W. W. Norton & Company, July 2021. Paper Back. Despair, mania, rage, guilt, derangement, fantasy: poetry is our most intimate source for the urgent, varied experience of human emotion. Poems get under our skin; they offer solace with the balm, and the sting, of understanding. In The Book of Poetry..... More

W. W. Norton & Company, August 2007. Paper Back. Celebrating the Spanish Renaissance's greatest poems and offering a new appreciation of Spain's Golden Age, Edith Grossman turns her passionate fervor and stylistic brilliance to the works of Jorge Manrique; Garcilaso de la Vega, a soldier and courtier who wrote love..... More

Penguin Books, 1968. Mass Market PaperBack. Crease on bottom right corner of front cover; scuff marks on back cover. More

Simon & Schuster, June 2007. Trade Paperback. By the author of Dare Me and The End of Everything A young woman hired to keep the books at a down-at-the-heels nightclub is taken under the wing of the infamous Gloria Denton, a mob luminary who reigned during the Golden Era of..... More

Two Dollar Radio, November 2017. Trade Paperback. *2018 12 best books to give this holiday season --TODAY Show*Best Books of 2018 --Rolling StoneA Best Book of 2017 --NPR, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, CBC, Stereogum, National Post, Entropy, Heavy, Book Riot, Chicago Review of Books, The..... More

The Dial Press, January 1954. Hardcover. Oblong octavo in torn/frayed dust jacket. More

Quill Tree Books, March 2021. Paper Back. From the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning title The Poet X comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a drive to feed the soul that keeps her fire burning bright. Ever since..... More

Penguin Press, March 2021. Hardcover. From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034--and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration. On March 12, 2034, US Navy..... More

Ahsahta Press, January 2007. Paper Back. Poetry. Winner of the 2006 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, Paige Ackerson-Kiely's IN NO ONE'S LAND "...stakes a claim on wilderness and, most assuredly, mannages to homestead there. These are not the poems borne of quiet contemplation; they are edgy and lurid, painfully administering to the..... More

Top Shelf Productions, May 2001. Trade Paperback. Top Shelf Productions is proud to represent the publications of the dynamic and extremely talented Israeli team, Actus Tragicus. Five outstanding cartoonists (Rutu Modan, Yirmi Pinkus, Mira Friedmann, Batia Kolton, & Itzik Rennert), who pool their talents annually to produce something simply amazing..... More

Harmony, November 1992. First American. Hardcover. Inscibed 'To Kathy' and SIGNED ON HALF-TITLE PAGE BY DOUGLAS ADAMS, along with a distinctive 'Don't Panic!' ink stamp. More

Univ of California Pr, September 1978. Trade Paperback. More

Anchor, March 2014. Trade Paperback. From the award-winning, bestselling author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sun--the story of two Nigerians making their way in the U.S. and the UK, raising universal questions of race, belonging, the overseas experience for the African diaspora, and the..... More

Knopf, May 2021. Hardcover. From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father. Essential. --Booklist Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda..... More

Free Press, June 2009. First American. Hardcover. Welcome to Kittur, India. It's on India's southwestern coast, bounded by the Arabian Sea to the west and the Kaliamma River to the south and east. It's blessed with rich soil and scenic beauty, and it's been around for centuries. Of its 193,432..... More

Mariner Books, October 2018. Paper Back. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An unbelievable debut, one that announces a new and necessary American voice." --Tommy Orange, New York Times Book Review "An excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny." --George Saunders "Dark and captivating and essential . .... More

Privately Printed, January 1959. Cloth. Clean, solid, nearly new two volume set in good slip case. More

Berkley Books, June 2021. Paper Back. "In this terrific series opener, Afia evokes the women's lives in all their wayward and beautiful glory, especially the abruptness with which their dreams, hopes and fears cease to exist."--The New York Times The start of an exciting new historical mystery series set during..... More

Counterpoint, August 2021. Hardcover. A dazzling, operatic debut novel following three generations of a Muslim Indian family confronted with a nation on the brink of change. Working as a consultant for Kamala Harris's attorney general campaign in Obama-era San Francisco, Seema has constructed a successful life for herself in the..... More

New Directions, June 2021. Paper Back. The Divorce tells about a man who takes a vacation from Providence, R.I. in early December to avoid conflicts with his newly divorced wife and small daughter. He travels to Buenos Aires and there, one afternoon, he encounters a series of the most magical..... More

Graywolf Press, August 2021. Paper Back. Kaveh Akbar's exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf With formal virtuosity and ruthless precision, Kaveh Akbar's second collection takes its readers on a spiritual journey of disavowal, fiercely attendant to the presence of divinity where artifacts of self and belonging..... More

Back Bay Books, May 2021. Paper Back. This "beautiful novel . . . has echoes of The Great Gatsby": an immigrant father and his son search for belonging--in post-Trump America, and with each other (Dwight Garner, New York Times). One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the..... More

Back Bay Books, September 2009. Trade Paperback. Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize theperils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay feesin order to attend..... More

Doubleday Anchor, 1953. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Sunned spine. Light wear. This is earlier edition of The Wanderer before the Edward Gorey era of Anchor cover art, with art by the lesser known Marcelle Stoianovich, (254 pages with 2 page list of available Anchor titles.). More

Ecco Press, October 2020. Hardcover. A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award (Fiction) One of Barack Obama's Summer Favorites A Best Book of the Year From: The Washington Post * Time * NPR * Elle * Esquire * Kirkus * Library..... More

Algonquin Books, March 2021. Hardcover. "Lyrical, moving, and revealing." --Tracy Chevalier, bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring A transfixing and beautifully rendered novel about a refugee's escape from civil war--and the healing power of community. A young woman sits in her apartment, watching the small daily dramas of..... More

