Inventing American Tradition: From the Mayflower to Cinco de Mayo

How much do you know about your favorite customs and characters?

Why Religion? A Personal Story

An historian uses her own experiences to explore the solace, contradictions, and mystery of faith.

A Year with Nature: An Almanac

Twelve months of fresh facts and quirky celebrations await in the author’s annual handbook.

Coldwater Canyon

By Anne-Marie Kinney

Coldwater Canyon

A lonely man loses his hold on reality as he desperately searches for love.

Where the Past Begins

The author’s second memoir searches the imagination with aesthetic, intellectual, and emotional force.

Paradise in Chains

By Diana Preston

Paradise in Chains

The story of Bali Ha’i, Captain Bligh, and Botany Bay.

The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

It wasn’t Darwin’s fault that he didn’t have access to fully sequenced genomes.

Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s

This expansive new volume will please genre enthusiasts and fair-weather fans alike.