Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: July 17, 1989 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-679-72213-7 (0-679-72213-0)
Introduction by Hunter S. Thompson Afterword by Marco Acosta.
An underground classic since it was first published in 1972, The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo is Acosta's own account of coming of age as a Chicano. Famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: September 13, 2005 Price: $13.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-7688-8 (1-4000-7688-9)
A tremendously acclaimed and exquisitely realized novel of literary suspense, Harbor recounts the adventures of Aziz Arkoun who, at twenty-four, makes his way to America via the hold of an Algerian tanker and the icy waters of Boston harbor. Aziz soon finds himself a community of fellow Algerians, but their means...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: February 8, 2011 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-47337-0 (0-307-47337-6)
Moving from a newsroom in the American capital to a cockpit over Afghanistan, from an Iranian cemetery to a military intelligence office in suburban Washington, The Room and The Chair by Lorraine Adams—award-winning author of Harbor—is an unforgettable, groundbreaking novel about the often overlooked actors in today’s dangerous world.
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics On Sale: March 19, 2013 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-1-59017-614-6 (1-59017-614-6)
“What’s new. What else. What next. What’s happened here.”
Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in an affair with a married man. The complications and contradictions pursue her from a house in rural Connecticut to a brownstone apartment in New York City, to a small island off the coast...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics On Sale: March 19, 2013 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-1-59017-613-9 (1-59017-613-8)
When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late ’70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before. It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel. Reading it was a pleasure of a new, unexpected kind. Above all, there was its voice, ambivalent, curious, wry, the voice of Jen Fain...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: March 12, 2002 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-72624-8 (0-375-72624-1)
Chris Adrian’s richly imagined debut novel of the Civil War and the painful years following does what great fiction should: it offers up a world and populates it with characters who breath on the page.
When young Gob Woodull’s twin Tomo is killed in his very first battle, Gob’s guilt and grief...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: January 1, 2013 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-94819-9 (0-307-94819-6)
Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she’s had an incredibly lucky break when she is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be her personal maid on the Titanic. Once on board, Tess catches the eye of two men—a kind sailor and an enigmatic Chicago businessman—who offer differing views of...
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Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Doubleday On Sale: February 21, 2012 Price: $25.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-53558-8 (0-385-53558-9)
Just in time for the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic comes a vivid, romantic, and relentlessly compelling historical novel about a spirited young woman who survives the disaster only to find herself embroiled in the media frenzy left in the wake of the tragedy. Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press On Sale: January 6, 2009 Price: $22.95 ISBN: 978-1-58322-841-8 (1-58322-841-1)
Nelson Algren’s two travel writing books describe his journeys through the seamier sides of great American cities and the international social and political landscapes of the mid-1960s. Algren at Sea brings them together in one volume.
Notes from a Sea Diary offers one of the most remarkable appraisals of Ernest Hemingway ever...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press On Sale: January 3, 2006 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-58322-699-5 (1-58322-699-0)
The Devil’s Stocking is the story of Ruby Calhoun, a boxer accused of murder in a shadowy world of low-purse fighters, cops, con artists, and bar girls. Chronicling a battle for truth and human dignity which gives way to a larger story of life and death decisions, literary grandmaster Nelson Algren’s...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press On Sale: May 5, 2009 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-1-58322-868-5 (1-58322-868-3)
Nelson Algren sought humanity in the urban wilderness of postwar America, where his powerful voice rose from behind the billboards and down tin-can alleys, from among the marginalized and ignored, the outcasts and scapegoats, the punks and junkies, the whores and down-on-their luck gamblers, the punch-drunk boxers and skid-row drunkies and...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press On Sale: April 8, 1997 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-888363-45-6 (1-888363-45-2)
The fiction and reportage included in The Last Carousel, one of the final collections published during Nelson Algren’s lifetime, was written on ships and in ports of call around the world, and includes accounts of brothels in Vietnam and Mexico, stories of the boxing ring, and reminiscences of Algren’s beloved Chicago...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press On Sale: November 9, 1999 Price: $18.95 ISBN: 978-1-58322-008-5 (1-58322-008-9)
Winner — National Book Award The Man with the Golden Arm is Nelson Algren’s most powerful and enduring work. On the 50th anniversary of its publication in November 1949, for which Algren was honored with the first National Book Award (which he received from none other than Eleanor Roosevelt at a ceremony...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press On Sale: January 9, 1996 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-888363-18-0 (1-888363-18-5)
Winner — National Book Award
A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems.
