Plato's Gorgias
The Liberal Arts Press, January 1952. Paper Back. More about Plato's Gorgias
New Arrivals
Gesamtausgabe Abt. 1 Veröffentlichte Schriften Bd. 10. Der Satz vom Grund.
Klett-Cotta /J. G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfo, January 1997. Paper Back. Some shelf wear to the cover and spine. More about Gesamtausgabe Abt. 1 Veröffentlichte Schriften Bd. 10. Der Satz vom Grund
An American Childhood
Harper Perennial, October 1998. Trade Paperback. A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, "An American Childhood" is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s. More about An American Childhood
Middle Passage
Scribner, July 1998. Trade Paperback. A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson's National Book Award-winning masterpiece--"a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick...heroic in proportion...fiction that hooks the mind" (The New York Times Book Review)--now with a new introduction from Stanley Crouch. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave..... More about Middle Passage
In the Land of Dreamy Dreams
Little Brown & Co (P), May 1985. Trade Paperback. More about In the Land of Dreamy Dreams
Pavilion of Women
Moyer Bell, November 2006. Trade Paperback. On her 40th birthday, Madame Wu carries out a decision she has been planning for a long time: she tells her husband that after 24 years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take a second wife. More about Pavilion of Women
Women, Race, & Class
Vintage, February 1983. Trade Paperback. A powerful study of the women's liberation movement in the U.S., from abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders. From the widely revered and legendary political activist and scholar Angela... More about Women, Race, & Class
Month in the Country
Pub Group West, September 2000. Trade Paperback. In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living... More about Month in the Country
NW: A Novel
Penguin Press HC, The, September 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2012 Set in northwest London, Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic novel follows four locals--Leah, Natalie, Felix, and Nathan--as they try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate... More about NW: A Novel
A Taste of Power - A Black Woman's Story (Black Panthers)
Pantheon, January 1993. Hardcover. Moderate shelf wear on the jacket. Very lightly rubbed corners on the boards. More about A Taste of Power - A Black Woman's Story (Black Panthers
An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden
Oxford University Press, January 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. By the time of his death in 1988, Romare Bearden was most widely celebrated for his large-scale public murals and collages, which were reproduced in such places as Time and Esquire to symbolize and evoke the black experience in America. As Mary... More about An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden
Parting the Waters
Simon & Schuster, November 1988. Hardcover. More about Parting the Waters
American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press, June 2011. Trade Paperback. Americans have come from every corner of the globe, and they have been brought together by a variety of historical processes--conquest, colonialism, the slave trade, territorial acquisition, and voluntary immigration. A thoughtful look at immigration, anti-immigration sentiments, and the motivations and experiences of... More about American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction
1984
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... More about 1984
The Rover (Broadview Literary Texts)
Broadview Press, February 1999. Trade Paperback. More about The Rover (Broadview Literary Texts
I And Thou
Charles Scribner's Sons, June 1970. Trade Paperback. Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent writers have acknowledged its influence on their work; students of intellectual history consider it a landmark; and the generation born since World War II considers Buber as one of... More about I And Thou
Dubliners (Twentieth-Century Classics)
Penguin Classics, May 1993. Trade Paperback. "Dubliners" was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"... More about Dubliners (Twentieth-Century Classics
L.A. Confidential
Warner Books Inc, December 1990. Trade Paperback. L.A. Confidential is epic "noir", a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope written by the bestselling author of The Black Dahlia. A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law. And three lawmen are... More about L.A. Confidential
Notes from a Dead House
Vintage, March 2016. Trade Paperback. In 1849, Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison camp for participating in a socialist discussion group. The novel he wrote after his release, based on notes he smuggled out, not only brought him fame, but also founded the... More about Notes from a Dead House
Masks
Vintage, September 1983. Trade Paperback. Following the death of her son, Mieko Toganō takes an increasing interest in the personal affairs of her widowed daughter-in-law, Yasuko. Devastated by her loss, she skillfully manipulates the relationships between Yasuko and the two men who are in love with her, encouraging a dalliance... More about Masks
For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
Penguin (Non-Classics), February 2011. Trade Paperback. "If ever there was a book to read in the company of a nice cuppa, this is it." -The Washington Post In the dramatic story of one of the greatest acts of corporate espionage ever committed, Sarah Rose recounts the fascinating, unlikely circumstances surrounding... More about For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
New Seeds of Contemplation
New Directions Publishing Corporation, March 1972. Trade Paperback. If you read nothing else by Merton, read this. Personal, direct, and lucid, it contains some of his most challenging insights into the struggle to find an honest relationship with God and one's fellow humans. The book takes a compelling yet thoughtful... More about New Seeds of Contemplation
A Feast of Snakes: A Novel
Touchstone, January 1998. Trade Paperback. From the novelist "The New Yorker" called "a writer of extraordinary power, " "A Feast of Snakes" is a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South and the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia. More about A Feast of Snakes: A Novel
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Harvest Books, November 2005. Trade Paperback. Winner of the National Jewish Book AwardInternational Bestseller "[An] ingenious work that circles around the rise of a state, the tragic destiny of a mother, a boy's creation of a new self." -- The New YorkerA family saga and a magical self-portrait of a.... More about A Tale of Love and Darkness
The Seven Storey Mountain (Harvest/Hbj Book)
Harcourt, October 1978. Trade Paperback. More about The Seven Storey Mountain (Harvest/Hbj Book
