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New York Times best-selling author William J. Bennett uses stories, essays, historical vignettes, and contemporary profiles to explore and explain what it means to be a man. Fashioning men has never been easy, but today it seems particularly tough. Boys need heroes to embody the everlasting qualities of manhood: honor, duty, valor, and integrity. Without such role models, boys will naturally choose perpetual childhood over the rigors of becoming a man-as many women, teachers, coaches, employers, and adults in authority can quickly attest.

A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men’s prison outside Baltimore, and what she learned from them—Orange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehran. On sabbatical from teaching literature to...

Men of Iron is a dramatic historical novel set in 15th-century England. Young Myles Falworth, the son of a disgraced nobleman, must train as a knight to restore his family’s honor. Filled with duels, political intrigue, and a climactic battle for justice, this is a tale of chivalry and bravery.

Read by the author. Why chasing after expressive individualism, experiences, and desires always fails to deliver on its promise of happiness. Today we are told to be true to ourselves, look within for answers, and follow our hearts. But when we put our own happiness first, we experience...

With his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America. A friend of luminaries including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and...

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a mind-bending thriller blending espionage, philosophy, and satire. When Gabriel Syme infiltrates a secret anarchist organization, he finds himself caught in a surreal game of deception and identity. A brilliant mix of detective fiction and metaphysical mystery.