Little, Brown and Company, July 2022. Hardcover. "Hilarious, wrenching, and achingly tender"memoir of one wildly unconventional family that gains new meaning with each newly discovered member (Susan Orlean). What is a "normal family," and how do you go about making one? Chrysta Bilton's magnetic, larger-than-life mother, Debra, yearned to have..... More
Anchor, February 2000. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - At once tough, personal, affectionate, wise, and very funny, a book that tells in exuberant detail how to shine the light of faith on the darkest part of ordinary life, exposing surprising pockets of meaning and hope. Anne Lamott is walking proof..... More
Spiegel & Grau, February 2011. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2022. Hardcover. "One of our most interesting and bold writers . . . [offers] a characteristically wild effort that defies genre distinctions, flits from the profound to the mundane with fierce intelligence and searching restlessness, and at its best, delves deep into the recesses of..... More
St. Martin's Press, June 2022. Hardcover. An electric and unforgettable memoir about a young woman's journey--from the ice rink, to addiction and a prison sentence, to the newsroom--and how she emerged with a fierce determination to expose the broken system she experienced. Keri Blakinger always lived life at full throttle..... More
Bloomsbury Publishing, June 2022. Hardcover. From the bestselling author of Women Rowing North and Reviving Ophelia-a memoir in essays reflecting on radiance, resilience, and the constantly changing nature of reality. In her luminous new memoir in essays, Mary Pipher-as she did in her New York Times bestseller Women Rowing North-taps..... More
New York Review of Books, June 2022. Paper Back. By one of the finest English writers of our time, a luminous memoir that travels from southern Italy to the banks of the Nile, capturing a lost past both personal and historical. Marina Warner's father, Esmond, met her mother, Ilia, while..... More
Random House, October 1995. Trade Paperback. More
Vintage, June 1996. Trade Paperback. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a tough-minded, beautifully written memoir.... It smacks of honesty and truthfulness on every page (San Francisco Chronicle). Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his..... More
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, January 1975. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name. More
The Viking Press, November 1968. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In edgeworn dustjacket with small tears and chipped top & bottom edges. Flap is not clipped. Two inch closed tear top of rear panel. Creasing to flap. Two-thirds bound. Black cloth covered on spine side with gold & purple lettering. Remaining..... More
St. Martin's Press, July 2022. Hardcover. The storytelling phenomenon Humans of New York and its #1 bestselling books have captivated a global audience of millions with personal narratives that illuminate the human condition. But one story stands apart from the rest... She is a woman as fabulous, unbowed, and irresistible..... More
Doubleday, July 2022. Hardcover. A Time Most Anticipated Book of 2022 - CJ Hauser expands on her viral sensation "The Crane Wife" with ?seventeen further essays in this intimate, frank, and funny book about love in the twenty-first century "An elegant masterpiece...Wry but also warm and generous." --Roxane Gay, New..... More
Doubleday, July 2022. Hardcover. A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER From the author of the "original, politically daring and passionately written" (Vogue) novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy. For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid..... More
Viking, July 2022. Hardcover. "Equal parts pee-your-pants hilarity and break your heart poignancy- like the perfect brunch date you never want to end!--America Ferrera, Emmy award-winning actress in Ugly Betty From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly original memoir-in-essays that..... More
William Collins, June 2022. Hardcover. 'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021 Barbara Pym became beloved as one of the..... More
Random House, September 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "San Francisco Chronicle - "Newsweek/The Daily Beast - "The Seattle Times - The Economist - Kansas City Star - BookPage" On February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC..... More
Harper, October 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. "Chabon has always been a magical prose stylist, adept at combining the sort of social and emotional detail found in Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus stories with the metaphor-rich descriptions of John Updike and John Irving's inventive sleight of hand. . . . As in..... More
NYRB Classics, September 2015. Trade Paperback. A legendary love letter to Los Angeles by the city's most charming daughter, complete with portraits of rock stars at Chateau Marmont, surfers in Santa Monica, prostitutes on sunset, and Eve's own beloved cat, Rosie. Journalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse: by the time..... More
Catapult, January 2021. Trade Paperback. This national bestseller is a significant contribution to discussions of the art of fiction and a necessary challenge to received views about whose stories are told, how they are told and for whom they are intended (Laila Lalami, The New York Times Book Review). The..... More
Harcourt, October 1980. Trade Paperback. More
University of California Press, September 1977. Trade Paperback. More
Scribner, June 2020. Paper Back. Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen KingONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP 100 NONFICTION BOOKS OF ALL TIME Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King's critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions..... More
Grand Central Publishing, March 2022. Trade Paperback. This hilarious and honest bestselling memoir from a rising comedy star tackles issues of gender, sexuality, feminism, and the Catholic childhood that prepared her for a career as an outspoken lesbian comedian (Abby Wambach). Cameron Esposito wanted to be a priest and ended..... More
Spectrum, January 1966. Paper Back. Octavo. Unmarked internal pages. Worn cover at edges & spine. Tiny removal scar bottom left of front cover. [182 pages]. More
