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"Why is it that the mass transit systems of American cities are, by and large, inadequate? It's a common question and one that has generated substantial scholarship. But Jake Berman's The Lost Subways of North America offers a new way to consider...

Set in the cutthroat and neck-lifted world of private school parenting in Los Angeles, Moms Like Us is a comedic cautionary tale about how far mothers will go to protect their children, and their secrets. That someone might end up dead at the...

A radically inventive excavation of one man's life and our relationship to the earth by the critically acclaimed author of The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld Justin Hocking grew up in a part of Colorado where so many things happened beneath...

A riveting, deeply researched, blood-on-the-spurs biography of Belle Starr, the most legendary female outlaw of the American West. On February 3, 1889, just two days shy of her forty-first birthday, Myra Maybelle Shirley--better known at that...

A stark, incendiary novel about two sisters seeking refuge with a reclusive cult in the Adirondacks: a parable of power and how it is claimed, wielded--and how it transforms. "Stampeding, mesmeric." --Claudia Dey "Awesome in atmosphere. . . ....