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After Senator Barack Obama delivered his celebrated speech, “A More Perfect Union,” on March 18

In The Perfect Fruit, Chip Brantley tells the creation myth behind the pluot, a plum-apricot hybrid. The book is part...

In this inventive and biting satire, acclaimed novelist and cultural critic Cintra Wilson reimagines America’s Manifest Destiny as helmed by...

An intoxicating novel about a woman who seduces an entire city with the exotic fare she creates in her home-run...

Mary Margaret is a spunky ten-year-old girl with a tough mission. Her mother has asked her to accompany her recently...

Ashley Mitchell thinks she has the perfect life: popularity, a hot boyfriend, and great fashion sense.

Baby loves his brand-new white shoes, taking them all over the neighborhood while his frantic mom chases behind him.

Our favorite contemporary authors on an irresistible subject: sex.

Introducing the ingenious, addictive tool for judging everything under the sun: ENLIGHTENED BRACKETOLOGY, the new science that makes opinion a...