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Based on the true account of a boy's harrowing journey through the vast wilderness of the Katahdin Mountains, Lost on a Mountain in Maine is a gripping survival story for all ages.Twelve-year-old...

A delightful, imaginative, and thoroughly original cocktail compendium and bartending manual with 90 drink recipes from the popular and influential Brooklyn bar and restaurant.A major player in both...

For six years, photographer Julien Scussel has had unprecedented access to the Parisian team and its players. No photographer has ever got this close to a professional football team made of...

An experimental collection of "proems" from poet and author Leylâ Erbil, the first Turkish woman toever be nominated for the Nobel. In this remarkable novel-in-verse, a young woman named Lahzen comes...

Richard Hughes's celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late...

“Electrifying. Remain in Love is possibly the most uxorious rock ’n’ roll memoir ever written...” —Wall Street Journal One of the most dynamic groups of the ‘70s and ‘80s, Talking Heads, founded by...

This enchanting tale of a cursed mythical creature and the lonely fisherman who falls in love with her is "a daring, mesmerizing novel…single-handedly bringing magic realism up-to-date" (Maggie...

Places present-day historical studies in a new and comprehensive perspective. Anyone who wishes to understand the past in the light of current knowledge and interpretations will profit from reading...

By F. C. T. Moore. Bibliography: P. 143-187.

The most heavily litigated, and recently the most hotly debated area of family law is that dealing with alimony. This book first places the debate in the context of the economic consequences of...

A girl learns how the history of redlining has affected her neighborhood in this intergenerational picture book about racism, community action, and resilience by two New York Times bestselling...

Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since become part of the American...

“Sublime . . . Kalman’s elegantly witty and at times melancholy narrative runs arm in arm with her unmistakable paintings on a serendipitous romp through the history of the world.” —Vanity...

The moving and suspenseful new novel that Ann Patchett calls "smart and thrilling and impossible to put down... the book that every reader longs for."“This summer’s undoubtable smash hit… an...

De una autora best seller del New York Times surge este conmovedor y lírico relato sobre el gran artista del escape en la naturaleza, perfecto para los fanáticos del documental ganador del Oscar My...

Finalist for the 1997 National Book Award for NonfictionJamaica Kincaid’s brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid’s incantatory, poetic, and often...

A powerful and epic novel of colonialism, ethnicity, and the ties of blood, Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of one family struggling to find love, justice, and meaning...