Harvard Univ Pr, September 1995. Trade Paperback. Now available as an audio CD, in Eudora Welty's own voice, or as a book. Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings..... More
Mariner Books, August 2004. Trade Paperback. From the master of Southern Gothic, Carson McCullers' coming-of-age story like no other about a young girl's fascination with her brother's wedding. Twelve-year-old Frankie is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older brother's wedding. Bolstered by lively conversations with her..... More
Vintage, February 2007. Trade Paperback. National Bestseller From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a...... More
Vintage, February 1996. Trade Paperback. Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands. An Anthropologist on Mars offers portraits of seven such travellers - including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color..... More
Abacus (UK), November 1996. Trade Paperback. Andy, Dag and Claire represent the new generation - Generation X. More
Knopf, June 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. In this final volume of The Border Trilogy, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of "All the Pretty Horses" and "The Crossing" now stand together, in the still point between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or already..... More
Penguin Press HC, The, January 2008. Hardcover. #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Food Rules Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it? Because in..... More
Flatiron Books, August 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. * INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Amazon Editors' Pick for Best Book of the Year in Fiction Visceral and haunting (New York Times Book Review) - Hopeful (Washington Post) - Powerful (Los Angeles Times) - Thrilling (TIME) - Tantalizingly beautiful (Elle) - Suspenseful, atmospheric..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, June 1993. First American. Hardcover. Enter the new world of espionage, where the skills forged by generations of spies during the darkest days of the Cold War are put to even more terrifying use. Penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers and drug smugglers who have..... More
Crown Publishing Group (NY), November 2018. Hardcover. An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WATCH THE EMMY-NOMINATED NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER - ONE OF ESSENCE'S 50 MOST..... More
Henry Holt and Co., April 2019. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Electrifying" (People) - "Masterly" (The Guardian) - "Dramatic and memorable" (The New Yorker) - "Magic" (TIME) - "Ingenious" (The Financial Times) - A gonzo literary performance" (Entertainment Weekly) - "Rare and splendid"..... More
Random House Inc, April 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2004. Hardcover. 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction2004 National Book Critics Circle WinnerIn 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher..... More
Knopf, April 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE From the beloved Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel--an instant New York Times bestseller--about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection. Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his..... More
Scribner, October 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Our lives, our half century. Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, March 2001. Hardcover. What is style in architecture? "Style is like a feather in a woman's hat, nothing more," said Le Corbusier, expressing most modern architects' low regard for the subject. But Witold Rybczynski disagrees, and in The Look of Architecture, he makes a compelling case..... More
National Geographic Kids, December 2007. Hardcover. John Stokes has waited more than 50 years to give his eyewitness account of The Manhattan Project. This was the name he and a group of fellow students gave their strike at R.R. Moton High School that helped to end separate schooling for blacks..... More
Royal Fireworks Press, January 1996. Trade Paperback. Cover creases; else, very good. More
Orbis Books, February 1998. Trade Paperback. Spirit of Fire is a popular biography of one of this century's most fascinating religious figures. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) was a Jesuit theologian, mystic, and scientist renowned for his pioneering field work in geology, paleontology, and human origins. His writings have inspired..... More
Warner Books, October 1988. Mass Market PaperBack. Featuring a new introduction by the author, this specially packaged, popularly priced hardcover edition of an American classic (with more than 30 million copies sold) celebrates the 35th anniversary of its original publication. More
Aurum Press, January 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong octavo. One corner bumped, affecting jacket, too, which also shows very minor shelfwear. More
Collier Books, January 1970. Mass Market PaperBack. Previous owner's bookplate and presentation inscription on half-titel page. Minor toning; a tight copy of the eleventh printing. More
Warner Books, October 1988. Mass Market PaperBack. Featuring a new introduction by the author, this specially packaged, popularly priced hardcover edition of an American classic (with more than 30 million copies sold) celebrates the 35th anniversary of its original publication. More
John Wiley & Sons, April 1991. Trade Paperback. The author, an editor of Campaigns Magazine for ten years, has written a groundbreaking new study of Napoleon's disasterous Russian campaign of 1812. In doing this, he has employed primary sources never before translated from the German and Russian. He points out..... More
Modern Library, May 1993. Hardcover. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as..... More
