The Primary Colors: Three Essays
Henry Holt & Co, April 1996. Mass Market PaperBack.
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The God of Small Things
Harper Perennial, May 1998. Trade Paperback. The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their...
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What Is the What (Vintage)
Vintage, October 2007. Trade Paperback. New York Times Notable Book New York Times Bestseller What Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children --the so-called Lost Boys--was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the...
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A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play (New Press People's Histories)
New Press, September 2008. Hardcover. A chronicle of larger-than-life sporting characters, dramatic contests and what amounts to an alternative history of the Unites States. Shelf wear and lightly bumped corners. Jacket and book.
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Underworld
Scribner, October 1997. Hardcover. Our lives, our half century. Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo...
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These Truths
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2018. Hardcover. Written in elegiac prose, Lepore's groundbreaking investigation places truth itself--a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence--at the center of the nation's history. The American experiment rests on three ideas--"these truths," Jefferson called them--political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people...
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Murdered by Capitalism: A Memoir of 150 Years of Life and Death on the American Left (Nation Books)
Nation Books, May 2004. 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 and John...
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Blindness (Harvest Book)
Harvest Books, October 1999. Trade Paperback. A stunningly powerful novel of man's will to survive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. "This is a shattering work by a literary master."--The Boston GlobeA New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Los Angeles...
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Life
Back Bay Books, May 2011. Trade Paperback. The long-awaited autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Ladies and gentlemen: Keith Richards. With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life. Now...
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The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness
Graywolf Press, March 2012. Trade Paperback. *Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism* *A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Literary Criticism and Essays Pick for Spring 2012* The Grey Album, the first work of prose by the brilliant poet Kevin Young, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction...
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What Truth Sounds Like
St. Martin's Press, June 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Named a 2018 Notable Work of Nonfiction by The Washington Post NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Winner, The 2018 Southern Book Prize NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY: Chicago Tribune - Time - Publisher's Weekly A stunning follow...
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The New Jim Crow
New Press, The, November 2011. Trade Paperback. Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and...
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Vintage, March 1992. Trade Paperback.
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Just Kids
Ecco, November 2010. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the...
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