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The legendary writer’s first collection in more than ten years—and, finally, the definitive one. A literary event of the highest order.
Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk’s searing visions of the unity of humanity and Earth, conveyed by John G.
$16.99ISBN: 9780062295903Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Dey Street Books - December 1st, 2015NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story—a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty of Patti Smith's Just Kids.
$15.00ISBN: 9780684870199Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Simon & Schuster - August 7th, 2001In a lucid, brilliant work of nonfiction -- as close to an autobiography as his readers are likely to get -- Larry McMurtry has written a family portrait that also serves as a larger portrait of Texas itself, as it was and as it has become.
$13.99ISBN: 9780547844190Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Mariner Books - September 11th, 2012NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
In this groundbreaking debut, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one family, the intense bonds of three brothers, and the mythic effects of this fierce love on the people we must become.
"We the Animals is a dark jewel of a book. It’s heartbreaking. It’s beautiful.$13.95ISBN: 9780060515119Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Harper Perennial - January 22nd, 2019From the author of the National Book Award Winner The Round House, Louise Erdrich's breathtaking, lyrical novel of a priceless Ojibwe artifact and the effect it has had on those who have come into contact with it over the years.
$18.00ISBN: 9781250094735Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Picador - August 2nd, 2016A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin.
$14.00ISBN: 9780802130136Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Grove Press - January 12th, 1994Jean Genet's masterpiece, composed entirely in the solitude of his prison cell. With an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Email or call for price.ISBN: 9781573225793Availability: Out of PrintPublished: Riverhead Books - February 1st, 1997From theNew York Timesbestsellingauthor ofTenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction, and the novelLincoln in the Bardo.
A New York Times Notable Book$17.00ISBN: 9780143107880Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Penguin Books - February 2nd, 2016“The idea of a cultured gay man leaving New York City to care for his aging mother in Paris, Missouri, is already funny, and George Hodgman reaps that humor with great charm. But then he plunges deep, examining the warm yet fraught relationship between mother and son with profound insight and understanding.” —Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home
$16.95ISBN: 9781584350347Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Semiotext(e) - July 14th, 2006A self-described failed filmmaker falls obsessively in love with her theorist-husband's colleague: a manifesto for a new kind of feminism and the power of first-person narration.
$14.99ISBN: 9780062383259Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Harper Perennial - July 26th, 2016National Bestseller
A masterful literary talent explores the treacherous, often violent borders between war and sex, love and art.
With the flash of a camera, one girl’s life is shattered, and a host of others altered forever. . .
$19.95ISBN: 9781590178843Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: New York Review Books - May 12th, 2015Why do we need fiction? Why do books need to be printed on paper, copyrighted, read to the finish? Do we read to challenge our vision of the world or to confirm it? Has novel writing turned into a job like any other?
$29.99ISBN: 9780062389084Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Ecco - September 29th, 2015A collection of thrilling verse, including both new poems and beloved favorites, from the celebrated poet, modern cult icon, and author of Chelsea Girls.
$25.99ISBN: 9780763668181Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Candlewick - September 22nd, 2015A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist
National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony.$29.00ISBN: 9780226333151Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: University of Chicago Press - January 14th, 2016Newsweek calls him “exhilarating and deeply engaging.” Time Out New York calls him “smart, provocative, and a great writer.” Critic Peter Schjeldahl, meanwhile, simply calls him “My hero.” There’s no one in the art world quite like Dave Hickey—and a new book of his writing is an event.
25 Women will not dis$16.95ISBN: 9780393351590Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: W. W. Norton & Company - March 23rd, 2015#1 New York Times Bestseller — With a new Afterword
"Guaranteed to make blood boil." —Janet Maslin, New York Times
“The sun is up, the sky is blue, it’s beautiful, and so are you…”
Those simple lines from the Beatles’ ballad, “Dear Prudence,” are easily recognizable by anyone who lived through the 1960s, as well as by the millions of people who continue to enjoy the Beatles’ music today.
But who was Prudence? Did she ever come out into the sunshine and greet the new day, as John Lennon beseeched her to do? What’s the real story behind the song?
Prudence Farrow Bruns, a daughter of the prominent Farrow family that includes sister and actress Mia Farrow, finally sets the story straight. Her memoir speaks to her three-month self-imposed meditative seclusion in India in 1968, while also carefully examining the universal experience of the 1960s youth movement.
