Shogun: A Novel of Japan
Dell Publishing Company, September 1986. Mass Market PaperBack. Minor shelf wear. Edges of print block lightly toned. More
Dell Publishing Company, September 1986. Mass Market PaperBack. Minor shelf wear. Edges of print block lightly toned. More
Modern Library, May 1995. Hardcover. Traces the growth and demise of a love affair between a young Yale dropout and the provincial French girl who becomes his mistress. More
Penguin, February 1982. Trade Paperback. Having done the longest day in literature with his monumental Ulysses (1922), James Joyce set himself an even greater challenge for his next book -- the night. "A nocturnal state...That is what I want to convey: what goes on in a dream, during a dream"..... More
Ecco, November 2023. Paper Back. An essential collection of James Tate's extraordinary poems that will captivate today's readers, with a foreword by Terrance Hayes Celebrating James Tate's work as it transcends convention, time, and everything that tells us, "No, you can't do that," Hell, I Love Everybody gives us the..... More
Riverhead Books, August 2023. Hardcover. THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR/FRESH AIR, WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, AND TIME MAGAZINE ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023 "A murder mystery locked inside a Great..... More
Del Rey, February 2017. Hardcover. MAGIC RULES. WE SERVE. In a darkly fantastical debut set in modern-day Britain, magic users control everything: wealth, politics, power--and you. If you're not one of the ultimate one-percenters--the magical elite--you owe them ten years of service. Do those years when you're old, and you'll..... More
Vintage, October 2006. Trade Paperback. From one of the most important writers of the twentieth century comes a stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime--"a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based..... More
Ecco, November 2023. Paper Back. An essential collection of James Tate's extraordinary poems that will captivate today's readers, with a foreword by Terrance Hayes Celebrating James Tate's work as it transcends convention, time, and everything that tells us, "No, you can't do that," Hell, I Love Everybody gives us the..... More
Penguin Classics, December 1999. Trade Paperback. Having done the longest day in literature with his monumental Ulysses, James Joyce set himself even greater challenges for his next book -- the night. "A nocturnal state...That is what I want to convey: what goes on in a dream, during a dream." The..... More
Mysterious Press, August 2006. Trade Paperback. The highly acclaimed novel based on America's most infamous unsolved murder case. Dive into 1940s Los Angeles as two cops spiral out of control in their hunt for The Black Dahlia's killer in this powerful thriller that is "brutal and at the same time..... More
Vintage, June 2002. Trade Paperback. The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. In this savagely audacious novel, James Ellroy plants a pipe bomb under the America in the 1960s, lights the fuse, and watches..... More
Hachette Books, October 1995. Trade Paperback. "Two for Texas" is a rip-roaring historical novel about the Texas revolution of 1835-1836 in the tradition of Mark Twain and "Little Big Man." It is the story of Son Holland and Hugh Allison - two prison escapees from Lousiana - and their whirlwind..... More
Delta, February 1996. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 1994 Booker Prize, this witty, controversial, and brilliant bestselling novel has been compared to the works of Joyce, Beckett, and many other masters. A raw, wry vision of human survival in a bureaucratic world, "How Late It Was, How Late" opens one..... More
Viking, 1947. Reprint. Hardcover. Fifth printing. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. First 70 pages heavily annotated and underlined. Sporadic markings throughout the rest of the text. Edges fraying. Binding tight. More
Knopf, September 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire..... More
Harpercollins, July 1999. Trade Paperback. "An authentic American genius. . . . Mr. Thurber belongs in the great lines of American humorists that includes Mark Twain and Ring Lardner." --Philadelphia Inquirer James Thurber's unique ability to convey the vagaries of life in a funny, witty, and often satirical way earned..... More
Vintage, January 2013. Trade Paperback. In their six years of marriage, Elizabeth and Darcy have forged a peaceful, happy life for their family at Pemberley, Darcy's impressive estate. Her father is a regular visitor; her sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live nearby; the marriage prospects for Darcy's sister, Georgiana..... More
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, June 2019. Trade Paperback. "James Thurber was a comedic genius. His fables are not simply parodies of Aesop. They are wry, accurate, and powerful reflections of ourselves, our foibles, our follies, and, above all, our self-importance. And they are very, very funny." -- Neil Gaiman James..... More
Bellevue Literary Press, February 2024. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE A son's collapse pulls his two mothers together and apart in a novel that probes the limits of love, hope, and forgiveness In Norway, thousands of miles from home, a student drops dead on the street. A passerby..... More
Milkweed Editions, October 2014. Hardcover. Born and raised with the kind of expectations that often accompany privilege, Jim Lenfestey approached his thirtieth birthday in a state of acute anxiety. A young family and a demanding work life on one hand, and a burgeoning love for poetry on the other. When..... More
Easton Press, 1979. Leather. brown full leather cover with gilt lettering and design on spine and front and back covers; gilt page edges; lovely bright red silk endpages in front and back; red satin ribbon bookmark; Easton Press bookplate personalized and affixed on inside of front free endpage; illustrations by..... More
Alice James Books, February 2024. Paper Back. Recommended by Cosmopolitan, USA Today, Shondaland, & Book Riot "It's not often that fat women feel such thorough representation of themselves not only in poetry but in any media and not only in the beautiful moments but in the sorrowful ones, ranging throughout..... More
Vintage, April 2012. Trade Paperback. "Christian, I've been yours since I said yes." I scoot forward, cupping his beloved face in my hands. "I'm yours. I will always be yours, husband of mine. Now, I think you're wearing too many clothes." When unworldly student Anastasia Steele first encountered the driven..... More
Vintage, April 2012. Trade Paperback. "I rest my head against him, and he kisses my hair repeatedly. This is home. He smells of linen, fabric softener, bodywash, and my favorite smell--Christian. For a moment, I allow myself the illusion that all will be well, and it soothes my ravaged soul."..... More