Doubleday, November 2018. Hardcover. "Pulpy, peppery and sinister, served up in a comic deadpan...This scorpion-tailed little thriller leaves a response, and a sting, you will remember."--NEW YORK TIMES "The wittiest and most fun murder party you've ever been invited to."--MARIE CLAIRE WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR..... More about My Sister, the Serial Killer

Scribner, January 1995. Trade Paperback. "The Sun Also Rises" was Ernest Hemingway's first big novel, and immediately established Hemingway as one of the great prose stylists, and one of the preeminent writers of his time. It is also the book that encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I generation... More about Sun Also Rises

Mariner, April 2004. Trade Paperback. With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work... More about The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club

W. W. Norton & Company, March 1999. Trade Paperback. In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the... More about Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Europa Editions, September 2013. Trade Paperback. Now an HBO series, the follow-up to My Brilliant Friend in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted family epic by Italy's most beloved and acclaimed writer, Elena Ferrante, "one... More about The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels

Mulholland Books, June 2015. Trade Paperback. Private investigator Cormoran Strike returns in a new mystery from Robert Galbraith, author of the #1 international bestseller The Cuckoo's Calling. When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has... More about The Silkworm (A Cormoran Strike Novel

William Morrow Paperbacks, March 2018. Trade Paperback. Instant New York Times Bestseller Best of 2017 - included on best-of lists by the New York Times, NPR, Barnes & Noble, Publisher's Weekly, LitHub, BookPage, Booklist, TheRealBookSpy.com, the Financial Times (UK) and the Daily Mail (UK) "The Force is mesmerizing, a triumph... More about The Force

Harvest Books, November 1978. Trade Paperback. Van der Post's incomparable knowledge of Africa illuminates this epic novel, set near the Kalahari Desert, about a boy on the verge of manhood, his experiences with the wonder and mystery of a still-primitive land, and his secret friendship with the Bushman whose life... More about A Story Like the Wind

Viking Adult, September 2003. Hardcover. In this intellectually rich and passionately written history, anthropologist Melvin Konner takes the whole sweep of Western civilization as his canvas and onto it places the Jewish people and faith. Drawing on archaeological findings, census data, religious texts, diaries, poetry, oral histories, and more, Konner... More about Unsettled: An Anthropology of the Jews

Little, Brown and Company, October 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE "The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind....Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work... More about The Goldfinch: A Novel

Hackett Publishing Co., March 2001. Trade Paperback. The Inner Chapters are the oldest pieces of the larger collection of writings by several fourth, third, and second century B.C. authors that constitute the classic of Taoism, the Chuang-Tzu (or Zhuangzi). It is this core of ancient writings that is ascribed to... More about The Inner Chapters

Martino Fine Books, September 2013. Trade Paperback. 2013 Reprint of 1931 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "The Religion of Man" (1931) is a compilation of lectures by Rabindranath Tagore, edited by Tagore and drawn largely from his Hibbert Lectures given at Oxford... More about The Religion of Man

Columbia University Press, November 2000. Trade Paperback. With a history stretching back to ancient India, Buddhism has influenced American culture since the American Transcendentalist movement in the 1830s and 40s. Only in the past few decades, however, has this transplanted philosophy begun to blossom into a full-fledged American religion, made... More about Buddhism in America