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Freeman
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
A compelling and important historical novel set at the end of the Civil War, in which an escaped slave first returns to his old plantation and then walks across the ravaged South in search of his lost wife.
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Monica Pedersen Make It Beautiful
Designs and Ideas for Entertaining at Home
Monica Pedersen
The go-to guide for home entertaining on all budgets for all types of readers from nationally renowned HGTV host Monica Pedersen.
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Gluten-Free 101
Master Gluten-Free Cooking with 101 Great Recipes
Perrin Davis
The newest release in Surrey's 101 series, devoted to presenting readers with 101 great, kitchen-tested gluten-free recipes, featuring great kitchen and how-to tips, beautiful color photographs, and a clean, simple, contemporary design.
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Travel Writer's Handbook
How to Write--and Sell--Your Own Travel Experiences
Jacqueline Harmon Butler
An updated and revised edition of the bestselling guide to perfecting and publishing travel writing, including brand new material on the shifting media landscape and technology tips for traveling abroad
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I, Steve
Steve Jobs In His Own Words
George Beahm
A collection of thought-provoking quotes from Steve Jobs, this book shares the unique perspective of our era's most remarkable business leader, in a gift format that should appeal to a huge audience of business readers and others.
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The End of the Euro
The Uneasy Future of the European Union
Johan Van Overtveldt
An up-to-the-minute analysis of the fate of the euro--and with it, the future of the European Union--by acclaimed Belgium-based economic journalist Johan Van Overtveldt, author of Bernanke's Test and The Chicago School.

From the Blog

  • Leonard Pitts and Freeman on NPR, part two

    Sun, 20 May 2012
    As promised, here is the interview Audie Cornish of "All Things Considered" did with Leonard Pitts, Jr., to discuss Freeman. It's a wonderful piece, but it only gives you a sliver of a sense of what's so important about this terrific new book. Yes... more >>


  • Leonard Pitts and Freeman on NPR, part one

    Thu, 10 May 2012
    This nice article on the NPR site accompanies the interview Audie Cornish did with Leonard Pitts, Jr. this afternoon on "All Things Considered." We'll have a link to the audio posted tomorrow--in the meantime, the article also includes this terrific... more >>


  • Agate Bolden Gets a Facebook Page

    Tue, 08 May 2012
    We're pleased to announce the launch of a Facebook page exclusively devoted to our Bolden imprint. Agate Bolden publishes intelligent, accessible, and thought-provoking fiction, nonfiction, and memoirs by African-American writers. The Bolden Facebook... more >>


  • The academic treatise on book jackets we've all been waiting for

    Fri, 04 May 2012
    "For the first time, the dust jacket has been given its due status: in the rich density of his footnotes, the splendour of his eight indexes, Tanselle is nothing less than magisterial." I kind of hate book jackets, as superfluous, distracting, and... more >>


  • Elif Batuman on Mike Daisey, fiction, and nonfiction

    Wed, 25 Apr 2012
    I think Elif Batuman is a wonderful writer. Here at The Rumpus she defends Mike Daisey--a position to which I am not sympathetic--but does so in a sensitive, even-handed way that acknowledges where and how Daisey sinned, but suggests that perhaps we... more >>