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Blood from a Stone

by Donna Leon

“Few detective writers create so vivid, inclusive and convincing a narrative as Donna Leon, the expatriate American with the Venetian heart.” —Paul Skenazy, Washington Post…

Three Plays by Kaufman and Hart

by George Kaufman

“Kaufman and Hart may be the American comic successors to Moli’re. These three plays are still delightfully heady comedy which should bring delight to readers. . . . The comedic…

The Race for the Triple Crown

by Joe Drape

…that make the sport of kings endlessly fascinating. The Race for the Triple Crown is an absorbing read and should not be missed.”–Laura Hillenbrand, author of Seabuiscuit: An American Legend…

Man Gone Down

by Michael Thomas

…novel, Man Gone Down is the story of a young Black father in a biracial marriage trying to claim a piece of the American Dream he has bargained on since…

The Long Fuse

by Don Cook

“Delineating the political culture of corruption and bribery that pervaded London and disgusted Americans like Benjamin Franklin, Cook convincingly concludes that the war was lost as much in London as…

Logic

by Olympia Vernon

“Yes, in the land of American Idol and The Bachelor, there remains a segment of the public that relishes experimental fiction that challenges the heart and the mind. Vernon’s second…

Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties

by Allen Ginsberg

“Ginsberg has been one of the most influential poets in American in our time. . . . It has been a spectacular career, and . . . the thinking that…

The Forger’s Daughter

by Bradford Morrow

Threats, promises, and the allure of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tamerlane—the rarest book in American literature—pull readers back into the dangerous world of literary forgery in this heart-stopping sequel to The…

A Few Stout Individuals

by John Guare

“Vivacious. Individuals is . . . so unmistakably the product of Mr. Guare’s exotic yet very American imagination.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times…

Empire’s Crossroads

by Carrie Gibson

A gripping narrative history of the entire Caribbean, from first exploration to today, by a talented British American historian.