Luther Albright is a devoted father and a designer of dams, a self-controlled man who believes he can engineer happiness for his family by sheltering them from his own emotions.But when an earthquake shakes his Sacramento home, the world Luther has constructed with such care begins to tilt: his son's behavior becomes increasingly bizarre and threatening, his loving wife seems to grow distant, the house he built with his own hands shows its first signs of decay, and a dam of his design comes under investigation f...

Luther Albright is a devoted father and a designer of dams, a self-controlled man who believes he can engineer happin...

A book that follows its subject through conflict, memory, or discovery, with a strong emphasis on character and atmosphere.

book that follows its subject through conflict, memory, or discovery, with a strong emphasis on character and atmosph...

A book that follows its subject through conflict, memory, or discovery, with a strong emphasis on character and atmosphere.

book that follows its subject through conflict, memory, or discovery, with a strong emphasis on character and atmosph...

A practical guide that focuses on craft, structure, and the habits that help a writer shape a stronger book.

practical guide that focuses on craft, structure, and the habits that help a writer shape a stronger book.

A book that follows its subject through conflict, memory, or discovery, with a strong emphasis on character and atmosphere.

book that follows its subject through conflict, memory, or discovery, with a strong emphasis on character and atmosph...

A debut poetry collection that binds immigrant workers' voices, bodily experience, memory, and social pressure into taut lyric poems.

A debut collection that renders immigrant labor and memory with sharp lyric intensity.

A critical study that rethinks the relationship between race and American culture through popular music. Moving from Los Angeles to Havana, the Bronx, and the U.S.-Mexico border, it asks how music shapes community and belonging.

Music is not a backdrop for a single America; it becomes the place where multiple stories resonate.

A fast-moving novel that follows a young Black man through the military, family rupture, college, and city life with anger and dark wit.

A furious, funny novel that never lets its energy slacken.

An organizational history of SEARHC that traces the development of community healthcare and Native-led medical autonomy in Southeast Alaska.

It records the people and institutions that built regional healthcare.

A nonfiction account that reads old San Francisco crime history through both anecdote and institutional change.

It follows criminals, police, and the changing city in a single historical arc.

A book that follows its subject through conflict, memory, or discovery, with a strong emphasis on character and atmosphere.

book that follows its subject through conflict, memory, or discovery, with a strong emphasis on character and atmosph...

"From the teeming streets of Cairo to the urban United States, from Egypt's indigenous, pre-Islamic Coptic society to an America struggling with its reckless global presence, Somewhere Else spans generational and cultural divides. In poems both personal and political, nuanced and energized, Shenoda celebrates his Coptic heritage, riffs on jazz and hip-hop, and expands perceptions of place and history."--Jacket.

"From the teeming streets of Cairo to the urban United States, from Egypt's indigenous, pre-Islamic Coptic society to...

A poetry collection that uses voice, image, and movement to explore identity, memory, and the pressures that shape lived experience.

poetry collection that uses voice, image, and movement to explore identity, memory, and the pressures that shape live...