Scribner, October 2006. Trade Paperback. The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2020. Hardcover. There is no precedent in postwar American history for the destruction of the town of Paradise, California. On November 8, 2018, the community of 27,000 people was swallowed by the ferocious Camp Fire, which razed virtually every home and killed at least..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, September 2019. Hardcover. The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2020. Hardcover. [Calasso's] flow of associations leaves you feeling not out of your depth, but smarter and better read. --The New York Times Book Review The eighth part of Roberto Calasso's monumental series on the primal forces of civilization The eighth part of Roberto Calasso's..... More
The Feminist Press at CUNY, July 2016. Paper Back. In a wrecked modern version of a romance novel, acclaimed French writer Virginie Despentes pokes at the simultaneous ecstasy and banality of love in an age of psychiatry and punk. Gloria lives in seething rage, lashing out at everyone--particularly, a string..... More
Feminist Press, March 2015. Paper Back. "Virginie Despentes's Apocalypse Baby kept me up several nights in a row--in part because it's a terrific page-turner, and in part because I was anxious to see how Despentes would sustain her narrative ride. Apocalypse Baby is more than a compelling punk, queerish spin..... More
Mariner Books, October 2018. Paper Back. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An unbelievable debut, one that announces a new and necessary American voice." --Tommy Orange, New York Times Book Review "An excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny." --George Saunders "Dark and captivating and essential . .... More
Back Bay Books, March 2019. Paper Back. In this "raucous, moving, and necessary" story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist (San Francisco Chronicle), the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous and bittersweet weekend. "All we do, mija, is..... More
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, March 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. For fans of The Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-pounding tale of triumph by an improbable team of upstarts over Hitler's fearsome Silver Arrows during the golden age of auto racing. They were the unlikeliest of..... More
Atria Books, May 2020. Hardcover. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Sexy and satisfying, Big Summer is the perfect quarantine read." --USA TODAY "The beach read to end all beach reads." --Entertainment Weekly "Big fun, and then some. It's empowering and surprising--a reminder to put down the phone and enjoy..... More
Monthly Review Press / Modern Reader, 1972. Trade Paperback. Sticker scar around spine near bottom edge. Binding sound. Text clean, without markings or side notes. More
The Dial Press, 1970. Trade Paperback. Ninth Printing. Sound binding. Clean interiors. Foxing at spine and on front cover along the spine side. Great cover photo of Abbie appearing to leap over a oversized 'Revolution for the Hell of it' button, holding a repeater rifle in one hand with the..... More
McGraw Hill, January 1967. Paper Back. Mild user wear. Foxing to textblock top edge & fore-edge. A few small stained spots. Interior text is without markings or side notes. More
Calder Publications / Riverrun, October 1981. Paper Back. Tristan Tzara--poet, literary iconoclast, and catalyst--was the founder of the Dada movement that began in Zurich during World War I. His ideas were inspired by his contempt for the bourgeois values and traditional attitudes towards art that existed at the time. This..... More
Nation Books, May 2004. First Edition. Trade Paperback. A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2004 After spilling bourbon on Schnaubelt's grave, its pugnacious and very dead occupant becomes Ross's mentor, sidekick, and boozing companion through this epic telling of the hallucinatory, carnal, and ornery histories of the American Left..... More
Harper & Row / Perennial Library, June 1990. Paper Back. Clean, solid. Remainder mark bottom textblock edge. Otherwise without markings. Published in 1954 by Herbert Jenkins in the UK by this title. For reasons known only to captains of industry of an earlier era Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit was..... More
Nation Books, March 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges--who has chronicled..... More
Little, Brown and Company / Atlantic Monthly Press, May 1973. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in very good dustjacket with darkening to margins & spine. Blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Red end pages. Tight binding. Clean, unmarked text. More
Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, April 2019. First American. Hardcover. New from Ian McEwan, Booker Prize winner and international bestselling author of Atonement and The Children Act Machines Like Me takes place in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda..... More
William Morrow & Company, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. As harrowing as Lord of the Flies and as unsettling as Larry Clark's Kids, Bully is the true story of an unspeakable act of revenge committed by ordinary, middle-class teenagers. Unlike anything you have ever heard of - or even imagined -..... More
CRC Press, July 2015. Hardcover. Restoring the Brain: Neurofeedback as an Integrative Approach describes the history and process by which neurofeedback has become an effective tool for treating many mental and behavioral health conditions. It explains how new brain research and improvements in imaging technology allow for a new conceptualization..... More
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, February 2013. Trade Paperback. In the autumn of 1984, Jason Berry heard reports of the sexual abuse of boys by a priest in rural Louisiana. As an expectant father, he was horrified for the children. As a Catholic he reasoned that even a priest can commit..... More
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, October 2013. Trade Paperback. ANTHOLOGY OF WOMEN MYSTICAL POETS OF THE MIDDLE-EAST & INDIA Translation & Introduction Paul Smith This is the largest anthology of women mystical poets of the Middle East & India in the correct form of the poetry and the meaning ever published..... More
The Guilford Press, February 1987. Hardcover. For almost a century the concept of guilt, as embedded in drive theory, has dominated psychoanalytic thought. Increasingly, however, investigators are focusing on shame as a key aspect of human behavior. This volume captures a range of compelling viewpoints on the role of shame..... More
Monthly Review Press, January 1981. Trade Paperback. This classic anthropological study debunks the many myths behind the idea of "natural" male superiority. Drawing on extensive historical and cross-cultural research, Eleanor Burke Leacock shows that claims of male superiority are based on carefully constructed myths with no factual historical basis. She..... More
