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A classic look at Hollywood and the American film industry by The New Yorker's Lillian Ross, and named one of the "Top 100 Works of U.S. Journalism of the Twentieth Century."Lillian Ross worked...

“This is the history of the gay and lesbian movement that we’ve been waiting for.” —The Washington Post The sweeping story of the struggle for gay and lesbian rights—based on amazing interviews with...

"Diana, Justin, Vivian, and Errol have been friends for as long as they can remember. They worked hard and went to good schools, but rather than finding post-grad dream jobs, they've reunited while...

The easiest-to-use and most comprehensive field guide to North American birds-from the country's preeminent writers on birds and nature Drawing on more than twenty years' experience as bird and...

Named a Must-Read by TIME, Buzzfeed, The Wall Street Journal, Star Tribune, Fast Company, The Village Voice, Toronto Star, Fortune Magazine, InStyle, and O, The Oprah Magazine"A joy to read—I...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a lively and engaging biography of the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States, a man fiercely committed to protecting all...

Learn all you need to know about identifying and attracting finches with this comprehensive, gloriously colorful field guide from America’s foremost authorities on birds and nature.Following the...

The past five centuries have witnessed a shocking series of confrontations between European nations and millions of indigenous peoples, and these cultural encounters still resonate strongly to this...

"Rivers are Earth's restless travelers-carving landscapes, shaping history, and holding secrets. Some are forces of destruction, sweeping away everything in their path, while others are lifelines,...

Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers...

* SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE *It’s not a river, it’s this river.A hot, motionless afternoon. Enero and El Negro are fishing with Tilo, their dead friend’s teenage son. After...

An anthology that explores the power and beauty of rivers through poems from around the world and through the ages. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.Rivers were the arteries of our first...

Named a Best Horror Book of the Year by The New York Times Book ReviewNamed a Best Book of the Year by Reactor and the Chicago Public LibraryWelcome to Rivers Solomon’s dark and wondrous Model Home,...

Spanning nearly 4 million square kilometers, the Tibetan river system—including the Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong, Red, and Yangzi—forms the largest contiguous network of rivers on the...

From the ancient Nile to the sacred Ganges and from the venerable Thames to the mighty Mississippi—the rivers of the world wind through this collection of stories from the world's great writers.River...

Leslie Day's life changed forever when, in 1975, she moved to a tiny houseboat on the Hudson River at the 79th Street Boat Basin--a new home umbilically tied to Manhattan's Upper West Side. In her...

Eric Hoffer Award Honorable Mention in PoetryEric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short ListMedal Provocateur FinalistIPNE Book Awards Poetry WinnerTender the River captures in verse the history and legacy...

"The fierce and arresting debut memoir of a firefighter navigating the constraints of what it means to be female-bodied in a male-dominated industry, Hotshot is a timely reckoning with both the...