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A Short History of Myth

by Karen Armstrong

“What Armstrong does in her skid over the millennia is make comparisons, connections, and contrasts in a way that cannot fail to enlighten the general reader. What myth once did,…

Second Nature

by Michael Pollan

“He’s written a book about gardening that even nongardeners might want to read. . . Pollan can still remember that there are readers of intelligence and curiosity whose gardening habits…

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

“Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead [is] verbally dazzling . . . the most exciting, witty intellectual treat imaginable.” —Edith Oliver, The New Yorker…

Playing Through the Whistle

by S. L. Price

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

by Peter France

“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…

Painted Horses

by Malcolm Brooks

A big, enthralling debut novel of America in its ascendance, of history versus modernity, and a love story of the West, Painted Horses introduces an extraordinary new literary voice….

Once Is Not Enough

by Jacqueline Susann

“[Susann’s] pulp poetry resonates to this day. With her formula of sex, drugs and show business, Susann didn’t so much capture the tenor of her times as she did predict…

Not the End of the World

by Christopher Brookmyre

“Perpetually in-your-face: sassy, irreverent, and stylish . . . [with] a high-octane sense of the absurd.” —The Times (London)…

The Mercy Seat

by Elizabeth Winthrop

A breakout novel by “a bitingly intelligent writer” (New York Times Book Review) set during the hours leading up to the scheduled execution of a young black man for the…

The Making of the Prefident 1789

by Marvin Kitman

“Hilarious . . . The Making of the Prefident 1789 will entertain and fascinate even those who think they hate history.” –James D. Fairbanks, The Houston Chronicle…