Format: Trade Paperback, 308 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press On Sale: January 8, 2002 Price: $13.95 ISBN: 978-1-58322-550-9 (1-58322-550-1)
“The Neon Wilderness is the pivotal book of Nelson Algren’s career--the one which bid a subdued but determined farewell to everything that had earlier made him no more than just another good writer, and inaugurated the idiosyncratic, bedeviled, cantankerously poetic sensibility that would see him ranked among the few literary originals...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press On Sale: November 4, 1997 Price: $9.95 ISBN: 978-1-888363-62-3 (1-888363-62-2)
The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America's greatest 20th-century writers.
“You don’t write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich,” writes Nelson Algren...
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Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese On Sale: April 9, 2013 Price: $25.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-53669-1 (0-385-53669-0)
Richly drawn and sharply observed, A Nearly Perfect Copy is a smart and affecting novel of family and forgery set amidst the rarefied international art world.
Elm Howells has a loving family and a distinguished career at an elite Manhattan auction house. But after a tragic loss throws her into an emotional...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: May 9, 2006 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-7994-0 (1-4000-7994-2)
The resort town of Weneshkeen, nestled along Michigan’s Gold Coast, has become a complex melting pot: townies and old timers mix with ritzy summer folk, migrant cherry pickers, wily river guides, and a few Ojibwe Indians. As the summer blooms, these lives mingle in surprising ways–a lifelong resident and Vietnam Vet...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: February 9, 2010 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-39019-6 (0-307-39019-5)
In his utterly charming story of a World War II veteran and an enterprising pinup girl, Steve Amick has created a beautifully understated love letter to an America of harder times and simpler choices.
It's 1944, and Wink Dutton, a former illustrator for Yank and Stars and Stripes, arrives in Chicago after...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: February 20, 2001 Price: $17.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-49763-3 (0-385-49763-6)
A thought-prooking thriller and a literate page-turner, Stephen Amidon's The New City takes aim at the suburban American dream and captures the real nightmare behind it. It is 1973, the Vietnam War is winding down and the Senate Watergate hearings are heating up. But Newton, Maryland, is a model community, an enclave...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: February 8, 2011 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-47360-8 (0-307-47360-0)
Richly imagined and darkly comic, Things We Didn’t See Comingfollows a single man over three decades as he tries to survive in an increasingly savage apocalyptic world that is at once utterly fantastic and disturbingly familiar. Here, coming-of-age is complicated not only by family troubles and mercurial love affairs, but...
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Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Soho Press On Sale: June 5, 2012 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-1-61695-088-0 (1-61695-088-9)
Fourteen-year-old Jeremy Barker is obsessed with zombie movies. He attends an all-boy Catholic High School where roving gangs in plaid make his days a living hell. His mother is an absentee pill head, his older brother a self-diagnosed sex-addict, and his father an ex-Marine realtor who disappears night after night without...
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Format: Hardcover, 1184 pages
Publisher: Modern Library On Sale: September 21, 2004 Price: $40.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-64325-8 (0-679-64325-7)
Here, for the first time ever, a one-volume edition of all of Maya Angelou's celebrated and bestselling autobiographies.
Includes:
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings • Gather Together in My Name • Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas • The Heart of a Woman • All God's Children Need Travelling...Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
Publisher: DC Comics On Sale: September 20, 2011 Price: $17.99 ISBN: 978-1-4012-3246-7 (1-4012-3246-9)
After a mysterious disaster, a young man named Eric finds that he has just as mysteriously developed extraordinary abilities. He starts out trying to help people, but his solitary position in the world isolates him in ways no average human could understand. This story charts the arc of the evolution of...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: February 14, 2006 Price: $12.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-7734-2 (1-4000-7734-6)
Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2006 Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award
George Tilson is an eighteen-year-old farm boy from Iowa. Enlisted in the Army during World War II and arriving in Normandy just after D-day, he is nicknamed Heck for his reluctance to swear. From summers of...
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