Anchor, June 2004. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America's isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. - Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU. "Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold..... More
The Dial Press, March 2020. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD! "Packed with incredible insight about what it means to be a woman today."--Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club Pick) In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker, bestselling author, and "patron..... More
Algonquin Books, January 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. On January 6, 1990, after seventeen years on the job, award-winning novelist Larry Brown quit the Oxford, Mississippi, Fire Department. With three published books to his credit and a fourth nearly finished, he made the risky decision to try life as a full-time..... More
N/A, October 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. In more than thirty books, M.F.K. Fisher forever changed the way Americans understood not only the art of eating but the art of living. Whether considering the oyster or describing how to cook a wolf, she addressed the universal needs "for protection, food, love."..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), March 2008. Trade Paperback. The "fierce and eloquent" (New York Times) memoir from A.M Homes, award-winning author of May We Be Forgiven and the forthcoming novel The Unfolding The acclaimed writer A. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a...... More
Riverhead Books, March 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. "Anne Lamott is my Oprah." -Chicago Tribune From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow comes an inspiring guide to restoring hope and joy in our lives. In Dusk, Night, Dawn, Anne Lamott explores the tough questions that many of us grapple with..... More
Harper Perennial, April 2003. Trade Paperback. In twenty-two wonderfully articulate essays, Barbara Kingsolver raises her voice in praise of nature, family, literature, and the joys of everyday life while examining the genesis of war, violence, and poverty in our world From the author of High Tide in Tucson, comes Small..... More
Vintage, May 1983. Trade Paperback. This marvelous collection of autobiographical essays by the celebrated, much-adored M.F.K. Fisher covers her life, family, food, and adventures. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Text free of markings; An excellent copy. More
Pantheon, November 1993. Trade Paperback. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Text free of markings; Mild foxing present, a few pages damp-stained; An excellent reading copy. More
Penguin Classics, May 2003. Trade Paperback. The first literary addiction memoir, featuring the autobiographical Suspiria de Profundis, the inspiration for the 2018 horror film Suspiria, starring Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton and directed by Luca Guadagnino In this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions and hallucinatory..... More
Oxford Univ Pr, January 1999. Trade Paperback. Rasselas--regarded as Johnson's most creative work--presents the story of the journey of Rasselas and his companions in search of "the choice of life." Its charm lies not in its plot, but rather in its wise and humane look at man's constant search for..... More
Vintage, February 1990. Trade Paperback. Naipaul's first book about America. A revealing, disturbing book about the American South--a part of the country that nonetheless remains a world unto itself. More
New Press, The, August 2010. Hardcover. Lives We Carry with Us gathers together for the first time a diverse cross section of Coles's profiles, originally published in our premier magazines over the span of five decades but never before collected in book form. Depicting the famous, the lesser known, and..... More
Hyperion, August 2006. Trade Paperback. Now a major Amazon film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, and Christopher Lloyd, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar, in the tradition of This..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, September 1997. Paper Back. A revised selection of Lady Montagu's letters. Besides presenting a vivid picture of manners in a picturesque age, they contain a unique series of impressions from foreign courts seldom visited and nowhere else so intimately described. Lady Mary was the wife of..... More
Vintage, October 1989. Trade Paperback. A dazzling memoir of an African childhood from Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka. Aké The Years of Childhood gives us the story of Soyinka's boyhood before and during World War II in a Yoruba village in western Nigeria called Aké. A...... More
St. Martin's Griffin, December 1997. Trade Paperback. What does our country sound like? There are approximately 502 million radios in America alone. Radios in cars, in kitchens, in malls, playing in elevators and beauty shops. Sarah Vowell listened to the radio for one year and wrote down her impressions. More
Simon & Schuster, October 2003. Trade Paperback. From public radio This American Life contributor and self-described "history nerd" Sarah Vowell comes a collection of humorous and personal essays investigating American history, pop culture and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell travels through..... More
The Modern Library, February 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of letters by the editor of the New Yorker details the birth of the magazine and its early days. {6&1/2' x 8&1/2'} In mildly edgeworn dustjacket. Previous owner's name inked ffep. Stated, First Edition with this number line '2 4..... More
Tarcher, September 1987. Trade Paperback. The seminal work on alienation, creativity, and the modern mind-set. An exhaustive, luminously intelligent study...a real contribution to our understanding of our deepest predicament.--Philip Toynbee. More
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, March 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir about aging, affliction, and optimism after partially losing his eyesight. One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke..... More
Liveright, September 2015. Hardcover. Over the course of an adventured-filled life, now in its tenth decade, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been many things: a poet, painter, pacifist, publisher, courageous defender of free speech, and owner of San Francisco's legendary City Lights bookstore. Now the man whose A Coney Island of the..... More
Harpercollins, February 1995. Trade Paperback. More
Tudor, 1951 ( MCMLI ). Cloth. {6' x 9 & 1/2'} In slightly edgeworn dustjacket. Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering in black rectangular fields uopn spine. Lightly tanned end pages. Red rose stained top textblock edge. Tight binding. One-quarter inch chip at bottom of front cover panel. [1036..... More
Faber & Faber, Incorporated, January 1995. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name. Bookstore stamp. More
