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When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend’s return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened – while...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Experience the book that started the Quiet Movement"A smart, lively book about the value of silence and solitude."--Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on HappinessNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY People - O: The...

Truly groundbreaking in its treatment of homosexual relationships and the stigma surrounding them in the 1950s, Baldwin's concise masterpiece focuses on David and Hella's separation in Paris and David's subsequent entanglement with the passionate...

This seamless slam-dunk of epic history-telling from the author of the bestselling Killers of the Flower Moon is an eighteenth-century puzzle of high seas intrigue, a fateful shipwreck, mutiny, and a real-life "Lord of the Flies" descent into mayhem,...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens and Homo Deus tells the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world since the Stone Age—with critical implications for the dawn of AI. For the last 100,000...

Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and...

The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a...

#1 New York Times Bestseller"A useful and funny purse-sized manual that could easily replace all the diet books on your bookshelf." —Tara Parker-Pope, The New York TimesA definitive compendium of food wisdomEating doesn’t have...

Learn what sets high achievers apart -- from Bill Gates to the Beatles -- in this #1 bestseller from "a singular talent" (New York Times Book Review). In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of...

**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** "Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth"---Barack Obama What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we...

The companion book to COURSERA(R)'s wildly popular massive open online course Learning How to Learn   Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - From the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom.   "This potent...

RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOX   Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity...

Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011 Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2011 Shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor,...

Although written in 1967, it's time we all caught up with James Baldwin and read (or re-read) this book now. Even our best intentions need to be checked, and James Baldwin's words are the way. A voice from the past, needed as much today and even more so...

Prisoners of Geography’s Tim Marshall unpacks our almost primal instinct for social and political division, and brilliantly deconstructs the walls - both real and electronic - of the future. New from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of...

The inspiration for the new film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny,...

"Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With...

A beautiful new hardback anniversary edition of the multi-million copy sensation.INCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD FROM YUVAL NOAH HARARI.What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers,...

How can we understand what happiness truly is, without first experiencing sadness? All emotions, both positive or not, make us who we are. We love these wise and perceptive musings from the groundbreaking author of Quiet.#1 NEW YORK...