Anchor, March 1998. Trade Paperback. A first novel by the author of the short story collection, "Arranged Marriage," "The Mistress of Spices" is a mystical tale told by Tilo, a young Indian woman in an old woman's body who has been trained in the secret power of spices. Her special... More about The Mistress of Spices: A Novel
Noonday, April 1994. Trade Paperback. Table of Contents is a collection of eight pieces that range from Alaska to New Jersey, describing, for example, the arrival of telephones in a small village near the Arctic Circle and the arrival of wild bears in considerable numbers in New Jersey, swarming in... More about Table of Contents
Delta Trade Paperbacks, January 1998. Trade Paperback. More about At Weddings and Wakes
Penguin Classics, November 1999. Trade Paperback. "[Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante." --Slate A Penguin Classic Kristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly detailed tapestry of Norway during the fourteenth-century. The trilogy, however, is more... More about Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife (Penguin Classics
University of Chicago Press, April 2010. Trade Paperback. Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women's college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell's classic novel was originally published to overwhelming critical acclaim in 1954, forging... More about Pictures from an Institution
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 1996. Trade Paperback. Flannery O'Connor was working on "Everything That Rises Must Converge" at the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and... More about Everything That Rises Must Converge
Plume, October 1989. Trade Paperback. More about The High Road
Penguin Classics, April 2000. Trade Paperback. "[Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante." --Slate A Penguin Classic Kristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly detailed tapestry of Norway during the fourteenth-century. The trilogy, however, is more... More about Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross (Penguin Classics
Grove Press, September 1987. Trade Paperback. This wildly inventive comic masterpiece exploded on the literary scene like a time bomb in 1980. The rest is publishing history. Critics and readers adored "A Confederacy of Dunces, " and the book went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. Now this wonderfully outrageous... More about A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book
Dial Press Trade Paperback, January 1999. Trade Paperback. Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world--of real struggles, passion, pain, and love--spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes... More about A Bigamist's Daughter
Bison Books, October 1985. Trade Paperback. A New England village, untouched by history since the American Revolution, is the unquiet arena containing, but just barely, the aloof natives and the summer residents. Their paths cross, happily or disastrously, in a book that seems too real to be fiction. As Wallace... More about Second Growth (Bison Book
Scribner Paper Fiction, January 1970. Trade Paperback. As is. Notes on the endpapers. Small corner torn off cover. More about The Last Tycoon
University of Nebraska Press, February 1981. Trade Paperback. Written during World War II and its immediate aftermath, the eighteen stories of The Women on the Wall move from women to war and back again, but it is the women who remain central. There are Alma, a war bride who runs... More about The Women on the Wall
Penguin (Non-Classics), August 1987. Trade Paperback. More about The Snow Leopard
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 1986. Trade Paperback. In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes, part Maori, part European, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitor--a speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who tries... More about The Bone People: A Novel
New Press, September 1997. Trade Paperback. Patrick Chamoiseau first became known to the international literary world with Texaco, the vast and demanding novel that won France's prestigious Goncourt Prize in 1992. Less well known is the fact that Chamoiseau has written a number of extraordinary books about his childhood in... More about Creole Folktales
Penguin Books, June 2019. Paper Back. FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN FICTION WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Soon to Be a Major Television Event, optioned by... More about The Great Believers: A Novel
Random House, June 2019. Hardcover. From The New Yorker's fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch. "Emily Nussbaum is the perfect critic--smart, engaging, funny, generous, and insightful."--David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon... More about I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
Random House Inc, November 1992. Trade Paperback. A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all... More about Death and Life of Great American Cities
Random House, July 2019. Hardcover. From the Nobel Prize-winning writer, an oral history of children's experiences in World War II across Russia--in the vein of The Unwomanly Face of War and Secondhand Time For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of the twentieth century... More about Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
Hogarth, April 2019. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE - "A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships" (People) from Sally Rooney, the author of Conversations with Friends and "a master of the literary page-turner" (J. Courtney Sullivan). COMING TO HULU IN 2020... More about Normal People: A Novel
Dark Horse Books, May 2019. Hardcover. Collects issues #1-#5 of the cult classic series by Dry County creator Rich Tommaso, and featuring new cover art, fully colored and collected in a deluxe hardcover format for the first time, and featuring two bonus stories: "Don't Look Back!" and "The Horror." Escaping... More about The Horror of Collier County (20th Anniversary Edition
Penguin Books, April 2017. Paper Back. - New York Times bestseller - The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world "At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative solution-by-solution... More about Drawdown
Vintage, October 2006. Paper Back. In this honest and stunning novel, now a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young... More about If Beale Street Could Talk
Plume, June 2019. Paper Back. Comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory's million-copy-plus bestselling memoir--now in trade paperback for the first time. "Powerful and ugly and beautiful...a moving story of a man who deeply wants a world without malice and hate and is doing something about it."--The New York Times..... More about Nigger: An Autobiography
