Divided people of God: Church union movement in Nigeria, 1875-1966
NOK Publishers, January 1978. Trade Paperback. More
New Arrivals
Whiskey When We're Dry
Viking, August 2018. Hardcover. Named a Best Book by Entertainment Weekly, O Magazine, Goodreads, Southern Living, HelloGiggles, Parade, Fodor's Travel, Sioux City Journal, Read it Forward, Medium.com, and NPR's All Things Considered. "A thunderclap of originality, here is a fresh voice and fresh take on one of the oldest stories... More
Minky Woodcock: The Girl Who Handcuffed Houdini
Titan Comics, June 2018. Paper Back. A brand new 1920's mystery thriller with a sinister twist! Unappreciated at her father's acclaimed detective agency, the fabulous, rabbit-loving Minky Woodcock straps on her gumshoes in order to uncover a magical mystery involving noted author Arthur Conan Doyle and world-famous escape artist, Harry... More
The Locals: A Novel
Random House Trade Paperbacks, August 2018. Paper Back. "Summons up a small American town at precisely the right moment in our history . . . a bold, vital, and view-expanding novel."--George Saunders A rural working-class New England town elects as its mayor a New York hedge fund millionaire in this... More
Notes from the Fog
Knopf, August 2018. Hardcover. With these thirteen transfixing, ingenious stories, Ben Marcus gives us timely dystopian visions of alienation in a modern world--cosmically and comically apt. Never has existential catastrophe been so much fun. In "The Grow-Light Blues," a hapless, corporate drone finds love after being disfigured testing his employer's... More
Windhaven (Graphic Novel)
Bantam, July 2018. Hardcover. A full-color graphic novel adaptation of the first fantasy novel from the bestselling author of A Game of Thrones, co-written with Lisa Tuttle. FOR SOME DREAMS, THE SKY IS NO LIMIT. Among the scattered islands of the ocean-bound world called Windhaven, no one holds more prestige... More
Vox
Berkley, August 2018. Hardcover. "[An] electrifying debut."--O, Oprah Magazine "The real-life parallels will make you shiver."--Cosmopolitan One of Entertainment Weekly's and SheReads' books to read after The Handmaid's Tale One of Good Morning America's "Best Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer" One of PopSugar, Refinery29, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle... More
The Air You Breathe
Riverhead Books, August 2018. Hardcover. "Echoes of Elena Ferrante resound in this sumptuous saga."--O, The Oprah Magazine "A masterfully choreographed saga of friendship, envy, sacrifice and love--as soulful, layered, and intoxicating as the samba that reverberates from the page." -Georgia Hunter, New York Times-bestselling author of We Were the Lucky... More
Summer
Penguin Press, August 2018. Hardcover. The grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four seasons, illustrated with paintings by the great German artist Anselm Kiefer 2 June--It is completely dark out now. It is twenty-three minutes to midnight and you have already slept for four... More
Jesus' Son: Stories
Picador, February 2009. Trade Paperback. An intense collection of interconnected stories that portray life through the eyes of a young man in a small Iowa town, by the author of "Already Dead: A California Gothic," "Angels" and "Resuscitation of a Hanged Man." More
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel
Picador, September 2013. Trade Paperback. The New York Times Bestseller A Winner of the Alex Award, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle The Great Recession has shuffled Clay... More
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
Faber & Faber, July 2011. Trade Paperback. One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011 We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups... More
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Alfred A. Knopf, August 2007. Paper Back. The New York Times bestselling he-said/she-said rock n' roll romance that inspired the motion picture starring Michael Cera (Juno, Arrested Development) and Kat Dennings (Thor, TV's 2 Broke Girls)! "I know this is going to sound strange, but would you mind being my... More
Soccer War
Random House Inc, January 1992. Paper Back. Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle... More
Lands of Lost Borders
Dey Street Books, August 2018. Hardcover. "Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven't felt for years. It's a modern classic." --Pico Iyer A brilliant, fierce writer makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along... More
Pieces of Her
William Morrow, July 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. The #1 internationally bestselling author returns with a new novel in the vein of her New York Times bestsellers Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter--a story even more electrifying, provocative, and suspenseful than anything she's written before. What if the person you thought... More
The Distance Home
Random House, August 2018. Hardcover. "[Paula] Saunders skillfully illuminates how time heals certain wounds while deepening others. . . . A mediation of the violence of American ambition."--The New York Times Book Review "A deeply involving portrait of the American postwar family" (Jennifer Egan) about sibling rivalry, dark secrets, and... More
The Salt Line
G.P. Putnam's Sons, September 2018. Paper Back. In the spirit of Station Eleven and California, award-winning novelist Holly Goddard Jones offers a literary spin on the dystopian genre with this gripping story of survival and humanity about a group of adrenaline junkies who jump "the salt line." How far will... More
What the Hell Do You Have to Lose?: Trump's War on Civil Rights
PublicAffairs, September 2018. Hardcover. The bestselling author, political analyst, and civil rights expert delivers a forceful critique of the Trump administration's ignorant and unprecedented rollback of the civil rights movement. In this powerful and timely book, civil rights historian and political analyst Juan Williams denounces Donald Trump for intentionally twisting... More
An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden
Oxford University Press, January 2018. Hardcover. By the time of his death in 1988, Romare Bearden was most widely celebrated for his large-scale public murals and collages, which were reproduced in such places as Time and Esquire to symbolize and evoke the black experience in America. As Mary Schmidt Campbell... More
England's Constable: The life and letters of John Constable
Folio Society, January 1985. First Thus. Cloth. Gray cloth with gilt lettering in black background. Front cover illustration on printed paper affixed to board. 55 illustrations scattered through text and full page portrait of Maria Constable by Mary Bicknell on frontpiece opposite title page. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front... More
Why the Child Is Cooking in the Polenta (Swiss Literature Series)
Dalkey Archive Press, January 2012. First American. Hardcover. A nomadic family of circus performers, refugees from Romania, travels through Europe and Africa by caravan. The mother's death-defying act causes constant anxiety for her two daughters, who voice their fears through a grisly communal fairy tale about a child being cooked... More
The Dream
Churchill Literary Foundation, 1987. First Thus. Leather. Leather bound. Maroon Leather with gilt lettering & decor. Illustrations by Sal Asaro. Association copy signed & dated by Hugh Kenner. From the collection of Bill (William) Buckley. Buckley name is penciled on same front paper, presumably in his own hand. Laid in... More
Letters from Mississippi: Reports from Civil Rights Volunteers and Freedom School Poetry of the 1964 Freedom Summer
Zephyr Press, May 2007. Paper Back. "Letters from Mississippi gives us a deeply personal look at one of the Civil Rights Movement's key moments--and reminds us that change happens because regular people have decided they were willing to fight for it."--Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund This... More
