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Harlem
by Jonathan Gill“[A] panoramic history . . . Gill blends high-density research, political and cultural sophistication, and narrative drive to produce an epic worthy of its fabled subject.” —Edward Kosner, The Wall…
Happy Family
by Wendy Lee“Rich and multilayered, Lee’s novel explores what it means to be a part of something, whether it’s a family or a culture. Told in Hua’s sparse, somber voice, the story…
Ghosts from the Nursery
by Robin Karr-Morse“Karr-Morse and Wiley boldly raise some tough issues. . . . [They] start with a grim question—why are children violent?—and they forge a passionate and cogent argument for focusing our…
The Fighter’s Mind
by Sam SheridanFrom the author of the critically-acclaimed best-seller A Fighter’s Heart comes an unprecedented look inside the minds of the world’s top fighters and trainers….
The Beholder’s Eye
by Walt Harrington“Aims to dispel the old journalistic clich”: that a journalist writing about him/herself is always ‘self-indulgent and, quite likely, narcissistic.” He couldn’t have put together a better lineup of writers…
The Long Emergency
by James Howard Kunstler“[A] popular blueprint for surviving the end of oil.” –Paul Greenberg, The New York Times Book Review…
What It Is Like to Go to War, by Karl Marlantes
by Karl MarlantesFrom the author of the New York Times best seller Matterhorn, which has sold over 250,000 copies, What It Is Like to Go to War is a powerful nonfiction book…
The Flowers
by Dagoberto Gilb“The prospect of reading a novel narrated in run-on sentences, fragments, Spanish phrases and street slang might seem daunting, but not when you meet the precocious, Holden Caufieldesque narrator of…
Son of the Old West
by Nathan WardAn epic narrative of the Old West through the vivid, outsized life of cowboy, detective, and chronicler Charlie Siringo
The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez
by John Rechy“A gritty picture of life on the cusp . . . vividly rendered.” —Kirkus Reviews…