Chasing Kangaroos

“Australian scientist/conservationist/explorer Flannery (The Weather Makers, 2006, etc.) tells the remarkable story of underappreciated marsupials thriving Down Under. . . . Quite exhaustive, fired by boundless exuberance that leaps off…

The American Home Front: 1941-1942

“Revealing portrait. . . . A vivid, endlessly interesting view of the home front.” —Kirkus Reviews…

Badawi

This powerful debut novel by Syrian-born French billionaire Mohed Altrad follows Maïouf, a boy who is a perpetual outsider, from the desert tribe of his ill-fated birth to the South…

Bankei Zen

The Hidden War

“[A] remarkable book . . . Borovik manages to convey an intimate sense of the war in Afghanistan with the novelist’s eye for the telling image. . . . Borovik…

Track Changes

From Bernstein Award-winner Sayed Kashua comes his fourth and most daring, intimate novel yet—a searing exploration of the stories Palestinians and Israelis tell themselves about their lives, their histories, and…

Brecht & Co.

“This biography is fascinating in its diversity of detail and portraiture of a period.” –The Economist…

Pack of Cards

“One of Britain’s most imaginative and important contemporary writers.” –Library Journal…

The Cry of the Dove

“Exquisitely woven.” —Leila Aboulela…

The Woman Lit by Fireflies

“Harrison is unfailingly entertaining but he is much more—a haunting, gifted writer . . . a consummate storyteller—truly one of those writers whose books are hard to put down.” —Los…