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
Penguin Books, October 2017. Paper Back. Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger," Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in her stunning new collection... More about Felicity
Vintage, September 1998. Trade Paperback. "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" is many things: the story of a marriage that mysteriously collapses; a jeremiad against the superficiality of contemporary politics; an investigation of painfully suppressed memories of war; a bildungsroman about a compassionate young man's search for his own identity as well... More about The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (Vintage International
Duke University Press, April 2008. Trade Paperback. The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant's groundbreaking "national sentimentality" project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification. In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and conventions of the first mass-cultural "intimate public"... More about The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture
N/A, January 2002. Trade Paperback. From beneath the windswept sands of ancient Mesopotarnia comes the documented legacy of the creation chamber of the heavenly Anunnaki. Here is the story of the clinical cloning of Adam and Eve, which predates Bible scripture by more than 2,000 years.From cuneiform texts, cylinder seals... More about Genesis of the Grail Kings : The Explosive Story of Genetic Cloning and the Ancient Bloodline of...
Allworth Press, July 1996. Trade Paperback. With the aging of Postmodernism, artists and academics are reappraising the aesthetics of Modernism. In this timeless classic, Ruskin offers criticism, appreciation, and instruction for artists at the very beginnings of the Modern movement. Long out-of-print, this edition includes a biographical note about Ruskin... More about The Laws of Fesole: A Familiar Treatise on the Elementary Principles and Practice of Drawing and...
Mariner Books, September 2015. Trade Paperback. In her first book of collected work, prize-winning poet Linda Gregerson mines nearly forty years of poetry, bringing us a full range of her talents. Ten new poems introduce Prodigal, followed by fifty poems, culled from Gregerson's five collections, that range broadly in subject... More about Prodigal: New and Selected Poems, 1976 to 2014
SUNY Press, June 1985. Trade Paperback. She was a saint, a mystic, a reformer, a legend, and she was a fascinating and complex woman. This is the first full-scale biography of Saint Teresa of Avila from a human, nonconfessional point of view. Victoria Lincoln immersed herself thoroughly in all of... More about Teresa, a Woman : A Biography of Teresa of Avila
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2003. Trade Paperback. Luc Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city's slums;... More about Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
Harper Perennial, May 2005. Trade Paperback. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, in an expanded P.S. edition Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the... More about Don Quixote
Plume, June 1992. Trade Paperback. Uprooted from their family home in the Dominican Republic, the four Garcia sisters - Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia - arrive in New York City in 1960 to find a life far different from the genteel existence of maids, manicures, and extended family they left... More about How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Plume Contemporary Fiction
Vintage, October 1995. Trade Paperback. This provocative new collection of essays by a Pulitzer Prize winner deals with the challenging themes of discovery and surprise in history. Cleopatra's Nose is not a miscellany but rather a selection of recent essays illustrating specific subjects that have preoccupied Boorstin for several decades... More about Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected
Welcome Books, September 2012. Hardcover. 2012 IPPY Bronze Award in the Cookbook category (Independent Publisher Book Awards) ForeWord Reviews 2012 Book of the Year Award Finalist (TBA) 2013 James Beard Foundation Book Awards, Nominee Finalist Born from the principles of the local food movement, a growing number of people are... More about Afield: A Chef's Guide to Preparing and Cooking Wild Game and Fish
Bon Productions, March 1989. Oversize Softcover. As is. Foxing, highlighting on just a few pages. More about Wheels of Light: A Study of the Chakras
Black Sparrow Press, October 2006. Paper Back. More about The Brooklyn Novels: Summer in Williamsburg Homage to Blenholt Low Company
Oxford Univ Pr, March 2001. Trade Paperback. Trumpeter. Singer. Actor. Entertainer. In his life, Louis Armstrong thrilled audiences worldwide and influenced countless musicians. But beyond being a revolutionary musician and an enchanting stage personality, Louis Armstrong was a writer--and he was prolific. This unparalleled collection of Armstrong's candid writings reveals... More about Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words : Selected Writings
