The German Spy and the Codebreakers is a book that describes the remarkable efforts by French Intelligence officers to recruit the spy who provided the Allies with the German Enigma codes and his remarkable revelations about Germany's stunning military growth that was downplayed or ignored by European and British leaders before World War II.This book fills in empty spaces in our understanding about exactly what information Hans Thilo Schmidt passed to the French, the dates of the meetings,...

"The writing in The Names of Things is beautiful, hypnotic, and exacting…"— Huffington Post Books"…a thoughtful, patient, and ultimately rewarding book…"—Peter Orner, author of The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo and Love and Shame and Love"The Names of Things beautifully renders one man’s struggle to balance his life’s work with the love of his life...a profound and moving story."—Tommy Hays, author of The Pleasure Was Mi...

Religious liberty is one of the hallmarks of American democracy, but the principal architects of this liberty believed that it was only compatible with a certain form of Christianity—namely, a liberal, rational, Christianity. Conservative and postliberal champions of the freedom of religion often ignore this point, sometimes even arguing that orthodox Christianity was, or should be, at the root of democratic liberty.Everyone Orthodox to Themselves, John Colman’s close stud...

This is the second annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much attention (and contention) across fandom. But there are more stories loved by the Hugo voters, stories on the longer...

While The Sun Is Above Us takes readers deep into the extraordinary world of Sudan through the intertwined narratives of two women. In the midst of a bloody civil war, Adut is brutally captured and held as a slave for eight years. Sandra, fleeing her life in Canada, travels to South Sudan as an aid worker but soon finds herself unwittingly embroiled in a violent local conflict. When chance brings Adut and Sandra together in a brief but profound moment, their lives change forever. In captiv...

In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of savanna baboons."I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla,” writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist’s coming-of-age in Africa.

FIRST PRIZE FOR FICTION, Los Angeles Book Festival. "A stunning tale of love and loss amid a magnificent wilderness and its myriad animals, and a deadly manhunt through savage jungles, steep mountains and fierce deserts as an SAS commando tries to save the elephants, the woman he loves and the soul of Africa itself."With Africa's last elephants being killed for their ivory, Kenya rancher and ex-SAS officer Ian MacAdam leads a commando squad to hunt down the poachers. Pursuing them ...

As a white hunter in Africa, Winjah (Swahili for Wynton) sees that his days are numbered in a changing country, so he decides to go on his last hunt. To make it worthwhile, he sets as his objective the shooting of the Diamond Bogo, a Cape buffalo reported to be running around with a large diamond stuck beneath its horns, an ingenious smuggler’s ploy. The hitch is that the bogo was last seen in the land of the Tok.To pay for this safari, Winjah latches onto three unlikely clients: D...

An unforgettable portrait of a place and a people shaped by centuries of art, trade, and war.In the middle of the salt-frosted Afghan desert, in a village so remote that Google can’t find it, a woman squats on top of a loom, making flowers bloom in the thousand threads she knots by hand. Here, where heroin is cheaper than rice, every day is a fast day. B-52s pass overhead—a sign of America’s omnipotence or its vulnerability, the villagers are unsure. They know, tho...

From national bestselling author Nick McDonell, The Council of Animals is a captivating fable for humans of all ages—dreamers and cynics alike—who believe (if nothing else) in the power of timeless storytelling."'Now,' continued the cat, 'there is nothing more difficult than changing an animal's mind. But I will say, in case I can change yours: humans are more useful to us outside our bellies than in.'"Perhaps.After The Calamity, the animals t...

"If you've ever thought seriously, or for that matter just fantasized, about getting away from it all, going off-grid...this book is a must read." The Fethiye Times I couldn't teach another lesson. Nor could I tolerate another day with a boss, a punch card, and the indigestion I suffered from bolting my muesli. This was why I'd spent the past five months camping in a Turkish field... In 2011 Atulya K Bingham attempted to build herself a home from mud. She h...

Joint winner of the 2014 ONE BIG BOOK LAUNCH (London). 'Beautifully written.' Sarah Juckes, Completely Novel 'Atulya K. Bingham has breathed new life into one of Turkey's most beautiful surviving outposts of accessible mountain wilderness.' Hugh Pope, Today's Zaman. 'If you're looking for a new book about Turkey, this should be it.' Natalie Sayin, Turkish Travel Blog Set in the gateway between worlds that...