The Power and the Glory -- C40
The Viking press / Compass Books, 1965. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Clean, bright, with minimal wear. 11th printing. [[301 pages]. More
Fiction & Literature
A sexual tour of the Deep South : poems
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, June 2, 1975. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo. With sunned spine. Clean, unmarked interior pages. First paperback edition. Review copy. Review slip (two copies) with nice Owl colophon sketch laid in.[97 pages]. More
The Relation of My Imprisonment (Contemporary Literature Series)
Sun & Moon Press, March 1984. Reprint. Cloth. When any work connected with coffins, gravestones, or vestments for the dead becomes heresy, a young coffin-maker faces long years in prison for conscientiously following his craft. Octavo. In bright, clean jacket with half-inch tear at top edge. Flap is not clipped..... More
Murder in the Cathedral
Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1935. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo.In dustjacket with darkened margins and spine. Sun tanned spine with likewise brown-tinted spine verso. Heavy damp stain top edge of back cover and top of spine visible on recto & verso of DJ. Front flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards..... More
READER'S GUIDE TO T.S. ELIOT, A POEM-BY-POEM ANALYSIS
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1965. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. In dustjacket with chipping & edgewear. Front flap not clipped. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. 11th printing. Internal pages darkened marginally, without markings. [248 pages]. More
A Confederacy of Dunces
Grove Press, September 1987. Trade Paperback. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize "A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue."--The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy..... More
Exile's Return
Viking Compass Book, 1973. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Dust stained cover with soiling/marginal darkening. Half inch tear top edge of front panel. Rather grubby looking, much read copy. No internal markings.[322 pages]. More
In Search of the Golden West. The Tourist in Western America
Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo.In tattered, edgeworn, creased dustjacket. Flap not clipped. Foxing/tanning to DJ verso. Burgundy cloth covered boards with gold lettering and decorations on spine. Tanned end page. Tightly bound. Darkened textblock edges. [233 pages plus xii pages of introductory material and vi page index]..... More
Joan: A Novel of Joan of Arc
Random House, July 2022. Hardcover. "It is as if Chen has crept inside a statue and breathed a soul into it, re-creating Joan of Arc as a woman for our time."--Hilary Mantel, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Booker Prize winner Wolf Hall Girl. Warrior. Heretic. Saint? From..... More
We Were Never Here: A Novel
Ballantine Books, July 2022. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK - "This book is every suspense lover's dream and it kept me up way too late turning pages. . . . A novel with crazy twists and turns that will have you ditching your Friday..... More
Ghosts: A novel
Vintage, July 2022. Paper Back. INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER - A smart, sexy, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about ex-boyfriends, imperfect parents, friends with kids, and a man who disappears the moment he says I love you. "An absolute knock-out. Wickedly funny and, at turns, both cynical and sincere... feels like your very..... More
Silverview: A Novel
Penguin Books, July 2022. Paper Back. An instant New York Times bestseller! In his last completed novel, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years--the secret world itself. "[Le Carré] was often considered one of the finest novelists, period, since..... More
In Her Boots
G.P. Putnam's Sons, July 2022. Paper Back. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Chicken Sisters comes a delightfully entertaining story about a ruse that goes awry and a chaotic homecoming that proves that confronting your past can sometimes set you free. Sometimes you have to go big..... More
Nightbitch: A Novel
Anchor, July 2022. Paper Back. In this blazingly smart and voracious debut novel, an artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced she's turning into a dog. - A must-read for anyone who can't get enough of the ever-blurring line between the psychological and supernatural that Yellowjackets exemplifies. --Vulture One day, the..... More
Displacements
Riverhead Books, July 2022. Hardcover. A gripping, full-throttle page turner.- Miranda Cowley Heller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace An adrenaline-fueled story of lives upended and transformed by an unprecedented catastrophe To all appearances, the Larsen-Hall family has everything: healthy children, a stable marriage, a lucrative..... More
Mazebook
Dark Horse Books, July 2022. Hardcover. From New York Times bestselling and Eisner award-winning Black Hammer creator Jeff Lemire comes this ambitious and haunting graphic novel about family, mourning, and reality. A lonely building inspector still grieving the loss of his puzzle-loving daughter receives a mysterious phone call one night..... More
Bolla: A Novel
Vintage, July 2022. Paper Back. From the author of National Book Award finalist Crossing comes an unlikely love story in Kosovo with unpredictable consequences that reverberates throughout a young man's life--a dazzling tale full of fury, tenderness, longing, and lust. "Devastating in the most beautiful ways. From the first pages..... More
Harrow
Vintage, July 2022. Paper Back. In her first novel since the Pulitzer Prize-nominated The Quick and the Dead, the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after an environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic. She practices..... More
Build Your House Around My Body: A Novel
Random House Trade Paperbacks, July 2022. Paper Back. Part puzzle, part revenge tale, part ghost story, this ingenious novel spins half a century of Vietnamese history and folklore into "a thrilling read, acrobatic and filled with verve" (The New York Times). FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE..... More
Big Time: Stories
Random House Trade Paperbacks, July 2022. Paper Back. The debut collection of raucous, dark, strange, satirical stories from the former Late Show with Stephen Colbert writer and New Yorker contributor, featuring a foreword by Stephen Colbert "Jen Spyra's stories are shocking, silly, smart, and absurdly funny. Underline both those words..... More
Dele Weds Destiny
Knopf Publishing Group, June 2022. Hardcover. The story of three once-inseparable college friends in Nigeria who reunite in Lagos for the first time in thirty years--a sparkling debut novel about mothers and daughters, culture and class, sex and love, and the extraordinary resilience of female friendship. "The bonds between women--as..... More
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Random House Trade Paperbacks, April 2022. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves--and our world today. LONGLISTED..... More
Black Hole
Pantheon, October 2005. Hardcover. Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways -- from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) -- but once you've..... More
You Have a Friend in 10a: Stories
Knopf Publishing Group, May 2022. Hardcover. From the Booker Prize nominee and New York Times best-selling author of Great Circle, a piercing, irresistible first collection of short stories exquisite in their craft and audacious in their range A love triangle plays out over decades on a Montana dude ranch. A...... More
Honey and Spice: A Novel
William Morrow, July 2022. Hardcover. "Divine summer reading. Hilarious, hot, and heartfelt. " -- Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author A vibrant debut novel . . . Babalola is incisively funny, capturing the kick and sweetness of her title with her words. -- Entertainment Weekly Recommended by New..... More
