Modern Library, May 2009. Trade Paperback. Part of Emile Zola's multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil's Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recognizes, with its working classes displaced..... More
Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963. First American. Hardcover. First US Edition in price clipped dust jacket. Grey cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Pink topstain. Clean, sound. Alec Waugh is mostly known for being the elder brother of Eveyln Waugh. Alec Waugh is also remembered because his debut, autobiographical..... More
Twisted Spoon Press, May 2002. Trade Paperback. Called by Thomas Mann a "sexual hell" as well as "pure artistry," The Maimed is set in Prague and relates the story of a highly neurotic, socially inept bank clerk who is eventually forced to have sexual relations with his widowed landlady. At..... More
Little, Brown and Company, October 1977. Hardcover. Classic satirical novel. Waugh is near the height of his power as a writer. Here he is a fearless master of the late Modernists. Uniform design reprint in very good dust jacket. Quarter-bound: black cloth spine with gold lettering & beige paper covered..... More
Celadon Books, May 2020. Hardcover. "A Gen-X This Boy's Life...Music and his fierce brilliance boost Jollett; a visceral urge to leave his background behind propels him to excel... In the end, Jollett shakes off the past to become the captain of his own soul. Hollywood Park is a triumph. --O..... More
St. Martin's Griffin, September 2019. Trade Paperback. In Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone, a desperate family seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behavior found in human nature. #1 New York Times Instant Bestseller..... More
Picador, May 2019. Paper Back. Maybe it's the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma's offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance. A stunning, audacious book with a fresh take on both office politics..... More
MCD, December 2019. Hardcover. A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways. At stake: the fate of the future, the fate of..... More
Picador, February 2009. Paper Back. Yoko Ogawa's The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family. He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury..... More
Bloomsbury USA, April 2012. Trade Paperback. Winner of the National Book Award Jesmyn Ward, two-time National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing, delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina. A hurricane is building over the Gulf..... More
Doubleday, July 2019. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Time, Esquire, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Slate, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Vox, Variety, Christian Science Monitor, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, Literary Hub, BuzzFeed, The New York Public Library NEW..... More
One World, February 2020. Hardcover. A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness and the struggle to be human "Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human."--Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively..... More
Vintage, September 2000. Trade Paperback. Stunning and elegiac, Norwegian Wood first propelled Haruki Murakami into the forefront of the literary scene. Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of..... More
Riverhead Books, August 2019. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "A brilliant literary murder mystery." --Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." --Annie Proulx In a remote Polish..... More
Ballantine Books, April 2020. Hardcover. A riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, Korea, about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossible standards of beauty, after-hours room salons catering to wealthy men, ruthless social hierarchies, and K-pop mania "Absolutely stunning . . . If I...... More
Knopf, May 2020. Hardcover. The timely, never-before-told story of five brilliant, passionate women who, in the early 1960s, converged at the newly founded Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study and became friends as well as artistic collaborators, and who went on to shape the course of feminism in ways that are..... More
Dalkey Archive Press, May 2018. Paper Back. A memoir of James Joyce, one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century, never before published in North America. "In the ordinary sense Joyce was not a conversationalist," writes Arthur Power, in Conversations with James Joyce. An aspiring painter and art..... More
Mariner Books, January 2020. Paper Back. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR TAYARI JONES "How can a novel's social criticism be so unflinching and clear, yet its plot moves like a house on fire? I am tempted to describe Petry as a magician for the many..... More
Back Bay Books, February 2020. Paper Back. By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, troubling and uplifting, these "electric" essays come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multivocal portrait of modern America (The Washington Post). From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of white supremacists in Charlottesville, America..... More
Harcourt, April 1990. Trade Paperback. The classic 1939 collection of three novellas, including the famous title story set during the flu epidemic of 1918. From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have evoked such a multitude of worlds, both exterior and interior, as powerfully as Katherine Anne..... More
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
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
