Signet Classics, December 2000. Mass Market PaperBack. The Mad Hatter, the Ugly Duchess, the Mock Turtle, the Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat-characters each more eccentric than the last, and that could only have come from Lewis Carroll, the master of sublime nonsense. In these two brilliant burlesques he created... More
Anchor, March 1998. Mass Market PaperBack. "Into Thin Air" is the definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Mount Everest -- told by acclaimed journalist, and bestselling author of "Into the Wild" and "Eiger Dreams, " Jon Krakauer. On assignment for "Outside" magazine, Krakauer, an accomplished... More
Vintage, December 1994. Mass Market PaperBack. When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically... More
Harper, October 2013. Mass Market PaperBack. Lost in the chill deeps of space between the galaxies, it sails on forever, a flat, circular world carried on the back of a giant turtle-- Discworld --a land where the unexpected can be expected. Where the strangest things happen to the nicest people... More
Bantam Classics, March 1984. Mass Market PaperBack. More
J&L Books, January 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Over the course of his 20-year career, Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) cast himself alternately as hard-drinking carouser and confrontational art-world jester, thrusting these personae to the forefront of his prodigious creativity. He was also very much a player in the international art world of... More
Scribner, October 1997. Hardcover. Our lives, our half century. Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo... More
Penguin Press, February 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the world's... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 1996. Hardcover. Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967) was one of the most accomplished composers in American music, the creator of such standards as "Take the 'A' Train," yet all his life he was overshadowed by his friend and collaborator, Duke Ellington. Through scrutiny of Strayhorn's private papers... More
Pantheon, January 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Here is a brilliant new collection of essays on the sublime and the ridiculous in contemporary American culture and society, by one of the most important and compelling social commentators at work today. "Fearless and engaging, a virtuoso at bringing the drive of natural... More
Ecco, March 2004. Hardcover. In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, two men -- the Soviet world chess champion Boris Spassky and his American challenger Bobby Fischer -- met in the most notorious chess match... More
Twelve, April 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Nickel and Dimed" comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist... More
Ivy Books, September 1990. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Harper Voyager, May 1996. Mass Market PaperBack. Tales of wonder and adventure, set on distant planets or in the future of our own. Stories that go beyond the limits of Space and Time. David G. Hartwell has brought together only the best of this year's new SF from established pros... More
Eos, June 2000. Mass Market PaperBack. Experience New Realms Acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell returns with this fifth annual collection of the year's most imaginative, entertaining, and mind-expanding science fiction. Here are works from some of today's most acclaimed authors, as well as visionary new talents, that will... More
Harper Voyager, June 1998. Mass Market PaperBack. Enjoy today's most awesome and innovative science fiction, chosen by acclaimed editor David G. Hartwell from the best short fiction published over the last year. Like its two distinguished processors, "Year's Best SF 3" is a cybercopia of astonishing stories from familiar favorites... More
I Books, March 2003. Mass Market PaperBack. A collection of the best science fiction prose written in 2002, by some the genre's greatest writers, and selected by two of SF's most respected editors. Here in one affordable volume is the best short science fiction of the year as selected from... More
Eos, June 2004. Mass Market PaperBack. The Future Boldly Imagined From Breathtaking New Perspectives The world as we will know it is far different from the future once predicted in simpler times. For this newest collection of the finest short form SF to appear in print over the preceding year... More
Tor Science Fiction, June 1997. Mass Market PaperBack. Orson Scott Card returns at last to the story of Ender Wiggin, the child hero of the Hugo and Nebula award winner Ender's Game, who as a man found a way to redeem the Xenocide of his youth and restore the Hive... More
William Morrow Paperbacks, February 2017. Trade Paperback. A Best Novel nominee for the 2017 Anthony Award! An African-American man accused of rape by a humiliated girl. A vengeful father. A courageous attorney. A worshipful daughter. Think you know this story? Think again. Laura Lippman, the "extravagantly gifted" (Chicago Tribune) New... More
Vintage, July 2011. Trade Paperback. Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family's island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Ava's mother, the park's indomitable headliner, the family is plunged into chaos; her father withdraws, her sister falls in... More
Picador, November 2016. Trade Paperback. Winner of the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize One of Publishers Weekly's Ten Best Books of 2015 A Huffington Post Best Fiction Book of the Year In 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then called the... More
Bantam, October 1995. Trade Paperback. An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations... It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which spins Tom Robbins's gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative new novel, in which a bean... More
Perigee Trade, March 2008. Trade Paperback. How green can you be? Green: Drive the speed limit Greener: Drive a fuel-efficient car Greenest: Bike or walk The perfect guide to help readers decide how to best spend their time and money to protect the environment, "Green, Greener, Greenest" offers flexible tips... More
Anchor, February 1997. Trade Paperback. In April 1992 a 24-year-old from the Washington, D.C., suburbs named Chris McCandless walked into the Alaska wilderness below Mt. McKinley with a small-caliber rifle and a 10-pound bag of rice. Four months later, his emaciated corpse was found at his campsite by a moose... More
