Vintage, January 2006. Trade Paperback. Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world's great storytellers at the peak of his powers. Here we meet a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who is on the run, and Nakata, an aging simpleton who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot..... More
Grove Press, April 2016. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner of the 2016 Edgar Award for Best First Novel Winner of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction "[A] remarkable debut novel." --Philip Caputo, New York Times Book Review (cover review) Winner of..... More
Back Bay Books, June 2001. Trade Paperback. A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of Naked, presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn French. A number one national bestseller now in paperback. More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2014. Trade Paperback. Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented an application that records everything its users do. When she visits the Library of Alexandria as a tech consultant, she is abducted in Egypt's postrevolutionary chaos with only a copy of the philosopher Maimonides' famous..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), December 2008. Trade Paperback. The bestselling novel that follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and war, from the author of The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of sweeping historical..... More
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, August 2009. Trade Paperback. A genuine spiritual quest. . . . Extraordinary. -- New York Times Among the most profound and influential explorations of mind-expanding psychedelic drugs ever written, here are two complete classic books--The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell--in which Aldous Huxley, author..... More
Penguin Books, October 1977. Trade Paperback. More
Vintage, August 2009. Trade Paperback. An intimate look at writing, running, and the incredible way they intersect, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is an illuminating glimpse into the solitary passions of one of our greatest artists. While training for the New York City Marathon, Haruki Murakami..... More
Ballantine Books, May 1994. Trade Paperback. "I woke up with a start at 4:00 one morning and realized that I was very, very pregnant." So begins novelist Aniie Lamott's journal of the birth of her son, Sam, and their first year together. She must face complicated circumstances of heroic proportions..... More
Henry Holt & Company, April 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition with full number line. Two lightly bumped corners on the boards. Lightly bruised at the ends of the spine. Jacket has minor shelf wear. More
Little, Brown and Company, May 2017. Hardcover. One of the most anticipated books of 2017: Boston Globe, New York Times Book Review, New York's Vulture, The Week, Bustle, BookRiot An NPR Best Book of 2017An AV Club Favorite Book of 2017A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2017A Goodreads Choice..... More
Harper, October 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. "Chabon has always been a magical prose stylist, adept at combining the sort of social and emotional detail found in Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus stories with the metaphor-rich descriptions of John Updike and John Irving's inventive sleight of hand. . . . As in..... More
Metropolitan Books, November 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER My Body offers a lucid examination of the mirrors in which its author has seen herself, and her indoctrination into the cult of beauty as defined by powerful men. In its more transcendent passages . . . the..... More
Henry Holt & Company, June 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Koja's uncanny blend of eroticism and gothic hallucination, her unabashed readiness to take on the larger issues of the human condition, and her sheer lyricism as a prose stylist have set an ambitious standard by which other writers of her generation..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, December 2011. Oversize Softcover. It began in 1913 with a glorious new highway that connected the bright lights of Broadway with the foggy shores of San Francisco. It was a magnificent and meandering road that enticed millions of newly motoring Americans to hop in their..... More
Indiana University Press, July 1997. Trade Paperback. . . . essays of substance and beauty, and they belong beside the work of Annie Dillard, Samuel Pickering, and Wendell Berry. --Library Journal [Sanders] eloquently expresses his love of the land and the responsibility he feels for preventing further erosion of our..... More
Vintage, March 2013. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of..... More
Gallery/Scout Press, November 2019. Trade Paperback. ONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 BY WOMAN'S DAY, NEWSDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, BUSTLE, AND BOOK RIOT. Signed by the author on a specially bound in..... More
Harper Perennial, June 1996. Trade Paperback. Some fathers and sons go fishing together. Some play ball. David Hays and Daniel Hays sailed 17,000 miles through the world's most feared and fabled waters in a little boat they built together. This is their story. Alone with nothing but the mammoth waves..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, January 2007. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "For all those who have lived with Vonnegut in their imaginations . . . this is what he is like in person."-USA Today In a volume that is penetrating, introspective, incisive, and laugh-out-loud funny, one of the..... More
Knopf, August 2014. Hardcover. A New York Times #1 Bestseller A New York Times and Washington Post notable book, and one of the Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Slate, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, and BookPage's best books of the year Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is..... More
St. Martin's Press, February 2021. First American. Hardcover. The Bestselling Hardcover Novel of the Year.--Publishers Weekly From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was..... More
Routledge, March 1994. Trade Paperback. Visualizing Theory is a lavishly illustrated collection of provocative essays, occasional pieces, and dialogues that first appeared in Visual Anthropology Review between 1990 and 1994. It contains contributions from anthropologists, from cultural, literary and film critics and from image makers themselves. Reclaiming visual anthropology as..... More
Grove Press, September 1987. Trade Paperback. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize "A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue."--The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy..... More
Vintage, July 1989. Trade Paperback. More
