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The Fly Swatter
Portrait of an Exceptional Character
Written by Nicholas Dawidoff
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 13, 2003
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70006-4 (0-375-70006-4)
Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
The most interesting lives are not always the best-known lives, and this is the account of a truly fascinating person. The stories of Alexander Gerschenkron—his great escapes, his vivid wit, his feuds, his flirtations, and his supremely cultured mind—are the stuff of legend.
Born in... Read more >
Portrait of an Exceptional Character
Written by Nicholas Dawidoff
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 13, 2003
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70006-4 (0-375-70006-4)
Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
The most interesting lives are not always the best-known lives, and this is the account of a truly fascinating person. The stories of Alexander Gerschenkron—his great escapes, his vivid wit, his feuds, his flirtations, and his supremely cultured mind—are the stuff of legend.
Born in... Read more >
Adieux
A Farewell to Sartre
Written by Simone De Beauvoir
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: February 12, 1985
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-72898-8 (0-394-72898-X)
“An intimate, personal, and honest portrait of a relationship unlike any other in literary history.” —Deirdre Bair, The Philadelphia Inquirer Read more >
A Farewell to Sartre
Written by Simone De Beauvoir
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: February 12, 1985
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-72898-8 (0-394-72898-X)
“An intimate, personal, and honest portrait of a relationship unlike any other in literary history.” —Deirdre Bair, The Philadelphia Inquirer Read more >
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Lieutenant Nun
Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World
Written by Catalina De Erauso
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: June 30, 1997
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-7073-4 (0-8070-7073-4)
Named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 1996
One of the earliest known autobiographies by a woman, this is the extraordinary tale of Catalina de Erauso, who in 1599 escaped from a Basque convent dressed as a man and went on to live one of the most wildly fantastic... Read more >
Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World
Written by Catalina De Erauso
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: June 30, 1997
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-7073-4 (0-8070-7073-4)
Named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 1996
One of the earliest known autobiographies by a woman, this is the extraordinary tale of Catalina de Erauso, who in 1599 escaped from a Basque convent dressed as a man and went on to live one of the most wildly fantastic... Read more >
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The Tale of the Rose
The Love Story Behind The Little Prince
Written by Consuelo de Saint-Exupery
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6717-3 (0-8129-6717-8)
Consuelo and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry met in Buenos Aires in 1930—she a seductive young widow, he a brave pioneer of early aviation, decorated for his acts of heroism in the deserts of North Africa. He was large in his passions, a fierce loner with a childlike appetite for danger. She was... Read more >
The Love Story Behind The Little Prince
Written by Consuelo de Saint-Exupery
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6717-3 (0-8129-6717-8)
Consuelo and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry met in Buenos Aires in 1930—she a seductive young widow, he a brave pioneer of early aviation, decorated for his acts of heroism in the deserts of North Africa. He was large in his passions, a fierce loner with a childlike appetite for danger. She was... Read more >
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Memoirs of a Breton Peasant
Written by Jean-Marie Deguignet
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-346-9 (1-60980-346-9)
A fascinating document of an extraordinary life, Memoirs of A Breton Peasant reads with the liveliness of a novel and bristles with the vigor of an opinionated autodidact from the very lowest level of peasant society. Brittany during the nineteenth century was a place seemingly frozen in the Middle Ages, backwards... Read more >
Written by Jean-Marie Deguignet
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-346-9 (1-60980-346-9)
A fascinating document of an extraordinary life, Memoirs of A Breton Peasant reads with the liveliness of a novel and bristles with the vigor of an opinionated autodidact from the very lowest level of peasant society. Brittany during the nineteenth century was a place seemingly frozen in the Middle Ages, backwards... Read more >
Madame Prosecutor
Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity
Written by Carla Del Ponte and Chuck Sudetic
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: January 20, 2009
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-302-6 (1-59051-302-9)
Carla Del Ponte won international recognition as Switzerland’s attorney general when she pursued cases against the Sicilian mafia. In 1999, she answered the United Nations’ call to become the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. In her new role, Del Ponte confronted genocide... Read more >
Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity
Written by Carla Del Ponte and Chuck Sudetic
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: January 20, 2009
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-302-6 (1-59051-302-9)
Carla Del Ponte won international recognition as Switzerland’s attorney general when she pursued cases against the Sicilian mafia. In 1999, she answered the United Nations’ call to become the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. In her new role, Del Ponte confronted genocide... Read more >
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Wave
Written by Sonali Deraniyagala
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-96269-0 (0-307-96269-5)
On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She... Read more >
Written by Sonali Deraniyagala
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-96269-0 (0-307-96269-5)
On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She... Read more >
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Ghosts by Daylight
Love, War, and Redemption
Written by Janine di Giovanni
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26558-6 (0-307-26558-7)
An enthralling, deeply moving memoir from one of our foremost American war correspondents.
