Penguin Books, March 2009. Trade Paperback. From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour and When the Nines Roll Over and co-creator of the HBO series Game of Thrones, a captivating novel about war, courage, survival -- and a remarkable friendship that ripples across a lifetime. During the Nazis'..... More
Ballantine Books, August 1999. Trade Paperback. By the Light of My Father's Smile is Alice Walker's first novel in six years--a stunning, original, and important book by "one of the best American writers of today" (The Washington Post). A family from the United States goes to the remote Sierras in..... More
Back Bay Books, September 1987. Paper Back. From one of our most accomplished short story writers, "Drunk with Love" is a deeply compelling collection full of laughter and tears, pathos and tender humor. In these thirteen stories we come to know some of Ellen Gilchrist's most memorable characters: Rhoda Manning..... More
Harper Perennial, April 2002. Trade Paperback. National Book Award Finalist From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment, an exquisitely rendered novel set in the pediatrics ward of a public hospital that examines the power, joy, and anguish of storytelling. "If you have children or will..... More
Marvel, September 2016. First Edition. Paper Back. A new era begins for the Black Panther! MacArthur Genius and National Book Award-winning writer Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me) takes the helm, confronting T'Challa with a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda that will make leading the African nation tougher than ever..... More
Pantheon, March 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. From the Man Booker Prize Finalist comes the third novel in her Seasonal Quartet--a New York Times Notable Book and longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2020 What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the..... More
Europa Editions, February 2015. Paper Back. From the author of The Angry Buddhist: "An intoxicating and ultimately moving modern romance . . . A story that's all the sweeter for its shadows" (Los Angeles Review of Books). I Regret Everything confronts the oceanic uncertainty of what it means to be..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, December 2014. Hardcover. 2015 National Translation Award Winner in Poetry Paul Celan, one of the greatest German-language poets of the twentieth century, created an oeuvre that stands as testimony to the horrors of his times and as an attempt to chart a topography for a new..... More
New Directions Publishing Corporation, June 1997. Paper Back. Dr. Pereira is an aging, overweight journalist who has failed to notice the menacing cloud of fascism over Salazarist Portugal, until one day he meets an aspiring young writer and anti-fascist. Breaking out of his apolitical torpor, Pereira reluctantly rises to heroism..... More
India Allen Lane, August 2018. Hardcover. A riveting account of love and desireIndia is the only civilization to elevate kama-desire and pleasure-to a goal of life. Kama is both cosmic and human energy, which animates life and holds it in place. Gurcharan Das weaves a compelling narrative soaked in philosophical..... More
Vintage, April 2020. Paper Back. "A propulsive, madcap story" (The New York Times) about a salaryman who decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper after a botched suicide attempt. - "An outstanding writer not only of Japan, but of the world."..... More
The Heritage Press, 1938. In Slipcase. Solid binding, gently worn at spine; Clean, sturdy boards, mild toning to spine; Pages free of markings; Slipcase included, Very Good condition. More
Vintage International, November 2001. Trade Paperback. An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel-part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence. Bruno and Michel are half-brothers abandoned by their mother, an unabashed devotee of the drugged-out free-love world..... More
Viking Adult, December 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize A brilliant new work of fiction from the Nobel Prize-winning author of "Disgrace" and "Diary of a Bad Year" A young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2007. Reprint. Hardcover. New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesarea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, June 2026. Hardcover. From bestselling, award-winning author James Ellroy, "the neo-noir eminence of L.A. crime fiction" (The New Yorker)--a gritty, fast-paced historical crime thriller set in 1962 Los Angeles during the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis "The Freddy Otash novels will be mentioned . .... More
Vintage, May 2026. Paper Back. LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - WINNER OF THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE - WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE - WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE - SHORTLISTED FOR THE CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE - SHORTLISTED FOR THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST..... More
Penguin Classics, October 2016. Paper Back. The masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years--at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition and a limited-run series of American..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, January 0001. Trade Paperback. Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honoré de Balzac's Eugénie Grandet is translated with an introduction by M.A. Crawford in Penguin Classics. In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, the miser Grandet lives with..... More
Copper Canyon Press, April 2019. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award "100 Notable Books of the Year," The New York Times Book Review One Book, One Philadelphia Citywide Reading Program Selection, 2021 "By some literary magic--no, it's precision, and..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, July 2000. Paper Back. When Scat comes up with the idea for the hottest new soda ever, he's sure he'll retire the next rich, savvy marketing success story. But in the treacherous waters of corporate America there are no sure things--and suddenly Scat has to save..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 2001. Trade Paperback. Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college..... More
Harcourt, November 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. The time: 2000 to 2005, the years of neoconservatism, terrorism, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, the ascension of Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi, and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Umberto Eco's response is a provocative, passionate, and witty series of essays--which originally appeared in the..... More
Random House Inc, October 2001. Hardcover. More
W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1997. Paper Back. Jacques Derrida is known primarily, and until recently, as the major proponent of deconstruction; always somewhat disengaged from the central political questions of the day. Derrida's political turn was marked by the appearance of Specters of Marx. More
