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A Killing in This Town

by Olympia Vernon

“Viscerally moving . . . A fugue of folk idiom, blues, biblical diction and surreal imagery makes for lots of atmosphere.” –Publishers Weekly…

Kamchatka

by Marcelo Figueras

A man recalls his experience as a ten-year-old boy hiding in a safe house during Argentina’s “Dirty War” in this commanding and spellbinding novel from internationally best-selling author Marcelo Figueras….

Jasmine

by Bharati Mukherjee

“A fable, a kind of impressionistic prose-poem, about being an exile, a refugee, a spiritual vagabond in the world today; Mukherjee has eloquently succeeded.” –The New York Times…

Eveningland

by Michael Knight

In his powerful new short story cycle, Alabama-born Michael Knight illuminates the everyday beauty and heartache of life along the shores of serene, history-haunted Mobile Bay in the days leading…

A Diamond in the Desert

by Jo Tatchell

Part history, part memoir, part travel guide, this search for the mysteries behind one of the world’s richest cities is “the best book . . . on the Gulf coast…

A Visitation of Spirits

by Randall Kenan

“With A Visitation of Spirits, Randall Kenan continues James Baldwin’s legendary tradition of ‘telling it on the mountain.’”—San Francisco Chronicle…

Chasing Kangaroos

by Tim Flannery

“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…

Howard Hawks

by Todd McCarthy

“Spectacular . . . McCarthy’s thick, rich biography . . . chronicles in vivid detail how perhaps the last great popular artist in the movies worked.” –Los Angeles Times Book…

The Middleman and Other Stories

by Bharati Mukherjee

“Bharati Mukherjee, in this astonishing second book of short stories, zeroes in on uneasy terrain that no one has looked at with quite so clear an eye since approximately World…

12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time

by Mark Jacobson

“Jacobson is a very funny writing. . . . He also weaves in enough memoir . . . to tie the current adventure to a larger question of what it…