In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, Michael Finkel gives us one of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of our times, a riveting story of art, theft, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.

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A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian.

In his new book Levantine Vignettes: An Educator's Account of Border Crossing in the Middle East, historian, educator and Norwell resident Daniel Osborn shares his lifelong journey of discovery through travel, teaching, and immersion in communities across Israel, the Palestinian West Bank, Jordan, and Lebanon. From harvesting olives to herding livestock in the desert, Osborn’s experiences illuminate the transformative power of crossing borders, both literal and figurative, and cultivating compassion through lived knowledge. 

An inspirational story of a man who, when confronting intractable epilepsy, learned how to rise from the depths of despair to the heights of unimagined success.

When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

This unforgettable novel puts human faces on the Syrian war with the immigrant story of a beekeeper, his wife, and the triumph of spirit when the world becomes unrecognizable.

This unforgettable novel puts human faces on the Syrian war with the immigrant story of a beekeeper, his wife, and the triumph of spirit when the world becomes unrecognizable.