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A New York Times Notable Book. "A rich, seductive meld of characters real and fictive, of history and fancy." -New York Times Book Review.

While FBI Agent David Nadolski risked his career, his informant, Anthony Romano, risked his life to quash one of the biggest armed robberies of the twentieth century.

On September 5, 2003, illusionist David Blaine entered a small Perspex box adjacent to London’s Thames River and began starving himself.

Clara Gutierrez is an AI repair technician and a wanderer.

The war between the Heike and Genji clans in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries is among the most compelling and significant moments in Japan's history, immortalized in The Tale of the Heike

The birth of Dolly—the world's first clone—placed in our hands the secret of creation.

Unraveling a twenty-five-year tale of multiple murder and medical deception, The Death of Innocents is a work of first-rate journalism told with the compelling narrative drive of a mystery novel.

One of the great German writers of the 20th century draws from his own life to present a "brave, fearless, and honest" tale of one man's dark descent into depression and alcoholism (

This classic novel is the story of what happens when an idealistic, fiercely honest young man tries to reconcile Roman Catholic dogma with the realities of America of the 1940s.

Winning the 2021 Moore Prize for writing that promotes the values consistent with the advancement of human rights and dignity, this book recounts the true stories of three refugees fleeing the civi

Like Francis Prescott in The Rector of Justin, Guy Prime enjoyed the distinction of having become a legend in his lifetime. But in Guy's case, the legend is one of betrayal and infamy.

"Matyszak writes clearly and engagingly... nicely produced, with ample maps and illustrations." -Classical Outlook.

Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world.

The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Japan.

Enter a world of magic and myth, where foxes fall in love and robots build their own dragons.