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April 1988. Hardcover. More
April 1988. Hardcover. More
Simon & Schuster, October 2004. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Music legend Bob Dylan's only work of fiction--a combination of stream of consciousness prose, lyrics, and poetry that gives fans insight into one of the most influential singer-songwriters of our time. Written in 1966, Tarantula is..... More
You know something's happening, but you don't know what it is.
Riverhead Trade, March 2011. Trade Paperback. Chang-rae Lee, the bestselling and award-winning author of Native Speaker, A Gesture Life, and Aloft returns with his most ambitious novel yet-a spellbinding story of how love and war echo through an entire lifetime. June Han was orphaned as a girl by the Korean..... More
Compared to other conflicts, the Korean War has not produced many memorable works of fiction. This novel is so brilliant it might very well say all that needs to be said, all by itself. The book’s intertwining stories of three characters—two Americans, one Korean—are so sumptuously composed, it is tempting to just be awestruck by its creative beauty. That beauty’s opposite is the defining truth of this work: the human disfigurement and the infinitely horrific toll war takes on all who experience it. While this book vividly captures the sights, sounds and feel of war, its concern is much deeper than the politics that get us into wars and the maneuvers we use to get out of them. It’s about the permanent scars of war.
Overlook TP, June 2007. Trade Paperback. His wife, Norma, has run off with her ex-husband, taking Ray's cards, shotgun and car. But from the receipts, Ray can track where they've gone. He takes off after them, as does an irritatingly tenacious bail bondsman, both following the romantic couple's spending as..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, June 2014. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS In the National Book Award-winning Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire..... More
Plume, April 1983. Trade Paperback. 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. "1984" is still the great modern classic "negative Utopia" - a startling original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that..... More
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, June 2016. Paper Back. "A wonderful, splendid book--a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." --Howard Fast With a new introduction by Anthony Arnove, this edition of..... More
Random House Inc, November 1992. Trade Paperback. A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all..... More
Viking Adult, April 2014. Hardcover. April 2014 marks the 75th anniversary of the first Viking hardcover publication of Steinbeck's crowning literary achievement First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm..... More
Dover Publications, March 2004. Trade Paperback. The most important work of American artist and illustrator Lynd Ward, Gods' Man is a powerfully evocative novel, told entirely through woodcuts. Ward (1905-85), in employing the concept of the wordless pictorial narrative, acknowledged his predecessors the European artists Frans Masereel and Otto Nückel..... More
The Limited Editions Club, 1957. Hardcover. Leather spine with gilt lettering and marbled boards. Complete with a protective slipcase. Some moderate wear to the edges of the leather spine. Light fading on the slipcase. More
Rick Steves, February 2018. Paper Back. Change the world one trip at a time. In this illuminating collection of stories and lessons from the road, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates now more than ever. With the world facing divisive and often frightening events, from..... More
Random House Inc, April 2006. Trade Paperback. The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to "a glittering novelist--one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling" (The New Yorker) WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS - SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Selected..... More