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From the acclaimed author of Billion Dollar Molecule and The Antidote, a revisionist, passionate history of the pharmaceutical industry, detailing how the nascent industry ushered in an age of cures. For the past thirty-five years, the acclaimed author Barry Werth has been covering one of the...

In this seductive, provocative debut, two Afghan men—cast out of their respective countries of birth by circumstances beyond their control—collide in Istanbul, a city that will test their willingness to sacrifice everything for the ones they love. When Delbar—a hapless twenty-something...

From the beloved creator of the wildly popular Sam O’Nella Academy YouTube channel, an irreverent and timely science fiction collection that offers a wry look at the not-so-distant future Sam A. Miller, the creator behind Sam O'Nella Academy, has spent ten years teaching his 4.8 million...

A Palestinian journalist's extraordinary account of family, survival, and resilience amid the ongoing genocide. On the morning of October 7, 2023, Rami Abou Jamous is already packed. A respected francophone journalist from Palestine, he quickly grasps what the scale of the Israeli response will...

Two rivals from opposing families fight their forbidden attraction to each other in the brand new, dark romance from New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas. Summertime is quiet in southern Florida. In the humidity, the streets are empty, and the nights are still - perfect for a...

Two rivals from opposing families fight their forbidden attraction to each other in the brand new romance from New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas. Summertime is off-season in southern Florida. Families leave their homes to escape the heat, the streets are empty, and the nights...

Cove Nash knew she was going to follow in her uncle's footsteps from a young age, and she's finally making it as a musician. Pack life would only get in the way, so it's not an option. After all, not every omega wants or needs alphas... But life on the road isn't anything like she expected, and...

Decolonizing Palestine challenges the weaponization of biblical texts to support the current settler-colonial state of Israel. Raheb argues that some of the most important theological concepts—Israel, the land, election, and chosen people—must be decolonized in a paradigm shift in Christian theological thinking about Palestine. 

Ashar is busy with the ice hockey team, studying to get into the best school, and hanging out with his friends. Shaheer and his father are always moving, following his dad's jobs. Shaheer has given up hope of finding a place where he can put down roots, a place that feels like home. The two boys have nothing in common. But when they meet on Shaheer's first day at his new school, it's like looking in a mirror.

When aspiring photographer Dylan Moore is invited to join his best friend Rohit Lal on a family trip to India, he jumps at the chance to embark on an exciting journey just like their Lord of the Rings heroes, Frodo and Sam. But each boy comes to the trip with a problem: Rohit is desperate to convince his parents not to leave him behind in Mumbai to finish school, and Dylan is desperate to use his time in India to prove himself as a photographer and to avoid his parents' constant fighting. Keeping their struggles to themselves threatens to tear the boys apart.

Nida, intelligent and lonely, has married into an affluent political family and is desperately searching for meaning in her life, while impulsive, lovely Sasha, from the ordinary middle class, willingly consorts with rich men who can satisfy her frantic longing for designer labels and upmarket places. Nida and Sasha meet at the famous Data Sahib Dargah and connect—their need to understand why their worlds feel so alien and empty bringing them together.  

Prem Bedi is the “Mogul”—the third-richest man in the country. He commands both fear and respect, and at fifty-three, he still looks handsome and aristocratic. But Bedi’s smoothly run empire comes to a screeching halt when he’s accused of killing his ex-wife and her husband, and dragged into a court battle. The ever-present spotlight on him grows brighter and harsher, and the questions grow louder—“Did he do it?” A story unfolding through several different perspectives, The Mogul is a howdunit set in the fractured world of power, money, and crime. 

The yerar 1914: Ram Singh arrives in the Imperial Valley on the Mexican border, reluctantly accepting his friend Karak’s offer of work and partnership in a small cantaloupe farm. Ram is unmoored; fleeing violence in Oregon, he desperately longs to return to his wife and newborn son in Punjab - but he is duty bound to make his fortune first. In the Valley, American settlement is still new and the rules are ever shifting.

The 1979 Islamic Revolution triggered a cold war between Iran and the United States—former fast friends. Despite the US's relentless efforts at containment, Iran has risen as a formidable power in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and Gaza. Its newfound status not only frustrates the US but has...

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER “Heated Rivalry for the tennis set…charming, funny, and big-hearted.”—Town & Country "[A] debut romance novel that will capture your heart."—Cosmopolitan Love evens the score between two tennis players in this stunning debut romance. Recently-turned-pro...

A Most Anticipated Read: Autostraddle, Goodreads, Southern Review of Books, The Millions, them, SheReads, Daily Kos, Debutiful, Mizna, and LGBTQ Reads A Publishers Weekly Writer to Watch “Stunning.”—The Atlantic, "The Summer Reading Guide" “One of the year’s buzziest LGBTQ+ novels.”...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The gripping story of a boy whose eye-opening trip to a tiger sanctuary ignites his desire to do everything he can to be a voice for endangered animals Rohan loves animals—especially tigers—so he’s thrilled to be traveling to India to visit the tiger sanctuary where...

Combining poignant memoir and historical research, a son of Holocaust survivors grapples with the dream of Zionism and its consequences. Israel: A Personal History takes off where Göran Rosenberg's internationally acclaimed and award-winning childhood memoir, A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz, ends. After his father's suicide in 1960 in a small industrial town in Sweden, the remainder of the family, a single mother with two children, emigrates to Israel.

Two generations of a Muslim Indian family grapple with what parts of life we control and what we must humbly accept in pursuit of the American dream--for readers of Min Jin Lee, Mohsin Hamid, and Ayad Akhtar. In suburban Miami, sixty-year-old Sakeena--co-owner of a Dunkin' franchise along with...

This groundbreaking work deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the 'Holy Land' of Israel—and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it. What is a homeland, and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for them throughout the twentieth...