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In a memoir about the joys and difficulties of straddling two cultures, the author describes her life with an extended Arab and American family, exploring the role of food, cooking, and eating in...

Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache war leader Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and the final...

The Last Hero: A Life Of Henry AaronAuthor: Howard BryantPublisher: AnchorPublication Date: May 03, 2011Number of Pages: 640 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0307279928ISBN-13:...

On March 18, 1980, the Duke basketball program announced the hiring Mike Krzyzewski, the man who would restore glory to the team. The only problem: no one knew who Krzyzewski was. Nine days later,...

The Liar's Dictionary: A Novel - 9780593311868Author: Eley WilliamsPublisher: AnchorPublication Date: Nov 09, 2021Number of Pages: 265 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

A freewheeling, small-town attorney takes on a national murder trial when an out-of-town client is accused of killing a federal judge in Texas. ?A spectacular courtroom thriller that kept me turning...

A memoir by a bomb-disposal veteran of the Iraq War traces his three tours of duty in the Middle East and his team's daily life-threatening efforts to stop roadside bombers, sharing additional...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST ? NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ? From the bestselling author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy...

Co-authored by the Chief White House correspondent at The New York Times and the Washington columnist at the The New Yorker, this is a biography any would-be power broker must own: the story of...

The Map of Knowledge is an endlessly fascinating book, rich in detail, capacious and humane in vision. --Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, winner of the Pulitzer...

A multi-generational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple--still madly in love after forty years--match wits, harbor grudges, and recklessly ignite old rivalries until a...

A saga of 1930s Hollywood profiles camera-shy golf legend John Montague, who mingled with Hollywood royalty and earned a reputation as a great golfer until his true identity was revealed as a...

The founder of a leading private intelligence company offers an analysis of current trends and events, as well as historical and geopolitical patterns, to speculate about the changes that will unfold...

Working in Gaborone, Botswana, Precious Ramotswe investigates several local mysteries, including a search for a missing boy and the case of the clinic doctor with different personalities for...

In 2011, Grantland magazine gave novelist Coloson Whitehaead $10,000 to play at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Whitehead brilliantly details his progress, both literal and existential,...

Isabel Dalhousie, the insatiably curious Edinburgh sleuth and philosopher, takes on a case unlike any she?s had before: a six-year-old boy has been experiencing vivid recollections of a past life...

The former director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and current head of the International Centre for Theatre Creation in Paris presents three wide-ranging essays on his work--how he selects a play,...

Born in 1735, Elizabeth Marsh traveled farther and more adventurously than any other woman, and most men, of her time. Relating Marsh's extraordinary accomplishments, Colley brilliantly interweaves a...

In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson?a renowned artist who regularly produced covers for The New Yorker, a gifted musician, a skilled amateur pilot, and a joyful presence to...

Originally published: London: Viking, 2017.Author: Carlos MagdalenaPublisher: AnchorPublication Date: March 19, 2019Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, one of the bestselling travel books ever...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ?John Grisham? newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that? on shaky ground. Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better...

A TIME Best Book of the Summer ? A lusty young woman seeks out experience on a remote Alaskan homestead in this erotic and darkly humorous novel "Rukeyser weaves a dreamlike spell?'Twin Peaks? by way...

Coming to New York from Tasmania at the age of eighteen, Rosemary takes a job at a used and rare bookstore run by the gruff Mr. Pike and his idiosyncratic staff, including Walter Geist, a solitary...

*National Bestseller* A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and the sobering truths--about race, gender, and immigration--exposed by the...

Yang Fei was born on a train as it raced across the Chinese countryside. Lost by his mother, adopted by a young switchman, raised with simplicity and love, he is utterly unprepared for the changes...

One of The Washington Post's 50 Most Notable Works of Fiction in 2018 The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune keep hitting beleaguered English professor Jason Fitger right between the eyes in...

Jack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, his wife sees it as a chance to preserve their family, and their five-year-old son sees the evil...

On November 20, 1979, the first morning of a new Muslim century, hundreds of gunmen stunned the world by seizing Islam's holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque in Mecca. These men came from more than a...