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After their olive crop fails, Maria fears that her family will have to abandon their farm on the new island colony.

A masterful collection of short fiction from one of America's greats.

Be love. Be patience. Be curious. Be approachable. Be supported. Being a grandparent to a transgender child may feel isolating.

Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious.

Acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, composer, novelist, and memoirist, Gordon Parks has participated in, been witness to, and documented many of the major events in the twentieth and the twenty-firs

From the acclaimed biographer, screenwriter, and novelist Frederic Raphael, here is an audacious history of Josephus (37-c.100), the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose emblematic betrayal

In A Knife in the Sky, a journalist's decision to talk and a student's desire to know puts them in the crosshairs of a murderous dictatorship.

A dazzling memoir of chronic illness that explores the fraught intersection between pain, language, and gender, by a debut author.

While chasing the woman of his dreams, he ran into the love of his life. Dev's life is a mess because he is reckless. Tara's is a mess because she's not.

“I would like to write a beautiful prayer,” writes the young Flannery O’Connor in this deeply spiritual journal, recently discovered among her papers in Georgia.

My life as a Kane was lit in the indigos, aquamarines, and magentas of a home built on quiet faith and prayer. But Johnny changed all that.

This classic work of world literature by the 1994 Japanese Nobel laureate is a devastating and moving blend of memoir and fiction.

From Wanda Taylor, a delicious new novel about food, friendship and the power of poetry.

This new edition of Brian Aldiss's classic anthology brings together a diverse selection of science fiction spanning over sixty years, from Isaac Asimov's 'Nightfall', first pub

Time Out Chicago, Top 10 Book of 2005. Winner of the 2006 PEN USA Literary Award for Fiction.