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Named One of the Best Books of the Year By: The New Yorker The New York Times Book Review The Wall Street Journal The Village Voice The Boston Globe NPR Vanity Fair The Guardian (London) The L...

Winner of the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction A distinctive portrait of the Fab Four by one of the sharpest and wittiest writers of our time "If you want to know what it was like to live...

* * * Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize * * * New York Times Bestseller, Los Angeles Times Bestseller, Boston Globe Bestseller, National Indiebound Bestseller The Millions?s ?Most Anticipated?;...

From the award-winning author Alan Heathcock comes an American myth of the future: a vision of civil war, spectacle, and disaster of biblical proportions. In a future America ravaged by natural...

MAD MEN MEETS "THE WIRE" IN THIS GRIPPING TRUE-CRIME MEMOIR BY A FORMER AGENT AT THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF NARCOTICS IN 1960s NEW YORK Before Nixon famously declared a "war on drugs," there was the...

A selection of the best short work by France's greatest living nonfiction writer A New York Times Notable Books of 2020 No one writes nonfiction like Emmanuel Carrère. Although he takes cues from...

A beautifully modulated novel that shows Edward St. Aubyn at his sparkling best Charlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter, ex-husband, and absent father, has been given six months to live. He...

The riveting narrative of an honorable Irish priest who finds the church collapsing around him at a pivotal moment in its history Propelled into the priesthood by a family tragedy, Odran Yates is...

?A Lonely Man is a superb suspense novel, imbued with moral and narrative complexity and an omnipresent low cloud cover of dread.? ?The Washington Post Two British men, both writers, meet by chance...

A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all...

When Cathy Rentzenbrink was still a teenager, her happy family was torn apart by an unthinkable tragedy. Here she describes how she learned to live with grief and loss and find joy in the world again...

A Place Bewitched And Other StoriesAuthor: Nikolai GogolPublisher: PicadorPublication Date: Mar 01, 2022Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0374231478ISBN-13:...

A Poet of the Invisible World" follows a boy named Nouri, born in thirteenth-century Persia, with four ears instead of two. Orphaned as an infant, he's taken into a Sufi order, where he meets an...

A Whole Life: A NovelAuthor: Robert SeethalerPublisher: PicadorPublication Date: Sep 12, 2017Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Paperback/FictionISBN-10: 1250141036ISBN-13:...

An Entertaining, Enlightening Look at the Art of Raising Self-Reliant, Independent Children Based on One American Mom? Experiences in Germany When Sara Zaske moved from Oregon to Berlin with her...

Critically acclaimed, prize-winning author Andrés Neuman?s Fracture is an ambitious literary novel set against Japan?s 2011 nuclear accident in a cross-cultural story about how every society...

The 2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist, International Bestseller, and a Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2017! ?arsh has retired, which means he? taking a thorough inventory of his life...

'These are some of the wildest, arresting, just plain brilliant short stories I've read in a long time.' - Roddy Doyle, author of The Woman Who Walked Into Doors After a Dance is the compiled...

?Beautiful . . . Compelling . . . Cusk [is] an extraordinary writer of the female experience.? ?Financial Times In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk?s marriage of ten years came to an end. Candid and...

In Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke's The Afternoon of a Writer, a writer, fearful of losing his abilities and hence his connection with the world, takes an afternoon walk and has several...

Against Nature: A NovelAuthor: Joris-Karl HuysmansPublisher: PicadorPublication Date: Feb 22, 2022Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1250787661ISBN-13: 9781250787668

Bitcoin became a buzzword overnight. A cyber-enigma with an enthusiastic following, it pops up in headlines and fuels endless media debate. You can apparently use it to buy anything from coffee to...

William di Canzio?s Alec, inspired by Maurice, E. M. Forster?s secret novel of a happy same-sex love affair, tells the story of Alec Scudder, the gamekeeper Maurice Hall falls in love with in...

A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind All our lives...

All Hell Breaking Loose is an eye-opening examination of climate change from the perspective of the U.S. military. The Pentagon, unsentimental and politically conservative, might not seem likely to...

An engrossing, epic saga of one family?s experiences on both sides of WWII, All Ships Follow Me questions our common narrative of the conflict and our stark notions of victim and perpetrator, while...

After her father has a heart attack and subsequent surgery, Helen Atherton returns to her hometown of Washington, D.C., to help take care of him and, perhaps more honestly, herself. She's been living...

The Christian Science Monitor's #1 Best Book of the Year A witty, informative, and popular travelogue about the Scandinavian countries and how they may not be as happy or as perfect as we assume,...

A BRILLIANT NEW COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES FROM THE "CONSPICUOUSLY TALENTED" (TIME) RIVKA GALCHEN Winner of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award A New York Times Book Review Notable Book Chosen as one of...

In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom?s impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman?s transformation from...