A New York Times Notable BookThe compelling behind-the-scenes story of the greatest swindler of the
Gilded Age, whose villainy bankrupted Ulysses S. Grant and stunned the world of finance—told by his great-grandson, award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward. Ferdinand Ward, the son ...
The award-winning “lively and excellent collection” (Los Angeles Times) about the South and its legacy,
about African-American griefs and passages, from the author of Jelly Roll and Black Maria, a poet who has “set himself apart from his peers with ...
From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author, a magnificent, epic novel—funny, clever, sardonic and brilliant (Annie Proulx)—at
last available to contemporary American readers.Set in the early twentieth century, Independent People recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid ...
In this jaunty and intimate collection, Kevin Young invents a language as shimmying and comic,
as low-down and high-hearted, as the music from which he draws inspiration. With titles such as “Stride Piano,” “Gutbucket,” and “Can-Can,” these poems have the ...
A New York Times Notable BookWinner of the Great Lakes Book Award and the 21st
Century Award from the Chicago Public LibraryRaised in an affluent suburb on the North Shore of Chicago, Rich Cohen had a cluster of interesting friends, ...
As an infant, Alice Thorton is found abandoned in a canoe. Adopted by a young
childless couple, she is raised with no knowledge of her family’s history, especially that of her strong female forebears—Eleonora, Signe, and Sophie—who hold a special ...
Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering
a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impactpolitical, demographic, ecological, and psychologicalof disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico ...
These ten wise, extraordinary tales explore the mysteries of love and our complex desire for
connection. Spanning wide and diverse geographies—America, Nepal, South Africa, Germany—they showcase Guterson’s gifts for psychological nuance, emotional suspense, and evocation of the natural world. ...