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An account of a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism.On June 2, 1892, in the small, idyllic village of Port Jervis, New York, a young Black man named Robert Lewis was lynched by a violent mob. The twenty-eight-year-old victim had been accused of sexually assaulting Lena McMahon, the daughter of one of the town's well-liked Irish American families. The incident was infamous at once, for i...

Ida Noe's Free Yourself from Emotionally Immature Parents is a journal for moving beyond a toxic upbringing...

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In considering the pleasures and absurdities of her native culture, Julia Reed quotes another Southern writer, Willie Morris, who said, "It's the juxtapositions that get you down here." These juxtapositions are, for Julia, the soul of the South, and in her warmhearted and funny new book, South Toward Home, she chronicles her adventures through the highs and the lows of Southern life-taking us everywhere from dive bars and the Delta Hot Tamale ...

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER"The book equivalent of a beach getaway." -PopSugar"A stunning debut." -BookRiotThe instant national bestseller about the generations of a family that spends summers in a seaside enclave on Maine's rocky coastline, for fans of Elin Hilderbrand and Beatriz Williams.1944: Maren Larsen is a blonde beauty from a small Minnesota farming town, determined to do her part to help the war effort--and to see the world beyond he...

Beth Kempton's The Way of the Fearless Writer is a mindful approach to the writing life, based on Buddhist thought...

A sprawling collection of essays about the subcultures of the 1960s by Tom Wolfe, the revolutionary journalist and novelistWhen Tom Wolfe smashed his way into the literary scene in 1965 with The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, he transformed reporting in American popular culture. For his second book, Wolfe traveled from La Jolla to London in search of new lifestyles. The Pump House Gang is the result: a collection of essays that...

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From New York Times bestselling author Susan Wilson comes What a Dog Knows, another heartwarming novel about humans and the dogs that change our lives.Ruby Heartwood has spent her life running away. Away from the orphanage where she was left as a newborn, away from those who exploited her, and away from the man who raped her. She ran from child welfare authorities as a runaway and teenage mother. She's never stayed put. She's never felt connec...

Royal correspondent Valentine Low takes readers behind closed doors to explore the rich history of the Courtiers who advise the royal family and the influence they have on the British Monarchy today...

Fresh off the critical acclaim of his Los Angeles Times Book Prize-nominated Envy the Night, Michael Koryta returns with a blistering new installment in the Lincoln Perry series: The Silent Hour.Whisper RidgeHome to DreamsOctober 2, 1992--April 12, 1996So reads the strange epitaph carved beside the door of the home called Whisper Ridge, a multi-million-dollar piece of architectural majesty that once housed the beginnings of a unique program fo...

You're NextGregg HurwitzMike Wingate had a rough childhood--he was abandoned at a playground at four years old and raised in foster care. No one ever came to claim him, and he has only a few, fragmented memories of his parents. Now, as an adult, Mike is finally living the life he had always wanted--he's happily married to Annabel, the woman of his dreams, they have a wonderful young daughter, and his successful construction company guarantees ...

Poems for Life, edited by Taylor Randolph, presents poetry to inspire and transform the everyday...

From an award-winning team of authors, editors, and translators comes a groundbreaking short story collection that explores the expanse of Chinese science fiction and fantasy.In The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, you can dine at a restaurant at the end of the universe, cultivate to immortality in the high mountains, watch roses perform Shakespeare, or arrive at the island of the gods on the backs of giant fish to ensure that the world c...

New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear continue the story of North America's Forgotten Past in People of the Nightland, a sweeping saga of a visionary boy who led his people out of the path of one of the worst catastrophes in the history of the world, and the brave little girl who loved him enough to believe in his dream.It has been a thousand years since Wolf Dreamer lead his people up throug...

Set in 1980s suburban Massachusetts with the nostalgia of Stranger Things, New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden's horror drama All Hallows follows neighborhood kids and families over the course of one Halloween day...

John Lisle reveals the untold story of the OSS Research and Development Branch, AKA The Dirty Tricks Department, and their role in World War II...

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