The Russians were advancing, and the Third Reich was collapsing, and there was only one way to save Austria's prized Lipizzaner stallions.
On a mystic island south and east of Sicily, a spurned doctor and his family turn their home into a convivial gathering place for locals.
Eowyn Ivey's second novel set in Alaska in 1885 follows a married couple into parallel tribulations, as he explores the wilderness and she faces a difficult pregnancy.
Gallagher argues that far from merely existing as an important part of American society, the post office actually shaped American history and did much to create the United States that we know today.
Novelist Colson Whitehead depicts the perversions and horrors of slavery in 19th-century America through the story of the multiple escape attempts of a woman named Cora.
Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Sebastian Smee looks at the ways that rivalry served to mold four pairs of great artists.
Angela Palm's intriguing book is filled with sharp analysis of the relationship between place, social status, and ethos.
Acclaimed historian Hugh Sebag-Montefiore studies the whole breadth of the Somme debacle of World War I.
Katie Kennedy’s firecracker novel about culture shock, astrophysics, and maybe the end of the world, is a page-turner.
A recovered hedgehog is held in gloved hands before its release near Kecskemet, Hungary, on Wednesday. Some forty previously injured and rehabilitated animals belonging to the protected species were released into the wild as a result of the joint efforts of the Kecskemet Zoo and Kiskunsag National Park.
Pretty Leigh Ransom and handsome Gordon Walker are in love and planning to head soon to college. But can anyone really leave a town like Lions?
Krys Lee combines the stories of three very different characters whose lives intertwine when they ultimately need each other to survive.
'I Shot the Buddha' has a chewy heft, in the fine tradition of its 10 siblings in the 'Siri Paiboun' series: history, geopolitics, chromatic characters, genus loci, the human condition, and the pilgrim’s progress.
Stanley Fish’s odd little book is not a study of rhetoric so much as a defense of his view that reality is rhetoric.
In 2012, Libyan novelist Hisham Matar was finally able to return to his native country to try to learn the fate of his father.
Mercy Wong, a sharp-eyed, entrepreneurial teenager wants to create a better life for her family. An earthquake crosses her plans.
Susie Steiner describes the search for a young woman of privilege. However, damaged and wary detective Manon Bradshaw is the heart of this novel.
Saif's diary records life in a place where war has become 'an everyday song, forever playing in the background.'
Yaa Gyasi’s powerful debut novel tells the story of two sisters, and their descendants, divided by the slave trade.
In a weirdly affecting new novel by Dave Eggers, single mom Josie takes her kids on a road trip across Alaska, bouncing from near-disaster to complete disappointment to something in between.