Category Archives: Selected Books

Quill Award Finalist; Book Sense Pick; 200,000 copies sold Metcalfe, a lifelong Southerner who’s been hiding out in the social circles of Greenville, Miss., exposes the culinary and cultural last rites of the deep South in a fashion that is … Continue reading →

A New York Times bestseller A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Sports Books An elegant little meditation on life and the afterlife, well worth reading while waiting for spring. –Kirkus A surprisingly profound new look at America’s national pastime. –Booklist

Winner of the Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of 2012  “Bill Veeck incorporates the picaresque anecdotes and populist charm of Veeck’s memoirs into a narrative marked by Mr. Dickson’s broad knowledge and fluid authority. The result is a biography … Continue reading →

A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction of the Year A spirited reconstruction of the arduous five-year trek into Central Africa by Heinrich Barth (1821-1865), a German scientist exploring for England. A nicely rounded literary study of an intrepid explorer undone by … Continue reading →

Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year; Book Sense Best Book Club Book; Family Circle Magazine’s First Ever Book of the Month; Elle Magazine Reader’s Prize; The Literary Guild Selection; Doubleday Book Club; American Compass Book Club; Satellite Sisters Radio … Continue reading →

Winner of the Lincoln Prize Pryor has taken an icon and given us the soul of a complex man and his turbulent age and has delivered it wrapped in lithe and graceful prose that many novelists might envy. She has, … Continue reading →

Extraordinary. Miller evinces genuine compassion for both sides in the conflict, while maintaining a detachment that allows him to draw hard conclusions. Miller’s writing is both approachable and deeply smart. Publishers Weekly, starred review A book of great significance, owing … Continue reading →

Winner of the 2012 Phi Beta Kappa Emerson Book Award  [A] rich harvest of legends and writings from the period, often apocalyptic in nature, that give us a keener insight into the minds of those who lived these tumultuous years. … Continue reading →

“Relying on past histories and innumerable interviews, the authors vividly reconstruct the Cold War atmosphere of the ’60s…A serious, intriguing look at the blood feud whose horrible consequences continue to reverberate.”—Kirkus Reviews “Gus Russo and Stephen Molton have fashioned heroic … Continue reading →

Winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Improving World Order  “A penetrating, provocative, and very timely study that deciphers how U.S. policy in the Middle East has been manipulated both by Iran and by Israel even as relations between these two … Continue reading →