Doubleday Anchor, January 1957. Mass Market PaperBack. Heavily worn mass market paperback with darkened spine. Flaking and chips to front cover, edges and corners. Top and base of spine is especially heavily worn. Previous reader's name written in blue ballpoint upper right corner of half title page. [301 pages plus..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, March 2021. First Edition. Cloth. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go is "an intriguing take on how..... More
Knopf, May 2017. First American. Hardcover. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Including the story Drive My Car"--now an Academy Award-nominated film--this collection from the internationally acclaimed author examines what happens to characters without important women in their lives; it'll move you and confuse you and sometimes leave you with more questions than..... More
Vintage, September 1998. Reprint. Trade Paperback. "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" is many things: the story of a marriage that mysteriously collapses; a jeremiad against the superficiality of contemporary politics; an investigation of painfully suppressed memories of war; a bildungsroman about a compassionate young man's search for his own identity as..... More
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, February 2006. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a...... More
HarperSanFrancisco, May 2006. Reprint. Trade Paperback. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has..... More
Vintage, March 1989. Trade Paperback. With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger--Camus's masterpiece--gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward. Behind the subterfuge, Camus explores what he termed..... More
Grove Press, January 1968. Paper Back. Tenth printing. Pages toned. Front cover with Larry Rivers painting lightly creased, rear cover has a more significant crease at bottom corner, closed tear at the top, which also affects the last several pages of the book. Overall, a solid copy of the iconic..... More
Bloomsbury USA, August 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Winner of the National Book Award Jesmyn Ward, two-time National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing, delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina. A hurricane is building over the..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, May 2000. Soft Cover. When J. the narrator, George, Harris and Montmorency the dog set off on their hilarious misadventures, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts, imaginary illnesses, butter pats and tins of pineapple chunks. Denounced as vulgar by..... More
Atria Books, June 2015. Trade Paperback. Now a major motion picture A Man Called Otto starring Tom Hanks! #1 New York Times bestseller--more than 3 million copies sold! Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon--the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his..... More
Harper, November 2016. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal - An NBCC Finalist for 2016 Award for Fiction - ALA Carnegie Medal Finalist for Excellence in Fiction - Wall Street Journal's Best Novel of the Year - A New York Times Notable Book of the..... More
Doubleday, August 2016. Reprint. Hardcover. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Now an original Amazon..... More
Vintage, February 1999. Paper Back. Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A 15-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walking a beat, to robbery, to homicide. But one case--this case--has gotten under her skin. When Jennifer Rockwell, darling of the community and daughter of a respected career cop--now..... More
Gadjah Mada Univ Pr, October 1994. Trade Paperback. This guide aims to assist readers through the thicket of often esoteric allusions in The Crying of Lot 49. It contains mainly interpretive notes although some are designed to provide a historical context to what Pynchon has written or to recover the..... More
Washington Square Press, July 2021. Paper Back. An instant #1 New York Times bestseller, the new novel from the author of A Man Called Ove is a "quirky, big-hearted novel....Wry, wise and often laugh-out-loud funny, it's a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure" (People). Looking at real estate isn't..... More
William Morrow & Company, June 2017. Trade Paperback. New York Times and USA Today Bestseller An NPR's Best Book of the Year A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick! The 2017 Girly Book Club Book of the Year! A Summer Book Pick from Good Housekeeping, Parade, Library Journal, Goodreads, Liz and..... More
Random House Inc, October 2003. Trade Paperback. In Nine Horses, Billy Collins, America s Poet Laureate for 2001 2003, continues his delicate negotiation between the clear and the mysterious, the comic and the elegiac. The poems in this collection reach dazzling heights while being firmly grounded in the everyday. Traveling..... More
Random House Inc, August 1995. Trade Paperback. The Polish journalist whose The Soccer War and The Emperor are counted as classics of contemporary reportage now bears witness in Imperium to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. This magisterial book combines childhood memory with unblinking journalism, a radar for the truth..... More
MCD, January 2023. Hardcover. The World and All That It Holds--in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory--showcases Aleksandar Hemon's celebrated talent at its pinnacle. It is a grand, tender, sweeping story that spans decades and continents. It cements Hemon as one of the boldest voices in fiction. As the..... More
Tor.com, October 2020. Hardcover. Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns with Ring Shout, a dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror "A fantastical, brutal and thrilling triumph of the imagination...Clark's combination of historical and political reimagining is..... More
McNally Editions, February 2023. Paper Back. Stories of loners, outsiders, tricksters, addicts, jazzmen, and drifters in the Jim Crow South--a classic of 1950s Black fiction. Raw, fearless, ironic, the stories in Lover Man (1958) promised the birth of a new sensibility in American fiction. Inspired by the bebop he loved..... More
Atria Books, August 2016. Trade Paperback. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and All Your Perfects, a "brave and heartbreaking novel that digs its claws into you and doesn't let go, long after you've finished it" (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author)..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, July 2022. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD - Sam and Sadie--two college friends, often in love, but never lovers--become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy..... More
Counterpoint, November 2022. Hardcover. Thirteen new stories of the Port William membership spanning the decades from World War II to the present moment For those readers of his poetry and inspired by his increasingly vital work as advocate for rational land use and the right-size life, these stories of Wendell..... More
