An Architectural Record Notable BookA fascinating, thought-provoking journey into our built environment Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend 90 percent of our time inside, shuttling between homes and offices, schools and stores, restaurants and...

Relive the glorious excess of the roaring 1920s with this beautifully designed, jacketed hardcover edition of The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-known novel is set in hedonistic Jazz Age Long Island and tells the story of millionaire Jay...

THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY - Young Readers Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the basis of the HBO TV show, and its proprietor Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective. In this charming...

That the Confederacy in its waning days frantically turned to the idea of arming slaves has long been known by all close students of the Civil War. Yet the more explosive, if unexamined, issue before the southern people and leaders in this last great...

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star. A profoundly moving and deeply personal memoir by the co-host of National Public Radio's flagship program All Things Considered. While exploring...

"Haunting . . . To read The Good Negress is to fall under a spell, to open a window, to fly." --Los Angeles Times Book Review Twenty years after its initial publication, The Good Negress continues to be an important part of the literary canon, as...

Now a Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke and Daveed DiggsWinner of the National Book Award for FictionFrom the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and The Color of Water comes the story of a young boy born a slave...

"A book that should be read . . . Smith brings an alchemic talent to describing physical labor." --The New York Times Book Review "Beautiful, funny, and harrowing." - Sarah Smarsh, The Atlantic "Remarkable . . . this is the book that Hillbilly Elegy...

100+ beloved recipes proving that Southern baking is American baking--from the James Beard Award-winning chef and owner of the New Orleans bakery Willa Jean. "Kelly Fields bakes with the soul of a grandma, the curiosity of a student, and the skill of a...

A TONIGHT SHOW SUMMER READS FINALISTAn electrifying first novel from a riveting new voice in American fiction (George Saunders): A young woman returns to her childhood home in the American South and uncovers secrets about her father's life and...

The story of the 13 courageous black men who integrated the officer corps of the US Navy during World War II--leading desegregation efforts across America and anticipating the civil rights movement Through oral histories and original interviews with...

The story of the 13 courageous black men who integrated the officer corps of the US Navy during World War II--leading desegregation efforts across America and anticipating the civil rights movement Through oral histories and original interviews with...

In January 1944 sixteen black enlisted men gathered at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois to begin a cram course that would turn them into the U.S. Navy's first African-American officers on active duty. The men believed they could set...

A cherished heirloom reveals the destinies of three generations of women in a powerful saga of lost love by the bestselling Greek author of The House by the River.After years spent in Germany struggling to come to terms with a dispirited and abusive...

A beautifully told story of family secrets and conflicting cultural expectations. --Booklist (starred review)A brave reinvention of the immigrant narrative . . . Cesaire's Notebook meets Duras' Lover. Unprecedented --Taiye Selasi, author of Ghana Must Go...

An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of SUNRISE OVER FALLUJA in hardcover.Those shackles didn't rob us of being black, son, they robbed us of being human.This...