The Primary Colors: Three Essays
Henry Holt & Co, April 1996. Mass Market PaperBack. More about The Primary Colors: Three Essays
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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... More about The God of Small Things
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The God of Small Things: A Novel
Random House Trade Paperbacks, December 2008. 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... More about The God of Small Things: A Novel
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October
Verso, May 2018. Paper Back. Award-winning author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside down On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, China Miéville tells the extraordinary story of this pivotal moment in history. In February of 1917 Russia was a backwards, autocratic monarchy, mired..... More about October
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American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
Free Press, January 2008. Trade Paperback. Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like... More about American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
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Underworld: A Novel
Scribner, July 1998. Trade Paperback. 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; she is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence. "Underworld" is a.... More about Underworld: A Novel
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Doubleday, January 2016. Hardcover. Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax... More about Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
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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... More about These Truths
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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... More about Murdered by Capitalism: A Memoir of 150 Years of Life and Death on the American Left (Nation Books
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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... More about Blindness (Harvest Book
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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... More about Life
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Vintage, March 1992. Trade Paperback. More about City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Riverhead Books, March 2014. Paper Back. "Mr. Hamid reaffirms his place as one of his generation's most inventive and gifted writers." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A globalized version of The Great Gatsby . . . [Hamid's] book is nearly that good." -Alan Cheuse, NPR "Marvelous and moving." -TIME... More about How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
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Just Kids
Ecco, November 2010. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a.... More about Just Kids
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There was a time when the coolest thing that ever happened to A Cappella was when Patti Smith came in, bought a few books, and then mentioned it on stage later that night at the Variety Playhouse. That was supplanted by the night we actually presented her to a sold-out Variety Playhouse on her book tour for M Train. Then, topping even that, was Patti gifting us her quote, “There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book,” for our t-shirts and coffee mugs. That quote originated from her speech accepting the National Book Award for this particularly beautiful book.
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