New Arrivals
New York Cookbook
Workman Publishing, December 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Non authorial dedication on the front free endpaper. Some minor food stains. More
City of Bohane: A Novel
Graywolf Press, March 2012. Hardcover. * Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Book Award in the First Novel category * A blazingly original, wildly stylish, and pulpy debut novel "City of Bohane, the extraordinary first novel by the Irish writer Kevin Barry, is full of marvels. They are all literary marvels..... More
Oblivion
Little Brown & Co, June 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David..... More
British Trademarks of the Nineteen Twenties and Nineteen Thirties
HarperCollins Publishers, November 1989. Oversize Softcover. More
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Knopf, August 2011. Hardcover. From the author of 1491--the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves..... More
South Wind Through the Kitchen: The Best of Elizabeth David
North Point Press, October 1999. Trade Paperback. An irresistible, charming, and inspired selection from the work of one of this century's great food writers. Like M.F.K. Fisher and Julia Child, Elizabeth David changed the way we think about and prepare food. David's nine books, written with impeccable wit and considerable..... More
The Water Dancer: A Novel
One World, November 2020. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - From the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom. "This potent book..... More
Darktown: A Novel
Atria / 37 INK, September 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. "One incendiary image ignites the next in this highly combustible procedural...written with a ferocious passion that'll knock the wind out of you." --The New York Times Book Review "Fine Southern storytelling meets hard-boiled crime in a tale that connects an overlooked..... More
His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
Simon & Schuster, September 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. From one of America's most-respected journalists and modern historians comes the first full-length biography of Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States and Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian. Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of an enigmatic man of faith and his..... More
Animal Farm 1984
Harcourt, April 2003. Hardcover. This edition features George Orwell's best known novels - 1984 and Animal Farm - with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens. In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith joins..... More
The Catholic School: A Novel
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
Chronology of Water: A Memoir
Hawthorne Books, April 2011. Trade Paperback. This is not your mother's memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the reader through issues of gender, sexuality, violence, and the family from the point of view of a lifelong swimmer turned artist. In writing that explores the nature of..... More
Against Democracy: Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations
Fordham University Press, August 2012. Trade Paperback. This book argues that we can no longer envision a political system that might practically displace democracy or, more accurately, global democratic state capitalism. Democracy has become fundamental: It extends deeper and deeper into everyday life; it grounds and limits our political thought..... More
Tombland
Mulholland Books, December 2019. Paper Back. During the political upheaval of Tudor-era England, the lawyer Matthew Shardlake must decide where his loyalties lie in "one of the best ongoing mystery series" for fans of Hilary Mantel (Christian Science Monitor). LONGLISTED FOR THE SIR WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION Spring..... More
The Hobbit or there and back again
Houghton Mifflin, October 1978. Trade Paperback. This is the first authorized graphic adaptation of one of the world's most beloved novels, printed on matte-coated stock with a sleek film-laminated cover. More
Here We Are: To Migrate To America... It's the Boldest Act of One's Life
Celadon Books, October 2020. Trade Paperback. Here We Are is a heart-wrenching memoir about an immigrant family's American Dream, the justice system that took it away, and the daughter who fought to get it back, from NPR correspondent Aarti Namdev Shahani. The Shahanis came to Queens--from India, by way of..... More
Station Eleven
Vintage, June 2015. Trade Paperback. An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art..... More
Dead Astronauts
Picador USA, December 2020. Trade Paperback. A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways. At stake: the fate of the future, the..... More
Tree of Smoke: A Novel
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. This book chronicles the story of Skip Sands--spy-in-training, whos engaged in psychological operations against the Vietcong--and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. Bumped on two corners..... More
The English and Their History
Alfred a Knopf, November 2015. First American. Hardcover. A New York Times 2016 Notable Book Robert Tombs's momentous The English and Their History is both a startlingly fresh and a uniquely inclusive account of the people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. The English..... More
Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry
Seven Stories Press, November 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry, the winner of the National Book Award, presents the life work of a giant of American letters, tracks a forty-year career of honest, tough artistry, and shows a man at nearly 80 years of age and..... More
Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
Crown, October 2019. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy--Winner Take All "A rollickingly well-written book, filled with fascinating, exciting, and alarming stories about the impact of the oil and gas industry on the world today."--The New York Times Book Review In 2010, the..... More
Black Swan Green: A Novel
Random House, April 2006. First American. Hardcover. From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. Black Swan tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in..... More
The Vanishing Half: A Novel
Riverhead Books, June 2020. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR TIME MAGAZINE'S #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY NPR LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK..... More
