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The collected nonfiction of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed: "A great pleasure to read no matter what the subject" (Library Journal).

The classic memoir of one of the Progressive Era's most important reformers and social activists.

Booker T. Washington's classic memoir of enslavement, emancipation, and community advancement in the Reconstruction Era.

Edgar Award Finalist: The "sensational" true story of two desperate housewives and the killing that shocked a Texas community (Los Angeles Times Book Review).

The true account of the man who murdered his family in their New Jersey mansion-and eluded a nationwide manhunt for eighteen years.

A rare antique draws Denver detective C. J. Floyd into a plot of murder, greed, and a mystery rooted in nineteenth-century Utah.

Denver-based detective C. J. Floyd discovers a government conspiracy when a Vietnam vet who went missing in action reappears after thirty-four years.

A drug dealer turned informant navigates New York's underworld in a tale that "maintains tension" from an Edgar Award finalist (The New York Times Book Review).

From "the mistress of day-lit terror": A couple invites two indigent women into their Hollywood home-and lives to regret it (The New York Times).

A woman attempts to flee her abusive husband in a thriller The New York Times Book Review calls "an unforgettable reading experience." Overworked cocktail waitress Sherry Reynard doesn&#0

A New York City drama teacher risks her life to expose a potentially deadly public hoax in this "most uncommon thriller" (New York Herald Tribune).

Edgar Award Finalist: The explosive politics of the Middle East shatter a California family in this "wonderful thriller" (The New York Times).

A disaster in a Michigan mining town throws a close-knit community into chaos in this novel from an Edgar Award-winning author.

A "dazzling first novel" about Japanese Americans and their Wyoming neighbors in the era of WWII internment camps (Chicago Tribune).

Ten essays on nature, ritual, and philosophy "that are so point-blank vital you nearly need to put the book down to settle yourself" (San Francisco Chronicle).