London: HarperCollins, 2008. Reprint. Paperback. A deft parody of the American fame factory and a piercing portrait of young and old desire, WONDER BOYS is a modern classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY. Grady Tripp is an over-sexed, pot-bellied, pot-smoking, ageing wunderkind..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2012. Reprint. Paperback. William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Reprint. Paperback. After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their overworked mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and everyday violence. Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a...... More
New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2002. Reprint. Paperback. Some of Us Did Not Die brings together a rich sampling of the late poet June Jordan's prose writings. The essays in this collection, which include her last writings and span the length of her extraordinary career, reveal Jordan as an incisive..... More
London: Penguin Modern Classics, 2015. Reprint. Paperback. Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, "Ada or Ardor" is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross continents, are..... More
London: Penguin Modern Classics, 2007. Janis Bellow (ed.), James Wood (intro.). Reprint. Paperback. This is the definitive collection of short stories by Saul Bellow. Abundant, precise, various, rich and exuberant, the stories display the stylistic and emotional brilliance which characterizes this master of prose. Some stories recount the events of..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. First printing. Hardcover. A Life of Adventure and Delight delivers eight masterful stories from dazzlingly original and critically acclaimed author Akhil Sharma. Hailed as a storyteller whose fiction is “a glowing work of art” (Wall Street Journal), Akhil Sharma is possessed of..... More
Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2017. Reprint. Paperback. In this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated twenty-five years previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 1989. Reprint. Paperback. One of the most acclaimed books of our time—the definitive Vietnam War exposé and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant..... More
New York: Berkley Books, 1992. Reprint. Paperback. A national bestselling collection of comedian Jack Handey’s “Deep Thoughts”—short, funny observations on life that were shown in between sketches on Saturday Night Live. With quirky, offbeat humor that often veers into the unexpected, Jack Handey’s witty one liners make this..... More
Beverly, MA: Rockport Publishers, 2017. Reprint. Softcover. Dissent is an essential part of keeping democratic societies healthy, and our ability as citizens to voice our opinions is not only our privilege, it is our responsibility. Most importantly, it is a human right, one which must be fervently fought for, protected..... More
Canada: DC Comics, 2010. Neal Adams (art). First printing. Hardcover. Two legendary figures meet for the first time in this spectacular adventure, as an alien race called the Scrubb demand that Earth's greatest champion battle their world's own greatest fighter. Both Superman and Muhammad Ali step forward -- and to..... More
New York: Modern Library, 1994. Alan Lightman (intro), Sonja Bargmann (tr.). Reprint. Hardback. A collection of insightful and thought provoking essays from one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. The selections range from Einstein's earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such..... More
London: Fourth Estate, 2014. Reprint. Paperback. The highly acclaimed, provocative New York Times bestseller from the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one..... More
New York: Riverhead Books, 2019. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way..... More
London: Ebury Press, 2021. Chris Riddell (illustrations). First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. A national treasure's journey to the brink and back. 'Will I wake up?' 'There's a 50:50 chance.' Michael Rosen wasn't feeling well. Soon he was struggling to breathe, and then he was admitted to hospital, suffering from..... More
London: Harvill Secker, 2021. Philip Gabriel (translation), Suzanne Dean (jacket design). First UK Edition. Hardcover. "Some novelists hold a mirror up to the world and some, like Haruki Murakami, use the mirror as a portal to a universe hidden beyond it." --The Wall Street Journal A mind-bending new collection..... More
Los Angeles: Disney Press, 2019. Denise Shimabukuro, Elena Naggi (Illustrations). First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. There is a mysterious white river, one that holds the answers to the past. But it's just in a lullaby that Anna and Elsa's mother sings to them. Or is the white river actually..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. An immediate national best seller and instant classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls. Richard Russo returns to North Bath—“a town where dishonesty abounds, everyone misapprehends everyone else and half the citizens are half-crazy” (The New York Times)—and..... More
New York: Harper Perennial, 1983. Reprint. Paperback. Humphrey Paxton, the son of one of Britain's leading atomic boffins, has taken to carrying a shotgun to 'shoot plotters and blackmailers and spies'. His new tutor, the plodding Mr Thewless, suggests that Humphrey might be overdoing it somewhat. But when a man..... More
New York: Harper Perennial, 1981. First printing. Paperback. More
New York: Worldwide Library, 1990. Reprint. Paperback. Winner of a Golden Dagger award, Paula Gosling’s Monkey Puzzle introduces us to Detective Lieutenant Jack Stryker. An obsessive cop, an oddball, and (occasionally) a genius. When Grantham University’s most unpopular professor is viciously murdered there are a myriad of potential suspects..... More
New York: Harper Perennial, 1988. Reprint. Paperback. Over a period of twenty years, a series of highly elaborate art hoaxes have been perpetrated at carefully time intervals, and in each case, the victim has a very good reason for keeping quiet. Inspector Appleby's interest is kindled by an amusing dinner-party..... More
New York: Penguin Crime, 1985. Reprint. Paperback. Written as a police procedural in the best traditions of the ‘Golden Age’ writers. Certainly one of Michael Gilberts finest in this particular sphere. A TV actress is murdered and it would seem that the alleged perpetrator has been framed. As the investigation..... More
London: Simon & Schuster, 2017. Paperback. A brilliantly inventive novel about three astronauts training for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them—and their families—changed forever. In four years, aerospace giant Prime Space..... More
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