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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A classic legal thriller—with a twist. • "A suspenseful thriller mixed with powerful themes such as false incarceration, the death penalty and how the legal system...

Now updated with a new afterword, the classic true crime thriller by journalist Steven Walker and veteran police detective Rick Reed exploring the grisly crimes of a sadistic serial killer who...

WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 'A narrative of startling originality ... As discussions of Britain's colonial legacy become increasingly polarised, we are in ever...

Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies human...

A groundbreaking study of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world—al-Nuwayri’s The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of EruditionShihab al-Din al-Nuwayri was a fourteenth-century...

Named one of Entertainment Weekly’s 12 biggest music memoirs this fall. “An artful and wildly enthralling path for Bowie fans in particular and book lovers in general.” —Publishers Weekly (starred...

All the blazingly original work by Larry Levis, “one of the greatest poets of a generation” (Carolyn Forché)The poetry of Larry Levis increasingly occupies a legendary place of reverence among poets...

Now in paperback! A loving portrait of a father-daughter relationship and the unforgettable experience of a child's first bike ride. Learning to ride is no easy feat! But with a little courage,...

From one of the most beloved authors of our time—more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone—a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home...

Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one...

This anthology brings together essays by American, Canadian and British scholars to provide an overview of English-speaking evangelical religion. Each essay contains comparative evaluations of...

This play deals with the period leading up to Wilhelm Furtwangler's appearance before a de-Nazification tribunal in Berlin in 1946. Furtwangler was one of the great conductors, but his misfortune was...

In March 1871, Henry Morton Stanley went to Africa to find David Livingstone. This is a retelling of this expedition, in the form of the journal of John Shaw, one of two white men who accompanied...

A stunningly powerful novel of humanity's will to survive against all odds during an epidemic by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. An International Bestseller * "This is a shattering...

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “A darkly incantatory tragicomedy of love and betrayal ... Beautifully paced, emotionally wise.” —The Boston GlobeIn the dark waiting room of the...

From lying to friends to lies in politics, a wide-ranging examination of the forms and ethics of falsehood.From popular philosopher Lars Svendsen, this book is a comprehensive investigation of lying...

A rare autobiographical glimpse into the life and influences of one of Europe's greatest living philosophers. This book's title, Self-Portrait in the Studio--a familiar iconographic subject in the...

Göran Sonnevi is one of Sweden's most celebrated, respected, and prolific poets. For this first book-length selection of Sonnevi to appear in English, Rika Lesser has chosen works written between...

It’s been twenty-five years since Shere Hite’s revealing report on American women’s sex lives and, surprisingly, no one has undertaken an update–until now. Based on more than one hundred candid...

The career of Joan Hernandez Pijuan is one of the major milestones in modern Spanish painting. His loyalty to certain themes, such as space, memory and landscape, and a stringently critical attitude...