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A unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and soulsWar tears people apart, but it can also bring them toget

A euphoric, provocative novel about friendship, sex, art, clubbing, and ambition set in 1980s and ’90s New York City, from the author of I Hate the InternetWhen Adeline, a wealthy art student, chances

A beloved culinary historian’s short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking—what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives.Eve

The Devil Wears Prada meets Primary Colors in this wickedly funny debut novel about a bootstrapping young reporter who lands a plum job at a big-time cable news station and finds her ambitions and her

An electrifying novel about the primal and unyielding bond between a mother and her son, and the lengths she’ll go to to protect him The zoo is nearly empty as Joan and her four-year-old son soak up t

From an author of rare, haunting power, a stunning novel about a young African-American woman coming of age—a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, family, and countryRaised in Pennsylvania, Thandi vie

A luminous and richly layered novel evoking The Big Chill—the story of a group of lifetime friends who gather together to confront life, love, and now mortality. Before Everything is a celebration of

An award-winning author who writes with “a wonderfully original and limber voice” (The New York Times)—a powerful, thought-provoking novel about two sisters who must reclaim themselves after their liv

A groundbreaking medical memoir by one of our nation’s leading pediatric surgeons—the visionary head of Children’s National—for fans of Jerome Groopman and Atul Gawande. Anyone who has seen a child re

A leading clinical psychologist examines why popularity matters to adults as much as it did when they were in high school—and how we all can avoid the pitfalls that come with the wrong type of popular

A novel about love, loss, and sharks by the New York Times bestselling coauthor of the memoir Traveling with Pomegranates. On a summer day on the Gulf of Mexico in 1988, two extraordinary things happe

Nancy Atherton's twenty-second cozy mystery in the beloved, nationally bestselling Aunt Dimity series. It's early April in the small English village of Finch. Lori Shepherd's husband and sons are spen

A glimmering collection of new short fiction from the Booker Prize winner “Lively writes with an astringent blend of sympathy and detachment, emotional wisdom and satiric wit.” —Michiko Kakutani, The

The epic history of how antibiotics were born, saving millions of lives and creating a vast new industry known as Big Pharma.As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good;

“Brilliant and fascinating. No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting.” —Bill Bryson A captivating journey to the outer frontiers of human knowledge by the popular presenter of

In the latest installment of Ann B. Ross's New York Times bestselling series, Miss Julia takes a trip to the beach, only to confront a hurricane roiling off the coast--and all the trouble it washes as

Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk in 1517. Now it covers the globe and includes almost a billion people. On the 500th anniversary of Luther’s theses, a global history of the revolut

From the “startlingly talented” (New York Times) author of Everything Matters!—the compelling story of a man who takes everything far too literally, and his adventures as the star of a reality TV show

Set in an English cathedral city, The Lost Book of the Grail tells the story of obsessive bibliophile and Holy Grail fanatic Arthur Prescott as he works to uncover a long-lost secret about the cathedr

From the Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee, the haunting sequel to The Childhood of Jesus, continuing the journey of Davíd, Simón, and Inés “When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your

The epic and controversial story of the development of the first widely used normal human cell-line and, through it, some of the world’s most important vaccines In June 1962, a young biologist at th

The inside story of one of the most important and influential TV shows in history, and of its legacy as the film that permanently reframed the history of the civil rights movement. To be published on

The compelling story of the effect of Charles Darwin’s book On the Origin of Species on a diverse group of American writers, abolitionists, and social reformers, including Henry David Thoreau and Bron

The frightening and largely unknown backstory of the radical right’s political agenda, a seven-decades-long strategy pinned to the expressed belief that freedom can survive only if the rule of the maj

The first single-volume history of Istanbul in decades: a biography of the city at the center of civilizations past and present.For more than two millennia Istanbul has stood at the crossroads of the

Film and television actor and New York Times bestselling author Robert Wagner’s memoir of the great women movie stars he has known. ? In a career that has spanned more than sixty years Robert Wagner h

A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s provocative reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War (and leading into the twentieth century); the next volume in the Penguin History of the

The magisterial concluding volume in the definitive biography of Eleanor RooseveltHistorians, politicians, critics, and readers everywhere have praised Blanche Wiesen Cook’s biography of Eleanor Roose

A landmark biography of one of history’s most effective conquerors by The New York Times bestselling author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World that reveals how he harnessed the power o

From the mind of Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson comes this wonderfully weird and weirdly wonderful illustrated look at the world around us—all through the framework of the things we carry. With brigh

From pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller comes the perfect gift for the holidays—a profoundly moving and intellectually provocative examination of the Nativity storyEven people

A brilliant new novel from the New York Times bestselling author, whom Gillian Flynn calls "mesmerizing" and Stephen King calls "incandescent." Being on the Murder squad is no

Irrestible baked goods with a unique twist from the little pastry shop famed for its macarons and exquisite cakes.Allyson Bobbitt and Sarah Bell have been sharing their delectable creations with adori

A celebration of urban trees and the Americans—presidents, plant explorers, visionaries, citizen activists, scientists, nurserymen, and tree nerds—whose arboreal passions have shaped and ornamented th

We live in an age of skepticism. Our society places such faith in empirical reason, historical progress, and heartfelt emotion that it’s easy to wonder: Why should anyone believe in Christianity? What

In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling Longmire series—the basis for the hit dramaLongmire, now on Netflix—Walt, Henry, and Vic discover much more than they bargained for when the

From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility—a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel With his breakout debut novel, Rules of Civility, Amor Towles established himself as a master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction, bringing late 1930s Manhattan to life with splendid atmosphere and a flawless command of style. Readers and critics were enchanted; as NPR commented, “Towles writes with grace and verve about the mores and manners of a society on the cusp of radical change.”A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultu

""In all ways a great novel, a nonstop pleasure brimming with charm, personal wisdom, and philosophic insight.this book more than fulfills the promise of Towles' stylish debut, Rules of Civility." - K

The riveting third novel in the Sully Carter series finds the gutsy reporter investigating a shooting at the Capitol and the violent world of D.C.’s most corrupt mental institution In the doldrum

In the spirit of Gretchen Rubin’s megaseller The Happiness Project and Eric Weiner’sThe Geography of Bliss, a journalist embarks on a project to discover what it takes to love where you liveAustin, Te