Knopf, August 2017. Hardcover. A beautiful new collection from Mary Jo Salter brings us poems of puzzlement and acceptance in the face of life's surprises. "I'm still alive and now I'm in Bratislava," says the speaker of one of Salter's poems, as she travels with her unlikely late-in-life love, a.... More
Vintage, August 2017. Paper Back. WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE 2017 BANCROFT PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST * NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK FOR 2016 * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE BOSTON GLOBE... More
Pantheon, August 2017. Hardcover. The biographer--so often in the shadows, kibitzing, casting doubt, proving facts--comes to the stage in this funny, poignant, endearing tale of how writers' lives get documented. James Atlas, the celebrated chronicler of Saul Bellow and Delmore Schwartz, takes us back to his own childhood in suburban... More
Knopf, August 2017. Hardcover. "A stunning debut novel." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times This celebrated, unforgettable first novel ("A bright, big-hearted demonstration of female spirit." -The Guardian), shortlisted for the prestigious Bailey's Prize and set in Nigeria, gives voice to both husband and wife as they tell the story... More
Repeater, August 2017. Paper Back. Published in the centenary year of the 1917 Russian Revolution, No Less Than Mystic is a fresh and iconoclastic history of Lenin and the Bolsheviks for a generation uninterested in Cold War ideologies and stereotypes. Although it offers a full and complete history of Leninism... More
Vintage, August 2017. Paper Back. A sweeping, in-depth history of NSA, whose famous "cult of silence" has left the agency shrouded in mystery for decades The National Security Agency was born out of the legendary codebreaking programs of World War II that cracked the famed Enigma machine and other German... More
Europa Editions, June 2017. Paper Back. Soon to be a Netflix Original Series. Suburra takes a deep dive into a politically and financially corrupt contemporary Italy, where a mighty local crime family, the Mafia, corrupt politicians, and new rabid criminal elements battle each other for control of a glittering prize--control... More
Verso, August 2017. Paper Back. A leading German scholar reveals his astonishing discovery about Nabokov's influential novel Does it ring a bell? The first-person narrator, a cultivated man of middle age, looks back on the story of an amour fou. It all starts when, traveling abroad, he takes a room... More
Knopf, August 2017. Hardcover. From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice... More
Del Rey, August 2017. Hardcover. A wildly imaginative novel about a man who is reincarnated over ten thousand lifetimes to be with his one true love: Death herself. "Tales of gods and men akin to Neil Gaiman's Sandman as penned by a kindred spirit of Douglas Adams."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)... More
Hogarth, August 2017. Hardcover. From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in post-war Ireland Cyril Avery is not a real Avery -- or at least, that's what his... More
University of Texas Press, April 2014. Paper Back. Beginning with Lost Highway, director David Lynch "swerved" in a new direction, one in which very disorienting images of the physical world take center stage in his films. Seeking to understand this unusual emphasis in his work, noted Lynch scholar Martha Nochimson... More
University of Texas Press, December 1996. Paper Back. Filmmaker David Lynch asserts that when he is directing, ninety percent of the time he doesn't know what he is doing. To understand Lynch's films, Martha Nochimson believes, requires a similar method of being open to the subconscious, of resisting the logical... More
Viking, August 2017. Hardcover. "Absorbing...Eastman is a riveting...presence who demands to be loved and remembered." -The Boston Globe An ambitious new novel set in the literary world of 1970s New York, following a washed-up writer in an errant quest to pick up the pieces of his life. One of The... More
Penguin Press, August 2017. Hardcover. From the author of the monumental My Struggle series, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of contemporary literature and a genius of observation and introspection, comes the first in a new autobiographical quartet based on the four seasons 28 August. Now, as I write... More
Hill and Wang, August 2017. Paper Back. The definitive biography of the military leader who stood at the center of Arab politics for four decades Revered by some as the Arab Garibaldi, maligned by others as an intriguer and opportunist, Fawzi al-Qawuqji manned the ramparts of Arab history for four... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2017. Paper Back. For Erik Reece, life, at last, was good: he was newly married, gainfully employed, living in a creekside cabin in his beloved Kentucky woods. It sounded, as he describes it, "like a country song with a happy ending." And yet he was... More
Vintage, December 1998. Paper Back. The image of the "Welfare Queen" still dominates white America's perceptions of Black women. It is an image that also continues to shape our government's policies concerning Black women's reproductive decisions. Proposed legislation to alleviate poverty focuses on plans to deny benefits to children born... More
University of Hawaii Press, July 2002. Oversize Softcover. Each volume is beautifully illustrated with color plates showcasing Neolithic, Shang, and Zhou jades recently exhibited at New York's Throckmorton Fine Art. Very light shelf wear on the cover. More
Harry N. Abrams, Inc. August 1976. Cloth. Light shelf wear on the jacket and a couple of quarter inch cuts where the back flap folds over. Light foxing on the white half of the cloth boards. Dedication in pen on the front endpaper. More
Ecco, December 2016. Book Club. Hardcover. -From the first page you know you're in the hands of an exceptional writer... I adored this book.- --Zadie Smith -Sexy and radical and intimate.- --Miranda July Named a Best Book of 2016 by VICE, Elle, Nylon, and Publishers Weekly Named one of the... More
Laurence King Publishing, August 2016. Oversize Softcover. Discover a whole new way of seeing the world while honing your photography skills across composition, exposure, lighting, lenses, and observation. Use This if You Want to Take Great Photographs is packed with fun photography prompts and inspiring images by master photographers so... More
Museum of East Asian Art, June 1994. Hardcover. A magnificently produced catalog of the major exhibition at the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, England. Illustrating 354 Chinese jades from the collection of Brian McElney, the Peony Collection and the Rannerdale Collection, this bilingual volume includes some 14 up-to-date essays... More
Rizzoli, January 1982. Cloth. Monor shelf wear on the jacket. More
Rizzoli, January 1984. Cloth. Light shelf wear and a 3mm closed tear on the jacket. More
