The Man in the Queue

The Man in the Queue

This locked-room mystery, “solid proof for the unreliability of circumstantial evidence” will have readers “give thanks” for the British crime classic (Kirkus Reviews). A long line of people stand outside a London West End Theatre, hopeful to...
Crap

Crap

“Part history, part sociology, with some firecracker economic insights to boot . . . a much-needed etymology for everyday goods that we take for granted.” ―Literary HubIn Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America, Wendy A. Woloson takes seriously the...
The Conversation

The Conversation

In this “enlightening” (Jane Brody, New York Times) book, Harvard Medical School physician Angelo E. Volandes offers a solution to traumatic end-of-life care: talking, medicine’s oldest tool.There is an unspoken dark side of American...
Man Gone Down

Man Gone Down

A New York Times Notable Book: The award-winning debut novel of race and family that “casts a new light on urban life in Brooklyn” (Time Out New York). “Like the characters of Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry . . . [our] unnamed...
Days of Sun and Shadow

Days of Sun and Shadow

Born into tragedy but gifted with a powerful connection to the natural world, a resilient young woman comes of age amid the wild beauty of early-1800s Alabama, Arkansas, and Texas in this incandescent, hauntingly moving epic about home, horses, human connection, and...