Existential battles: The growth of Norman Mailer
Ohio University Press, January 1976. Hardcover. Shelf wear and some fading to the jacket. More
Ohio University Press, January 1976. Hardcover. Shelf wear and some fading to the jacket. More
Consorci de museus de la comunitat Valencia, 1998. Hardcover. Pink boards in in cloth backstrip. Spine titles just a bit rubbed. More
Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin, April 2016. Trade Paperback. The Everyday Sexism Project was founded by writer and activist Laura Bates in April 2012. It began life as a website where people could share their experiences of daily, normalized sexism, from street harassment to workplace discrimination to sexual..... More
Faber & Faber, March 1989. Trade Paperback. This is an anthology of over 150 pieces by contemporary women writers ranging in tone from innocent to erotic, and from serious to hilarious with pieces by authors such as Erica Jong, Alice Walker and Jayne Anne Phillips. It includes short stories, poetry..... More
Balance, October 2023. Hardcover. Move forward in your journey and learn how to heal your emotional wounds, get unstuck, and get into healthy, loving, intimate relationships with the help of this eye-opening book. At the core of most toxic relationships is a painful trauma wound desperate to be healed. As..... More
Simon & Schuster, May 2021. Hardcover. Don't miss the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick that's sold 3 million copies strong--now an Apple TV+ limited series starring Jennifer Garner! The "page-turning, exhilarating" (PopSugar) and "heartfelt thriller" (Real Simple) about a woman who thinks she's..... More
Crown Publishing Group (NY), September 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. The greatly anticipated new work from the author of the international bestseller "Like Water for Chocolate" tells a cosmic love story, a Mexican "Midsummer Night's Dream" that stretches from the fall of Montezuma's Mexico to the 23rd century. By including the..... More
Doubleday, October 1992. Hardcover. Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops..... More
University of Illinois Press, September 2013. Trade Paperback. Cultural productions in the Third Reich often served explicit propaganda functions of legitimating racism and glorifying war and militarism. Likewise, the proliferation of domestic and romance films in Nazi Germany also represented an ideological stance. Rather than reinforcing traditional gender role divisions..... More
Ballantine Books, March 2002. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken comes a universal underdog story about the horse who came out of nowhere to become a legend. Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history..... More
Routledge, April 2016. Paper Back. This book offers a guide to interpreting available statistical data on terrorism attacks around the world. The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) now includes more than 113,000 terrorist attacks, starting in 1970. By analyzing these data, researchers demonstrate how a very small number of terrorist attacks..... More
William Morrow & Company, February 2014. Hardcover. Laura Lippman, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Thing, I'd Know You Anywhere, and What the Dead Know, returns with an addictive story that explores how one man's disappearance echoes through the lives of the wife, mistress, and..... More
William Morrow & Company, October 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. "Lippman is a writing powerhouse."--USA Today New York Times bestselling author and winner of every major prize awarded for crime fiction--including the Edgar(R), Anthony, Shamus, Agatha, and Nero Wolfe Awards--Laura Lippman brilliantly demonstrates her astonishing agility as a short story writer..... More
American Poetry Review, September 2009. Paper Back. Winner of the prestigious American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize, Laura McKee's Uttermost Paradise Place achieves a shimmering transparency and surreal potency. While many of the poems are perceived via a persona, it is ultimately the personae of perception that proscribe the pure..... More
Algonquin Books, March 2024. Hardcover. A tender and engrossing historical novel about the unlikely love affair between two great 19th-century poets, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a...... More
Riverhead Books, June 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. "The New York Times" bestseller and the "USA Today" #1 Hot Fiction Pick for the summer, "The Chaperone "isa captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922 and the summer that would change them..... More
Northeastern University Press, November 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. It is an undisputed fact that Chris Thomas was guilty of participating in a brutal double homicide. He was convicted of killing his girlfriend's parents in November of 1990, was sentenced to death in November of 1991, and was executed by the..... More
Chatto & Windus, January 1938. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 3/4'}. Dustjacket is missing. Brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Library of Congress Classification number is written in white on darker brown splotch lower half of spine. Boards are worn at edges..... More
Thames & Hudson Ltd, November 1982. First Edition. Cloth. Quarto. {9' x 10 & 1/2'} In dustjacket, clean, bright with mild foxing to verso. Grey cloth covered boards with silver lettering along spine and stamped/tooled illustrated silver whales within silver oval, swimming in tandem. Grey end pages with tiny classic..... More
Taschen, September 2000. Oversize Softcover. Mark Rotenberg took a fancy to collecting vintage erotic photographs when, in the late 1970s, he stumbled across a discarded pile of risque and pornographic photos in Brooklyn, New York. He undertook a mission to find lost and forgotten erotic photographs and has gone to..... More
G.P. Putnam's Sons, July 2023. Hardcover. A LibraryReads Pick The lives of two librarians become dangerously intertwined in this razor-sharp exploration of human nature and the lure of artistic obsession. No one knows Margo's real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public library know only her middle-aged normalcy..... More
Dodd, Mead. Hardcover. Dustjacket cracked along edges with some damp-staining along top edge. Book edges foxed; text block clean. More
FSG Originals, November 2013. Trade Paperback. An NPR Best Book of 2013 Laura van den Berg's gorgeous new book, The Isle of Youth, explores the lives of women mired in secrecy and deception. From a newlywed caught in an inscrutable marriage, to private eyes working a baffling case in South..... More
Clarkson Potter, February 2024. Hardcover. Bring the joy of Italian cooking to your kitchen with 100 classic and incredibly delicious Italian family favorites, from the star of Laura in the Kitchen. When Laura Vitale moved to the United States from her native Italy as a teenager, she was homesick--not just..... More
Univ of Texas Pr, November 2003. Oversized Hardcover. Internationally acclaimed for his portraits of powerful and accomplished people and women of great beauty, Richard Avedon was one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers--but perhaps not the most obvious choice to create a portrait of ordinary people of the American West..... More