In the late-20th century, gay literature had earned a place at the British and American literary tables, spawning its own constellation of important writers and winning a dedicated audience. This collection of probing interviews represents an attempt to offer a group portrait of the...

Finalist - 2025 American Fiction Awards"A heartfelt but playful romp... with a clever, imaginative world." - Kirkus ReviewsMeet Pearly Gates, the sassiest spirit guide in the afterlife-and maybe the least qualified.After dying and getting dumped by her supposedly eternal soulmate for being "emotionally unevolved,"...

"A dazzling blend of fantasy intrigue and historical drama." Kirkus Reviews (starred review)In 1925 colonial Hong Kong, young herbalist Ling Shaw witnesses a murder committed by a bloodthirsty creature. When her uncle is wrongfully arrested for the crime, she is the only one who...

"An encyclopedic detective story . . . An intellectual triumph."--Anthony Burgess"Foucault's Pendulum is Eco's magical mystery tour of the Western mind. . . . With this book, Eco puts himself in the grand and acerbic tradition of Petronius, Rabelais, Swift, and Voltaire."--Chicago Tribune"Rich and...

Prometheus Rising describes the landscape of human evolution and offers the reader an opportunity to become a conscious participant. In an astoundingly useful road map infused with humor and startling insight, Robert Anton Wilson presents the Eight Circuits of the Brain model as an...

"An illuminating . . . biography and cultural history" (The New York Times) of Virgil Abloh's iconic rise to the top of the fashion industry, which embodied a groundbreaking transformation of the relationship between who we are and what we wear. "[Robin Givhan] captures...

From acclaimed picture-book artist Thao Lam comes a joyful celebration of an oft-maligned body part -- the belly! Maddie and her mom spend a sunny day at the local public pool where she meets and greets friends and neighbors. Maddie is waist-high on most...

"Fans of Circe and Elektra should pick up this powerful Greek myth retelling." --CosmopolitanFor fans of Madeline Miller, a stunning debut following Clytemnestra, the most notorious villainess of the ancient world and the events that forged her into the legendary queen.As for queens, they...

Chase and Ted's week in Berlin started off as a normal sightseeing trip - that was until they came to the assistance of a mugging victim. In rescuing the young man, Kai, they unwittingly open a door into the world of BDSM and power...

Dominanz, Bestrafung, Schmerz und Fesselspiele. BDSM steht für Bondage & Discipline, Dominance & Submission, Sadism & Masochism. Wer sich auf diese Welt einlassen will, kann große Lust erfahren! Die Erotik beginnt im Kopf - um "in Stimmung zu kommen" müssen wir uns also erst...

Now in paperback, the definitive anthology from a writer who "set the standard for newspaper pop-music criticism" (The Philadelphia Inquirer), the New York Times' first chief pop music critic and Rolling Stone contributor Robert Palmer. Robert Palmer's extraordinary knowledge and boundless love of music...

**Finalist, PROSE Award in Clinical Medicine**A rich examination of the history of trans medicine and current day practice Surfacing in the mid-twentieth century, yet shrouded in social stigma, transgender medicine is now a rapidly growing medical field. In Trans Medicine, stef shuster makes an...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: Vox * The Paris Review * NPR * Vanity Fair / A FINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FIRST FICTION James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back...

In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the...

#1 New York Times Bestseller Oprah's Book Club Selection The "extraordinary . . . monumental masterpiece" (Booklist) that changed the course of Ken Follett's already phenomenal career--and begins where its prequel, The Evening and the Morning, ended."Follett risks all and comes out a clear...

A monumentally positive shift in our relationship with Earth. Yet it's invisible. This book will reveal that real and genuine hope. As animals our brains float above the planet's surface. We were made to be mobile and carry our intelligence with us. A huge...

From the acclaimed international bestseller Keigo Higashino (The Devotion of Suspect X) comes a sweeping novel in the tradition of Les Miserables and Crime and Punishment. This is the compelling story of a brutal crime and the two teenagers--Ryo, the son of the murdered...

A deluxe bind-up edition of Naoki Urasawa's award-winning epic of doomsday cults, giant robots and a group of friends trying to save the world from destruction! Humanity, having faced extinction at the end of the 20th century, would not have entered the new millennium...

The first book in Iain M. Banks's seminal science fiction series, The Culture. Consider Phlebas introduces readers to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war, morality, and the limitless bounds of mankind's imagination. The war raged across...

An incomplete family tree prompts author Terry Connell to share his story, in his words - and what a story it is. One of eleven children, Connell spend half of "Slaves" sharing what his life was like growing up a repressed, gay boy in...