When Women Were Birds: The beloved author of Refuge returns with a work that explodes and startles, illuminates and celebrates.

Terry Tempest Williams’s mother told her: “I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won’t look at them until after I’m gone.”

Readers of Williams’s iconic and unconventional memoir, Refuge, well remember that mother. She was one of a large Mormon clan in northern Utah who developed cancer as a result of the nuclear testing in nearby Nevada. It was a shock to Williams to discover that her mother had kept journals. But not as much of a shock as what she found when the time came to read them.

Terry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of fourteen books, including Leap, An Unspoken Hunger, Refuge , and, most recently, Finding Beauty in a Broken World. She divides her time between Castle Valley, Utah, and Moose, Wyoming.

From Tim Weiner, whose work on the Pentagon and the CIA won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, comes Enemies: A History of the FBI, the first definitive history of the FBI’s secret intelligence operations, and the first book to draw from the declassified SOLO files.

Watch this exclusive, unedited interview, with Jon Stewart, as Tim Weiner discusses the evolution of the FBI, LBJ's Southern strategy and the Bush administration's controversial Patriot Act. Part 1 and Part 2.

Here is the hidden history of America’s hundred-year war on terror. The FBI has fought against terrorists, spies, anyone it deemed subversive—and sometimes American presidents. The FBI’s secret intelligence and surveillance techniques have created a tug-of-war between protecting national security and infringing upon civil liberties. It is a tension that strains the very fabric of a free republic.

Tim Weiner has won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting and writing on secret intelligence and national security. As a correspondent for The New York Times, he covered the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington and terrorism in Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Sudan, and other nations. Enemies is his fourth book. His Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA won the National Book Award and was acclaimed as one of the year’s best books by The New York Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, Time, and many other publications. The Wall Street Journal called Betrayal “the best book ever written on a case of espionage.” He is now working on a history of the American military.

The Ball: Anthropologist John Fox sets off on a worldwide adventure to the farthest reaches of the globe and the deepest recesses of our ancient past to answer a question inspired by his sports-loving son:

"Why do we play ball?"

From Mexican jungles to the small-town gridirons of Ohio, from medieval villages and royal courts to modern soccer pitches and baseball parks, The Ball explores the little-known origins of our favorite sports across the centuries, and traces how a simple invention like the ball has come to stake an unrivaled claim on our passions, our money, and our lives. Equal parts history and travelogue, The Ball removes us from the scandals and commercialism of today's sports world to uncover the true reasons we play ball, helping us reclaim our universal connection to the games we love.

Listen to John's interview with Tom Ashbrook on On Point

John Fox has excavated ancient ball courts in Central America, traced Marco Polo's route across China, and bicycled Africa's Rift Valley in search of human origins. He has contributed commentary to Vermont Public Radio as well as Smithsonian, Outside, and Salon, among other publications. He lives in Boston.

Caleb's Crossing: A New York Times bestselling tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author.

Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret bond that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's father is a Calvinist minister who seeks to convert the native Wampanoag, and Caleb becomes a prize in the contest between old ways and new, eventually becoming the first Native American graduate of Harvard College. Inspired by a true story and narrated by the irresistible Bethia, Caleb’s Crossing brilliantly captures the triumphs and turmoil of two brave, openhearted spirits who risk everything in a search for knowledge at a time of superstition and ignorance.

Geraldine Brooks is the author of Year of Wonders and the nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Previously, Brooks was a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, stationed in Bosnia, Somalia, and the Middle East.

A Father's Gift, a Next Generation Indie Book 2012 Finalist in the Parenting/Family category.

A few years ago, Tim Bryant started writing stories about his father and what it was like growing up on their Manchester dairy farm. Vermont family farms are disappearing. Manchester once had 130 farms. Today, we have only a few farms in the immediate Manchester area. A Father's Gift reminds the readers of a time when local agriculture was a major economic driver.

A graduate of Burr and Burton Academy, Tim received his degree in engineering and returned to his Manchester home to work with on the family farm. He has been a dairy farmer all of his life and is the Director of the New England Food and Dairy Board. In 1972, he and his wife Nancy purchased a farm in Pawlet. They raised their three children and are now the proud grandparents of five.

The Round Mountain Project: A very special event showcasing the powerful, enduring, and evolving power of print. In exchange for a (FREE!) copy of Round Mountain, readers agree to give money to a charity of their choice—including groups focused on aiding the communities affected by Hurricane Irene. And they agree to pass their book along so that others can give.

The twelve short stories in Round Mountain—the new collection from acclaimed writer Castle Freeman, Jr.—are set in the kind of small, rural Vermont towns most severely affected by Hurricane Irene in late 2011. To aid the ongoing relief efforts in these communities and others, Freeman, the Concord Free Press, and Kodak are collaborating in an innovative way - aimed at raising funds for Hurricane Irene relief organizations.

To date, books published by the Concord Free Press—including works by Gregory Maguire, Lucius Shepard, Scott Phillips, Wesley Brown, and others—have inspired more than $243,000 in donations to charities throughout the world.

Pulitzer-prize winner Richard Russo's Latest Book is a Tribute to the Printed Word.

In what many perceive as a coldly relentless digital age, Pulitzer-prize winning author, Richard Russo has teamed up with his daughter, artist Kate Russo, to create Interventions, their tribute to the printed book. For it, they chose three previously published stories, Horseman, High and Dry, and The Whore’s Child. The title novella, Intervention, is a neverbefore- published story of one man's struggle to face his own mortality and the unspoken truth he never realized he knew. All four positively crackle with Russo’s piercing and understated insight into the lives of ordinary people. “[they] have some element in which an outside force profoundly intervenes in someone’s life.” Richard noted in an interview with PW's Judith Rosen, That’s what Kate does as an artist.” Read the full article here. Kate added, “we wanted a book about the obsessions people have and what drives them to that point.”