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An incisive essay collection that became a cult classic, from the author of Unspeakable.

This is the story of one nation under a plague, contaminated by greed, hate, and disease and host to transcendent acts of courage and kindness. The American People is a work of ribald satire, prophetic outrage, and dazzling imagination. It is an encyclopaedic indictment, written with outrageous love.

The endearingly bitter writer, Amy Gallup has happily isolated herself from the world spending the last two decades teaching and reviewing - she's done a lot of thinking... but very little writing. On an unassuming morning, in her slippers, Amy trips in her backyard, goes head-over-heels, and into the side of a birdbath.

Five years after her young husband's death, Celia Cassill has moved from one Brooklyn neighbourhood to another, but she's not moved on. The owner of a small apartment building, she asks first and foremost that her tenants respect one another's privacy. She believes in boundaries, solitude, that she has a right to her ghosts.

Tells the story of Rebecca Madden and her reckless friend Alex Carrington - two women who, against a backdrop of white gloves and tinkling cocktail glasses in 1960s Pasadena, become fast friends and confidants.

Challenging the daily clamour of US sabre rattling, this title argues that America should renounce thirty years of failed strategy and engage with Iran - just as Nixon revolutionized US foreign policy by going to Beijing and realigning relations with China. It states that America must "go to Tehran" if it is to avert strategic catastrophe.

A Poet of the Invisible World is the story of a boy born in thirteenth-century Persia with four ears instead of two. Orphaned as an infant, he's taken into a Sufi order, where he meets dervishes and is placed upon a path towards spiritual awakening. He studies the Koran and the principles of Sufism. He meets his first love, named Vishpar.

Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed is the stunning collection exploring one of society's most vexing taboos. One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed "fertility crisis," and whether modern women could figure out a way to have it all before their biological clock stopped ticking.

Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths. This title paints a portrait of a tender lifelong companionship, born of mutual admiration and compassion.

The very name of the Israel Defense Forces suggests that its primary mission is the defense of the country's territory. But Israeli soldiers themselves tell a different story. In this work, which includes more than a hundred soldiers' testimonies collected over a decade, what emerges is a broad policy that is as much offensive as defensive.

Eddie Coyle is a small-time punk with a big-time problem - who to sell out to avoid being sent up again. Eddie works for Jimmy Scalisi, supplying him with guns for a couple of bank jobs. But a cop named Foley is onto Eddie, and he's leaning on him to finger Scalisi, a gang leader with a lot to hide.

This Is How it Really Sounds follows three men, each in search of a different life. Mingling wickedly-funny satire with heart-stopping adventure, this is How it Really Sounds explores the seductive power of the unlived life, and what happens when you finally grasp it.

When she is twelve years old, Canada moves with her mother and father to Ankara, Turkey, where her father has been stationed by the government. While her father disappears on official business, Canada and her mother find themselves in the company of gossipy embassy wives and wealthy Turkish women.

The founding principle of the US was that the rule of law would be the great equalizer in American life. This book exposes an un-American justice system that incentivizes elite criminality, protects an oligarchical political culture, and sanctions immunity at the top and unyielding mercilessness for everyone else.