T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E.

“Shakur produces a visceral and strikingly real portrayal of gang life in Los Angeles, replete with sudden and inexplicable violence, revenge, betrayal, ostentatious living, racism, the strong arm of law…

1942

From the author of Forrest Gump and A Storm in Flanders, a riveting chronicle of America’s most critical hour….

Levi’s Children

The Beholder’s Eye

“Aims to dispel the old journalistic clich”: that a journalist writing about him/herself is always ‘self-indulgent and, quite likely, narcissistic.” He couldn’t have put together a better lineup of writers…

Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold

“Cocker has written a book on a broad subject, the kind that professional historians too rarely produce. . . . Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold is a heroic attempt…

Miss Witherspoon & Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge

“An endearingly meditative farce . . . It’s a pleasure to note that [Durang] hasn’t lost his screwball.” –Richard Corliss, Time…

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

…is a hilarious story of life, love, and family that tells the surprising and delightful story of a young man’s unusual path to fame in a small Northern Indian city…

Confessions of a Mullah Warrior

From an Afghan with deep roots in his nation’s history, a courageous and evocative memoir of fleeing the Soviet invasion, coming of age in a madrassa in Pakistan, fighting the…

Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine

“Leight’s writing remains quick, graceful and generous a worthy companion piece to Side Man.” –Linda Winer, Newsday…

A Diamond in the Desert

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…