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 ...

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

Rev. ed. of: The complete book of edible landscaping Rosalind Creasy. 1982.

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

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

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...

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

Winik arranges her arresting portraits of the dead chronologically, spanning Friends of My Youth,...

In the fateful month of March 2000, shortly after opening a hugely successful show in New York th...

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

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

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...

'In less than a year and a half, Liz's mother killed herself and her infant son died unexpectedly...

'With Dark Carnivals, author W. Scott Poole, an expert in horror and its impact on American histo...

'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 ...

'In an elegant but contemporary voice, award-winning author Susan Griffin breaks down the creativ...

'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...

The panoramic story of how the horror genre transformed into one of the most incisive critiques o...

Thirteen new stories of the Port William membership spanning the decades from World War II to the...

'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...

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

In 'Life Is a Miracle', the devotion of science to the quantitative and reductionist world is mea...

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

The author chronicles his 650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco, following the ro...