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Winner of the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction – a collection of fifty-three interconnected stories by the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central.

The world remembers Edison, Ford, and the Wright Brothers. But what about Philo T.

Kiss My Math meets A Tour of the Calculus. Jennifer Ouellette never took math in college, mostly because she—like most people—assumed that she wouldn’t need it in real life.

This autobiographical account of survival as a "wetback" or "mojado" gives the reader a fascinating glimpse into the life of the undocumented worker.

This searing memoir tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital in Damascus, humanizing the enduring crisis in Syria.

In the spring of 1820, on the Aegean island of Melos, an unsuspecting farmer was digging for marble building blocks when he unearthed the statue that would come to be known as the Venus de Milo.

The Collected Stories – a stunning volume of William Trevor's unforgettable short stories.

"A skilled blend of insight...and emotion" (Publishers Weekly), this memoir resonates with anyone who has ever tried to lose weight.

Winner of the National Book Award. The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O’Connor’s monumental contribution to American fiction.

When Herb Kent was a straight-A college student in the 1940s, his white professor told him, "You have the best voice in class, but you'll never make it in radio because you're a Negr

A former public defender testifies to the vivid human suffering at the heart of America's criminal justice system.

Peer inside the mind of violent child molester Nathanael Bar-Jonah.

In The Devil’s Horn, Michael Segell traces the 160-year history of the saxophone—a horn that created a sound never before heard in nature, and that from the moment it debuted has aroused both posit

The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973–c. 1020), author of *The Tale of Genji*, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion to the young Empress Shoshi.

In this touching memoir of his boyhood on a farm in the Ozark foothills, Harry Middleton joins the front rank of nature writers alongside Edward Hoagland and Annie Dillard.