Traces the story of Mary Clarke, describing her choice to leave her comfortable home for a spiritual life among drug lords and inmates in one of Mexico's most notorious jails, where she organized the Servants of the Eleventh Hour community of sisters and led numerous criminals through profound spiri[...]

A television producer and illegitimate daughter of a white mother and abusive black father describes the complicated factors that caused her mother to place her in the custody of an African-American family at the age of four, her identity struggles throughout the civil rights period, and the difficu[...]

E]ntertaining, bracingly honest and, yes, thought-provoking. The New York Times Book Review
At once provocative and laugh-out-loud funny, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother ignited a global parenting debate with its story of one mother s journey in strict parenting. Amy Chua argues thatWestern pa[...]

The masterly novellas that established Ludmilla Petrushevskaya as one of the greatest living Russian writers--including a new translation of the modern classic "The Time Is Night"
"Love them, - they'll torture you; don't love them, -they'll leave you anyway."
After her work was suppressed [...]

Now a major motion picture starring Judi Dench: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years
When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a "fallen woman." Then the nuns took her baby f[...]

A chilling, compulsively readable novel of psychological suspense from the author of Little Face and The CarrierSally Thorning is watching the news with her husband when she hears a name she never thought she'd hear again: Mark Bretherick.
It's a name she shouldn't recognize. Last year, a work t[...]

On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four others before taking their own lives.
For the last sixteen years, Sue Klebold, Dylan s mothe[...]

The Hunter, the Stag, and the Mother of Animals offers an in-depth exploration of the changing traditions of belief in pre-Bronze and Bronze Age North Asia. Esther Jacobson-Tepfer centers her argument on a female deity and her evolution up until the early Iron Age, across a 2,000 year period. Throug[...]