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Clarion Books, September 1989. Trade Paperback. More
Clarion Books, September 1989. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Classics, February 1967. Trade Paperback. 'It was with awe That I beheld Fresh leaves, green leaves, Bright in the sun' When the Japanese haiku master Basho composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North, he was an ardent student of Zen Buddhism, setting off on a series of travels..... More
Univ Of Minnesota Press, December 2016. Trade Paperback. Count Basie was one of America's pre-eminent and influential jazz pianists, bandleaders, and composers, known for such classics as "Jumpin' at the Woodside," "Goin' to Chicago Blues," "Sent for You Yesterday and Here You Come Today," and "One O'Clock Jump." In Good..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2010. Trade Paperback. One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year From the author of Either/Or and The Idiot, Elif Batuman's The Possessed presents the true but unlikely stories of lives devoted--Absurdly! Melancholically! Beautifully!--to the Russian Classics. No one who read Batuman's first article..... More
Vintage, June 1998. Trade Paperback. In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of..... More
Verso, September 2010. Trade Paperback. From the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night--"a sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensity"--Baudrillard mixes aperçus and observations with a wicked sense of fun to provide a unique insight into the country that dominates our world. In..... More
Penguin Books, June 2019. Trade Paperback. An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform." --NPR.org New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 * One of President Barack Obama's favorite books of 2018 * Winner of the 2019 J...... More
Image Continuum Press, April 2001. Trade Paperback. This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially--statistically speaking--there aren't any people like that. Geniuses get made once-a-century or so, yet..... More
Aladdin, May 1986. Trade Paperback. Beautiful paintings highlight the ways various peoples from around the world welcome the sun and the start of a new day in this Caldecott Honor-winning picture book. Some people say there is a new sun every day, and that it begins its life at dawn..... More
Aladdin, April 1987. Trade Paperback. Pieces of broken pots are scattered over the desert hillsides of the Southwest. The Indians there treat them with respect--"Every piece of clay is a piece of someone's life," they say. And the children try to imagine those lives that took place in the desert..... More
Dover Publications, October 2009. Trade Paperback. More
Dover Publications, August 2018. Trade Paperback. More
Drawn and Quarterly, September 2011. Hardcover. FEATURED ON MORE THAN TWENTY BEST-OF LISTS, INCLUDING TIME, AMAZON, E! AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY! Hark! A Vagrant is an uproarious romp through history and literature seen through the sharp, contemporary lens of New Yorker cartoonist and comics sensation Kate Beaton. No era or tome..... More
Drawn and Quarterly, September 2015. Hardcover. Six months on the New York Times bestseller list! Featured on 25 best of the year lists! "Somewhere in my heart is a folder titled Things I Did Not Know I Wanted and it is full of Kate Beaton comics... Sharp, charming, and weird..... More
Penguin Classics, October 2015. Trade Paperback. With Jordan Peele's Twilight Zone reboot arriving, read the stories that inspired some of the show's greatest episodes, including "The Howling Man"! The profoundly original and wildly entertaining short stories of a legendary Twilight Zone writer, with a foreword by Ray Bradbury and an..... More
Free Press, May 1997. Trade Paperback. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Denial of Death explores how people and cultures around the world have reacted to the concept of death from celebrated cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work..... More
Penguin Books, August 2010. Trade Paperback. What is the President, Congress, and the Supreme Court really allowed to do? This unique and handy guide includes the documents that guide our government, annotated with accessible explanations from one of America's most esteemed constitutional scholars. Known across the country for his appearance..... More
Bold Strokes Books, December 2021. Trade Paperback. No straight women. No parents of students. Nobody under thirty-five. Vanessa Martini makes no apologies for her dating checklist. She's been up close to enough messy breakups to know what havoc they wreak in life. Just because people see her as fun and..... More
Bold Strokes Books, August 2023. Trade Paperback. As a kid, Adley Purcell dreamed of owning Get the Scoop ice cream shop, and now that she does, she's worried it could go under. She's trying to focus on her love of ice cream, but she's edgy and stressed. And how the..... More
Bold Strokes Books, April 2022. Trade Paperback. Amelia Martini's favorite things are traveling, animals, and peanut butter. When she left her job to explore the world with her wife, she didn't expect Tammy's plans to include leaving her. Now, Amelia is starting over again and facing middle age alone. It's..... More
Dover Publications, December 2018. Trade Paperback. "One of the most remarkable combinations of a private-eye novel and psychological suspense story, with an entirely new slant, that has ever been published." -- The New York Times Book Review At the center of this genre-bending tale of sex, death, and parental love..... More
Bantam, August 2008. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor..... More
Harry N. Abrams, September 2014. Trade Paperback. Cece Bell's #1 New York Times Bestseller graphic novel El Deafo is the origin story of a student with hearing loss and a hearing aid becoming a superhero. A John Newbery Medal Winner Now an Apple+ Animated TV Series! Starting at a new..... More
Signet, January 2009. Mass Market Paperback. Edward Bellamy's prophetic novel about a young Boston man who is mysteriously transported from the 19th to the 21st century--from a world of war and want to a world of peace and plenty. The year is 2000. The place: Utopian America. The hero: anyone..... More
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, December 2002. Hardcover. For readers of any age, a witty and strikingly irreverent collection of moral guidance Most notable among prolific English satirist Hilaire Belloc's writings are the sharp and clever admonishments he composed for children. Collected here and illustrated to wonderful haunting effect by Edward Gorey..... More