Graywolf Press, October 2014. Trade Paperback. * Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry * * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A.... More about Citizen: An American Lyric
P & R Publishing, April 2012. Trade Paperback. Hans Bayer places Mark's Gospel in its biblical context and explores the dynamic relationship between Jesus and his disciples a process in which Jesus radically transforms them from self-dependent to God-dependent beginning with their hearts. More about A Theology of Mark: The Dynamic Between Christology and Authentic Discipleship (Explorations in...
Fortress Press, April 2012. Trade Paperback. In this third edition of Mark as Story, Rhoads, Dewey, and Michie take their treatment of the Gospel of Mark to new levels. While retaining their clear and thorough analysis of Mark as a narrative, they now place their study of Mark in the... More about Mark As Story: An Introduction to the Narrative of a Gospel
Bloomsbury Press, April 2015. Trade Paperback. In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II--a dramatic and explosive act marking that Vladimir Lenin's communist revolution was now underway. But Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the tsar. His goal was a global revolt... More about Russian Roulette: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Plot for Global Revolution
Henry Holt & Co, October 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. "Wounds of Passion" is a memoir about writing, love, and sexuality. With her customary boldness and insight, bell hooks critically reflects on the impact of birth control and the women's movement on our lives. She explores the way her sexuality is... More about Wounds of Passion : A Writing Life
City Lights Books, September 1987. Trade Paperback. In 1928, Georges Bataille published this first novel under a pseudonym, a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes. A classic of pornographic literature, Story of the Eye finds... More about Story of the Eye
I cannot think of a stranger, more intriguing book of literary erotica.
Vintage, October 2003. Trade Paperback. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet... More about Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International
Bantam Dell Pub Group, February 1992. Mass Market PaperBack. More about Stories of Eva Luna
Signet Classics, May 1998. Mass Market PaperBack. The Tragedie of Julius Caesar dates from around 1599, and was first published by Heminge and Condell as the sixth play in the Tragedies section of their First Folio of 1623. The Folio text is thus the only authoritative text of the play... More about Julius Caesar (Shakespeare, Signet Classic
Signet, August 1996. Mass Market PaperBack. Anthem is Ayn Rand's classic tale of a dystopian future of the great "We"--a world that deprives individuals of a name or independence--that anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. They existed only to serve the state. They were conceived in controlled... More about Anthem
Delacorte Press, February 1994. Hardcover. Billy Pilgrim is the son of an American barber. He serves as a chaplain's assistant in World War II, is captured by the Germans, and he survives the largest massacre in European history--the fire bombing of Dresden. After the war Billy makes a great deal... More about Slaughterhouse-Five: Or The Children's Crusade, A Duty Dance With Death (25th Anniversary
Scholastic Paperbacks, May 1990. Mass Market PaperBack. More about Escape from Warsaw (Original title: The Silver Sword
Copper Canyon Press, April 2003. Trade Paperback. Antonio Porchia (1886-1968) wrote one book, a slender collection of poetic aphorisms that became a classic in the Spanish-speaking world. With affinities to Taoist and Buddhist epigrams, Voices bears witness to the awe of human existence. Revised and updated with a new introduction... More about Voices (Spanish Edition
Crown, October 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. The incredible untold story of WWII's greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern master of wartime intrigue Britain's Special Air Service--or SAS--was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout aristocrat whose aimlessness in early life belied a remarkable strategic mind... More about Rogue Heroes
St Martins Pr, September 1990. Hardcover. Shelf wear, creasing and edge chipping on the jacket. More about By Way of Deception : The Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer
Other Press, March 2016. Hardcover. A New York Times "Ten Best Books of 2016" From the best-selling author of How to Live, a spirited account of one of the twentieth century's major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot... More about At the Existentialist Café
LSU Press, September 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Jacket has moderate shelf wear. Two lightly bumped corners on the boards and light foxing on the endpapers. More about Shades of Gray: Dispatches from the Modern South
Columbia University Press, December 2006. First American. Hardcover. Religions respond to capitalism, democracy, industrialization, feminism, individualism, and the phenomenon of globalization in a variety of ways. Some religions conform to these challenges, if not capitulate to them; some critique or resist them, and some work to transform the modern societies... More about American Religions and the Family: How Faith Traditions Cope with Modernization and Democracy
McGraw-Hill Education, September 2001. Oversize Softcover. All text clean and clear. More about Music: An Appreciation, 4th Edition, Annotated Instructor's Edition
Microcosm Publishing, November 2007. Oversize Softcover. An updated and expanded edition of our hand-illustrated and accessible introduction to the world of bike repair! Through working at both Plan-B Bike Project and French Quarter Bicycles in New Orleans, our co-authors have gathered a wealth of experience to share with would-be bicycle... More about The Chainbreaker Bike Book: A Rough Guide to Bicycle Maintenance (DIY
Simon & Schuster, January 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. In "Pillar of Fire", the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, "Parting the Waters", won the Pulitzer Prize for History. It is a monumental chronicle... More about Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years, 1963-65
Simon & Schuster, October 1989. Trade Paperback. Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, "Parting the Waters" is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the Kennedy brothers... More about Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 (America in the King Years (Paperback
Plume, August 1999. Trade Paperback. Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller--nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. Who... More about Atlas Shrugged
Knopf, August 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. From the acclaimed author of The Rotters' Club and The Closed Circle comes the novel for our strange contemporary times. Beginning nine years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by chain retail, and London, where both frenzied riots... More about Middle England: A novel
Viking, October 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. The New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14 returns with the untold story of one of the most powerful spies in American history, shedding new light on the U.S. role in the Korean War, and its legacy In 1946, master sergeant... More about King of Spies: The Dark Reign of America's Spymaster in Korea
