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A dramatic, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California wildfires. Shawna was overcome by the claustrophobia, the heat, the smoke, the fire, all just down the canyon...

Documents and personal narratives record the experiences of Native Americans during the nineteenth century.Author: Dee BrownPublisher: PicadorPublication Date: May 15, 2007Number of Pages: 512...

Sixty-five of the world's leading writers open up about the books and authors that have meant the most to them Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see...

?Dazzling." ?Marcela Valdes, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "A spellbinding novel by one of the best writers of the Americas." ?Junot Díaz, author of This is How You Lose Her From...

A new history of the world?s most embattled idea Today, democracy is the world?s only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has become synonymous with disappointment and crisis. How did it...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The New York Times ? Los Angeles Times ? The Boston Globe Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of "Bloomington" reads, "Now that I have been here for a little...

Chicago: A Novel - 9781250118127Author: Brian DoylePublisher: PicadorPublication Date: Mar 14, 2017Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Paperback/FictionISBN-10: 1250118123ISBN-13:...

Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's DefeatAuthor: Giles MiltonPublisher: PicadorPublication Date: Feb 06, 2018Number of Pages: 384 pagesLanguage:...

Now one of Kirkus Reviews' "Best Books of the Year" From Paul French, the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Peking?winner of both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Gold...

A graphic novel classic with a new introduction by Art Spiegelman Quinn writes mysteries. The Washington Post has described him as a "post-existentialist private eye." An unknown voice on the...

Author: Jim KranePublisher: PicadorPublication Date: Nov 23, 2010Number of Pages: 384 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0312655436ISBN-13: 9780312655433

Spanning eras, continents, and genres, CoDex 1962?twenty years in the making?is Sj?n?s epic three-part masterpiece Over the course of four dazzling novels translated into dozens of languages, Sj?n...

Collected Stor's - 9781250800329Author: Shirley HazzardPublisher: PicadorPublication Date: Nov 02, 2021Number of Pages: 368 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1250800323ISBN-13:...

In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in...

Concrete Island: A NovelAuthor: J. G. BallardPublisher: PicadorPublication Date: Jun 12, 2018Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1250171520ISBN-13: 9781250171528

Dispatches from the front lines of American culture by the great humorist Ian Frazier, the two-time winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, has gathered his insights on the most urgent issues...

Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape.Author: J. G. BallardPublisher: PicadorPublication Date: Dec 05, 2017Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

In this visionary novel, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers descriptions of objects, relationships, and events that teach readers a renewed way of seeing; he creates a wealth of images to replace...

Dararchivesa Liaan'S Investation Into The Sciencand History Of Books Bound In Han Skin - 9781250800169Author: Megan RosenbloomPublisher: PicadorPublication Date: Oct 19, 2021Number of Pages: 288...

From evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen, a book that will make you see yourself and the world around you in an entirely new way *Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to...

A cinematic Reconstruction-era drama of violence and fraught moral reckoning In Dawson?s Fall, a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinson?s great-grandparents, we see America at its most fragile,...

From Christobel Kent?whose psychological thrillers have been called ?terrifyingly good,? ?perfectly paced,? ?addictive,? ?tense, dense, extremely well-plotted and beautifully written??a new...

A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company, lives human and otherwise converge in...

A dogged, absurd quest through the nightmare of the Syrian civil war Khaled Khalifa?s Death Is Hard Work is the new novel from the greatest chronicler of Syria?s ongoing and catastrophic civil war: a...

A collection of short fiction from Susan Sontag, the National Book Award-winning author of In America and Against Interpretation, and the renowned essayist praised as ?ne of our very few brand-name...

Mai plays adroitly with literary genre and crafts a story of Borgesian subtlety and complexity.?The New Yorker Rong Jinzhen, an autistic math genius with a past shrouded in myth, is forced to abandon...

A memoir on the rise of Nazism in Germany and the lives of ordinary German citizens between the two world wars finds the author witnessing such developments as the rise of the First Free Corps, the...

A much-anticipated guide to saving democracy, from one of our most essential political thinkers. Everyone knows that democracy is in trouble, but do we know what democracy actually is? Jan-Werner...

Desert acle: Volume 1: Sange Trueales from thameran Southwest - 9781250800350Author: Ken LaynePublisher: PicadorPublication Date: Dec 07, 2021Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Winner of the Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award Finalist for the Binghamton University?s John Gardner Fiction Book Award Finalist for the Saroyan Prize for Fiction Longlisted for...