Harper Perennial, October 2021. Paper Back. NATIONAL BESTSELLER This second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on the Agricultural Revolution--when humans fell into a trap we've yet to escape: working harder and harder with diminishing returns..... More
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, March 2002. Trade Paperback. Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South--and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories..... More
William Morrow & Company, June 2022. Hardcover. A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "A con artist story, a pop-feminist caper, a fashionable romp . . . Counterfeit is an entertaining, luxurious read--but beneath its glitz and flash, it is also a shrewd deconstruction of the American dream and the myth of..... More
Harper Perennial, May 2022. Paper Back. "A gut-churning, heart-wrenching, blockbuster of a first novel . . . Parks-Ramage is an extraordinary new talent and Yes, Daddy is truly something special." --Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things A propulsive, scorching modern gothic, Yes, Daddy follows an ambitious young man who..... More
Chronicle Books, December 2021. Paper Back. Let's face it--all birds are fascinating, wonderful, idiotic jerks--no matter where in the world they reside. Following in the footsteps of the bestselling book The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America, this hilarious sequel ventures beyond to identify the stupidest birds around..... More
Grand Central Publishing, January 2018. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an extraordinary epic of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). NEW..... More
Back Bay Books, April 2019. Trade Paperback. A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story, this #1 New York Times bestseller is both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right (Alexandra Alter, The New..... More
Knopf, April 2021. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, one of TIME's Most Influential People of 2022, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of..... More
Mariner Books, June 1999. Trade Paperback. With a new Introduction from the author for the twentieth anniversary Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this stunning debut collection unerring charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations. In stories that travel from India..... More
Vintage, October 2000. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America's most inventive novelist. A half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a hard-boiled crime story narrated by an amateur detective with Tourette's syndrome.... The dialogue crackles with..... More
Harper Perennial, September 1990. Trade Paperback. An inspiring and hilarious account of one man's rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town. "The kind of book Steinbeck might have written if he'd traveled with David Letterman."-- "New York" magazine. More
University Of Chicago Press, June 1994. Trade Paperback. How the negotiation between poetic and media discourses takes place is the subject of Marjorie Perloff's groundbreaking study. Radical Artifice considers what happens when the natural speech model inherited from the great Modernist poets comes up against the natural speech of the..... More
Fantagraphics, March 2016. Hardcover. Patience is a psychedelic science-fiction love story, veering with uncanny precision from violent destruction to deeply personal tenderness in a way that is both quintessentially Clowesianand utterly unique in the author's body of work. This 180-page, full-color original graphic novel affords Clowes the opportunity to draw..... More
Inner Sanctum/S. and Schuster, January 1942. First Thus. Cloth. {8 & 3/4' x 6'} First edition of Inner Sactum Simon & Schuster edition. Edward Zempel's First Editions: A Guide to Identification is clear on this issue regarding Simon & Schuster titles 1928 through 1947: 'Our first editions are marked by..... More
Citadel Press, October 2008. Trade Paperback. "Peter Zheutlin's thoroughly researched account will make you wish you'd been around to catch a glimpse of the extraordinary woman as she went wheeling by." -Bill Littlefield, National Public Radio's Only A Game Until 1894 there were no female sport stars, no product endorsement..... More
Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., January 1949. Cloth. {8 & 3/4'' x 9 & 3/4'} In well worn, edgeworn dustjacket with some scuff marks, creasing & ragged chip/tear top of spine. Chipping, possibly insect damage, base of spine. Jacket spine lightened by sun with small sticker removal scar. Front flap..... More
Pantheon Books, February 1996. Hardcover. A masterful biography of one of the greatest English poets and most compelling literary figures of the 20th century, Auden is the first to take the full measure of the poet's achievements, his insatiable thirst for experience, his navigation between the needs of discipline and..... More
St. Martin's Paperbacks, September 2001. Mass Market PaperBack. A murder trial takes a diabolical turn when the wife of the accused takes a stand...A woman's sixth--and a loaded revolver--signal premonitions of doom...A stranded motorist seeks refuge in a remote mansion, and is greeted with a dire warning...Detective Hercule Poirot faces..... More
Bantam, October 2000. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Avon, May 2001. Mass Market PaperBack. Crime runs rampant in the picturesque town of Leixleap -- and onIreland's famed River Shannon, where brazen thieves illegally harvestthe gourmet-prized eels that flourish there. But while poachingmay be something the local Eel Police division is well-equippedto handle, murder is wholly another matter.Chief Inspector..... More
HarperTorch, January 2011. Mass Market PaperBack. George explores her characters' dreams and fears with a penetrating grace that makes reading her books a joy. --Washington Post Book World Elizabeth George reigns as queen of the mystery genre. The Lynley books constitute the smartest, most gratifyingly complex and impassioned mystery series..... More
Onyx, June 2005. Mass Market PaperBack. All roads don't lead to the village of Ashdown Dean. The one that did led writer Polly Praed right to the police station...to be questioned about a corpse. Poor Polly admitted to opening the phone booth door, but the dead woman had fallen out..... More
Bantam, August 2004. Mass Market PaperBack. An isolated beach on the island of Guernsey in the English Channel is the scene of the murder of Guy Brouard, one of Guernsey's wealthiest inhabitants and its main benefactor. Forced as a child to flee the Nazis in Paris, Brouard was engaged in..... More
Ballantine Books, March 1990. Mass Market PaperBack. Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument; he is. This is John Irving's most comic novel, yet Owen Meany is Mr. Irving's most heartbreaking character. " Roomy, intelligent, exhilarating and darkly comic...Dickensian in scope....Quite..... More
Bantam, July 1990. Mass Market PaperBack. The career of playwrite Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives an eighteen-inch dirk through her neck. Called upon to investigate the case in a country where they have virtually no authority, aristocratic..... More
