Books from Vintage Books
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An Officer and a Spy
By Robert HarrisGeorges Picquart, the recently promoted head of Paris' late-nineteenth-century counterespionage agency, leading the effort to convict Dreyfus only to succumb to gradual doubts that a high-level spy remains at large in the military.
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Nobody's Perfect: Writings from the New Yorker
By Anthony LaneTopped with his imposing frizz of hair, it brought to mind a radical bishop from the pages of Trollope, pondering schism with solemn glee. “I intend to treat the whole thing as performance art,” Figgis had declared.
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The Porcupine
By Julian BarnesA deposed Communist Party leader on trial for crimes against the state faces off against the newly appointed prosecutor general, in an incisive novel about the ramifications of the recent transformation of Eastern Europe
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In the Name of the Law: The Collapse of Criminal Justice
By David RoseRose argues that these are measures which can be taken to avoid the Los Angeles-like world we seem to be creating.
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Faith and Freedom: An Invitation to the Writings of Martin Luther
By Martin LutherSelected from more than fifty volumes of Martin Luther's work, this anthology of writings by the Reformation leader includes his sermons, letters, Old and New Testament Bible commentaries, treatises, polemics, and his hymns.
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The Communist's Daughter: A Novel
By Dennis BockI managed perhaps ten or fifteen feet before we fell into a crater. I lay silent, trying to catch my breath, and watched the darkness above us. Our round view of the universe looked peaceful and still. I was very tired now.
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You Shall Know Our Velocity!
By Dave EggersAfter acquiring $32,000, Will and Hand, devastated over the death of their closest friend, travel around the world giving away the money, in a rowdy debut novel from the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
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The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
By Gary J. BassA full-length account of the involvement of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in Pakistan's brutal 1970s military dictatorship argues that they are responsible for military strategies that have negatively impacted geopolitics for decades.
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A Change of Heart: Unraveling the Mysteries of Cardiovascular Disease
By Susan Brink, M.D., Daniel LevyThe NHI sent investigators for site reviews, including William J. Zukel; Harold Kahn, senior statistician; and two other statisticians, Jeanne Truet and Dewey Shurtleff. A scientific review committee included George Burch, ...
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Self's Murder
By Bernhard SchlinkWhen septuagenarian sleuth Gerhard Self is hired by a German bank owner to track down the silent partner in his business, the detective tangles with Nazi youth and uncovers a money laundering ring with connections to the Russian mafia.
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Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950
By Mark MazowerFO 195/1107, Blunt-Elliott, 7 May 1876. , FO 195/1107, Blunt-Elliott, 6 June 1876. . 195/526, Blunt-Canning, 20 March 1856; Mary Adelaide Walker, Through Macedonia to the Albanian Lakes (London, 1864), 77–80. 195/1107, Blunt-Derby, ...
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Bloodroot: A Novel
By Amy GreeneFollows a family from the Great Depression to the present, describing the experiences of a wild young mountain girl, her protective grandmother, the men who love her, and the children who struggle to manage her legacy.
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Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion
By Anne SomersetOriginally published: London: HarperPress, 2012.
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I'll Go to Bed at Noon
By Gerard WoodwardBy way of an odyssey through the pubs, parks and drying-out clinics of suburban North London, Gerard Woodward's richly woven second novel I'll Go To Bed At Noon charts in microscopic detail the continuing history of a troubled but ...
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Bambi Vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business
By David MametA subversive, inside glimpse of the complex world of the film industry describes every aspect of filmmaking, from initial concept, to script, to screen, covering topics that range from "How Scripts Got So Bad" to "Manners in Hollywood."
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Quite a Good Time to be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975
By David Lodge"The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his Irish-Belgian mother, David Lodge was four when World War II began and grew to maturity through ...
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The Shark-infested Custard: A Novel
By Charles Ray WillefordDon, except for his heavy blue-and-yellow Argyle socks, was naked on his own bed. The drawer of the bedside table was open, and the pistol was on the floor by the lamp. I picked up the lamp, put it back on the table, and looked at Don.
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Best American Crime Writing
By Thomas H. Cook, Otto Penzler, Nicholas PileggiThe first volume in a new series of anthologies featuring the best crime journalism of the past year includes Mark Singer's study of cockfighting "The Chicken Warriors," David McClintick's Vanity Fair article on a vicious serial killer ...
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Nutshell
By Ian McEwanTrudy has betrayed her husband, John.
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Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45
By Roger MoorhouseIn this vivid and important study Roger Moorhouse portrays the German experience of the Second World War, not through an examination of grand politics, but from the viewpoint of the capital's streets and homes.