Stranger Than Fiction
True Stories
Written by Chuck Palahniuk
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $14.95
Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction.
At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on...
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The Education of a British-Protected Child
Essays
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.95
From the celebrated author of
Things Fall Apart and winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes a new collection of autobiographical essays—his first new book in more than twenty years.
Chinua Achebe’s characteristically measured and nuanced voice is everywhere present in these seventeen beautifully written pieces. In a preface, he discusses...
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The Gift
Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
Written by Lewis Hyde
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $14.95
By now a modern classic,
The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this book is even more necessary today than when it first appeared. An...
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Yours Ever
People and Their Letters
Written by Thomas Mallon
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $26.95
From the author of A Book of One’s Own and
Stolen Words comes a delightful and wide-ranging investigation of the art of letter writing.
Yours Ever explores the offhand masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry. Thomas Mallon weaves a remarkable assortment of epistolary riches into his...
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Hell's Angels
A Strange and Terrible Saga
Written by Hunter S. Thompson
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: December 7, 1999
Price: $21.95
"California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. ...
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Wild Ducks Flying Backward
Written by Tom Robbins
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $14.00
Known for his meaty seriocomic novels, Tom Robbins’s shorter work has appeared in publications ranging from
Esquire to
Harper’s, from
Playboy to the
New York Times. Collected here for the first time in paperback, the essays, articles, observations—and even some untypical country-music lyrics—offer a rare overview of the eclectic sensibility of...
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Goethe's Faust
Written by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Translated by Walter Kaufmann
Introduction by Walter Kaufmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: December 4, 1962
Price: $10.95
The best translation of
Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann's translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm as well as the complex depth of Goethe's language. Includes Part One and selections from Part Two.
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