Vulture Peak
Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep returns to solve another head-spinning, stomach-turning case in John Burdett's fifth Bangkok-based novel. In this instance, a particularly gruesome triple murder launches the idiosyncratic, personal-prob...
Come in and Cover Me
The pathos exhibited in Gin Phillips acclaimed debut novel, 2008's The Well and the Mine, is again on display in this sensitive story of a 36-year-old archeologist, Ren, whose life was altered by the death of her brother. Even long after his passing, R...
The Coral Sea
Patti Smith's National Book Award-winning memoir, Just Kids, detailed the rock star and poet's extraordinary relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The Coral Sea, Smith's 1996 ode to her late friend, was written just a few years after his ...
The Coral Sea
Patti Smith's National Book Award-winning memoir, Just Kids, detailed the rock star and poet's extraordinary relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The Coral Sea, Smith's 1996 ode to her late friend, was written just a few years after his ...
The Beginner’s Guide to Hunting Deer for Food
The ancient art of deer-hunting gets a locavore makeover in this lucid DIY manual for bagging and butchering one's own venison. Self-taught stalker Jackson Landers covers not only the practical how-to aspects of the hunt but also deeper philosophies be...
Adam Johnson
The author on books that help us understand North Korea today.
The Leopard
Mordant Oslo police inspector Harry Hole returns from exile in Hong Kong to his old Nordic stomping grounds to track down a serial killer who drowns his victims in their own blood. Chilly brutality and suspenseful cat-and-mouse games reign in Jo Nesb&o...
The Super Bowl
Game day reading.
Smut
In his hilarious and moving tale The Common Reader, Alan Bennett deliciously imagined England's monarch as a woman whose mind is set free by a surprising turn to reading. Now, in this pair of novellas, the writer turns his unmatched pen onto the lives ...
Reprobates
Was ever another war fought with more literary panache than the English Civil War? The pugnacious royalist poets known as the Cavaliers receive vivid treatment from the erudite John Stubbs, who dispels the cliché of their dandified nature and sh...
Commanders
American Generals in an era of change
The Vineyard at the End of the World
How did Argentina and its Malbec wines grow from near obscurity, oenologically speaking, to international prominence so rapidly? Wine journalist Ian Mount tells, with clarity -- and yet no loss of complexity -- the colorful story of how a French grape ...
