13 Bankers

Hardcover | 320 pages | Pantheon | Business & Economics - Economic Conditions; Political Science - Economic Conditions; Current Affairs - American
978-0-307-37905-4 (0-307-37905-1)

March 30, 2010 | $32.00



Even after the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, America is still beset by the depredations of an oligarchy that is now bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks—Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley—which together control assets amounting...

No Right to Remain Silent

Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Three Rivers Press | Current Affairs
978-0-307-58770-1 (0-307-58770-3)

March 30, 2010 | $18.95



The world watched in horror in April 2007 when Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho went on a killing rampage that resulted in the deaths of thirty-two students and faculty members before he ended his own life.

Former Virginia Tech English department chair and distinguished professor Lucinda Roy saw the tragedy unfold...

Curtains

Hardcover | 288 pages | Random House Canada | Current Affairs; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-35568-3 (0-307-35568-3)

March 9, 2010 | $32.00



If Bill Bryson were to join a Winnipeg funeral home as an apprentice, and if he searched for the meaning of life and death while he was at it, you'd have Curtains - enlightening, full of life in the midst of death, and very funny.

"There's a time, from when someone dies...

Black Hearts

Hardcover | 464 pages | Harmony | Current Affairs
978-0-307-45075-3 (0-307-45075-9)

February 9, 2010 | $32.00



This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division’s fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment—a unit known as “the Black Heart Brigade.” Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq’s so-called Triangle of Death, a veritable meat grinder just south of Baghdad, the Black Hearts found themselves in arguably...

The Routes of Man

Hardcover | 352 pages | Knopf | Current Affairs - International; Travel - Adventure
978-1-4000-4244-9 (1-4000-4244-5)

February 9, 2010 | $33.00



From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Newjack, an absorbing book about roads and their power to change the world.

Roads bind our world—metaphorically and literally—transforming landscapes and the lives of the people who inhabit them. Roads have unparalleled power to impact communities, unite worlds and...

Tea with Hezbollah

Hardcover | 256 pages | Doubleday Religion | Religion; Current Affairs - International
978-0-307-58827-2 (0-307-58827-0)

January 26, 2010 | $27.99



Is it really possible to love one’s enemies?

That’s the question that sparked a fascinating and, at times, terrifying journey into the heart of the Middle East during the summer of 2008. It was a trip that began in Egypt, passed beneath the steel and glass high rises of Saudi Arabia...

The Inheritance

Trade Paperback | 544 pages | Three Rivers Press | Current Affairs
978-0-307-40793-1 (0-307-40793-4)

January 12, 2010 | $19.95



Readers of The New York Times know David Sanger as one of the most trusted correspondents in Washington, one to whom presidents, secretaries of state, and foreign leaders talk with unusual candor. Now, with a historian’s sweep and an insider’s eye for telling detail, Sanger delivers an urgent intelligence briefing on...