Janine di Giovanni has spent most of her career—more than twenty years—in war zones recording events on behalf of the voiceless. From Sarajevo to East Timor, from Sierra Leone to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia, she has been under siege... Read more >
Love, War, and Redemption
Written by Janine di Giovanni
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26558-6 (0-307-26558-7)
An enthralling, deeply moving memoir from one of our foremost American war correspondents.
Janine di Giovanni has spent most of her career—more than twenty years—in war zones recording events on behalf of the voiceless. From Sarajevo to East Timor, from Sierra Leone to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia, she has been under siege... Read more >
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An American Story
Written by Debra J. Dickerson
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 18, 2001
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72028-1 (0-385-72028-9)
A profoundly courageous and insightful memoir, An American Story documents the events that have shaped journalist Debra Dickerson's conscience.
The daughter of former sharecroppers, Dickerson never imagined she would emerge from her squalid St. Louis neighborhood to become an acclaimed journalist with a Harvard Law degree. A constant reader and a straight-A... Read more >
Written by Debra J. Dickerson
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 18, 2001
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72028-1 (0-385-72028-9)
A profoundly courageous and insightful memoir, An American Story documents the events that have shaped journalist Debra Dickerson's conscience.
The daughter of former sharecroppers, Dickerson never imagined she would emerge from her squalid St. Louis neighborhood to become an acclaimed journalist with a Harvard Law degree. A constant reader and a straight-A... Read more >
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Blue Nights
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38738-7 (0-307-38738-0)
A New York Times Notable Book
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter.
Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion is an intensely personal... Read more >
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38738-7 (0-307-38738-0)
A New York Times Notable Book
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter.
Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion is an intensely personal... Read more >
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Blue Nights
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26767-2 (0-307-26767-9)
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having... Read more >
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26767-2 (0-307-26767-9)
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having... Read more >
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7843-1 (1-4000-7843-1)
From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage—and a life, in good times and bad—that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.
“Thrilling . ... Read more >
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7843-1 (1-4000-7843-1)
From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage—and a life, in good times and bad—that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.
“Thrilling . ... Read more >
The Year of Magical Thinking
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4314-9 (1-4000-4314-X)
From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage—and a life, in good times and bad—that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.
Several days before... Read more >
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4314-9 (1-4000-4314-X)
From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage—and a life, in good times and bad—that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.
