Daddy Was a Number Runner
Pyramid, 1971. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Pyramid, 1971. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Leisure Books, 1971. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Easton, 1996. Leather. Bound in gilt-decorative leather. All edges gilt. Silk ribbon and endpapers. More
Easton, 2000. Leather. Two volumes bound in gilt-decorative full leather. All edges gilt. Still in shrinkwrap. More
Harper Paperbacks, January 2001. Trade Paperback. A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause..... More
Harper, November 2023. Hardcover. "A captivating group portrait of three 'titans' of industry who facilitated the steamship routes by which around 2 million Jewish refugees, fleeing pogroms and discrimination, immigrated from Europe to America between 1890 and 1921. . . . Ujifusa ties this intricate business history into a broader..... More
University of Chicago Press. Hardcover. Cream-colored cloth binding. Trace soiling to cover, insignificant toning to pages. Very solid copy. More
Mariner Books, April 2024. Hardcover. The author of the New York Times bestseller Blitzed returns with a provocative new history of drugs and postwar America, examining the untold story of how Nazi experiments into psychedelics covertly influenced CIA research and secretly shaped the War on Drugs. Berlin 1945. Following the..... More
University of Georgia Press, November 2023. Paper Back. On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Today, his murder is seen as a national tragedy, a moment of collective shame. Yet at the time, King..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2003. Hardcover. An eye-opening account of the first encounter between England and Japan, by the acclaimed author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg In 1611, the merchants of London's East India Company received a mysterious letter from Japan, written several years previously by a marooned English mariner named..... More
Scribner, June 1996. Trade Paperback. Named one of the GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS of the last 100 years by The Atlantic The 50th anniversary edition of the classic, freewheeling novel by one of the most iconic satirists of our time--now with a new introduction by the author. "Mumbo Jumbo is a...... More
Harpercollins, January 1991. Trade Paperback. An exhaustive collection of the speeches, writings, and interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning activist. More
PublicAffairs, April 2024. Hardcover. Four Shots in the Night is the story of a political murder: the killing of an IRA member turned British informant. The search for justice for this one man's death--his body found in broad daylight, with tape over his eyes, an undisguised hit--would deliver more than..... More
Crown, February 2024. Hardcover. The first definitive exploration of the changing role of the twenty-first-century First Lady, painting a comprehensive portrait of Jill Biden--from a White House correspondent for The New York Times "A fascinating and deeply researched exploration into the most public facing and least understood role in Washington."--Kate..... More
Fair Winds Press (MA), January 2020. Paper Back. The Witch's Herbal Apothecary is a magickal book of recipes, rituals, and materia medica for reconnecting with the power and healing of Earth Magick. Author Marysia Miernowska is the Director of one of California's most renowned herbal schools and named one of..... More
Three Rivers Press, October 1999. First Thus. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An insightful and moving collection of fifty-two Biblical meditations from former President Jimmy Carter "For me, the ancient texts always come alive when I explore them with a searching heart. I hope they will be for..... More
Viking, August 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2021 An impressive combination of diligence and verve, deploying Ackerman's deep stores of knowledge as a national security journalist to full effect. The result is a narrative of the last 20 years that is upsetting, discerning..... More
Dover Pubns, June 1978. Trade Paperback. "These people also used certain characters or letters, with which they wrote in their books about the antiquities and their sciences...We found a great number of books in these letters, and since they contained nothing but superstitions and falsehoods of the devil we burned..... More
Houghton Mifflin, 1961. Cloth. The Riverside Press Cambridge Sentry Edition 10. More
Vintage, April 2018. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, "one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."--New York..... More
Library of America, April 2024. Hardcover. This collection of 80 dramatic firsthand writings by Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and others brings to life the struggle for racial justice from the Civil War to World War I A vital resource for the teaching of the history of race in America..... More
Knopf, November 2023. Hardcover. The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - An intimate history of the most important month of World War II, completely based on the diaries, letters and memoirs of the people who lived through it At the beginning of November 1942, it looked as if..... More
Picador, April 2024. Paper Back. The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I--and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writers. When W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic..... More
Simon & Schuster, January 2024. Trade Paperback. One of The New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times Bestseller Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, and Oprah Daily The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped..... More