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America was not founded as a Christian nation. Who gains what from myths about the past? Why are many of us susceptible to their power? And how can the truth about a nation's past prevail? In this...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, a wide-ranging assortment of short fiction that pierces the veil of reality to expose the enigmatic, shadowy world that lies beneath―one of ten...

#1 New York Times Bestseller Best Books of 2018 --The EconomistA personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today’s world, written by one of...

A new novel about the enduring trauma of police brutality by the award-winning author of Mother CountryShe’d gotten no trigger warning. And her entire life, she wanted to scream now, had deserved a...

This new Chronicle documents the lives of tsars famous and infamous in a lively series of biographical portraits stretching from the late fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Discover the...

An E. B. White Read-Aloud Honor Book An ALA Notable Book A Huffington Post Notable Book CAUTION! This book contains monkeys, alligators, and a whole lot of silliness.You really shouldn’t be opening...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes the “wondrous…mesmerizing” second installment (The Washington Post), following Some Luck, of her widely...

Conner Bailey thinks his fairy tale adventures are behind him - until he discovers a mysterious clue left by the famous Brothers Grimm. When all signs point to disaster for the Land of Stories,...

This generously illustrated book chronicles Steve Kahn's "The Hollywood Suites" series, which is comprised of photos taken in rent-by-the-hour apartments in a run-down section of Hollywood from 1974...

Shows how the figure of Mary has shaped and been shaped by changing social and historical circumstances and why for all their beauty and power,the legends of Mary have condemned real women to...

A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that...

Written with sensitivity, grace, and even-handed authority, Easeful Death provides a clearly reasoned assessment of arguments both for and against the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia...

In this revised and updated paperback edition, a veteran writing teacher makes a "compelling" (Wall Street Journal) argument that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can't be...

Loos is a small mining town between Lens and La Bassee in northern France. But on 25th September 1915, and for a few days after, it was the center of one of the most intense and bloody battles of the...

Book Description Molly Warnock enseigne l'histoire de l'art à l'Université de Chicago. Commissaire des expositions "Simon Hantaï" (galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, et Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York,...

"The captivating, deeply reported true story of how one of the most notorious novels ever written-Marquis de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom-landed at the heart of one of the biggest scams in modern...