Wooden Spoon Book of Home-Style Soups, Stews, Chowders, Chilis & Gumbo

A collection of 150 proven recipes for soups shows readers how to create Tomato and Bread Soup with Pesto, Cool as a Cucumber Soup, and others.

Cubop City Blues

“Rich and stunning . . . with an incredibly intricate scaffolding . . . Another triumph.” —Rigoberto Gonzalez, Los Angeles Review of Books…

Cold Mountain

“Charles Frazier has taken on a daunting task–and has done extraordinarily well by it… a Whitmanesque foray into America: into its hugeness, its freshness, its scope and its soul.” —James…

The Driftless Area

“Drury ties up all the threads (Shane, the fire, Stella) with consummate skill. . . . The bittersweet ending is a perfect mix of light and dark. Drury is a…

The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

In this spellbinding and fiercely subversive retelling of the life of Jesus, a best-selling, award-winning writer reimagines the most influential story ever told.

Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea

“A marvelous tale, with generous portions of history, adventure, intrigue, heroism, and high technology interwoven . . . Gary Kinder has the skill to put it all together, and luckily…

Scotland

Dogleg Madness

“The thrill of the first tee shot of the U.S. Open, the agony of the shank on the muni course–they’re all here in Mike Bryan’s Dogleg Madness, an account of…

Baise-Moi (Rape Me)

“A small revolution.” –Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly…

Pass Over

From an extraordinary new voice in American theater, a startling play that examines the cyclical ravages of racial injustice and violence on two young black men.