Abraham Flexner's Prostitution in Europe opens as a hard-headed, evidence-driven inquiry into one of the most contested social problems of the modern city. Commissioned by the Bureau of Social Hygiene, the study rejects moral panic in favor of comparative research, firsthand observation, and public-policy analysis drawn from major European centers. Flexner shows how prostitution is transformed by urban growth: in the anonymous metropolis, family and neighborhood restraints weaken, concealm...

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREYFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret“One of the best books I’ve read in my...

A young Abraham Lincoln confronts a danger more insidious than any foreign threat: the slow erosion of law from within. Written in the shadow of mob violence, this early speech is a chilling meditation on how republics decay: not by invasion, but by contempt for institutions, by complecancy, by the rise of reckless ambition, by the people themselves.

From debut author Daniel Abraham comes A Shadow in Summer, the first book in the Long Price Quartet fantasy series.The powerful city-state of Saraykeht is a bastion of peace and culture, a major center of commerce and trade. Its economy depends on the power of the captive spirit, Seedless, an andat bound to the poet-sorcerer Heshai for life. Enter the Galts, a juggernaut of an empire committed to laying waste to all lands with their ferocious army. Sarayke...

Privilege of Serving challenges the normal assumption. Most people instinctively think: Serving = something I have to give. But the book gradually reveals: Serving = something God graciously allows me to receive. And it doesn't make that claim cheaply.This poetry collection acknowledges money, time, tiredness, inconvenience, lack of recognition, correction, boredom, emotional dryness, and sacrifice before arriving at "privilege." Come and explore ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The Covenant of Water: A beautifully written, page-turning family saga of Ethiopia and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. • “Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters.... Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist.” —USA TodayMarion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s d...

These Plants Make You Smile presents impossible, playful plants with emotional, imaginative, and child-friendly themes. The strongest thing about this poetry collection is its variety of magical mechanisms. It has plants that laugh, glow, hug, change colors, sing, dance, whisper, hide, create portals, float in the sky, tell stories, make bubbles, grow underwater, protect children, preserve memories, and more.Explore the Poems of Magical Plants and Garden Wonders. T...

The chandeliers are glowing. The executives are arriving. Outside the gates, an American shopper checks the grocery bill.Welcome to one imagined evening at the People's House.Abraham Tyler uses the White House ballroom as the setting for an examination of wealth, political access, government contracts, and public accountability. As dinner approaches, the questions become harder to avoid: Who paid for the celebration? What business do the guests conduct with Washington? And ...

An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick.“Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis Partner] is an elegy to friendship found, and an ode to a good friend lost.”—The Boston GlobeIn this pow...

What separates democracy from authoritarianism?In The Celestial Tribunal Discusses: Democracy Versus Authoritarianism, God, Jesus, Abraham, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Harry Truman examine one of humanity's oldest struggles: who should hold political power, and who has the authority to limit it?Through a series of imagined conversations, the Tribunal explores elections, the consent of the governed, checks and balances, freedom of speec...

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist“A fine mix of compassion and precision . . . Verghese makes indelible narratives of his cases, and they read like wrenching short stories.”—Pico IyerFrom the author of The Covenant of Water and Cutting for Stone comes a story of a doctor who was changed and shaped by his patients, medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears

This graphic novel adaptation contains more than fifty pages of exclusive content not available in the original comic books, including• a new Preface by George R. R. Martin• early renderings of key scenes and favorite characters from the novels• a walk-through of the entire creative process, from auditioning the artists to tweaking the scripts to coloring the final pages• behind-the-sce...