Penguin Classics, September 2016. Paper Back. The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, June 2016. Trade Paperback. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR - From the renowned author of "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House, a spectacular new volume of previously unpublished and uncollected stories, essays, and other writings. Features "Family Treasures,"..... More
Pantheon, August 2019. Hardcover. *** 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST *** *** LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND THE 2020 TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD *** *** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR *** A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed..... More
Riverhead Books, May 2020. Hardcover. No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2020. Hardcover. **Highly Anticipated at The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Vulture, Refinery29, Yahoo! Life, The Millions, Alma, The Rumpus, and Lit Hub** Miraculous: spry and mordant, with sentences that lull you with their rhythms, then twist suddenly and sting. --Lauren Groff, author of Florida..... More
Graywolf Press, June 2020. Hardcover. An engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United States When Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in Monrovia, Liberia, but all she can..... More
Faber and Faber Ltd, December 1980. Hardcover. 2nd printing in price clipped dustjacket with mild edgewear & one 1/8 inch chip top edge front panel. Half bound: red cloth spine side with gold lettering on spine & grey paper covered boards. Board edges are darkened with small bumps bottom edge..... More
New Directions, January 1970. Cloth. In very good dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Original price of $10 on flap. Mauve cloth with gold lettering on spine. Previous owner's name & a date inked front free end page. Sound binding. Clean interiors. More
Real Dragon Press, 1971. Pamphlet. Stapled pamphlet. (5 & 1/2 x 8 & 1/2 inches). Heavily darkened at edges. User wear. 37 pages. Underground press selection of Prison Diary writings by Ho Chi Minh; 'This edition for Ruchell Magee' states the next to last page of this pamphlet. Magee was..... More
Foreigh Language Publishing House, January 1972. Soft Cover. Soft cover with dustjacket. Foxing to jacket edges. (6 & 1/2 inches x 8 & 1/4 inches). 134 pages. More
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, March 2014. First Edition. Cloth. In 1936, classical pianist Thomas Greene is recruited to Shanghai to lead a jazz orchestra of fellow African-American expats. From being flat broke in segregated Baltimore to living in a mansion with servants of his own, he becomes the toast of a...... More
The Penguin Press, February 2013. Hardcover. "A New York Times" Bestseller A book full of both literary grace and hard-won world-weariness... Iggy Pop meets Jim Carroll and Charles Bukowski "Kirkus," STARRED REVIEW Back in his broken hometown, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Charlie LeDuff searches through the ruins for clues to..... More
Scribner, January 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. The untold story of living legend Mavis Staples--lead singer of The Staple Singers and a major figure in the music that shaped the Civil Rights era--researched and written by acclaimed music journalist and author Greg Kot. This is the untold story of living legend..... More
Belknap Press, January 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. In one sense, human heads function much like those of other mammals. We use them to chew, smell, swallow, think, hear, and so on. But, in other respects, the human head is quite unusual. Unlike other animals, even our great ape cousins, our..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. For many years, de Waal has observed chimpanzees soothe distressed neighbors and bonobos share their food. Now he delivers fascinating fresh evidence for the seeds of ethical behavior in primate societies that further cements the case for the biological origins..... More
Knopf, August 1984. Cloth. 2nd printing in very good dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Original price of $18.95 on flap. Black cloth boards with silver lettering on spine, author's initials stamped in silver front board. Tight binding. Clean text without underlining or side-notes. Brown smudge top edge at spine. Remainder..... More
Grove Press, June 1969. Trade Paperback. The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly..... More
Milkweed Editions, September 2014. Paper Back. A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Bestseller Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary Hub As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the..... More
Feminist Press, August 2018. Paper Back. A pulpy tale of mismatched twins struggling to embody the perfect woman: "Effortlessly cool and slyly spiky, Despentes probes the dynamics of fame, beauty, and female competition, putting her finger on the pulse of what it's like to wear the daily drag of femininity--and..... More
New Directions, April 2020. Paper Back. A traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution. A flight attendant becomes obsessed with a small Greek island, resulting in a surreal encounter with death. In All Fires the Fire, Julio..... More
Grand Central Publishing, April 2019. Trade Paperback. This acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from an award-winning author "pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale" and includes a foreword by N. K. Jemisin (John Green, New York Times). When global climate change and economic crises lead to social..... More
Little, Brown and Company, September 2019. Hardcover. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Pres Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers..... More
Random House, August 2019. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "From The New Yorker's beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television."--Esquire "A whip-smart, challenging book."--Zadie Smith - "Jia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion of our time."--Vulture..... More
PublicAffairs, May 2020. Paper Back. When information is a weapon, every opinion is an act of war. We live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, and Trump seek to shape our very reality. In this surreal atmosphere..... More
Vintage, January 2006. Trade Paperback. Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world's great storytellers at the peak of his powers. Here we meet a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who is on the run, and Nakata, an aging simpleton who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot..... More
