Alison Lurie Originally published in 1974, a humorous novel set against an American academic background, telling of how a professor's stable relationship and family life comes apart when he embarks...

Adam Gopnik On every page of this delicious book you will meet characters and situations that tell you this could only be New York. The parents who are determined to...

Susan Schmidt and Michael WeisskopfWhat drove the man who nearly toppled a presidency and forced the most serious constitutional crisis in twenty-five years? Conventional wisdom portrays Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr...

Turtle Dream: Collected Stories from the Hopi, Navajo, Pueblo, and Havasupai PeopleWritten by Gerald HausmanIllustrated by Sid HausmanA collection of stories about Native Americans in the Southwest.112 pages, Paperback Published...

Ben Maxwell William T. Wescott tried minding his own business and staying out of trouble. When war engulfed the country, he moved his family safely out of the way and...

Guy LarsonWar Dogs: The True Story of How Three Stoners From Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History Soon to be a major motion picture from the director...

Jonathan Raban From the best-selling author of Passage to Juneau—“Raban at his best,” wrote Ian McEwan—an unsettling, tender, and always surprising novel set in Seattle at the turn of the...

Nancy Isenberg In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to the present, Nancy Isenberg takes on our comforting myths about equality, uncovering the...

Pamela S Nadell and Jonathan D Sarna, editorsIn April 1998, the front page of the Los Angeles Times proclaimed that Jews "live in extraordinary times, when American women have transformed...