Subtitle in pre-publication: Eleven essays.

Hakuin Enkaku Zenji (1686-1769) was one of the greatest Zen masters to ever live. In additional t...

This is the author's own story of miracles found and fears allayed in the journey out of a confin...

In 1899, railroad tycoon Edward Harriman assembled a company of exceptional characters including ...

'Award–winning writer Bahrami is a delightful guide in this thoroughly enjoyable look into the re...

In this collection of three deeply bizarre yet comedic novellas, Hemmi delicately interweaves del...

Chapel Hill college student Maria finds herself in a predicament—unexpectedly pregnant at ninetee...

This provocative, “critically important” memoir of working-class boyhood in rural Indiana offers ...

When an old colleague comes to him for help solving the mysterious death of his town's most promi...

Raymond Carver meets Elmore Leonard in this extraordinary collection of contemporary crime writin...

Whether suggesting standards for technical innovation or pointing to the ruinous effects of what ...

'Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles, nearly naked and with no me...

'On the 10-year anniversary of the Occupy movement, Generation Occupy tells the story of how Occu...

Raymond Carver meets Elmore Leonard in this extraordinary collection of contemporary crime writin...

'A darkly funny memoir about a midlife crisis, exercise addiction, tennis, and how to grow up whe...

'The discovery that the universe has been expanding from its fiery beginning fourteen billion yea...

'A powerful and essential memoir of self-discovery . . . Brimming with beautiful remembrances of ...

'Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles, nearly naked and with no me...

'In seventeenth-century Peru, St. Martin de Porres was torn from his body after death. His bones ...

'Antonia King has a complicated relationship with the past. She and her brother were found amid t...

This 'impossible to forget' psychological thriller set in small town Iowa in the 1960s pits a det...

'Aquilino Gonell came to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a young boy. Although h...

'Seeing One Thing Through begins with a series of autobiographical memories and reflections going...

What had happened to my baby brother? How did a tiny little pill shatter our family? When did we ...

Being the son of counter-culture author William S. Burroughs is bound to be a trial. After all, t...

Queen Victoria's reign was an era of breathtaking social change, but it did little to create a pl...

'By means both wry and warm, Michael Downing elucidates the meaning of the classroom--its space f...