Back Bay Books, June 1995. Trade Paperback. In David Sedaris's world no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Liebowitz, and the National Enquirer, Sedaris's collection of stories and essays is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad... More about Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
Grove Press, August 2019. Hardcover. A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East. In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of... More about The Yellow House: A Memoir
Chelsea Green Publishing, May 2012. Hardcover. Winner of the 2013 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship, and a New York Times bestseller, The Art of Fermentation is the most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published. Sandor Katz presents the concepts and processes behind fermentation in... More about The Art of Fermentation: An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around...
Simon & Schuster, October 2018. Paper Back. A TIME and NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK of the YEAR * New York Times Notable Book and Times Critic's Top Book of 2018 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY * Elle * Bustle * Kirkus Reviews * Lit... More about Asymmetry: A Novel
Harper Perennial, February 2017. Trade Paperback. Soon to be a New HBO(R) Series from J.J. Abrams (Executive Producer of Westworld), Misha Green (Creator of Underground) and Jordan Peele (Director of Get Out) The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering..... More about Lovecraft Country
The Experiment, April 2019. Paper Back. Journey into an unseen world--and to the frontiers of human knowledge Welcome to Atom Land, a subatomic realm governed by the laws of particle physics. Here, electromagnetism is a highway system; the strong force, a railway; the weak force, an airline. With award-winning physicist... More about Atom Land
The MIT Press, April 2019. Paper Back. An introduction to computational thinking that traces a genealogy beginning centuries before the digital computer. A few decades into the digital era, scientists discovered that thinking in terms of computation made possible an entirely new way of organizing scientific investigation; eventually, every field... More about Computational Thinking (MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Bloomsbury Academic, April 2019. Paper Back. Of the many girl-groups that came out of the 1960s, none is more idiosyncratic and influential than the Shangri-Las. They were together only five years, but within that time they subverted pop standards and foreshadowed a generation of tough women in music. Critically, they... More about The Shangri-Las’ Golden Hits of the Shangri-Las (33 1/3
Ecco Press, October 2018. Paper Back. A new, deluxe edition of Kitchen Confidential to celebrate the life of Anthony Bourdain. The book will feature a brand new introduction, a Q&A with Ecco publisher and Bourdain's long-time editor Daniel Halpern. Interior pages are hand-annotated by Anthony Bourdain himself. The interior will..... More about Kitchen Confidential Deluxe Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Little, Brown and Company, July 2019. Hardcover. From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely have the... More about The Bastard Brigade
William Morrow & Company, August 2019. Paper Back. Following the death of their mother from a botched backwoods abortion, the McAlister daughters have to cope with the ripple effect of this tragedy as they come of age in 1950s Mississippi and then grow up to face their own impossible choices--an... More about Accidentals
University of Georgia Press, September 2017. First Edition. Cloth. This is the first full biography of Justice Leah Ward Sears. In 1992 Sears became the first woman and youngest justice to sit on the Supreme Court of Georgia. In 2005 she became the first African American woman to serve as... More about Justice Leah Ward Sears: Seizing Serendipity
Harper, November 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. New York Times Bestseller National Bestseller: Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle (#1), Chicago Tribune (#1), Denver Post (#1), Minneapolis Star-Tribune (#1), Publishers Weekly Indie Next Bestseller (#1) Best Book of the Year: New York... More about The Lacuna: A Novel
Scribner, January 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Jacket very good. Boards have some sunning on the top edge. A small scrape on the back board. Light foxing on the endpapers. More about The SAME RIVER TWICE: A Memoir
October 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. In this collection of stories and essays, the beloved author of the classic, best-selling novel "A Lesson Before Dying" shares with us the inspirations behind his books, how he came to choose the vocation of a writer, the childhood in rural Louisiana that he continually... More about BOOK ITEM
Critical Pr Inc, February 1998. Trade Paperback. From conceptual art experiments to community based, inner city art projects, The Citizen Artist chronicles the work of artists devoted to breaking down the proverbial wall between participant and spectator. Compiling articles, artwork, and essays from twenty years of High Performance magazine, and... More about The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena: An Anthology from High Performance...
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., March 1985. Trade Paperback. Contents: Introduction, Bibliography On the Sects for Beginners An Outline of Empiricism On Medical Experience Index of the Persons Mentioned in the Texts Index of the Subjects Mentioned in the Texts. More about Three Treatises on the Nature of Science (Hackett Classics
Routledge, November 1996. Trade Paperback. Although it may not be the goal of filmmaker, most of us learn something when we watch movies. They make us think. They make us feel. Occasionally they have the power to transform lives. In Reel to Real, Bell Hooks talks back to films she... More about Reel To Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies
University of Tennessee Press, September 1999. Trade Paperback. "The Wall Between is a chilling depiction of a pattern repeated over and over again across the South as brave Blacks and whites tried to breach the barrier between the races. . . . We need to know Anne Braden's story, perhaps... More about The Wall Between
Modern Library, September 1992. Cloth. Introduction by Peter Gay Translated and edited by Walter Kaufmann Commentary by Martin Heidegger, Albert Camus, and Gilles Deleuze One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of... More about Basic Writings of Nietzsche (Modern Library
Crossway Books, September 2012. Trade Paperback. What if "No creed but the Bible" is unbiblical? The role of confessions and creeds is the subject of debate within evangelicalism today as many resonate with the call to return to Christianity's ancient roots. Advocating for a balanced perspective, Carl Trueman offers an... More about The Creedal Imperative
Princeton University Press, 1971. Cloth. The I Ching, or Book of Changes, a common source for both Confucianist and Taoist philosophy, is one of the first efforts of the human mind to place itself within the universe. It has exerted a living influence in China for 3,000 years, and interest... More about The I Ching or Book of Changes
Dover Publications, December 2011. Trade Paperback. Oscar Wilde wrote "I don't defend my conduct, I explain it, " when he was imprisoned in Reading Gaol in 1895 for his violation of England's stringent laws against homosexuality. Wilde's nototious liaison with the Marquess of Queensberry's son, Lord Alfred Douglas ("Bosie"), had... More about de Profundis
Plume, October 1992. Trade Paperback. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences comes Joe Turner's Come and Gone--Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. "The glow accompanying August Wilson's place in contemporary American theater is fixed."--Toni Morrison When Harold Loomis arrives at a black Pittsburgh... More about Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Plume
University Of Chicago Press, November 1982. Trade Paperback. Positions is a collection of three interviews with Jacques Derrida that illuminate and make more accessible the complex concepts and terms treated extensively in such works as Writing and Difference and Dissemination. Derrida takes positions on his detractors, his supporters, and the... More about Positions
