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The dark story of Adolf Hitler's life in 1924--the year that made a monster Before Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, there was 1924. This was the year of Hitler's final transformation into the...

A "captivating and bittersweet" novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Summer of '69 Their secret love affair has lasted for decades -- but this could be the summer that changes...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after,...

Ronald Takaki's beloved revisionist history of America, praised by Howard Zinn as "a bold and refreshing new approach to our national history," now featuring a foreword from Clint Smith, author of...

As heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour: The triumphant and "engaging history" (The New Yorker) of the young women who devised a winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and delivered a decisive...

In a brand-new series installment, New York Times bestselling author, Ian Rankin, returns to his legendary detective--it's not the first time Rebus has taken the law into his own hands, though it may...

An engaging polemic against the neat-police who hold so much sway over our lives. -The Wall Street Journal Enthusiastically embraced by readers everywhere, this groundbreaking book is an antidote to...

A Registry Of My Passage Upon The Earth : StoriesAuthor: Daniel MasonPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: Jan 04, 2022Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond, this novel by the award-winning author of The Yellow Birds explores the brutal legacy of violence and exploitation in American society. "A...

He's gone... When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it's not good news. Her husband has been missing for two days. Rebus fears the worst - and knows from his lifetime...

Author: David Foster WallacePublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: February 02, 1998Number of Pages: 368 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0316925284ISBN-13: 9780316925280

Author: James DonovanPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: May 01, 2009Number of Pages: 560 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0316067474ISBN-13: 9780316067478

A young couple's toxic Instagram crush spins out of control and unleashes a sinister creature in this twisted, viciously funny, "bananas good" story (Carmen Maria Machado). "Um, holy shit...This...

From "an extraordinary new voice," a "passionate and clear-eyed and unputdownable" meditation on queerness, family, and desire. (Mary Karr) For as long as they can remember, Cyrus Grace Dunham felt...

Heralding the arrival of "a huge literary talent" (Karl Ove Knausgaard), Megan Nolan's riveting debut is "a blistering anti-romance" (Catherine Lacey) about love addiction and what it does to us...

The "soul stirring" novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Room (O Magazine) "What begins as a larky story of unlikely male bonding turns into an off-center but far richer novel about the...

A love story for the ages from # 1 New York Times bestselling author Kate Fagan comes an unforgettable story about basketball and the enduring bonds between a father and daughter that "will heal...

Bestselling author Jake Tapper's "absolute page-turner" (Gillian Flynn) transports readers to the 1970s underground world of cults, celebrities, tabloid journalism, serial killers, disco, and UFOs...

The INSTANT New York Times Bestseller Winner of the 2022 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography and the National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award...

Sacks proves herself a master of slow-burn suspense.--Shelf Awareness A simmering family drama about a father and daughter who embark on a road trip through the American South -- but what they're...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Her most acclaimed volume of poetry, American Primitive contains fifty visionary poems about nature, the humanity in love, and the wilderness of America, both...

An engaging and illuminating account of some of the most critical weeks in American history (Jon Meacham), American Spring is a vibrant new look at the American Revolution's first months from the...

Hadfield is a genius, a man of science and technology and no first-timer to the universe.-New York Post Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in...

The definitive story of one American family at the center of a single, shocking act of international terrorism that "manages to capture the essence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict"(Dan Ephron) On...

Compassion-sympathy for the suffering of others and the desire to free them from it-is wrestled with in all spiritual traditions. Yet how does one actually become a compassionate person? What are the...

The "superb and tragic" Booker Prize finalist about a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything to win the woman he loves, by the author of The Fishermen (Boston Globe) Set on the outskirts...

Kate Braestrup's life was transformed by the loss of her husband; now Kate faces the possibility that she may lose her son. As a young mother Kate Braestrup discovered the fierce protectiveness that...

Author: Tom O'NeillPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: Jun 23, 2020Number of Pages: 528 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0316477540ISBN-13: 9780316477543

Author: Annie JacobsenPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: May 01, 2012Number of Pages: 592 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0316202304ISBN-13: 9780316202305

From a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist specializing in the Middle East, this groundbreaking account of the Syrian Civil War reveals the never-before-published true story of a 21st-century...