The Clockwork Testament Or Enderby's End
Alfred A. Knopf, February 1975. First American. Cloth. In edgeworn, torn dust jacket with mild spine-tanning. More
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Barefoot to Avalon
Atlantic Monthly Press, April 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. An Amazon Best Book of 2015, A Kirkus Reviews' Best Book of 2015 "A brave book with beautiful sentences on every page."--New York Times "Piercing...a tour de force."--Los Angeles Times In 2000, while moving his household from Vermont to North Carolina, David... More
Philosophy of the Urban Guerrilla: The Revolutionary Writings of Abraham Guillen
William Morrow, April 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. A thin fade line across the top of the boards. Edges of the print block lightly yellowed. Mylar wrapped. More
Imperfect Birds: A Novel
Riverhead Hardcover, April 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. From the New York Times bestselling author of Hallelujah Anyway, Almost Everything, and Bird by Bird, a powerful and redemptive novel of love and family Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy the summer before her senior year of high school. She's... More
The Reserve
Harper, February 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Russell Banks's sharp-witted and deeply engaging new novel raises dangerous questions about class, politics, art, love, and madness--and explores what happens when two powerful personalities, trapped at opposite ends... More
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
Simon & Schuster, September 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. From the author who Nick Hornby calls smart, funny, soulful, and even educational--a smart, funny, soulful, and even educational collection of first-person experiences about life in America. Vowell captures the hilarious and moving things that happen when she confronts history. Very minor... More
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2011. Hardcover. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more... More
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
Little, Brown and Company, October 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history... More
The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? (Short Circuits)
The MIT Press, April 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. In 'The Monstrosity of Christ', a militant Marxist atheist (eZiezek) and a 'radical orthodox' Christian theologian (Milbank) square off on everything from the meaning of theology and Christ to the war machine of corporate mafia." Very good all round. Mylar wrapped. More
Chuck Klosterman X
Blue Rider Press, May 2018. Trade Paperback. New York Times-bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman sorts through the past decade and how we got to now. Chuck Klosterman has created an incomparable body of work in books, magazines, newspapers, and on the Web. His writing spans the realms of... More
At Home with the Diplomats: Inside a European Foreign Ministry (Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge)
Cornell University Press, December 2011. Trade Paperback. The 2010 WikiLeaks release of 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables has made it eminently clear that there is a vast gulf between the public face of diplomacy and the opinions and actions that take place behind embassy doors. In At Home with the Diplomats... More
Teaching Terror: Strategic and Tactical Learning in the Terrorist World
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, May 2006. Trade Paperback. In the world of terrorism, knowledge is a critical asset. Recent studies have revealed that, among international terrorists, there is a global sharing of ideas, tactics, strategies, and lessons learned. Teaching Terror examines this sharing of information in the terrorist world, shaping... More
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Penguin (Non-Classics), April 2007. Trade Paperback. The mesmerizing New York Times bestseller by the author of Night Film Marisha Pessl's dazzling debut sparked raves from critics and heralded the arrival of a vibrant new voice in American fiction. At the center of Special Topics in Calamity Physics is clever, deadpan... More
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As Told to Alex Haley)
Ballantine Books, February 1992. Trade Paperback. Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister. Here... More
Home Economics
North Point Press, May 1987. Trade Paperback. "My work has been motivated," Wendell Berry has written, "by a desire to make myself responsibly at home in this world and in my native and chosen place." In "Home Economics," a collection of fourteen essays, Berry explores this process and continues to... More
The Oresteia
Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), August 1999. First American. Hardcover. Ted Hughes's "acting version" of the trilogy of Aeschylus' plays known as The Oresteia, a classical work of astonishing power, is quickly becoming the standard edition for English-language readers and for the stage, too. Light shelf wear on the jacket... More
Often I Am Happy: A Novel
Twelve, April 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. This elegant and nuanced literary gem explores the intricacies of friendship, secrets, and two marriages, for fans of The Dinner and Dept. of Speculation. "Often I am happy and yet I want to cry; / For no heart fully shares my joy." -B.S. Ingemann... More
Death and Life of Great American Cities
Random House Inc, November 1992. Trade Paperback. A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all... More
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As Told to Alex Haley)
Ballantine Books, February 1992. Trade Paperback. Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister. Here... More
Kafka on the Shore (Vintage International)
Vintage, January 2006. Trade Paperback. Coming this October: Killing Commendatore, the much-anticipated new novel from Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world's great storytellers at the peak of his powers. Here we meet a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who is on the run, and Nakata, an... More
The Great Believers
Viking, June 2018. Hardcover. "A page turner...An absorbing and emotionally riveting story about what it's like to live during times of crisis. "--The New York Times Book Review A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris... More
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in Silicon Valley
Knopf, May 2018. Hardcover. A National Besteller "Chilling...Reads like a West Coast version of All the President's Men." --The New York Times Book Review The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story... More
Rip It Up And Start Again : Postpunk 1978-1984
Penguin Group USA Inc, March 2006. Trade Paperback. Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous music created in the years after punk. Renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds celebrates the futurist spirit of such bands as Joy Division, Gang of Four, Talking Heads... More
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Sh*tshow!
Penguin Press, May 2018. Hardcover. A daring, firsthand, and utterly-unscripted account of crisis in America, from Ferguson to Flint to Cliven Bundy's ranch to Donald Trump's unstoppable campaign for President--at every turn, Pulitzer-prize winner and bestselling author of Detroit: An American Autopsy, Charlie LeDuff was there In the Fall of... More
