W. W. Norton & Company, September 2015. Trade Paperback. Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life's work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became...
New Directions, June 2018. Paper Back. Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we...
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2019. Paper Back. Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeNew York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018"The best novel ever written about trees, and really just...
Liveright, September 2016. Paper Back. New York Times Bestseller - National Book Critics Circle Finalist - Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2015 - Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015 - Economist Books of the Year 2015 - New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2015A sweeping, "magisterial"...
Tin House Books, March 2015. Paper Back. Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her survivalist father, James, takes her from their home in London to a remote hut in the woods and tells her that the rest of the world has been destroyed. Deep in the wilderness, Peggy and...
Liveright, February 2019. Hardcover. Once described by the Washington Post as "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of," Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-seven-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has now emerged as one of the nation's most visionary politicians. With soaring prose that celebrates a resurgent American Midwest, Shortest Way...
Workman Publishing Company, April 2019. Paper Back. Grill master Steven Raichlen shares more than 60 foolproof, mouthwatering recipes for preparing the tastiest, most versatile, and most beloved cut of meat in the world--outside on the grill, as well as in the kitchen. Take brisket to the next level: 'Cue it...
Seven Stories Press, January 2019. Paper Back. The true story of Savannah Knoop, JT LeRoy, and one of the most famous literary hoaxes of all time, soon to be a major motion picture. More than ten years after the New York Times unmasked Savannah Knoop as the face of the...
Copper Canyon Press, April 2019. Paper Back. "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: NPR 2019 Poetry Preview" "A relentless dismantling of identity, a difficult jewel of a....
William Morrow Paperbacks, March 2019. Paper Back. In this essential handbook--a blend of Rich Dad, Poor Dad and The Happiness Project--the co-host of the wildly popular InvestED podcast shares her yearlong journey learning to invest, as taught to her by her father, investor and bestselling author Phil Town. Growing up...
Grove Pr, September 1989. Trade Paperback.
Knopf, May 2012. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZE Book Four of Robert A. Caro's monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led...
Rizzoli International Publications, October 1992. Oversized Hardcover.
Harcourt, 1981. Trade Paperback. Introduction by Peter Washington; Translation by William Weaver.
Riverhead Books, September 2016. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NPR MORNING EDITION BOOK CLUB PICK NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, TIME, THE SEATTLE TIMES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, SLATE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, KIRKUS, AND MANY MORE "Lauren Groff...
If you have read any of Groff’s critically lauded novels or stories, you know that she explores some very dark corners of the human psyche. Interestingly, she might very well have the most charming, hospitable personality of any of the countless authors who have signed books for us through the years. She’s visited us on her last three book tours, always bringing gifts and leaving our booksellers and her fans delighted. This novel has been her most popular at A Cappella, a multi-layered examination of a marriage that leaves each reader with a different perspective, just like the book’s characters.
Penguin Group USA Inc, March 1998. Trade Paperback. Most unusually among major painters, Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) was also an accomplished writer. His letters provide both a unique self-portrait and a vivid picture of the contemporary cultural scene. Van Gogh emerges as a complex but captivating personality, struggling with utter...
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, July 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. In this highly polished and slightly twisted moral tale, a man pulls back from the brink of suicide when his application to buy a gun with which to shoot himself is delayed. Instead of throwing his life away, he decides to...
Pantheon, January 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. "Nigger": it is arguably the most consequential social insult in American history, though, at the same time, a word that reminds us of "the ironies and dilemmas, tragedies and glories of the American experience." In this tour de force, distinguished Harvard Law School professor...
Bantam Books, January 1980. Hardcover.
Plume, September 1995. Trade Paperback. Earning a Pulitzer and three Best Play awards for 1994, Edward Albee has, in "ThreeTall Women" created a masterwork of modern theater. As an imperious, acerbic old woman lies dying, she is tended by two other women and visited by a young man. Albee's frank...
University of Chicago Press, March 1983. Trade Paperback. "Lévi-Strauss is a French savant par excellence, a man of extraordinary sensitivity and human wisdom . . . a deliberate stylist with profound convictions and convincing arguments. . . . [The Raw and the Cooked] adds yet another chapter to the tireless...
St. Martin's Press, November 1999. Trade Paperback.
Signet Classics, May 1990. Mass Market PaperBack. 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. "1984" is still the great modern classic "negative Utopia" - a startling original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary...
Open Media, December 2001. Trade Paperback. Now more timely than ever, Alice Walker's Sent By Earth reflects on the tragedy of September 11, 2001, and addresses the anger many Americans felt at the presumed perpetrator of the attack: Osama bin Laden. In powerfully reflective, nuanced, and above all heartfelt prose...
Belknap Press, April 2014. Hardcover. What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find...
