What if feelings had weight?Eden is a bright and creative child who loves drawing colorful rainbows, laughing with friends, and playing games at school. Life feels light and joyful-until one week, when everything begins to change.A small comment here. A laugh there. A missing pencil box.At first, it doesn't seem like much.But to Eden, it feels like something heavier is building.She begins to imagine tiny pebbles appearing in her backpack-each one rep...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * WINNER OF THE J ANTHONY LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARD *NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY FINANCIAL TIMES, NPR, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL * FINALIST FOR THE FINACIAL TIMES/MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR**“Superb…Among the best books ever written about an American corporation.” —Bryan Burrough, The New York Times Boo...

An investigative journalist takes you inside the corporate meat industry—a shocking, in-depth report every American should read.How much do you know about the meat on your dinner plate? Journalist Christopher Leonard spent more than a decade covering the country’s biggest meat companies, including four years as the national agribusiness reporter for the Associated Press. Now he delivers the first comprehensive look inside the industrial meat system, exposing how a ...

**The Wall Street Journal Best Book of the YearNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestseller from business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America’s most mysterious institutions—the Federal Reserve—to show how its policies spearheaded by Chairman Jerome Powell over the past ten years have accelerated income inequality and put our country’s economic stability at risk.**If you asked most people what forces led to to...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * WINNER OF THE J ANTHONY LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARD *NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY FINANCIAL TIMES, NPR, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL * FINALIST FOR THE FINACIAL TIMES/MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR**“Superb…Among the best books ever written about an American corporation.” —Bryan Burrough, The New York Times Boo...

**The Wall Street Journal Best Book of the YearNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestseller from business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America’s most mysterious institutions—the Federal Reserve—to show how its policies spearheaded by Chairman Jerome Powell over the past ten years have accelerated income inequality and put our country’s economic stability at risk.**If you asked most people what forces led to to...

A car tumbles through darkness down a snowy ravine. A woman without a name walks out of a dust storm in Africa. And in the seething heat of Lagos City, a criminal cartel scours the Internet, looking for victims.Lives intersect. Worlds collide. And it all begins with a single email: 'Dear Sir, I am the daughter of a Nigerian diplomat, and I need your help...'At once a chilling thriller about a lonely woman avenging her father's death and an epic portrait of morality and corr...

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “mercilessly entertaining” (Vanity Fair) instant classic “about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships” (Lev Grossman, Time “One of the Best Books of the Decade”)—now featuring never-before-published deleted scenesTHE NEW YORK TIMES’S BEST THRILLER OF THE CENTURY • ONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ...

"Robert M. Sapolsky is one of the best science writers of our time."—Oliver SacksThe author of New York Times Bestseller Determined offers a completely revised and updated edition of his most popular work, with over 225,000 copies in print.Now in a third edition, the renowned primatologist Robert M. Sapolsky's acclaimed and successful Why Zebras...

**An explosive exposé of America’s lost prosperity by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charlie LeDuff“One cannot read Mr. LeDuff's amalgam of memoir and reportage and not be shaken by the cold eye he casts on hard truths . . . A little gonzo, a little gumshoe, some gawker, some good-Samaritan—it is hard to ignore reporting like Mr. LeDuff's.” —The Wall Street Journal“Pultizer-Prize-winning journalist LeDuff . . . writes with honesty and compassion about a city tha...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The former commissioner of the FDA exposes how the food industry manufactured a nationwide health crisis and offers research-based solutions for taking back control of our diets.“Fascinating.”—The New York Times“Groundbreaking.”—USA Today“Disturbing, thought-provoking, and important.”—Anthony BourdainMost of us know what it feels like to f...

Built in the fifth century b.c., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West’s ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model for our most hallowed civic architecture. But how much do the values of those who built the Parthenon truly correspond with our own? And apart from the significance with which we have invested it, what exa...