Farrar Straus Giroux, April 2008. Trade Paperback. A birthday-party magician whose hat tricks end in horror and gore; a girl parented by a major household appliance; the possessor of the lowest IQ in the Mossad--such are the denizens of Etgar Keret's dark and fertile mind. The Girl on the Fridge... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1955. Trade Paperback. Blood Wedding. Concerned with love that cannot become marriage among the primitive hill people of Castile, this is a play of the workings of tremendous passions and tribal ritual toward an inescapable tragic end. Yerma. "The whole tragic burden of... More
Vintage, July 1989. Trade Paperback. A brutal and realistic depiction of gang warfare, this gritty crime novel is also "an acknowledged literary landmark." - NY Times Book Review. More
Penguin Books, November 2005. Trade Paperback. The Nobel Prize winner's poetic, psychologically intense portrayal of love's predicament in a class-bound society Set in a coastal village of late nineteenth-century Norway, Victoria follows two lovers whose yearnings are as powerful as the circumstances that conspire to thwart their romance. Johannes, a.... More
Houghton Mifflin, September 1985. Trade Paperback. A detailed description of what the fourth dimension would be like. More
HarperLuxe, July 2015. Trade Paperback. Now available in a gorgeous, limited leatherbound edition, Harper Lee's landmark #1 New York Times bestselling novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch--"Scout"--returns home from New York City to visit her aging... More
Semiotext(e), October 2008. Trade Paperback. A Situationist International roman à clef, written by Guy Debord's first wife, a founder of the movement and one of its influential thinkers. "What do you do, exactly? I have no idea." "I reify," he answered. "It's a serious job," I added. "Yes, it is,"... More
Simon & Schuster, September 1996. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve leading high school American history texts... More
Harper Paperbacks, October 2006. Trade Paperback. To die, kick the bucket, to meet your Maker, dead as a doornail, get whacked, smoked, bite the dust, sleep with the fishes, go six feet under--whatever death is called, it's going to happen. In 1789 Ben Franklin wrote, "In this world nothing is... More
Rodale Books, October 2009. Hardcover. Whether you want to lose weight, get healthy, or help save the world, transitioning to a vegan diet is easy with advice, tips, and recipes from actress Alicia Silverstone. In The Kind Diet, actress, activist, and committed conservationist Alicia Silverstone shares the insights that encouraged... More
Penguin Classics, June 1996. Trade Paperback. Henderson has come to Africa on a spiritual safari, a quest for the truth. His feats of strength, his passion for life, and, most importantly, his inadvertant success in bringing rain have made him a god-like figure among the tribes. More
Vintage, October 1990. Trade Paperback. At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member -- including Addie -- and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life. More
Ecco, April 2017. Trade Paperback. *SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE* Instant New York Times Bestseller; named a Best Book of 2016 by People, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Refinery29, NPR and LibraryReads. "Hilarious and big-hearted, The Nest is a stellar debut." -- People A warm, funny... More
Ballantine Books, March 2012. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A beautiful portrait of being in Paris in the glittering 1920s--as a wife and as one's own woman."--Entertainment Weekly A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures the love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest... More
Riverhead Trade, April 2004. Trade Paperback. The "New York Times" bestseller and international classic loved by millions of readers. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, "The Kite Runner" is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country... More
Hogarth, March 2017. Trade Paperback. Now a major motion picture starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, Rebecca Hall, and Chloë Sevigny. An internationally bestselling phenomenon, the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives--all over the course of one meal... More
Ballantine Books, April 2008. Trade Paperback. I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with... More
New Directions, June 1966. Trade Paperback. Nine of Yukio Mishima's finest stories were selected by Mishima himself for translation in this book; they represent his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of significance. Often his characters are sophisticated modern Japanese who turn out to... More
Vintage, October 1994. Trade Paperback. More
Icon Books, December 2001. Trade Paperback. This series is renowned for its ingenious combination of graphic illustration and intelligent, precise text by leading academics on some of the most challenging subjects around. This text on Lacan is one of a number of titles that is being relaunched with an updated cover. More
Henry Holt & Co, October 1997. Trade Paperback. William Kotzwinkle, the esteemed author of The Fan Man and E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, is in top comic form in this outrageous and uproarious parable featring Hal Jam--a big black bear who finds a manuscript under a tree in the Maine woods, dons... More
Grove Press, August 1989. Trade Paperback. Written over the course of three days and three nights, "The Subterraneans" was generated out of the same kind of ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac's early classics, "On the Road." Centering around the tempestuous brekup of Leo Percepied and... More
NYRB Classics, November 2015. Trade Paperback. Born into a family of successful playwrights and producers, Agnes de Mille was determined to be an actress. Then one day she witnessed the Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova, and her life was altered forever. Hypnotized by Pavlova's beauty, in that moment de Mille... More
Pantheon, August 1991. Trade Paperback. More
Vintage Books USA, April 2008. Trade Paperback. There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances over weeks and months in the hope of spending a night with their enemy of the people in the House of Meetings. This story is about... More