Several days before... Read more >
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The Stardust Lounge
Stories from a Boy's Adolescence
Written by Deborah Digges
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72093-9 (0-385-72093-9)
Stephen Digges is the kind of angry adolescent a lot of parents would have given up on. He is out of control by the time he is 13—running with gangs, stealing cars, fooling around with drugs and guns, and in general making his family’s life hell. Confronted with his growing recklessness... Read more >
Stories from a Boy's Adolescence
Written by Deborah Digges
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72093-9 (0-385-72093-9)
Stephen Digges is the kind of angry adolescent a lot of parents would have given up on. He is out of control by the time he is 13—running with gangs, stealing cars, fooling around with drugs and guns, and in general making his family’s life hell. Confronted with his growing recklessness... Read more >
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Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass
Written by Isak Dinesen
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 23, 1989
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72475-9 (0-679-72475-3)
Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) left Denmark and sailed for East Africa to marry her Swedish cousin, Baron Bror Blixen. They bought a coffee plantation in Kenya and from 1914 to 1931 she managed it, even after she and her husband separated. Her account of those years is transformed by the magical... Read more >
Written by Isak Dinesen
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 23, 1989
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72475-9 (0-679-72475-3)
Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) left Denmark and sailed for East Africa to marry her Swedish cousin, Baron Bror Blixen. They bought a coffee plantation in Kenya and from 1914 to 1931 she managed it, even after she and her husband separated. Her account of those years is transformed by the magical... Read more >
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Algerian White
A Narrative
Written by Assia Djebar
Translated by David Kelley and Marjolijn de Jager
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-516-5 (1-58322-516-1)
In Algerian White, Assia Djebar weaves a tapestry of the epic and bloody ongoing struggle in her country between Islamic fundamentalism and the post-colonial civil society. Many Algerian writers and intellectuals have died tragically and violently since the 1956 struggle for independence. They include three beloved friends of Djebar: Mahfoud Boucebi... Read more >
A Narrative
Written by Assia Djebar
Translated by David Kelley and Marjolijn de Jager
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-516-5 (1-58322-516-1)
In Algerian White, Assia Djebar weaves a tapestry of the epic and bloody ongoing struggle in her country between Islamic fundamentalism and the post-colonial civil society. Many Algerian writers and intellectuals have died tragically and violently since the 1956 struggle for independence. They include three beloved friends of Djebar: Mahfoud Boucebi... Read more >
Phoenix
A Brother's Life
Written by J.D. Dolan
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 13, 2001
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70317-1 (0-375-70317-9)
A beautifully rendered portrait of family and loss, of childhood and manhood by a supremely gifted writer evaluating the sum of his experiences and emerging with a moving work of the highest level.
J. D. Dolan was vacationing in Paris when he received a telephone call telling him to fly home immediately... Read more >
A Brother's Life
Written by J.D. Dolan
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 13, 2001
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70317-1 (0-375-70317-9)
A beautifully rendered portrait of family and loss, of childhood and manhood by a supremely gifted writer evaluating the sum of his experiences and emerging with a moving work of the highest level.
J. D. Dolan was vacationing in Paris when he received a telephone call telling him to fly home immediately... Read more >
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The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky
A True Story
Written by Ken Dornstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70769-8 (0-375-70769-7)
David Dornstein was twenty-five years old, with dreams of becoming a great writer, when he boarded Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988. Thirty-eight minutes after takeoff, a terrorist bomb ripped the plane apart over Lockerbie, Scotland. Almost a decade later, Ken Dornstein set out to solve the riddle of... Read more >
A True Story
Written by Ken Dornstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70769-8 (0-375-70769-7)
David Dornstein was twenty-five years old, with dreams of becoming a great writer, when he boarded Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988. Thirty-eight minutes after takeoff, a terrorist bomb ripped the plane apart over Lockerbie, Scotland. Almost a decade later, Ken Dornstein set out to solve the riddle of... Read more >
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My Bondage and My Freedom
Written by Frederick Douglass
Introduction by John Stauffer
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7031-9 (0-8129-7031-4)
“My Bondage and My Freedom,” writes John Stauffer in his Foreword, “[is] a deep meditation on the meaning of slavery, race, and freedom, and on the power of faith and literacy, as well as a portrait of an individual and a nation a few years before the Civil War.” As his... Read more >
Written by Frederick Douglass
Introduction by John Stauffer
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7031-9 (0-8129-7031-4)
“My Bondage and My Freedom,” writes John Stauffer in his Foreword, “[is] a deep meditation on the meaning of slavery, race, and freedom, and on the power of faith and literacy, as well as a portrait of an individual and a nation a few years before the Civil War.” As his... Read more >
