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The Magic of Reality
The best-selling author of The God Delusion and the artist of such award-winning graphic novels as Wizard and Glass address key scientific questions previously explained by rich mythologies, from the evolution of the first humans and the life cycle of stars to the principles of a rainbow and the origins of the universe. 150,000 first…
Read MoreThe Gloriuos Guinness Girls
From London to Ireland during the 1920s, here is a glorious, gripping, and richly textured story thaat takes us to the heart of the remarkable real-life story of the Guinness Girls — for fans of Downton Abbey and Julian Fellowes’ Belgravia. Aileen. Maureen. Oonagh. The private lives of the Glorious Guinness Girls fascinated a nation.…
Read MoreThe Elegance of the Hedgehog
The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu.
Read MoreThe Big Cheat
Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and dean of Trumpologists David Cay Johnston reveals years of eye-popping financial misdeeds by Donald Trump and his family. While the world watched Donald Trump’s presidency in horror or delight, few noticed that his lifelong grifting quietly continued. Less than forty minutes after taking the oath of office, Trump began turning the…
Read MoreThe French Baker’s War
Occupied France, 1943. Returning home, André Albert finds his four-year-old son in the street, his wife gone, and an emaciated Jewish woman cowering behind the display case.
Read MoreFranny and Zooey
Betty White
Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life is a photography-rich retrospective of the most significant events and achievements of one of America’s most loved and endearing stars.
Read MoreHome is In Between
In the timely yet timeless picture book Home Is in Between, critically acclaimed author Mitali Perkins and illustrator Lavanya Naidu describe the experience of navigating multiple cultures and embracing the complex but beautiful home in between. Shanti misses the warm monsoon rains in India. Now in America, she watches fall leaves fly past her feet.…
Read MoreInto the Dying Light
In Into the Dying Light, the jaw-dropping conclusion to the Age of Darkness trilogy, hearts will shatter, cities will fall, and a god will rise. “Solidifies Katy Rose Pool’s status as one of the best fantasy writers of the 21st century.” —Popsugar on As the Shadow Rises Following the destruction of the City of Mercy,…
Read MoreDumbledore
A brilliant investigation into the motivations and methods behind the actions of Hogwarts’s renowned Headmaster! Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts, is one of the most recognizable and mysterious figures in the Harry Potter series. As an unscrupulous beetle-like journalist once said, he’s “a biographer’s dream.” Is he omniscient or limited? Is he…
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