When We Were Romans

By Matthew Kneale

Nine-year-old Lawrence is the man in his family. He carefully watches over his willful little sister, Jemima, and his mother, Hannah. When Hannah becomes convinced that their estranged father is st...

Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right

By Bill Bryson

One of the English language's most skilled and beloved writers guides us all towards precise, mistake-free usage.In the middle 1980s Bill Bryson was a copy editor for the London Times with the bras...

One Summer: America, 1927

By Bill Bryson

In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest of the time), a semi-crazed sculptor with a mad plan to carve fou...

7,000 Universes: How the Languages We Speak Shape the Ways We Think

By Lera Boroditsky

The Fortress

By Danielle Trussoni

"A page-turner and a profound meditation on the nature of desire and freedom in the modern age." —Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of WildThe critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling auth...

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home: A Novel

By Lorrie Moore

"Get ready to expand your sense of what Lorrie Moore—and a novel—can do." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post, on A Gate at the StairsFrom "one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generat...

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home: A Novel

By Lorrie Moore

"Fifty years from now, it may well turn out that the work of very few American writers has as much to say about what it means to be alive in our time as that of Lorrie Moore." —Harper's MagazineLor...

The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island

By Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson returns to his internationally beloved topic, Britain, with his first travel book in fifteen years.In 1995, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly i...

Birds Art Life

By Kyo Maclear

A writer's search for inspiration, beauty and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life—a field guide to things small and significant.For Vladimir N...

The Imposters: A Novel

By Tom Rachman

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Imperfectionists, the story of a chameleonic writer desperate to finish her final book, and the indelible characters from her own life who intru...