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On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks

by Simon Garfield

Published: 2012-12-27

Hardcover: 464 pages

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Cartography enthusiasts rejoice: the bestselling author of Just My Type reveals the fascinating relationship between man and map.     Simon Garfield’s Just My Type illuminated the world of fonts and made everyone take a stand on Comic Sans and care about kerning. Now Garfield takes ...

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The Eden Hunter: A Novel

by Skip Horack

Published: 2010-08-17

Paperback: 320 pages

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In 1816, five years after being captured and sold into slavery, Kau, a pygmy tribesman, flees south into the Spanish Florida wilderness, determined to find a place where he can once again live in harmony with nature. Both haunted and driven by his memories of Africa, he embarks on an epic ...

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Riders of the Purple Sage

by Zane Grey

Published: 2012-09-14

Paperback: 328 pages

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Arguably Zane Grey’s most popular novel and a forerunner of the western genre, Riders of the Purple Sage tells the story of a Mormon woman caught between the persecution of religious zealots and several “Gentile” gunmen seeking to lend her a helping hand. Set in Utah during the nineteenth century,...

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Grass for His Pillow (Tales of the Otori, Book 2)

by Lian Hearn

Published: 2004-06-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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Praised for its epic scope and descriptive detail, Across the Nightingale Floor, the first book in the Tales of the Otori series, was an international bestseller and critical success, named by the London Times as "the most compelling novel to have been published this year." With Gra...

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Heaven's Net is Wide (Tales of the Otori)

by Lian Hearn

Published: 2008-09-02

Paperback: 576 pages

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The new beginning and the grand finale of Lian Hearn's celebrated Tales of the Otori is "rivetingly elegant" (Washington Post). Heaven's Net Is Wide is the prequel that reveals the full story of Lord Otori Shigeru—the figure who has presided in both life and death over the entire s...

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Brilliance of the Moon: Tales of the Otori, Book Three

by Lian Hearn

Published: 2005-06-07

Paperback: 346 pages

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A beautiful, haunting evocation of the medieval Japan of Lian Hearn's imagination, this thrilling follow-up to Grass for His Pillow and Across the Nightingale Floor delves deeper into the complex loyalties that bind its characters from birth. Filled with adventure and surprising twis...

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The Harsh Cry of the Heron: The Last Tale of the Otori (Tales of the Otori, Book 4)

by Lian Hearn

Published: 2007-06-05

Paperback: 572 pages

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The epic conclusion to the bestselling Tales of the Otori—"one of the most thrilling new series of our time." -The Times (London) A dazzling epic of warfare and sacrifice, passionate revenge, treacherous betrayal, and unconquerable love, The Harsh Cry of the Heron takes the storyte...

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Kentucky Cured: Fifty Years in Kentucky Journalism (American Chronicles)

by Al Smith

Published: 2012-09-26

Paperback: 224 pages

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Andrew Jackson fought a duel in rural Logan County, Kentucky. Jesse James robbed a bank there, and frontier lawyers began political careers. But a resentful Al Smith knew none of this when he got off the bus at Russellville, rented a room at a shabby hotel and asked for the nearest bootlegger. After...

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A Good Hard Look (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)

by Ann Napolitano

Published: 2011-07-12

Hardcover: 538 pages

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Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal

by Melanie Warner

Published: 2013-02-26

Hardcover: 288 pages

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In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore’s Dilemma a fascinating and cutting-edge look at the scary truth about what really goes into our food. If a piece of individually wrapped cheese retains its shape, color, and texture for years, what does it say about the food we eat a...