way
When most people hear the word “witches,” they think of horror films and Halloween, but to the nearly one million Americans who practice Paganism today, witchcraft is a nature-worshipping, polytheisti
From the author of Apple Tree Yard, a masterful thriller about espionage, love, and redemptionJohn Harper is in hiding in a remote hut on a tropical island. As he lies awake at night, listening to the
A bold and deeply researched biography of a complicated cultural iconWhen Helen Gurley Brown published Sex and the Single Girl in 1962, it sold more than two million copies in just three weeks, presag
It's been a brutal year for the rookie New Orleans cop Maureen Coughlin. Her first arrests, her first black eye, and, after a stinging brush with the corrupt heart of her adopted city, her first suspe
New Orleans’s toughest female cop tackles her very first Mardi GrasNow that she’s back on the force and her work with the FBI is over, Maureen Coughlin should have a quieter life. Until Mardi Gras rol
A thrilling debut novel for fans of Liane Moriarty and Celeste Ng about how far we’ll go to protect our families—and our deepest secretsMy husband asked me to lie. Not a big lie. He probably didn’t ev
As the first wave of pioneers travel westward to settle the American frontier, two women discover their inner strength when their lives are irrevocably changed by the hardship of the wild west in The
The rise, and fall, and rise again of tennis sensation Maria Sharapova In the middle of the night, a father and his daughter step off a Greyhound bus in Florida and head straight to the Nick Bollettie
YOU BELONG TO ME . . . Paul Reeves is a successful immigration lawyer, but his passion is collecting old maps of New York, tangible records of the city’s rich history in an increasingly digital world.
An enthralling true-life story about a daring escape from one of Mao Zedong’s prisonsMao Zedong’s labor reform camps were notoriously brutal; modeled after the Soviet gulag, their inmates were subject
