A collection of the years best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor.Without stories, we cannot live well, shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures... Zobraziť viac
World-renowned primatologist, conservationist, and humanitarian Dr. Jane Goodall's account of her life among the wild chimpanzees of Gombe is one of the most enthralling stories of animal behavior ever written... Zobraziť viac
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the Year Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearLonglisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceAmerican Whitelashis indispensable. Really. It is. Ibram X. Kendi, author ofHow to Be an... Zobraziť viac
With elements of The Bold Type, Mad Men, and The Devil Wears Prada (Entertainment Weekly), a young woman navigates a tricky twenty-first-century careerand the trickier question of who she wants to bein this savagely wise debut novel.At 28, Casey... Zobraziť viac
Discover the hidden world of the fox, as beautifully revealed by an acclaimed ecologist who has studied foxes for two decades across four continentsAn ode to this familiar yet mysterious creature. The sight of foxes can lift Brand's prose into poetry... Zobraziť viac
A Most Anticipated Book by Poets Writers The Boston Globe San Francisco Chronicle Los Angeles Times The Millions Library Journal Book Riot Debutiful and many more!In the groundbreaking tradition ofIn the Dream HouseandThe Collected... Zobraziť viac
A debut novel for fans of Sarah Perryand Kate Morton: when a young woman is tasked with safeguarding a natural history collection as it is spirited out of London during World War II, she discovers her new manor home is a place of secrets and terror... Zobraziť viac
A single photographan exceptionally rare action shot documenting the horrific murder of a Jewish familydrives a riveting forensic investigation by a gifted Holocaust scholar. In 2009, the acclaimed author ofHitlers Furieswas shown a photograph just... Zobraziť viac
The Appalachian Trail is America's most beloved trek, with millions of hikers setting foot on it every year. Yet few are aware of the fascinating backstory of the dreamers and builders who helped bring it to life over the past century.The conception... Zobraziť viac
From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family's apartment building in Polandand of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that followsMenachem Kaiser's brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and... Zobraziť viac
A New York Times Bestseller A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Longlisted for the Center for Fictions First Novel Prize';Askaripour closes the deal on the first page of this mesmerizing novel, executing a high wire act full of verve and dark... Zobraziť viac
A collection of the year's best stories selected by celebratedtwo-timeNational Book Award winner Jesmyn WardIn her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor JesmynWard says that the best fiction offers the reader a ';sense of... Zobraziť viac
The inspiring, dramatic, and heartwarming true account of an escaped convict and his wife of thirty-five plus years who never knew his secret, which captured the imaginations of millions on Humans of New York.Bobby and Cheryl Love were living in... Zobraziť viac
Steph Cha, a rising star who brings a fresh perspective as series editor, takes the helm of the new TheBest American Mystery and Suspense,with best-selling crime novelist Alafair Burke joining her as the first guest editor.';Crime writers, forgive the... Zobraziť viac
A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee. Alexander Chee, an essayist of “virtuosity and power” (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form... Zobraziť viac
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST|Essential and fresh and vital . . . It is the argument of this important book that until Americans can reimagine rights, there is no path forward, and there is, especially, no way to get race... Zobraziť viac
Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted upRequired to have a college degree, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign... Zobraziť viac
A collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2021, selected by guest editor renowned marine biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and series editor Jaime Green. Zobraziť viac
Now in trade paperback -- Propulsive, touching, and darkly funny, All Signs Point to Paris is the story of one womans search for a second chance at love. A surprising astrology reading sends Natasha Sizlodivorced, broke, freshly heartbroken, and... Zobraziť viac
"The true theme of the nineteenth-century fantastic tale is the reality of what we see: to believe or not to believe in phantasmagoric apparitions, to glimpse another world, enchanted or infernal, behind everyday appearances." -- from Calvino's... Zobraziť viac