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Meditations from a Movable Chair
Written by Andre Dubus
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 6, 1999
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75115-1 (0-679-75115-7)
For Andre Dubus, "the quotidian and the spiritual don't exist on different planes, but infuse each other. His is an unapologetically sacramental vision of life in which ordinary things participate in the miraculous, the miraculous in ordinary things. He believes in God, and talks to Him, and doesn't mince words. He... Read more >
Written by Andre Dubus
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 6, 1999
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75115-1 (0-679-75115-7)
For Andre Dubus, "the quotidian and the spiritual don't exist on different planes, but infuse each other. His is an unapologetically sacramental vision of life in which ordinary things participate in the miraculous, the miraculous in ordinary things. He believes in God, and talks to Him, and doesn't mince words. He... Read more >
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Laughing Without an Accent
Adventures of a Global Citizen
Written by Firoozeh Dumas
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-49957-8 (0-345-49957-3)
Selected for the 2010 Common Reading Program at the University of Minnesota, Duluth
Selected for The Big Read: New Hampshire–2010
In the bestselling memoir Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas recounted her adventures growing up Iranian American in Southern California. Now she again mines her rich Persian heritage in Laughing Without an Accent, sharing... Read more >
Adventures of a Global Citizen
Written by Firoozeh Dumas
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-49957-8 (0-345-49957-3)
Selected for the 2010 Common Reading Program at the University of Minnesota, Duluth
Selected for The Big Read: New Hampshire–2010
In the bestselling memoir Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas recounted her adventures growing up Iranian American in Southern California. Now she again mines her rich Persian heritage in Laughing Without an Accent, sharing... Read more >
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Saving Graces
Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers
Written by Elizabeth Edwards
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2538-9 (0-7679-2538-6)
She charmed America with her smart, likable, down-to-earth personality as she campaigned for her husband, then vice-presidential candidate John Edwards. She inspired millions as she valiantly fought advanced breast cancer after being diagnosed only days before the 2004 election. She touched hundreds of similarly grieving families when her own son, Wade... Read more >
Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers
Written by Elizabeth Edwards
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2538-9 (0-7679-2538-6)
She charmed America with her smart, likable, down-to-earth personality as she campaigned for her husband, then vice-presidential candidate John Edwards. She inspired millions as she valiantly fought advanced breast cancer after being diagnosed only days before the 2004 election. She touched hundreds of similarly grieving families when her own son, Wade... Read more >
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Written by Dave Eggers
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72578-4 (0-375-72578-4)
“A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is, finally, a fine book of jest, which is why it succeeds so brilliantly. Eggers’ most powerful prose is often his most straightforward, relying on old-fashioned truth telling for its punch.” —The New York Times Book Review
The literary sensation of the year, a book that... Read more >
Written by Dave Eggers
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72578-4 (0-375-72578-4)
“A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is, finally, a fine book of jest, which is why it succeeds so brilliantly. Eggers’ most powerful prose is often his most straightforward, relying on old-fashioned truth telling for its punch.” —The New York Times Book Review
The literary sensation of the year, a book that... Read more >
The Hilliker Curse
Written by James Ellroy
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47739-2 (0-307-47739-8)
Legendary crime writer James Ellroy gives us a searing, candid memoir about his obsession with women, his related search for atonement, and his literary career.
The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old. In a dark moment... Read more >
Written by James Ellroy
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47739-2 (0-307-47739-8)
Legendary crime writer James Ellroy gives us a searing, candid memoir about his obsession with women, his related search for atonement, and his literary career.
The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old. In a dark moment... Read more >
I Remember Nothing
And Other Reflections
Written by Nora Ephron
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-74280-3 (0-307-74280-6)
Nora Ephron returns with her first book since the astounding success of I Feel Bad About My Neck, taking a hilarious look at the past, the present, and the future, bemoaning the vicissitudes of modern life, and recalling with her signature clarity and wisdom everything she hasn’t (yet) forgotten.
Filled with insights... Read more >
And Other Reflections
Written by Nora Ephron
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-74280-3 (0-307-74280-6)
Nora Ephron returns with her first book since the astounding success of I Feel Bad About My Neck, taking a hilarious look at the past, the present, and the future, bemoaning the vicissitudes of modern life, and recalling with her signature clarity and wisdom everything she hasn’t (yet) forgotten.
Filled with insights... Read more >
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