Kentucky: Purple House Press, 2017. Hardcover. 25th Anniversary Edition. Young Mark spends a busy, noisy day helping out at Gram’s seaside hot dog stand. After the last customer is served and the grill is scrubbed to a silvery shine, Mark sails off with Gram for a promised surprise..... More
Kentucky: Purple House Press, 1964. Tom Vroman (illustrations). Reissue. Hardcover. It was bedtime. Chris and his father sat down side by side on Chris’s bed. They talked of Chris’s friend Alexander, the red horse with green stripes. “Alexander was a pretty bad horse today,” Chris said. “He wouldn’t eat..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2001. Reprint. Trade Paperback. A fascinating insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism, and the rich artistic world of Paris's Left Bank, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas includes an introduction by Thomas Fensch in Penguin Modern Classics. For Gertrude Stein and her wife..... More
New York: Harper Perennial, 2010. Andrea Cardenas (cover design). Reissue. Trade Paperback. With a foreword by M.F.K. Fisher Long before Julia Child discovered French cooking, Alice B. Toklas was sampling local dishes, collecting recipes, and cooking for the writers, artists, and expats who lived in Paris between the wars..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 2019. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE COSTA POETRY AWARD POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION Flèche (the French word for ‘arrow’) is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan’s young adult years, when she competed locally and internationally for her home..... More
New York: Ecco, 1999. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Something has gone wrong. A group of American bombers armed with nuclear weapons is streaking past the fail-safe point, beyond recall, and no one knows why. Their destination -- Moscow. In a bomb shelter beneath the White House, the calm young president..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2009. Trade Paperback. Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities. A...... More
London: Penguin Books, 2015. Jen Van Der Veken (cover art). Reprint. Paperback. Patrick Süskind's Perfume is a classic novel of death and sensuality in Paris, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2012. Trade Paperback. As a young man, Haruki Murakami played records and mixed drinks at his Tokyo Jazz club, Peter Cat, then wrote at the kitchen table until the sun came up. He loves music of all kinds - jazz, classical, folk, rock - and has more..... More
New York: Vintage International, 2017. Paperback. Haruki Murakami's passion for music runs deep. Before turning his hand to writing, he ran a jazz club in Tokyo, and the aesthetic and emotional power of music permeates every one of his much-loved books. Now, in Absolutely on Music, Murakami fulfills a personal..... More
New York: Yearling, 2008. LeUyen Pham (illustrations). Reprint. Paperback. Here's the first book in the beloved and hilarious Alvin Ho chapter book series, which has been compared to Diary of a Wimpy Kid and is perfect for both beginning and reluctant readers. Alvin, an Asian American second grader, is..... More
Zurich: Dot Line Curve, 2020. First Edition. Cards in envelope. 1) Practice What You Learn Perfect companion to the Touch & Trace book. Designed for practice and play. 2) Perfect Surface For Practice and Play Colour coded strokes encourage young learners to practice by tracing with ease... More
Zurich: Dot Line Curve, 2020. First Edition. Board book. A simple introduction to traditional Chinese writing Learn through play with the basic building blocks of Chinese writing — one colourful stroke at a time. A Touch & Trace Book 1) For Learning and Play Thick board book format..... More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2020. John Minford (ed.), Carol Ong, Annie Ren (trs.). First Edition. Hardcover. Testimony to the emotional truth of their life together even in these increasingly trying times. The memoir Ordinary Days by the scholar and critic Leo Ou-fan Lee and..... More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. It represents one of the finest traditions in Chinese culture: the tradition of creativity, of the freedom of thought, freedom of spirit and freedom of the imagination. These are the characteristics of Hong Kong literature. The..... More
New York: New York Review Comics, 2019. Reissue. Hardcover. A collection of legendary absurdist comic strips about life in 1970s New York City, now available in print for the first time in over thirty years. Every week, from 1978 to 1980, The Village Voice brought a new installment of..... More
New York: Berkley Books, 2008. Reprint. Paperback. The New York Times bestseller from the author of Slaughterhouse-Five—a “gripping” posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s previously unpublished work on the subject of war and peace. A fitting tribute to a literary legend and a profoundly humane humorist, Armageddon in Retrospect is..... More
New York: Berkley Books, 2000. First Edition. Trade Paperback. From the acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions comes a compilation of twenty-three never-before-collected short stories. These vignettes of American life draw on Kurt Vonnegut's World War 2 experiences and the resolute optimism of the country..... More
New Haven: Leete's Island Books, 1980. Fifth Printing. Paperback. This anthology gathers into a single volume 30 essays which embody the history of photography. Contributors include : Niepce, Daguerre, Fox Talbot, Poe, Baudelaire, Emerson, Hine, Stieglitz, Weston, Abbot, Barthes, and others. Their writings encompass the technical origin and development of..... More
New York: Golden Books, 2014. Reissue. Hardcover. It’s time to start your engines in this Richard Scarry classic all about vehicles! Buckle-up for a fun-filled day of planes, trains, automobiles . . . and even a pickle truck! Featuring hundreds of clearly labeled vehicles, this is the perfect book..... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990. Hardcover. Hardcover. Winner of the 1991 Caldecott Medal Four stories are told simultaneously, with each double-page spread divided into quadrants. The stories do not necessarily take place at the same moment in time, but are they really one story? About the author/illustrator..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers (An I CAN READ Book), 1975. Hardcover (library binding). Welcome to Owl's Cozy home in this classic Arnold Lobel I Can Read! Owl lives by himself in a warm little house. But whether Owl is inviting Winter in on a snowy night or welcoming..... More
New York: Puffin Books, 2007. Reissue. Softcover. A Caldecott Honor book from the highly acclaimed author and illustrator of Corduroy! Sid the pigeon is very choosy about finding just the right home in the magnificent city of san Francisco. And find it he does, in the loop of a...... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. Softcover. David Macaulay takes us on a visual journey through a city's various support systems by exposing a typical section of the underground network and explaining how it works. We see a network of walls, columns, cables, pipes and tunnels required to satisfy the..... More
New York: Harcourt, Inc., 1991. Louis Slobodkin (illustrations). Hardcover. A wise tale of a little princess who wanted the moon and got it. “Grown-ups themselves will find the book hilariously funny. . . . The lovely, squiggly illustrations in color are exactly right.”--The New Yorker About the author... More
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