Playing Through the Whistle

From a Sports Illustrated senior writer, a moving epic of football and industrial America, telling the story of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, its now-shuttered steel mill, and its legendary high school team….

A Place of Healing for the Soul

“France’s conversion is deeply touching. His sense of unworthiness, of nagging doubt, of willingness to plunge ahead regardless, gives to the traditional conversion tale a modern spin. This is religious…

The Notebook, The Proof, and The Third Lie

“A haunting, harrowing tale that lingers in the imagination long after you’ve turned the last page.” –The Washington Post Book World…

Lost Kingdom

A sweeping epic of the brutal clash between a relentlessly expanding capitalist empire and a vulnerable Polynesian island kingdom, in a story of a breathtaking land grab.

An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

“Suzuki’s works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism that recent decades have produced . . . We cannot be sufficiently grateful to…

The Hidden Oasis

The third novel from international best-selling author Paul Sussman, The Hidden Oasis is an action-packed thriller about an American mountain climber and a British professor who set out to solve…

The Hadj

“The most engaging of travel books . . . his pilgrimage will move people of all faiths–and of none at all, because it describes a universal journey for meaning, transcendence…

The Explorers

By the Grand Canal

An exquisite novel redolent of Venice and the haze of World War I by the author of the award-winning Kate Caterina…

Breath Taking

From an expert in pulmonary medicine, the story of our extraordinary lungs, the organ that both explains our origins and holds the keys to our future as a species