New Arrivals
Firebird & Trans Am 1967-1994 (Motorbooks International Muscle Car Color History)
Motorbooks Intl, November 1993. Oversize Softcover. Reviews the changes and modifications of each model year, describes technical specifications, and looks at the Firebird racing program. More
McLaren Sports Racing Cars
Motorbooks International, July 2000. Oversized Hardcover. Bruce McLaren's sports racers were among the most successful and innovative race cars of the 1960s. McLaren's driving was impressive, but it was his cars - particularly the Can-Am racers - that really put the Kiwi on the motorsports map. This dynamic photohistory focuses..... More
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
Celadon Books, August 2021. Paper Back. You're Not Listening is New York Times contributor Kate Murphy's eye-opening wake-up call about the worldwide epidemic of not listening. If you're like most people, you don't listen as often or as well as you'd like. There's no one better qualified than a talented..... More
Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen (Vintage Contemporaries)
Vintage, March 2010. Trade Paperback. Weaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen, Home Cooking is Laurie Colwin's cookbook manifesto on the joys of sharing food and entertaining. "As much memoir as cookbook and as much about eating as cooking." --The New York Times Book..... More
Gordo
Grove Press, Black Cat, August 2021. Paper Back. Shedding profound natural light on the inner lives of migrant workers, Jaime Cortez's debut collection ushers in a new era of American literature that gives voice to a marginalized generation of migrant workers in the West. The first-ever collection of short stories..... More
Open Water
Grove Press, Black Cat, April 2021. Paper Back. A stunning first novel about two young Black artists in London falling in and out of love by a new literary virtuoso and finalist for the BBC Short Story Award, twenty-six-year-old writer and photographer Caleb Azumah Nelson "Open Water is tender poetry..... More
Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts
Hub City Press, April 2021. Hardcover. "You are a rare bird, easy to see but invisible just the same." That thought is close at hand in Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts, as renowned naturalist and writer J. Drew Lanham explores his obsession with birds and all..... More
Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour
Grove Pr, April 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. A tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music, the two-time Grammy Award-winning "premiere song-stylist and songwriter of her generation" (Hilton Als), Rickie Lee Jones. This troubadour life is only for the fiercest hearts, only..... More
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree: A Novel
Europa Editions, January 2020. Paper Back. LONGLISTED for the 2021 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE LONGLISTED for the 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Translated Literature FINALIST for the 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE From the pen of one of Iran's rising literary stars, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is a family story..... More
Mapping America: The Incredible Story and Stunning Hand-Colored Maps and Engravings that Created the United States
Apollo Publishers, July 2021. Hardcover. The story of the exploration and birth of America is told afresh through the unique prism of hand-colored maps and engravings of the period. Before photography and television, it was printed and hand-colored maps that brought home the thrill of undiscovered lands and the possibilities..... More
One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America
The New Press, November 2021. Hardcover. From the author of the acclaimed Behind the Kitchen Door, a powerful examination of how the subminimum wage and the tipping system exploit society's most vulnerable "No one has done more to move forward the rights of food and restaurant workers than Saru Jayaraman."..... More
Braiding Sweetgrass
Milkweed Editions, September 2014. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Bestseller Named a Best Essay Collection of the Decade by Literary Hub As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the..... More
Street Art in the Time of Corona
Gingko Press, April 2021. Hardcover. From Paris to L.A., London to Bergen, Sao Paulo to Vienna, and many more, no one has quite captured the strangeness, heroism, frustration or surreal quality of the coronavirus pandemic quite like the world's street artists. This brilliant compact volume features the best examples: heroic..... More
The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World
The New Press, September 2021. Hardcover. Riveting and inspiring first-person stories of how "taking a knee" triggered an awakening in sports, from the celebrated sportswriter"The Kaepernick Effect reveals that Colin Kaepernick's story is bigger than one athlete. With profiles of courage that leap off the page, Zirin uncovers a whole..... More
Secrets and Lies: A Novel
Avon, October 2021. Paper Back. New York Times bestselling author and NAACP Image Award winner Stacey Abrams, writing under her pen name Selena Montgomery, delivers a "sexy thriller" that is deliciously "twisty and satisfying" (Publishers Weekly). Tell me no lies . . . She just witnessed her uncle's murder, she's..... More
The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Equality
Pegasus Books, November 2021. Hardcover. Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president" as well as "the first who rose above the prejudice of his times and country." This narrative history of Lincoln's personal interchange with Black people over the course his career reveals a side of..... More
Tucci Table
Gallery Books, October 2014. Hardcover. Featuring family-friendly recipes and stunning photography, an all-new cookbook from New York Times bestselling author, beloved actor, and respected foodie Stanley Tucci. Stanley Tucci's association with wonderful foods began for fans with the movie Big Night and resonated in his role as Julia Child's husband..... More
Lightning Men
Atria / 37 INK, June 2018. Trade Paperback. From the acclaimed author of "the most compelling new series in crime fiction" (Michael Koryta, New York Times bestselling author) comes "a sharply observed novel" (New York Times) that explores race, law enforcement, and justice in mid-century Atlanta. Officer Denny Rakestraw and..... More
The Birth of Rock and Roll
Dust to Digital/Lindeman, February 2015. Hardcover. In The Birth of Rock and Roll, Americana collector Jim Linderman has arranged a storyboard of sorts that dramatizes the spirit of rock and roll in its early days--when a juke-joint with fifty patrons was a big show, as Linderman writes in his introduction..... More
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Random House, January 2021. Hardcover. 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. NAMED ONE OF THE..... More
By Any Other Name: A Cultural History of the Rose
Oneworld Publications, November 2021. Hardcover. 'Fascinating...I'll never look at a rose in quite the same way again.' Adrian Tinniswood The rose is bursting with meaning. Over the centuries it has come to represent love and sensuality, deceit, death and the mystical unknown. Today the rose enjoys unrivalled popularity across the..... More
Nausea
New Directions, November 2012. Trade Paperback. Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which "spreads at the bottom..... More
Existentialism From Dostoevsky to Sartre (The basic Writings of Existentialism)
Meridian Books, January 1956. Trade Paperback. 1969 printing. Name stamps on endpapers; cover creases and wear. More
Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise (Revised)
Dover Publications, January 1980. Trade Paperback. "Uncommonly good...the most satisfying discussion to be found." -- Scientific American. Behind the familiar surfaces of the telephone, radio, and television lies a sophisticated and intriguing body of knowledge known as information theory. This is the theory that has permitted the rapid development of..... More
