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Chicago, 1954. When his father goes missing, twenty-two-year-old army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him.

Compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin.

When feline PI Joe Grey and his companion Dulcie have kittens, a little calico is born with ancient markings. But the celebrations will have to wait.

Electricity is a new power in the early 1900s, and it becomes Roscoe Martin's life work. When his family inherits a failing farm, he uses his electrical skills to siphon energy.

Cal Newport explains how to systematically train the mind to focus and reorganize one's work life so that deep work is at the core.

When John Byrne is arrested in a case of mistaken identity, he is picked up by Thomas Hayes. Hayes, a special ops commander, claims his team has been wrongly accused of terrorism.

When the Nazis start closing in on Vienna, Jewish musical prodigy Lisa Jura is sent to London on the Kindertransport.

Adolf Hitler spent 1924 in a prison near Munich. He passed the year working feverishly on his book Mein Kampf.

Following in the footsteps of the great explorers, Levison Wood recounts the beauty and danger he found as he trekked more than one thousand miles across the roof of the world.

Since finding a dead earl tied to his missing sister's bed, Captain Harcourt is at the mercy of the captivating Miss Ivory Moore of Chegarre & Associates, known for smoothing over the dire

In this utterly unconventional, autobiographical novel, Mark Leyner gives a reading in the food court of a mall.

Vincent Moretti is one of the NYPD's top homicide detectives who has spent years working alongside his longtime partner, Jill--who drives him crazy with desire.

As cyber attacks dominate front-page news, Fred Kaplan probes the most secretive government agencies to tell the never-before-told story of the policymakers, scientists, and spies who devised a new

If the Oceans Were Ink is Carla Power's eye-opening story of how she and her longtime friend Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi found a way to confront ugly stereotypes and persistent misperceptions

Bob Reynolds doesn't recognize the body in the creek, but he does recognize the danger of it. He's a newcomer to town but not entirely welcome.