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For a great detective, the best part of retiring is coming out of retirement.Retired private detective and current seventh grader Steve Brixton has a new job: He takes out the trash for five bucks a...

With astonishing authority and clarity, Richard Pipes has fused a lifetime’s scholarship into a single focused history of Communism, from its hopeful birth as a theory to its miserable death as a...

Meet the Moffats. There is Sylvie, the oldest, the cleverest, and-most days at least-the responsible one; Joey, who though only twelve is the man of the house...sometimes; Janey, who has a terrific...

A puzzling phone call shatters a writer's routine. An enigmatic female voice extends an invitation to take part in Documenta, the legendary contemporary art exhibition held every five years in...

"If they had seen what we see, they would have judged as we judge." -- Galileo GalileiIn every age there are courageous people who break with tradition to explore new ideas and challenge accepted...

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEA NEW YORK MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom the Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee, the haunting sequel to The Childhood of Jesus, continuing the journey of...

A Best Book of 2023 by the New York Times and The New Yorker and Longlisted for the National Book AwardA gripping literary mystery in the vein of Bolaño’s Savage Detectives, this coming-of-age novel...

As the Civil War rages, another battle breaks out behind the lines. During a long hot July in 1863, the worst race riots the United States has ever seen erupt in New York City. Earlier that year,...

An Instant USA Today BestsellerA ninth-generation Appalachian, Archer Sullivan brings the mountains of North Carolina to life in The Witch’s Orchard, a wonderfully atmospheric novel that introduces...

One of the world's greatest bassists lays down the heart of Black music, revealing how its rhythmic structures and the long history of the African diaspora made it the world's most popular form ...

When IQ agrees to track down a painter's missing mother, he unexpectedly encounters a dangerous paramilitary operation -- and must escape a trap so deadly that even a genius can't see it coming...

BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the internationally bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes a literary detective story of a retired doctor obsessed with the 19th century French author...

Help Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose solve mysteries from A to Z!Kids love collecting the entire alphabet and super editions! With over 8 million copies in print, the A to Z Mysteries® have been hooking...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES!The world's timeline has been turned upside down, and now magical creatures are EVERYWHERE. Gina has to fix things--FAST!"An action-packed page turner...

Kitten Ninja is back in three adorable new stories for comics-loving kids of all ages! Before he became Metro City's greatest defender, Cat Ninja was a cute and cuddly kitten facing tiny foes! In...

This is the first book to look at an increasingly popular form of street art: the "wheatie" or wheat paste-up. Many street artists don't graffiti or stencil any more but use pre-prepared paper images...

Drawing on 30 years of BOMB Magazine, this anthology of interviews brings together some of the greatest figures of world literature for a brilliant and unforgettable collection of sharp, insightful...

Is it possible to educate for democracy? Does our education system really teach the fundamental social principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity? Steiner warned that future society would begin...

Converge™ is a new publication that gives voice and vision to Miami Art Museum’s New Work Series from 1996 to 2002. Each of the books in the 3 book series is handsomely illustrated with more than 50...

Pinkalicious and her family have a giddy-up good time in this new Level One I Can Read adventure down at the ranch, brought to you by #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Kann. When...