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The Other Side of Power

by Claude Steiner

“Many people who have fulfilled the ‘power dream’ found it empty and have given it up; the American Dream has become a dead-end street.”—Dr. Claude Mr. Steiner, 1981

Mukiwa

by Peter Godwin

“From time to time a book comes out of Africa that is so good it grips American readers by their hearts. This should be one of them.” –The Washington Post…

Keys Cuisine

by Linda Gassenheimer

“Linda Gassenheimer has brilliantly filled in a missing piece of the regional American food jigsaw puzzle–amusing and delicious, well-researched food from the seductive Florida Keys.” –Barbara Kafka, author of Microwave…

The Kentucky Cycle

by Robert Schenkkan

A sweeping epic of three families in eastern Kentucky that spans two hundred years of American history, awarded the Pulitzer Prize, now reissued for a new audience.

Just Cause

by John Katzenbach

“[A] riveting, provocative story . . . The criminal mind, racial bias, journalistic ego, and the flawed fabric of the American criminal justice system are potent raw materials for psychological…

How to Get a Monkey into Harvard

by Charles Monagan

In this hilarious spoof on college-admissions guidebooks, Charles Monagan injects warmhearted humor into that American rite of passage.

History of Wolves

by Emily Fridlund

A BEA Buzz Book Selection and one of the most daring literary debuts of the season, a profound and propulsive novel from an urgent new voice in American fiction.

The Hidden Oasis

by Paul Sussman

The third novel from international best-selling author Paul Sussman, The Hidden Oasis is an action-packed thriller about an American mountain climber and a British professor who set out to solve…

Healing Earthquakes

by Jimmy Santiago Baca

“Jimmy Santiago Baca is a force in American poetry. Now, with Healing Earthquakes, he has accomplished its grand result in a book of brilliant passion. His words heal, inspire, and…

The Great Divorce

by Ilyon Woo

“Modern Americans, bombarded with stories of celebrity divorces, probably assume that the tabloid breakup is a recent phenomenon. This lively, well-written and engrossing tale proves them wrong.” —The New York…