Hugh Thomas After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions,...

Siri Hustvedt "The Sorrows of an American" by Siri Hustvedt is a novel that delves into the intricacies of family, memory, grief, and identity. The story revolves around Erik Davidsen,...

John J Patrick The Supreme Court of the United States is an illustrated A-to-Z guide that covers virtually all aspects of the U.S. Supreme Court, including biographical articles on all...

William Appleman Williams One of the first modern historians to integrate economic realities into the study of American foreign policy, William Appleman Williams has been a diplomatic historian of major...

Robert F. Tedeschi Jr.This fast, fun guide to the most influential legal document ever created includes the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the Amendments to the Constitution....

George Packer NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERA NEW YORK TIMES B ESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKAN NPR BEST BOOKSelected by New York Times ' critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite...

Flannery O'ConnorFirst published in 1955, The Violent Bear It Away is now a landmark in American literature. It is a dark and absorbing example of the Gothic sensibility and bracing...

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...

Carlotta Gal A journalist with deep knowledge of the region provides “an enthralling and largely firsthand account of the war in Afghanistan” ( Financial Times ).Few reporters know as much...

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...