Tropic of SqualorA new volume of poetry from the New York Times bestselling and esteemed author of The Liars Club and Lit. Long before she earned accolades for her genre defining memoirs, Mary Karr was winning poetry prizes. Now the beloved author returns with a collection of bracing poems as visceral and deeply felt and hilarious as her memoirs. In Tropic of Squalor, Karr dares to address the numinousthat mystery some of us hope towards in secret, or maybe dare to

and a complex individual obsessed to the point of madness with his need to retain power

Simon Winchester takes us back to origins of the Industrial Age

with far-reaching consequences

Spiritual Seeking: How a friendship with an Augustinian priest

There she sets up her new home with her husband and two young daughters

no suspects

the nurse who collects kidneys and sells them for ten grand a piece

national soccer team goalkeeper Tim Howard

and laughs on every page

only a handful of senior officers are privy to the ministerial interactions and decision-making

he has amazing instincts for unleashing the potential of magical-seeming plants

unable to achieve physical intimacy even with the man she loves