A spiraling tale of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, THE SPORT OF KINGS is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in shadow by the enduring legacy of slavery; it’s a tale as mythic and fraught as the South itself --- a moral epic for our time.

A spiraling tale of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, THE SPORT OF KINGS is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in shadow by the enduring legacy of slavery; it’s a tale as mythic and fraught as the South itself --- a moral epic for our time.

A radiant, compassionate look at three generations --- including in-laws, ex-in-laws and same-sex spouses --- THEY MAY NOT MEAN TO, BUT THEY DO is a modern take on timeless questions of love and loyalty. 

A radiant, compassionate look at three generations --- including in-laws, ex-in-laws and same-sex spouses --- THEY MAY NOT MEAN TO, BUT THEY DO is a modern take on timeless questions of love and loyalty. 

From one of America's greatest comic novelists, a hilarious new novel about aging, family, loneliness and love.

Joy Bergman is not slipping into old age with the quiet grace her children, Molly and Daniel, would prefer. She won't take their advice, and she won't take an antidepressant. Her marriage to their father, Aaron, has lasted through health and dementia, as well as some phenomenally lousy business decisions. The Bergman clan has always stuck together, growing as it incorporated in-laws, ex-in-laws and same-sex spouses. But families don't just grow, they grow old. Cathleen Schine's THEY MAY NOT MEAN TO, BUT THEY DO is a tender, sometimes hilarious intergenerational story about searching for where you belong as your family changes with age.

When Aaron dies, Molly and Daniel have no shortage of solutions for their mother's loneliness and despair, but there is one challenge they did not count on: the reappearance of an ardent suitor from Joy's college days. They didn't count on Joy suddenly becoming as willful and rebellious as their own kids.

With sympathy, humor and truth, Schine explores the intrusion of old age into a large and loving family. Schine's THEY MAY NOT MEAN TO, BUT THEY DO is a radiantly compassionate look at three generations, all coming of age together.

Now in trade paperback, from the bestselling and highly acclaimed author of MRS. POE comes a fictionalized imagining of the fraught relationship between one of America's most iconic figures --- Mark Twain --- and his close personal secretary, Isabel Lyon, who became a silenced woman until now with Lynn Cullen's fascinating new novel.

Now in trade paperback, from the bestselling and highly acclaimed author of MRS. POE comes a fictionalized imagining of the fraught relationship between one of America's most iconic figures --- Mark Twain --- and his close personal secretary, Isabel Lyon, who became a silenced woman until now with Lynn Cullen's fascinating new novel.

In March of 1909, Mark Twain cheerfully blessed the wedding of his private secretary, Isabel V. Lyon and his business manager, Ralph Ashcroft. One month later, he fired both. He proceeded to write a ferocious 429-page rant about the pair, calling Isabel “a liar, a forger, a thief, a hypocrite, a drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator, a filthy-minded & salacious slut pining for seduction.” Twain and his daughter, Clara Clemens, then slandered Isabel in the newspapers, erasing her nearly seven years of devoted service to the family. Isabel Lyon has gone down in history as the villainess who swindled Twain in his final decade. She never rebutted Twain’s claims, never spoke badly of the man she called “The King.” She kept her silence until she died in a tiny Greenwich Village apartment in 1958, although the actor Hal Holbrook met with her often while developing his Mark Twain show, acknowledging that Isabel knew Twain better than anyone else in the world. How did Lyon go from being the beloved secretary who ran Twain’s life to a woman whom he was determined to destroy?

On January 11, 1909, Helen Keller, her teacher Anne Sullivan Macy, and Mrs. Macy’s husband, John, visit Mark Twain in the Connecticut mansion built for him by his secretary, Isabel Lyon. The trio, themselves in the middle of an intolerable love triangle, unknowingly walk into a crisis brewing between Twain and Isabel, and worsened by his business manager, Ralph Ashcroft. Then Clara Clemens enters, on a mission to fight for her paramour and accompanist on the piano, the very married Will Wark, setting off an explosion between all the lovers. Based on Isabel Lyon’s extant diary, Twain’s writings and letters, and events in Twain’s boyhood which may have altered his ability to love, TWAIN’S END explores this real-life tale of doomed love.

An enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topics --- from art and artists to dreams, myths and memories --- observed in #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman’s probing, amusing and distinctive style.

An enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topics --- from art and artists to dreams, myths and memories --- observed in #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman’s probing, amusing and distinctive style.

An enthralling collection of nonfiction pieces on myriad topics--- from art and artists to dreams, myths, and memoriesto comics, films, and literature--- observed in award-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman’s probing, amusing and distinctive style.

An inquisitive observer, thoughtful commentator and assiduous craftsman, Neil Gaiman has long been celebrated for the sharp intellect and startling imagination that informs his fiction. Now, THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS brings together, for the first time ever, more than 60 works of his outstanding nonfiction on topics and people close to his heart.

As Neil explains, “This book is not ‘the complete nonfiction of Neil Gaiman.’ It is, instead, a motley bunch of speeches and articles, introductions and essays. Some of them are serious and some of them are frivolous and some of them are earnest and some of them I wrote to try and make people listen.”

In prose analytical yet playful, erudite yet accessible, Neil explores a broad range of interests and topics, including (but not limited to): authors past and present; music; storytelling; comics; bookshops; travel; fairy tales; America; inspiration; libraries; ghosts; and the title piece, at turns touching and self-deprecating, which recounts his experiences at the 2010 Academy Awards in Hollywood.

Neil ponders the truth of fiction and the power of stories (and why we tell them), and offers his own profiles of and insights into writers who have influenced him, including C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Ray Bradbury, Diana Wynne Jones, Stephen King, Rudyard Kipling, James Thurber and his dear friend, Terry Pratchett. He offers unlikely perspectives on subjects as diverse as The Bride of Frankenstein, “Doctor Who,” Batman, Tori Amos, Lou Reed, They Might Be Giants and Amanda Palmer. And he includes a moving essay on the plight of Syrian refugees in a United Nations’camp in Jordan.

Illuminating and incisive, witty and wise, THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS explores some of the issues, subjects and people that matter most to Neil Gaiman--- and offers a unique glimpse into the mind of one of the most beloved and influential writers of our time.

The new novel from the author of the international bestseller THE SWEETNESS OF FORGETTING and THE LIFE INTENDED follows a Georgia journalist on the trail of a mysterious painter --- a trail that may lead her to a stunning story in her own past.

The new novel from the author of the international bestseller THE SWEETNESS OF FORGETTING and THE LIFE INTENDED follows a Georgia journalist on the trail of a mysterious painter --- a trail that may lead her to a stunning story in her own past.

Emily Lyons has been laid off from her investigative reporting job and finds herself at loose ends, in a dead-end relationship and without the high-pressure career she loved. Into that void steps someone she thought she'd never hear from again, her estranged father --- and he needs her help.

Emily's not much interested in helping her deadbeat dad, but he swears he's changed his ways --- and to prove it, he wants her to help him track down his own father, who disappeared after the war. Dad always assumed Peter had abandoned him and his mother, until the day he receives a beautiful, haunting painting of a young woman standing at the edge of a field under a violet sky. That woman is recognizable as his mother --- and the painting arrived with no identification other than a handwritten note saying, "I always loved her."

Despite her misgivings, Emily is hungry for roots and family, so she begins to dig. And as she does, she uncovers a fascinating era in American history. Her trail leads her to the POW internment camps of Georgia and Florida, where German prisoners worked for American farmers...and sometimes fell in love with American women. But how does this all connect to the painting? If Emily finds the answer to that question, she may discover more than she ever imagined....

Harmel's trademark emotional storytelling is once again on display, married to a fascinating story that has its roots in our nation's postwar history.