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Pastor Mike Mather arrived in Indianapolis thinking that he was going to serve the poor. But after his church's community lost nine young men to violence in a few short months, Mather came to see...

"A vivid account"--Frederick Studemann, Financial Times "A learned and affectionate study of hidden knowledge."--Kirkus Reviews "For that friend who wants to concoct the alchemical elixir of...

This book is a literary biography of Shen Yueh, a statesman, historian, poet, and devout lay defender of both Buddhism and Taoism. The title "Reticient Marquis" (Yin-hou) was awarded posthumously by...

A fascinating and highly original history of medieval magic told through twenty key illuminated manuscripts Medieval Europe was preoccupied with magic. From the Carolingian Empire to Renaissance...

The half-million-copy bestselling literary puzzle--the most difficult-to-solve ever written--now for a whole new generation of puzzle enthusiasts.Six murders. One hundred pages. Millions of possible...

Born in the latter half of the fifth century B.C. near Athens, Xenophon enjoyed the best of educational and social advantages and for a time was a pupil and friend of Socrates. In 401 B.C., however,...

Difficult Fruit names and claims the fruits of a passage intowomanhood. This is a journey which includes coming to termswith sexual violence and loss, celebrating love and connection,and bearing...

Gaëlle Bélem's The Rarest Fruit is a captivating tale of resilience, discovery, and the untold stories behind a beloved flavor.Set in 19th-century La Réunion, this novel follows Edmond Albius, a...

Challenging the portrayal of sexual inequality as a universal condition, Lepowsky presents a vivid account of Vanatinai, a matrilineal society in New Guinea.Contradticting scholars who consider...

Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionOne of Vulture's Best Books of the Year“Expansively fantastical and palpably real.” ―Mary Retta, VultureThis genre-bending debut collection of...

Gleaned from the successful ten-year publication of The Pleasures of Cooking, more than two hundred recipes from such prominent cooks as James Beard, Barbara Kafka, and Jacques Pe+a7pin offer...

"The wisdom of cultures that live harmoniously with nature spoken through the heart and mind of a true gnostic intermediary." --Ram Dass In this "masterwork of an authentic spirit person," Buddhist...

From Monique Truong, winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, comes “a sublime, many-voiced novel of voyage and reinvention” (Anthony Marra)"[Truong] imagines the extraordinary lives of...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Seven-year-old Chula lives a carefree life in her gated community in Bogotá, but the threat of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside her walls, where the...

"To read Jeanette Winterson is to love her."--O, the Oprah MagazineA beloved contemporary feminist classic and pioneering work of autofiction--a funny, poignant exploration of a young girl's quirky...

Set between the rise of the U.S. and Japan as Pacific imperial powers in the 1890s and the aftermath of the latter’s defeat in World War II, Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific traces the interrelated...

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives, suffering, and resistance of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system. Seth Holmes, an anthropologist and MD...