"1926 Charlotte Crowninshield was born into one of the finest Boston society families. Now she's on the run from a brutal husband, desperate to disappear into the wilds of the Southwest. Billie MacTavish is the oldest of nine children born to Scottish immigrants in Nebraska. She ...
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A woman police officer in London and a retired Detective Inspector living in Cornwall have a long-ago connection which resurfaces and leads to serious consequences for them both.
"The unbelievable true story of the young woman who faced down one of the most valuable startups in Silicon Valley history--and what came after. In 2017, twenty-five-year-old Susan Fowler published a blog post detailing the sexual harassment and retaliation she'd experienced as a...
"From the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania--"the foremost popular music critic of this era (Times Literary Supplement)--comes the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars, including D...
"An engaging, accessible citizen's guide to the seven urgent changes that will really make a difference for our climate--and how we can hold our governments accountable for putting these plans into action. Dozens of kids in Montgomery County, Maryland, agitated until their school...
"The unbelievable true story of the young woman who faced down one of the most valuable startups in Silicon Valley history--and what came after. In 2017, twenty-five-year-old Susan Fowler published a blog post detailing the sexual harassment and retaliation she'd experienced as a...
Chilling fear grips the beach area of Orange County, California when a diabolical serial killer stalks female victims. The police, baffled by the elusive maniac, have no clue to his identity. Enter young pharmacist, Lancio Ravera, who emerges from a giant wasp-inhabited c...
"It's summer 1977 and closeted lesbian Tammy Larson can't be herself anywhere. Not at her strict Christian high school, not at her conservative Orange County church and certainly not at home, where her ultrareligious aunt relentlessly organizes antigay political campaigns. Tammy'...
Benteen County, Kansas is a hellhole in summer of scorching heat and wind and turns even meaner in winter. As a howling blizzard blows down upon the sparsely-populated county seat of Buffalo Springs, Sheriff English confronts both a doll and a dead baby-their bodies switched, but...
***2017 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Nonfiction*** "What's more American than Corn Flakes?" -Bing Crosby From the much admired medical historian ("Markel shows just how compelling the medical history can be"-Andrea Barrett) and author of An Anatomy of Addict...