Vietnam Plays Vol 1 [Basic Training]

Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes

…human comedy. Her wry portrayals of human folly sometimes lack sympathy, but Highsmith condescends wittily and without favor, and so we soon cease to take offense.” —The New York Times…

The Rising Sun

…. . vivid enough to make the reader’s body ache . . . . We are dealing with a very accomplished writer.” –Geoff Nicholson, The New York Times Book Review…

The Healing Land

“A more clear-sighted view [of the Bushmen] is long overdue–which makes Rupert Isaacson’s book most welcome.” –The Economist…

An Explorer’s Notebook

From internationally acclaimed scientist Tim Flannery, captivating essays and articles on the wonders of the natural world.

Delicious

“At once sexy and repulsive, the novel manages to plant sharp moral and cultural barbs in its gorge-feast of a plot.” —Publishers Weekly…

The Devil That Danced on the Water

“Powerful. . . . At once impassioned, lucid, and understandably enraged, The Devil That Danced on the Water illuminates the troubled, tragic history of a country and a continent.” —O,…

Wilmington’s Lie

From Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, an extraordinary event unknown to most Americans

The Hard Stuff

In the hotly-anticipated sequel to David Gordon’s critically-acclaimed and “brilliantly goofy” (New York Times) The Bouncer, New York City’s most hardened mob bosses team up once again, this time to…

Wanting

…with exquisite precision. . . . An entirely unified meditation on desire, ‘the cost of its denial, the centrality and force of its power in human affairs.’” —The New Yorker…