Algonquin Books, February 2021. Hardcover. A Most-Anticipated Book of the Year: Newsweek * Refinery29 "Moving and powerful." --Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Discover the truth behind the discounts In 2012, an Oregon mother named Julie Keith opened up a package of Halloween decorations. The cheap foam headstones had..... More
Milkweed Editions, October 2020. Hardcover. A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Bestseller Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary Hub A Book Riot "Favorite Summer Read of 2020" A Food Tank Fall 2020 Reading Recommendation Updated with a new introduction..... More
Grove Press, October 2020. Paper Back. WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's..... More
Cicada Books, December 2020. Paper Back. Essays on racial flashpoints, white denial, violence, and the manipulation of fear in America today. "Drawing on events from the killing of Trayvon Martin to the Black Lives Matter protests last summer, Wise calls to account his fellow white citizens and exhorts them to..... More
Doubleday, July 2020. Hardcover. Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by The Washington Post and The Financial Times How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document . . . is Applebaum's answer. --Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites..... More
Houghton Mifflin, January 2021. Hardcover. A New York Times Bestseller A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! "Askaripour closes the deal on the first page of this mesmerizing novel, executing a high wire act full of verve and dark, comic energy." --Colson Whitehead, author of The Nickel Boys..... More
Harvest Books, March 1973. Trade Paperback. "How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times, even if they are different and perhaps less dark, and "Origins" raises a set of fundamental questions about how tyranny can..... More
Ecco Press, August 2020. Hardcover. "Winter Counts is a marvel. It's a thriller with a beating heart and jagged teeth. This book is a brilliant meditation on power and violence, and a testament to just how much a crime novel can achieve. Weiden is a powerful new voice. I couldn't..... More
Houghton Mifflin, October 2020. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER "[A] diverse and enlightening book . . . The 99% Invisible City is altogether fresh and imaginative when it comes to thinking about urban spaces." --The New York Times Book Review "Here is..... More
William Morrow & Company, October 2020. Hardcover. NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A delectable brew of gothic horror and Hollywood satire . . . [and] what makes all this so much fun is Danforth's deliciously ghoulish voice . . . exquisite. --Ron Charles, THE WASHINGTON POST A multi-faceted novel, equal parts gothic, sharply..... More
Hogarth, August 2016. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - Publisher's Weekly - Buzzfeed - Entertainment Weekly - Time - Wall Street Journal - Bustle - Elle - The Economist..... More
Tim Duggan Books, March 2017. Mass Market PaperBack. #1 New York Times Bestseller - A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political..... More
Pamela Dorman Books, September 2020. Hardcover. A little beacon of pleasure in the midst of the gloom...SUCH FUN! --Kate Atkinson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Sky Amazon Best Mystery Thriller Suspense 2020 Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves A female cop with her first..... More
Picador, January 2018. Trade Paperback. Winner of the Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award Finalist for the Binghamton University's John Gardner Fiction Book Award Finalist for the Saroyan Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize "Hilarious, Devious, Original, and Unforgettable."--Karen Russell This series of powerful, intertwining stories illuminates Daley..... More
Engine Books, November 2013. Trade Paperback. "Wright's fervent, musical prose captures the very essence of the blues. Play Pretty Blues is a work of extraordinary imagination and soul."--Will Allison, author of Long Drive Home The mysteries of blues legend Robert Johnson's life and death long ago became myth. Part researched..... More
Farrar Straus Giroux, December 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Everyone loved him. If you knew Billy at all, then you loved him. The late Billy Lynch's family and friends, a party of 47, gather at a small bar and grill somewhere in the Bronx to remember better times in good company..... More
Doubleday Books, May 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. In a glowing review of Colson Whitehead's first novel, The Intuitionist, the" New York Times Book Review "concluded, "Literary reputations may not always rise and fall as predictably as elevators, but if there's any justice in the world of fiction, Colson Whitehead's should..... More
Random House, September 2000. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York's Golden Age of comics--soon to be a Showtime limited series "It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal--smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to..... More
Grune & Stratton, 1944. Reprint. Cloth. Ex-library copy of James Linder's study of psychopathy from with Nicolas Ray's famous 1955 movie starring James Dean took its title and absolutely nothing else. Without dustjacket and slight cock to spine.Maroon cloth boards with faded gold lettering on spine. Worn board edges. Library..... More
Progress Publishers, 1977. Reprint. Hardcover. Fourth printing. In edgeworn bright orange dustjacket with half-inch removal scar on spine toward bottom & heavy darkened verso. Flexible maroon faux-leather boards with somewhat faded gold lettering at spine & front board. Boards dust stained & spotted. Deeply tanned/darkened free end pages front &..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Following Germania and Danubia, the third installment in Simon Winder's personal history of Europe In 843 AD, the three surviving grandsons of the great emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who would inherit the family land..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, February 1996. Reprint. Hardcover. Charles Kindleberger's World Economic Primacy: 1500-1990 is a work of rare ambition and scope from one of our most respected economic historians. Extending over broad ranges of both history and geography, the work considers what it is that enables countries to achieve..... More
Merrell, December 2010. First Edition. Oversized Hardcover. Since 1997 Luciano Giubbilei has been creating serenely beautiful gardens in locations on three continents. Giubbilei is known for the understated elegance of his designs, but is constantly evolving his approach, both in response to individual clients and as his ideas develop. His..... More
Knopf, March 2021. Hardcover. On growing up in the American South of the 1960s--an all-American white boy--son of a long line of Methodist preachers, in the midst of the civil rights revolution, and discovering the culpability of silence within the church. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and columnist for The..... More
University of Georgia Press, October 2020. Paper Back. This book examines the differing ways that Atlantans have remembered the Civil War since its end in 1865. During the Civil War, Atlanta became the second-most important city in the Confederacy after Richmond, Virginia. Since 1865, Atlanta's civic and business leaders promoted..... More
