Biographical

A Step of Faith: A Novel

by Richard Paul Evans

Following the #4 New York Times bestseller The Road to Grace, Richard Paul Evans’s hero Alan Christoffersen faces a life-changing crisis on his journey to grace.

After the death of his beloved wife, after the...

On the Edge of A Dream: Magic and Madness in Bali

by Michael Wiese

Michael Wiese shares his story of adventure on the magical island of Bali

Speedboat

by Renata Adler & Guy Trebay

When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late ’70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before. It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel, but it wore its unconventionality with ease. Reading it...

The Winged Seed: A Remembrance

by Li-Young Lee

A reissue of acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee's heart-wrenching memoir, with a new foreword by the author and never-before-seen photos.

Where Tigers Are at Home

by Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès & Mike Mitchell

Winner of the Prix Médicis, this multifaceted literary novel follows the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher across 17th century Europe and Eleazard von Wogau, a retired French correspondent, through modern Brazil....

Novel Without Lies & Cynics

by Anatoly Mariengof

The turbulent life of the great poet Yesenin against the flamboyant background of Bohemian Moscow in the 1920.

The Long Shadows

by Andrew Erlich & Cara van Miriah

The Long Shadows: A True-Life Novel

The Long Shadows is a fascinating true-life novel about Jacob Reuben Erlich, who, at 8 foot 6, was among the tallest men in the world. Best known by his stage name, Jack Earle,...

Gray

by Pete Wentz & James Montgomery

Sometimes, late at night in the hotel room, after the lights have gone out and the mistakes have already been made, when it is heavy and silent and still, I lie awake and listen to my pulse on the pillow…...

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story

by Dave Eggers

"Exhilarating….Profoundly moving, occasionally angry, and often hilarious….A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is, finally, a finite book of jest, which is why it succeeds so brilliantly" (The New...

An Enlarged Heart: A Personal History

by Cynthia Zarin

An Enlarged Heart, the exquisitely written prose debut from prize-winning poet Cynthia Zarin, is a poignantly understated exploration of the author’s experiences with love, work, and the surprise of time’s...

Firefly

by Severo Sarduy & Mark Fried

By the Prix Médicis-winning Cuban writer, a bildungsroman that responds to the questions of the "Boom" generation.

A Country Doctor's Notebook

by Mikhail Bulgakov & Michael Glenny

Part autobiography, part fiction, this early work by the author of The Master and Margarita shows a master at the dawn of his craft, and a nation divided by centuries of unequal progress.

In 1916 a 25-year-old,...

Ostrich Legs

by Alicia Kozameh

Partially autobiographical, this is a masterpiece of introspective, linguistically innovative fiction about the relationship between two sisters, one severely handicapped, the other gifted yet overlooked. Mariana...

The Chaplain

by Maurice Russell

Bill entered enthusiastically into pastoral ministry. But neither he nor his young bride, Esther, were prepared for the demands of raising children on the income provided by a small town church. Then Bill discovered...

The Road Home

by Eliza Thomas

It occurred to Eliza Thomas when she hit her forties that home might be "someplace you made." A modest cabin in the woods of Vermont seemed like a good place to start. Thomas's funny, heartwarming experiences...

Dare To Be A Daniel: Then and Now

by Tony Benn

Born into a family with a strong, radical dissenting tradition in which enterprise and public service were combined, Tony Benn was taught to believe that the greatest sin in life was to waste time and money....

Muck City: Winning and Losing in Football's Forgotten Town

by Bryan Mealer

In a town deep in the Florida Everglades, where high school football is the only escape, a haunted quarterback, a returning hero, and a scholar struggle against terrible odds.

The loamy black “muck” that...

A Thousand Strands of Black Hair

by Seiko Tanabe & Meredith McKinney

This book examines and re-imagines the turbulent and intertwined lives of Akiko Yosano (1878–1942) and Tekkan Yosano (1873–1935), two poets who sparked a revolution in the world of Japanese ‘tanka’ (short-verse...

Island Songs

by Alex Wheatle

‘She wondered what kind of world she had brought her two daughters into – the tedious cycle of rural Jamaican life. No chance for them to set off upon adventures and see the outside world.’

But sisters Jenny...

The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir

by Toni Bentley

Few women do it and even fewer will admit to it. But in Toni Bentley's daring and intimate memoir, The Surrender, she pulls the sheets back on an erotic experience that's been forbidden since the Bible and celebrates...