The rise, and fall, and rise again of tennis sensation Maria Sharapova In the middle of the night, a father and his daughter step off a Greyhound bus in Florida and head straight to the Nick Bollettie
It's been a brutal year for the rookie New Orleans cop Maureen Coughlin. Her first arrests, her first black eye, and, after a stinging brush with the corrupt heart of her adopted city, her first suspe
An enthralling true-life story about a daring escape from one of Mao Zedong’s prisonsMao Zedong’s labor reform camps were notoriously brutal; modeled after the Soviet gulag, their inmates were subject
New Orleans’s toughest female cop tackles her very first Mardi GrasNow that she’s back on the force and her work with the FBI is over, Maureen Coughlin should have a quieter life. Until Mardi Gras rol
When Helen Gurley Brown’s Sex and the Single Girl first appeared in 1962, it whistled into buttoned-down America like a bombshell: Brown declared that it was okay— even imperative—for unmarried women
YOU BELONG TO ME . . . Paul Reeves is a successful immigration lawyer, but his passion is collecting old maps of New York, tangible records of the city’s rich history in an increasingly digital world.
From the bestselling author Christobel Kent, a high-strung, bone-chilling, heart-stopping plunge into the desolate byways of England’s Essex, in search of a missing barmaid named BethSome say Beth’s d
A witty new novel about three self-proclaimed “old bags” who run off to a Greek islandSince their children left home, Ruth, Dania, and Bess have grown used to living wonderfully free lives. Only now t
A bold and deeply researched biography of a complicated cultural iconWhen Helen Gurley Brown published Sex and the Single Girl in 1962, it sold more than two million copies in just three weeks, presag
From the author of Apple Tree Yard, a masterful thriller about espionage, love, and redemptionJohn Harper is in hiding in a remote hut on a tropical island. As he lies awake at night, listening to the
Based on the popular New York Times series, life-changing wisdom from an unexpected source: America’s oldest oldIn 2015, the award-winning New York Times journalist John Leland set out to meet some of
A taut and absorbing thriller about a murdered husband who may not have been so loving after allFran Hall and her husband, Nathan, live in a run-down farmhouse on the edge of the Fens, where they rece
You can learn a lot about a husband by reading his e-mail—sometimes, too muchKate, a senior executive at a multinational hotel company, has devoted her life to her job and her family. Catering to the
An intimate new biography of Joni Mitchell, one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth centuryJoni Mitchell is a cultural touchstone for generations of Americans. In her heyday she released ten ex
As the first wave of pioneers travel westward to settle the American frontier, two women discover their inner strength when their lives are irrevocably changed by the hardship of the wild west in The
For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year.
“I’ll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his.”In Bringing Down the Colonel, the journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely nineteenth-century women’s
Our best-laid plans will yield to fate.And we will say, “We lived. We ate.”Roy Blount Jr. is one of America’s most cherished comic writers. He’s been compared to Mark Twain and James Thurber, and his
When most people hear the word “witches,” they think of horror films and Halloween, but to the nearly one million Americans who practice Paganism today, witchcraft is a nature-worshipping, polytheisti
"A masterpiece." —The Washington Post"It was impossible. All of China was a prison in those days."Mao Zedong’s labor reform camps, known as the laogai, were notoriously brutal. Modeled on the Soviet G