Farrow honestly and unflinchingly explores how music, drugs, the Vietnam War, and eastern mysticism and philosophy changed millions of young people’s worldviews during one of America’s most tumultuous decades. She also touches on her own famous family’s heartaches and triumphs, even as she voices the experiences of an entire generation through a single iconic song.
$18.00ISBN: 9780812989786Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Random House Trade Paperbacks - August 9th, 2016A blazingly intelligent first book of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Time • The Guardian • Harper's Bazaar • San Francisco Chronicle • The Atlantic • Financial Times • Kirkus$17.00ISBN: 9781476709642Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Simon & Schuster - October 13th, 2015In Dispatches from Pluto, adventure writer Richard Grant takes on “the most American place on Earth”—the enigmatic, beautiful, often derided Mississippi Delta.
Richard Grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox apartment in New York City when they decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta.$16.95ISBN: 9780375713347Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Vintage - June 11th, 2002National Book Award finalist
$16.99ISBN: 9780060786502Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Perennial Modern Classics - July 5th, 2005The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it -- from garden seeds to Scripture -- is calamitously transformed on African soil.
$17.00ISBN: 9781439142011Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Scribner - January 14th, 2014NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW * New York magazine’s #1 Book of the Year * Best Book of 2013 by: The Wall Street Journal; Vogue; O, The Oprah Magazine; Los Angeles Times; The San Francisco Chronicle; The New Yorker; Time; Flavorwire; Salon; Slate;
$14.95ISBN: 9780306814525Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Da Capo Press - February 28th, 2006One of "The Best Memoirs of a Generation" (Oprah's Book Club): a young woman's journey from the mango groves and barrios of Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and eventually on to Harvard
$16.00ISBN: 9781620406700Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Bloomsbury USA - May 9th, 2017A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
$16.00ISBN: 9781944700263Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Unnamed Press - June 20th, 2017New York City, 1971, a balmy August evening: Just seven blocks from her childhood home, a young woman walks into a Park Avenue apartment and into the troubled arms of her first trick.
$16.99ISBN: 9780062394668Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Ecco - September 29th, 2015Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age novel in-real-time from one of America's most celebrated poets that is considered a cult classic.
$25.99ISBN: 9780062362599Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper - June 13th, 2017New York Times bestseller
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Lambda Literary Award winner
$18.00ISBN: 9780812973990Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Random House Trade Paperbacks - November 30th, 2009NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Colum McCann’s beloved novel inspired by Philippe Petit’s daring high-wire stunt, which is also depicted in the film The Walk starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt
$16.00ISBN: 9781594483295Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Riverhead Books - September 2nd, 2008Winner of:
The Pulitzer Prize
The National Book Critics Circle Award
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize
A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year$13.00ISBN: 9780679766759Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Vintage - April 29th, 1997"Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire," directed by Lee Daniels and written
by Damien Paul
GRAND JURY PRIZE and AUDIENCE AWARD winner at the 2009 Sundance Film
Festival$26.99ISBN: 9780062684929Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Dey Street Books - September 12th, 2017NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Compelling… this book couldn’t be more timely.” – Jill Abramson, New York Times Book Review
From the Recipient of the 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism
$15.95ISBN: 9780393329407Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: W. W. Norton & Company - September 17th, 2005"A stunningly beautiful new memoir . . . a near-perfect work of literature." —Stephen Elliot, San Francisco Chronicle
$25.00ISBN: 9780802125972Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Atlantic Monthly Press - March 7th, 2017"Michael Knight is more than a master of the short story. He knows the true pace of life and does not cheat it, all the while offering whopping entertainment."--Barry Hannah
$16.00ISBN: 9780399185809Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Blue Rider Press - August 22nd, 2017A Huffington Post Book Club Suggestion • An O: The Oprah Magazine Fall Pick • A LitHub Book You Should Read This September • One of The Millions' "Most Anticipated" for 2016 • 2017 Ohioana Book Award Winner in Fiction
$14.00ISBN: 9780802131935Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Grove Press - January 11th, 1994Kathy Acker was a high-wire writer. She took risks. She experimented for the sake of it. She made mistakes. She fell. She never wanted a modest success, and so her books, all of them, swing from passages of topflight bravura, where you think, "How did she do that?" to a sawdust-in-your-mouth kind of feeling that you just want to spit out.
Email or call for price.ISBN: 9780374165826Availability: BackorderedPublished: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - April 18th, 2017One of The New Yorker's "Books We Loved in 2017"
A Grace Paley Reader compiles a selection of Paley’s writing across genres, showcasing her breadth of work as well as her extraordinary insight and brilliant economy of words.
