Algonquin Books, November 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. This funny, exuberant novel captures the reader with the grand sweep of seven-foot-tall David "Lizard" Hochmeyer's larger-than-life quest to unravel the mystery surrounding his parents' deaths. It's a journey laden with pro football stars, a master chef and his beautiful transvestite lover, a.... More about Life Among Giants: A Novel
Lyons Press, January 2017. Hardcover. The dangerous, trailblazing work of a white journalist and black leader who struck a shocking early blow against legal segregation In 1948, most white people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for 10 million African Americans living in... More about 30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South
Random House, October 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering over fifty new poems that showcase the generosity, wit, and imaginative play that prompted The Wall Street Journal to call him "America's favorite poet."... More about The Rain in Portugal
Simon & Schuster, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first in jacket. Complete number line. Signed on publisher's special bound in page. More about The Last of the President's Men
Simon & Schuster, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first. Signed on publisher supplied special bound in page. More about The Last of the President's Men
Simon & Schuster, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Some creasing on both inner jacket flaps. Mylar wrapped. Signed by the author on a specially bound in page. More about The Last of the President's Men
Chronicle Books, August 2000. Hardcover. A remarkable addition to the canon of Civil War literature, "Civil War in Depth, Volume II, " features 170 vivid images, many never previously published. Especially significant is the portfolio of rare, color images. A companion to the perennial "Civil War in Depth, " this... More about The Civil War in Depth, Volume II
Howard Books, August 2010. Hardcover. Coach Bobby Bowden is an icon of college football who ran his legendary, top-ranking program with a trademark southern charm. With his recent retirement, Bowden is ready to give fans and readers the behind-the-scenes story of his 55-year career and the path that helped him... More about Called to Coach: Reflections on Life, Faith, and Football
Golden Coast Publishing Company, July 1988. Hardcover. Signed by Wilkinson on title page. More about Dodds Luck
Flatiron Books, January 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence movement that led to... More about The First Conspiracy
W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. In prose so precise and beautiful it makes a reader's hair stand on end, Brad Watson writes about people and dogs: dogs as companions, as accomplices, and as unwitting victims of human passions; and people responding to dogs as... More about Last Days of the Dog-Men: Stories
Minotaur Books, April 2019. Hardcover. "A book filled with unforgettable characters and a tension that heightens with every chapter." --The Wall Street Journal A powerful follow up to multiple award-winning debut Bull Mountain. Brian Panowich burst onto the crime fiction scene in 2015, winning awards and accolades from readers and... More about Like Lions: A Novel
Univ Pr of Kansas, March 2012. Cloth. Although often counted among the Union's top five generals, George Henry Thomas has still not received his due. A Virginian who sided with the North in the Civil War, he was a more complicated commander than traditional views have allowed. Brian Wills now... More about George Henry Thomas: As True As Steel
Little, Brown and Company, January 2019. Hardcover. A singular memoir highlighting "the outstanding humanity of black America" that tells the story of one unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and the life they lead in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and 1970s (James McBride) In 1958, the very same year... More about The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
Riverhead Books, October 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Bittersweet, sexy, morally fraught." -The New York Times Book Review "Luminous... engrossing and poignant, this is one not to miss." -People, Pick of the Week "Fantastic... a book that feels alive on the page." -The Washington Post A dazzling... More about The Mothers
Te Neues Publishing Company, October 2005. First Edition. Oversized Hardcover. (excerpted from catalog copy) ?No book is about one thing.? By Bruce Weber At first I thought strictly about a book of photographs on fashion. As I worked on it, I thought more and more about something my friend the... More about Blood Sweat And Tears: Or How I Stopped Worrying And Learned to Love Fashion
Free Press, November 2011. Hardcover. Buddy Valastro, the star of TLC's smash hit Cake Boss shares everything a home cook needs to know about baking as he takes readers through the same progressive training he had in his own apprenticeship. Call it the Buddy system, because Baking with the Cake... More about Baking with the Cake Boss: 100 of Buddy's Best Recipes and Decorating Secrets
University Press of Florida, September 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. "A stunning visual and heart-felt narrative of Cuba in all its major dimensions."--Insights Magazine"A stunning visual and heart-felt narrative of Cuba in all its major dimensions."--Insights Magazine "Words alone do not do Cuba justice. They depict only fragments of her mystery..... More about Embracing Cuba
Bookcrafters, January 1997. First Edition. Oversized Hardcover. Quarto in jacket. First/first. Signed by Thomas on title page. More about ROADS TO JAMESTOWN: A View and Review of the Old Town
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive global journey that introduces compelling, powerful rituals almost entirely unknown in... More about From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. The best questions come from kids. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die... More about Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death
Grand Central, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on a tipped in page. Corner bumps and edge wear. More about The Secrets of My Life
Picador, June 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. "I can't remember the last time I read a book I wish so much I'd written. Treeborne is beautiful, and mythic in ways I would never have been able to imagine...I can't say enough about this book."--Daniel Wallace, national bestselling author of Extraordinary Adventures..... More about Treeborne
Ticknor & Fields, September 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentatiton copy inscribed by Calvin Trillin on half-title page. Jacket price clipped. More about Travels With Alice
St. Martin's Griffin, July 2012. Trade Paperback. A narrative history of America's deadliest episode of race riots and lynchings After World War I, black Americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity, and equality. Black soldiers believed their participation in the fight to make the world safe for... More about Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
