The Pirates LaffiteAn engrossing and exciting account of legendary New Orleans privateers Pierre and Jean Laffite and their adventures along the Gulf Coast (Booklist, starred review). At large during the most colorful period in New Orleans' history, from just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of 1812, privateers Jean and Pierre Laffite made life hell for Spanish merchants on the Gulf. Pirates to the US Navy officers who chased them, heroes to the private

the stories in Austin Bunn’s dazzling collection explore the existential question: what happens at “the end” and what lies beyond it

Go beyond the Founding Fathers and meet the women who raised a nation

He wrote Dr

Groundbreaking and profound

The eldest

this assortment of spiritual astonishment is the perfect companion to daily prayer

Praise for The Choir on Hope Street:

When you piss off a bridge into a snowstorm

he is asked to take a

but catching her boyfriend with someone else definitely wasn’t part of the plan

her infant son

’ TREVOR NOAH