The Way and Its Power

A guide to transcending everyday appearances and dilemmas in order to find peace in the immortal spirit of Tao.

The Waters of Eternal Youth

In the twenty-fifth novel in Donna Leon’s celebrated and bestselling series, Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti finds himself caught up in a tragedy that befell a girl fifteen years earlier….

The War Diaries

Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light

A powerful, important novel about the struggle between the ideal and the temptations of freedom.

The Victorian Visitors

“Delightful . . . This eloquent and witty book does much to rescue Victorian Britain from its traditional image as a place of stolid public rectitude.” –Ben MacIntyre, The New…

Vedanta

“Torwesten makes lucid the long history of Vedantic Hinduism, but he also maintains a genuine Vedantic poise: open, scrupulous, serene but engaged.” –David Elliott, San Diego Union…

Untamed

The story of a rugged island and the remarkable woman who has spent decades fighting all takers—including the Carnegies, commercial shrimpers, and the government—to preserve its precious wilderness and save…

Unspeak

“A sharply articulated, well-documented expos of the political and economic manipulation of language. . . . A necessary public service in prose occasionally rendered sarcastic by the absurdity of the…

Under the Roofs of Paris

“Vintage Miller! . . . In terms of wit and audacity, it is probably his most successful work.” —Terry Southern…

The Trophy Child

There’s nothing quite like a mother’s love . . . but how much is too much before maternal ambition for a perfect child jeopardizes the delicate balance of family life…