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, December 1995. Trade Paperback. In contrast to recent attempts to distinguish postmodernism from poststructuralism, "Death in the FUNhouse" finds deep complicity between the two discourses. This book looks comprehensively at the middle and late texts of John Barth to demonstrate the complexity of the..... More

Scribner, February 1982. Trade Paperback. More

Picador, December 2020. Trade Paperback. A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre Edoardo Albinati's The Catholic School, the winner of Italy's most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart and soul of contemporary Italy. Three well-off young men--former students at Rome's..... More

Little, Brown and Company, September 2017. Book Club. Hardcover. In this stunning bestseller praised as "our era's Handmaid's Tale," a fierce new power has emerged--and only women have it (Washington Post). In The Power, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family..... More

Scribner, January 1982. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Ex-library copy with tape on boards and markings on title page. More

Dalkey Archive Pr, September 2006. Trade Paperback. Sebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, goes to Italy for the summer, and there his real education begins. His teachers are two quite different men: Bruno Rontini, the saintly bookseller, who teaches him about things spiritual; and Uncle Eustace, who introduces him to..... More

David R Godine, October 2019. Paper Back. The Palimpsests, originally written in Spanish by Polish newcomer Aleksandra Lun, is a satirical novel about immigration, senses of cultural belonging, and ownership of language: complicated and simple, adopted and native. The book opens with the protagonist, Przesnicki, an Eastern-European immigrant writer, languishing..... More

Harper Perennial, September 2002. Trade Paperback. What is the next trend -- the next "killer app"? This question is very much on the mind of Ursula Van Urden, a burned-out art student who, after her supermodel sister Ivy's widely publicized suicide attempt, has found work as a trendspotter for Tomorrow..... More

Henry Holt & Co, January 1997. Trade Paperback. National Book Award finalist, 1973. More

Scribner, April 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. PART MEMOIR AND PART ELEGY, READING MY FATHER IS THE STORY OF A DAUGHTER COMING TO KNOW HER FATHER AT LAST-- A GIANT AMONG TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN NOVELISTS AND A MAN WHOSE DEVASTATING DEPRESSION DARKENED THE FAMILY LANDSCAPE. In Reading My Father, William Styron's youngest..... More

Little, Brown Young Readers, September 2007. Hardcover. A New York Times bestseller! Over one million copies sold! A National Book Award winner! A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner! Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take..... More

Viking, January 1931. First American. Hardcover. No slipcase. Previous owner's name on front free endpapers of both volumes. Cloth stained along bottom of spine on both volumes; else, clean, solid set. Scarce. More

Penguin Group USA Inc, December 1984. Trade Paperback. The hero of "Ragged Dick" is a veritable "diamond in the rough" - as innately virtuous as he is streetwise and cocky. Immediately popular with young readers, the novel also appeals to parents, who responded to its colorful espousal of the Protestant..... More

Garland, January 1989. Cloth. Blue cloth without dust jacket. Signed & inscribed by Adamczyk on title page. More

Dial Press Trade Paperback, January 1999. Trade Paperback. Everyone loved him. If you knew Billy at all, then you loved him. The late Billy Lynch's family and friends, a party of 47, gather at a small bar and grill somewhere in the Bronx to remember better times in good company..... More

Random House, The Modern Library, January 1950. Reprint. Cloth. In edgeworn dustjacket with one-inch tear top edge back panel. Jacket flap not clipped. Dust stained front and rear panels, especially noticable on spine. Verso mildly toned with '299 Outstanding' Modern Library titles ' you perhaps 'want to read?' 12mo.; 4&5/8th'..... More

University of Ottawa Press, January 2015. Trade Paperback. A young Canadian marches over the Pyrenees and enters into history by joining the International Brigades--men and women from around the world who volunteered to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. This new edition of Ted Allan's novel, This Time..... More

Swallow Press, January 1984. Trade Paperback. The Fathers is the powerful novel by the poet and critic recognized as one of the great men of letters of our time. Old Major Buchan of Pleasant Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia, lived by a gentlemen's agreement to ignore what was base or rude..... More

Harper Perennial, November 2009. Trade Paperback. In The Forest of the Pygmies, the final book in Isabel Allende's page-turning adventure trilogy, young Alexander Cold, his friend Nadia Santos, and his grandmother Kate Cold go on assignment to Africa, where they discover a hidden world of corruption and slavery. Available in..... More

Rayo, May 2005. Trade Paperback. Alexander Cold and his best friend, Nadia, the heroes of Allende's City Of the Beasts, are reunited in a new adventure. This time, Alexander's fearless grandmother and International Geographic are taking them to another remote niche of the world -- a forbidden kingdom tucked into..... More

Ballantine Books, March 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes "a bold exploration of womanhood, feminism, parenting, aging, love and more" (Associated Press). "The Soul of a Woman is Isabel Allende's most liberating book yet."--Elle "When I say..... More

Europa Editions, November 2020. Paper Back. From the author of Like a Sword Wound Weaving together tortured love affairs, political intrigue, power struggles, and social upheavals, Love in the Days of Rebellion offers a powerful and vivid tableau of the crisis of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century..... More

Algonquin Books, January 2010. Trade Paperback. It is November 25, 1960, and the bodies of three beautiful, convent-educated sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. El Caribe, the official newspaper, reports their deaths as..... More

Graywolf Press, October 2018. Trade Paperback. A haunting, evocative tale about the power of storytelling A brutal civil war has ravaged the country, and contagious fevers have decimated the population. Abandoned farmhouses litter the isolated mountain valleys and shady hollows. The economy has been reduced to barter and trade. In..... More