AWARDS/ACCOLADES: Reader Views (5-Star), The Coffee Pot Book Club (5-Star), Literary Titan Silver Book Award (Silver)A TALE THAT BLENDS BLACK AND INDIGENOUS HISTORIES WITH SUPERNATURAL HORROR.A free Black family. A wilderness migration. A creature that has been waiting for them for generations. London Oxford is a freed man, but freedom in 1800 is a fragile thing. When the Wright family decides to push north into the Canadian wilderness, Lon...

They Were Marked by Something Not of This World. Then the Wall Closed In.Hard Worked Days mixes visceral violence, dark humour, and genuine tenderness without flinching from any of them.It is the kind of speculative fiction that uses alien worlds and catastrophe to say something true about labour, belonging, and the peoplewe carry with us.Station Eleven meets The RoadHomegoing meets ArrivalThe Sparrow meets Children of Men

Part memoir, part social history, Journalists and Their Shadows captures the deplorable state of the American media in our time—recording its deterioration, its moments of crisis and ultimately, its transformation as seen through the eyes of a journalist engaged at its very heart through all its phases. The press had a bad Cold War, Patrick Lawrence contends, and never recovered from it, having never acknowledged its errors and so unable to learn from them. Its dysfunctional relationship w...

We are, once again, a world at war. Geopolitical elites are deploying the implacable forces of ethnocentric hatred and religious nationalism; ordinary people are paying a fearful price. Not for the first time: this has been the characteristic pattern of war for more than a century. Every selection in this anthology (except for the timeless Aeneid) casts light on modern war, observed or directly experienced. Most are grounded in particular places—Stalingrad, Halberstadt, Budapest, ...

The Reanimation of Malcom: The Little Book of Modern Times , a true story of spiritual phenomena and modern-day prophecy, will build and restore faith in God and Jesus’s name. Beginning in the 1980s, the events chronicled by author and true believer, Patrick Lawrence O’Malley, are well-documented acts of faith the likes of which have not been seen for hundreds of years. Taking place in England and the United States (California, Indiana, and Arizona), as well as other locations, phenomena i...

KEVIN NEAL, at the foot of the Blackstairs Mountains, fails to bait a Púca to fight. In this compelling, heartrending, Irish coming-of-age story, he learns too well what it costs when monsters are unleashed.Decades before the great famine, the youngest Neal boy survives the war, but believes he has lost everyone. When he locates a childhood friend—Anastasia Kelly, he learns that she has become aloof and part of a different world. ANTY is as much a stranger to him as the tenants aro...

The second volume of GWS issues covers the years 1981 and 1982, when homeschooling gained attention in the media after John Holt’s Teach Your Own was published and he made a second appearance on national TV’s Phil Donahue Show, which resulted in thousands of letters to Holt regarding homeschooling. Each issue of GWS in this volume is a lively exchange among readers and Holt, packed with useful advice, resource recommendations, and all sorts of legal, pedagogical, and parenting ide...

The second volume of GWS issues covers the years 1981 and 1982, when homeschooling gained attention in the media after John Holt’s Teach Your Own was published and he made a second appearance on national TV’s Phil Donahue Show, which resulted in thousands of letters to Holt regarding homeschooling. Each issue of GWS in this volume is a lively exchange among readers and Holt, packed with useful advice, resource recommendations, and all sorts of legal, pedagogical, and parenting ide...

The Legacy of John Holt contains sixteen portraits of a radical teacher and writer whose ten books and work influenced schoolteachers and homeschoolers to help children learn in their own ways.Written by friends, colleagues, and homeschoolers who knew Holt personally, this book sheds new light on a unique person in American education, one whose work continues to inspire today's homeschooling, unschooling, and alternative school movements around the world.People who...

“For more than forty years Roger Cohen has ventured to every corner of the earth to chronicle the great upheavals of our age, but he’s never lost sight of what really matters: love, hope, and all the mysteries of the human heart. Here, in this collection of columns that will take you from the streets of Kyiv to an execution chamber in Alabama, you can read him at his best.”—Dexter Filkins, best-selling author of The Forever WarA collection of the finest

Written in the fearless voice of Detective Alex Cross, Alex Cross's Trial is a #1 New York Times bestseller of murder, love, and above all, bravery.From his grandmother, Alex Cross has heard the story of his great uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a novel he's written-a novel called Trial.As a lawyer in turn-of-the-century Wash...

The National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author delivers a collection of essays that serve as the perfect "antidote to mansplaining" ( The Stranger).In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing...