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

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

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

“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 mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull sp

In the mid-1940s, Sybille Bedford set off from Grand Central Station for Mexico, accompanied by her friend E., a hamper of food and drink (Virginia ham, cherries, watercress, a flute of bread, Port

"[A] beguiling memoir of family and culture." -O, The Oprah Magazine.

"An exceptionally good book . . . worthy to stand on the nature shelf of anyone interested in mountainous America." - The New York Times.

Can anyone even see me? As a woman, it’s so easy to feel invisible. Amid the exhaustion of day-to-day life, it’s hard not to wonder: Does anyone see my effort, my struggles?

Her central themes are the classics, universities, and teaching - and much else besides.

Longlisted for the Diverse Book Awards - YA.

Chinatown, U.S.A.: a state of mind, a world within a world, a neighborhood that exists in more cities than you might imagine.

On the morning of September 2, 1798, just after first light, the back door to Carpenters' Hall is discovered ajar.

Who qualifies as the worst of Roman emperors and why? Join L. J. Trafford for a tour of the very worst leadership in ancient Rome featuring Caligula, Commodus, and many more.