Maggie Darling

“A gourmet writing performance…Maggie Darling reads like a delicious feast on a beautifully laid table, with great sex after. Wonderfully entertaining.” –Candace Bushnell, author of Sex And The City…

Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe

…book at once so dramatic and so subtle that it rivals the best fiction.” —Debby Applegate, author of The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher…

Long Way to Go

“Not since Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma has anyone laid bare America’s racial problems with such clarity, insight and drama. Coleman has written a classic.” –Morris Dees, Southern Poverty Law…

The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings

An exhaustive catalogue of sexual aberrations and the first systematic exploration of the psychology of sex. Lost after the storming of the Bastille in 1789, it was later retrieved but…

Land of Lincoln

“Ferguson’s story, a fascinating collection of his reporting, is about us as much as Lincoln. It is a vibrant and consistently surprising account that chases the wraithlike spirit of the…

Killing Dragons

“Excellent popular history, with its proper share of mad dogs and Englishmen. . . . dramatic and masterful.” –Anthony Brandt, National Geographic Adventure…

House Divided

In House Divided, fixer Joe DeMarco gets caught between two of the most powerful organizations in the world: the Pentagon and the National Security Agency….

The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett

“Ackerley and Gontarski have amassed an amazing amount of information about Samuel Beckett and his works, which constitutes The Grove Companion. The volume will prove useful to everyone–from the neophyte…

Great Apes

“A high-powered satirical weapon . . . with Great Apes, his most satisfying book so far, Will Self establishes himself as an alpha male in the British literary hierarchy.” –The…

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