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On the Water

by H. M. van den Brink

“In beautifully vivid writing, van den Brink describes the grace, ecstasy and agony of rowing, the miracle of its teamwork harmony.” —Washington Post…

On the Missionary Trail

by Tom Hiney

“On the Missionary Trail . . . illuminate[s] the struggles of the nineteenth-century men and women who risked–and often lost–their lives to bring Christianity and civilization to the remotest corners…

Old Flames

by John Lawton

“A rich mixture of political intrigue and old-fashioned mayhem. . . . Tangled webs of deceit are standard in mysteries, but British author John Lawton takes the idea to nearly…

The Old Ball Game

by Frank Deford

“[Deford] tips a journalist’s fedora, rather than a child’s cap, to one of the most remarkable pairings in sports history.” –Alan Schwarz, The New York Times Book Review…

October, Eight O’Clock

by Norman Manea

“The reader becomes absorbed at once. The background is dreamlike but terribly familiar. . . . Manea’s prose treads the edge of the poetry of nightmare.” –John Bayley, The New…

Nineteen Sixty-Eight in America

by Charles Kaiser

“A splendidly evocative account of a historic year—a year of tumult, of trauma, and of tragedy.”—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

The New Book of Lists

by David Wallechinsky

“Packed with more fascinating, trivial, vital, and perverse non sequiturs than you can shake an encyclopedia at.” –The New York Times Book Review…

Neither Snow Nor Rain

by Devin Leonard

Few institutions are as loved, as loathed, and as historically important as the United States Post Office, the subject of this landmark century-spanning social, political, and economic history.

Nebraska

by Ron Hansen

“Beautifully crafted stories. . . . Wickedness, evil, malice is called by name; and for Hansen’s people the snake in the garden never fails to appear.” –The New York Times…

The Natural Order of Things

by António Lobo Antunes

“The Natural Order of Things . . . reads like William Faulkner or Céline . . . gorgeous . . . bedeviled [and] lyrical . . . a remarkable writer.”…