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In this heart-stopping, original debut, Hassman tells the story of young Rory Hendrix, who is determined to get out of the Reno trailer park where she lives with her bartender mother and prove she's not the feeble-minded imbecile she's been labeled.

Declan O Donnell has sailed out of Oregon and deep into the vast, wild ocean, having had just finally enough of other people and their problems. He will go it alone, he will be his own country, he will be beholden to and beloved of no one.

[Schulte's] a detective in a murder mystery: Who killed America's leisure time, and how do we get it back?"-Lev Grossman, TimeWhen award-winning journalist Brigid Schulte, a harried mother of two, realized she was living a life of all work and no play, she decided to find out why she felt so overwhelmed. This book is the story of what she discovered-and of how her search for answers became a journey toward a life of less stress and more leisur...

Spanning six continents and more than 10, 000 years, this is a riveting story of a young couple whose shared visions reveal an ancient mystery - and prove that true love can withstand the test of time.

Graceland is a dazzling debut by a singular new talentThe sprawling, swampy, cacophonous city of Lagos, Nigeria, provides the backdrop to the story of Elvis, a teenage Elvis impersonator hoping to make his way out of the ghetto. Broke, beset by floods, and beatings by his alcoholic father, and with no job opportunities in sight, Elvis is tempted by a life of crime. Thus begins his odyssey into the dangerous underworld of Lagos, guided by his f...

Rendered with irresistible brio and dazzling intelligence, MR. PENUMBRA'S 24-HOUR BOOKSTORE is exactly what it sounds like: an establishment you have to enter and will never want to leave. "A book about passion-for books, for history, for the future...There is nothing about MR. PENUMBRA'S 24-HOUR BOOKSTORE that I didn't love."-Cory Doctorow.

Yoko Ogawa's The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family. He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem-ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young Housekeeper-with a ten-year-old son-who is hired to care for the Professor. And every morning, as t...

In her groundbreaking reporting over the past few years, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism". Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People are still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment", losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. THE...

Friedman, an influential columnist, and Mandelbaum, a leading foreign policy thinker, analyze four American challenges--globalization, information technology, chronic deficits, and energy consumption--and show what America needs to do.

National Bestseller"Endlessly entertaining." -TimeKezia, Nathaniel, and Victor are reunited at the extravagant wedding of a college friend. Now at the tail end of their twenties, they arrive absorbed in their own lives, but soon slip back into old roles: Victor loves Kezia. Kezia loves Nathaniel. Nathaniel loves Nathaniel.During the reception, an inebriated Victor passes out in the mother of the groom's bedroom. He's woken with a jovial slap t...

Explore how entrepreneurial thinking can dramatically improve your work, life and relationshipsHaving the drive, ambition and inspiration to start a new business takes a special mind-set and self-confidence-think Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg. It's no wonder that we regard successful entrepreneurs as modern-day magicians, transforming sometimes-radical ideas into global brands that change the way we live our lives. But what if that sp...

In a series of personal letters, Omar Saif Ghobash tackles our current global crisis with the training of a diplomat and the responsibility of a father. Today's young Muslims will be tomorrow's leaders, and yet many are vulnerable to extremist propaganda. How can moderate Muslims unite to find a voice that is true to Islam while engaging in the modern world? What does it mean to be a good Muslim?

Longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction . A Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction . A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction . A Finalist for the James Taite Black Prize for Fiction . A Finalist the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize . A Finalist for the Green Carnation Prize . A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice . A Los Angeles Times BestsellerNamed One of the Best Books of the Year by More Th...

From the author of The Fever comes a dramatic history of pandemics: "If the words, and beyond, in [the] subtitle don't grab a reader's attention, they should" (Booklist, starred review)

No other Auschwitz survivor has been as literarily powerful as Primo Levi. Yet Levi was not only a victim or a witness. In the fall of 1943, at the very start of the Italian Resistance, he was a fighter, participating in the first attempts to launch guerrilla warfare against occupying Nazi forces. This book reconstructs the events of 1943.

In these lively and fascinating essays, scientists from around the world weigh in on the latest advances in the search for intelligent life in the universe and discuss just what that might look like. Since 2000, science has seen a surge in data and interest on several fronts related to E.T. (extraterrestrials), A.I. (artificial intelligence), and SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence). The debate has intensified over whether life exis...

A "New York Times Book Review" Editors' Choice E. M. Forster's homosexuality was the central fact of his life. Between Wilde's imprisonment and the Stonewall riots, Forster led a long, strange, and imaginative life as a gay man. He preserved a vast archive of his private life---a history of gay experience he believed would find its audience in a happier time. Seeing Forster's life through the lens of his sexuality, Wendy Moffat's biography off...

Ah, Beach Week: a time-honored tradition in which the D.C. suburbs' high school grads flock to Chelsea Beach for seven whole days of debauchery. In this dark comedy, ten teenage girls plan an unhinged blowout the likes of which their young lives have never seen. They smuggle vodka in water bottles and horde prescription drugs by the dozen. Meanwhile, their misguided, affluent parents are too busy worrying about legal liabilities to fret over s...

Kenny Becker just dumped his girlfriend--the reasons are a little complex. Young and newly unemployed, his main assets at the moment are six-pack abs and a healthy libido--he's ready to get out, find a little action, and maybe find himself too. But New York is no place for the lonely, and with one meaningless sexual encounter after another, Kenny begins to wonder if the singles scene is not itself a complete con job, with his heart and his fut...

From the Bestselling Author of "Lush Life"Peter Keller, first college grad from a working-class Yonkers family, thought he was on the road to success. Until no law school wanted him. As he watches his friends advance into promising careers, he jumps from job to job---mail clerk, phone solicitor, stand-up comic---until he breaks down and starts phoning in bomb threats on his own house. He's going to have to work hard to change the pattern of se...