London: Icon Books Ltd, 2018. Reprint. Paperback. The first known inhabitant of St Helena – long before Napoleon – was a 16th-century Portuguese renegade. In 1506 Fernão Lopes, a member of his country’s minor nobility, travelled to Goa in search of honour and wealth. There he converted to Islam..... More about The Other Exile: The Remarkable Story of Fernão Lopes, the Island of Saint Helena and a Paradise...

New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. A 2019 Edgar Award Nominee and a CrimeReads Best Crime Book of the Year A searing portrait of the crack epidemic and violent drug wars that once ravaged the Bronx. In the late 1980s and early 1990s... More about Sex, Money, Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood, and Betrayal

New York: Crown, 2018. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. AMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY New York Times Critics • Wall Street Journal • Kirkus Reviews • Christian Science Monitor • San Francisco Chronicle Finalist for the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Biography Award Shortlisted for the... More about Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown

Lebanon, New Hampshire: ForeEdge, 2017. Reprint. Paperback. Eleven women went missing over the spring and summer of 1988 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, an old fishing port known as the Whaling City, where Moby Dick, Frederick Douglass, textile mills, and heroin-dealing represent just a few of the many threads in the... More about Shallow Graves: The Hunt for the New Bedford Highway Serial Killer

New York: Avon Books, 1965. Lester Krauss (cover photo). Third Avon Printing. Paperback. More about The Green Berets

New York: Harper Perennial, 1996. Reprint. Paperbacik. As men and women find that they can no longer rely on old roles and formulas to get along, intimate relationships call for a new kind of honesty and awareness, a willingness to let go of old patterns and cultivate new capacities. Journey... More about Journey of the Heart: The Path of Conscious Love

New York: Broadway Books, 2009. Reprint. Hardcover. From the New York Times bestselling author of My Paris Kitchen and L'Appart, a deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights, cheese, chocolate, and other confections. Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever... More about The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City

New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2010. Reprint. Paperback. In this delightful sequel to her bestseller Tender at the Bone, Ruth Reichl returns with more tales of love, life, and marvelous meals. Comfort Me with Apples picks up Reichl’s story in 1978, when she puts down her chef’s toque and..... More about Comfort Me With Apples: More Adventures at the Table

London: Penguin Life, 2018. Sarah Locher (maps), Michael Davis (graphs). First Edition. Hardcover. Shinrin = Forest Yoku = Bathing Shinrin-Yoku or forest bathing is the practice of spending time in the forest for better health, happiness and a sense of calm. A pillar of Japanese culture for decades, Shinrin-Yoku... More about Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest-Bathing

New York: Black Cat, 2015. Luc(as) De Groot (cover art). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. #FrequentlyAskedQuestions 1. Ontology: what the fuck? 2. Causality: why the fuck? 3. Epistemology: how the why the fuck? 4. Phenomenology: the fuck. In the past society had aphorisms, today we have this hilarious yet... More about Nein.: A Manifesto

Fail Better Press, 2016. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. From website It's Nice That: Joan Cornellà’s book, Zonzo, is the second collection of cartoons by the uncompromising Spanish artist and illustrator. The publisher describes Zonzo, the follow up to 2015’s MoxNox, as “ferocious”. “Zonzo is populated almost exclusively by smiling psychopaths..... More about Zonzo

London: Simon and Schuster UK Ltd, 2015. Reprint. Paperback. The Nile, one of the world’s great rivers, has long been an object of fascination and obsession. From Alexander the Great and Nero, to Victorian adventurers David Livingstone, John Hanning Speke, and Henry Morton Stanley, the river has enticed many into..... More about Walking The Nile

Oakland, California: Transit Books, 2018. Katherine Silver (tr.). First translated edition. First Printing. Paperback. Part reportage, part personal essay, part travelogue, False Calm is the breakout work by Argentinian author María Sonia Cristoff. Writing against romantic portrayals of Patagonia, Cristoff returns home to chronicle the ghost towns left behind by..... More about False Calm: A Journey Through the Ghost Towns of Patagonia