Partial Portraits
The University of Michigan Press, April 1970. Trade Paperback. More
New Arrivals
Lathe of Heaven
Scribner Book Company, May 2008. Trade Paperback. "The Lathe of Heaven" is George Orr's story - a man who dreams things into being, for better or for worse. It is a dark vision and a warning - a fable of power uncontrolled and uncontrollable - a truly prescient and startling... More
Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
Harper Perennial, March 2003. Trade Paperback. With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of... More
Sam Shepard : Seven Plays (Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, The Tooth of Crime, La Turista, Tongues, Savage Love, True West)
Dial Press Trade Paperback, May 1984. Trade Paperback. Brilliant, prolific, uniquely American, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright Sam Separd is a major voice in contemporary theatre. And here are seven of his very best. "One of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work today."--The New Yorker "The greatest American playwright... More
Mostly Harmless
Del Rey Books, October 1993. Trade Paperback. It's very easy to get a little disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished in a misunderstanding about the nature of space-time, the spaceship you are on crashes in flames on a remote and Bob-fearing planet... More
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Pan Macmillan, January 2009. Trade Paperback. On Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house destroyed that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend... More
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Scribner Book Company, September 2002. Trade Paperback. In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A.... More
All the Pretty Horses (Vintage International)
Vintage, June 1993. Trade Paperback. The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he... More
Serena: A Novel (P.S.)
Ecco, October 2009. Trade Paperback. A New York Times bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist, Serena by award-winning author Ron Rash is "masterfully written...sprawling, engrossing and--from time to time--nightmarish," (San Francisco Chronicle); a remarkable novel that "recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy," (The New Yorker). Rash's chilling gothic tale of..... More
Being Peace
Parallax Press, August 2005. Trade Paperback. A bestseller with over 250,000 copies sold, Being Peace is the seminal founding work by Zen Master and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Thich Nhat Hanh. With a new introduction by Jack Kornfield and the first update since its release over fifteen years ago, this... More
Ficciones (English Translation)
Grove Press, June 1969. Trade Paperback. The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly... More
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Harper Paperbacks, August 2007. Trade Paperback. The classic collaboration from the internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, now a Prime original series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant. "Good Omens . . . is something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo... More
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (Vintage)
Vintage, February 2013. Trade Paperback. New York Times Bestseller In this "landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself" (The New York Times Book Review) social psychologist Jonathan Haidt challenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to conservatives and liberals alike. Drawing on his twenty... More
Let the Right One In: A Novel
St. Martin's Griffin, October 2008. Trade Paperback. Let the Right One In Takes Top Honors at Tribeca Film Festival and is now an Award-winning movie in both the U.S. and Sweden! It is autumn 1981 when inconceivable horror comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenager... More
The Tradition
Copper Canyon Press, April 2019. Trade Paperback. Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award "By some literary magic--no, it's precision, and honesty--Brown manages to bestow upon even the most public of subjects the most intimate and personal stakes."--Craig Morgan Teicher, "'I Reject Walls': A 2019 Poetry Preview" for NPR "A... More
Passport
Serpent's Tail, September 1989. Trade Paperback. From the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature! "[The Passport] has the same clipped prose cadences as Nadirs, this time applied to evoke the trapped mentality of a man so desperate for freedom that he views everything through a temporal lens, like... More
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Dover Publications, November 2002. Trade Paperback. Regarded by many as the most luminous example of Mark Twain's work, this fictional biography of Joan of Arc was purportedly written by Joan's page and secretary -- Sieur Louis de Conté. (Twain's alter ego even shared the author's same initials -- S. L.... More
Sailing Alone around the World (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, June 1999. Trade Paperback. The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas - the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly. Joshua Slocum's autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable - and entertaining - travel narratives of all time. Setting... More
The Music of Chance
Penguin (Non-Classics), December 1991. Trade Paperback. In a Pennsylvania meadow, a young fireman and an angry gambler are forced to build a wall of fifteenth-century stone. For Jim Nashe, it all started when he came into a small inheritance and left Boston in pusuit of "a life of freedom." Careening... More
I've Seen the Future and I'm Not Going: The Art Scene and Downtown New York in the 1980s
Pantheon, September 2019. Hardcover. Brilliantly funny, frank, and shattering, this is the bittersweet memoir by Peter McGough of his life with artist David McDermott. Set in New York's Lower East Side of the 1980s and mid-1990s, it is also a devastatingly candid look at the extreme naiveté and dysfunction that..... More
Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
Anchor Books, September 2019. Paper Back. *A New York Times Critics' Best Book of 2018* *An Economist Best Book of 2018* *A Spectator Best Book of 2018* *A Mental Floss Best Book of 2018* An unprecedented history of the personality test conceived a century ago by a mother and her... More
Year of the Monkey
Knopf, September 2019. Hardcover. New York Times Best Seller From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year's concerts at San... More
Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law
Penguin Press, October 2019. Hardcover. "Important and stunning. This is must-read material if you want to understand what the Trump administration is still up to right now." --Lawrence O'Donnell From bestselling author James Stewart, the definitive story of the war between President Trump and America's principal law enforcement agencies, answering... More
MAD About the Trump Era
MAD, May 2019. Paper Back. As we enter the second half of President Donald Trump's interminable, unimpeachable reign, MAD feels it's high time to commemorate our steady slide into annihilation with a brand-new collection of caricature, mockery, and ridicule: MAD About the Trump Era. In this sequel to the best-selling... More
The Great Believers: A Novel
Penguin Books, June 2019. Paper Back. FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN FICTION WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Soon to Be a Major Television Event, optioned by... More
