The Mansions of Limbo
Written by Dominick Dunne
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2012
Price: $11.99
In a collection of his essays from
Vanity Fair, the best-selling author reveals the life and times of the beautiful--and not-so-beautiful--people.
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The Ecstasy of Influence
Nonfictions, Etc.
Written by Jonathan Lethem
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $16.95
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book
A Best Book of the Year —Austin American-Statesman
Includes a new, previously uncollected piece: "My Internet"
In The Ecstasy of Influence, the incomparable Jonathan Lethem has compiled a career-spanning collection of occasional pieces—essays, memoir, liner notes, fiction, and criticism—which also doubles as a novelist’s...
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A Man Without a Country
Written by Kurt Vonnegut
Edited by Daniel Simon
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $23.95
A Man Without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut’s hilariously funny and razor-sharp look at life ("If I die—God forbid—I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, ‘Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?"), art ("To practice any art, no matter...
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Letters of a Nation
Written by Andrew Carroll
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: January 5, 1999
Price: $16.95
Letters of a Nation is a unique and timeless collection of extraordinary letters spanning more than 350 years of American history, from the arrival of the Pilgrims to the present day. Many of the more than 200 letters are published here for the first time, and the correspondents are the celebrated...
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For the Time Being
Written by Annie Dillard
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2010
Price: $11.99
National Bestseller
"Beautifully written and delightfully strange--. As earthy as it is sublime,
For the Time Being is, in the truest sense, an eye- opener."--
Daily NewsFrom Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time, comes
For the Time Being...
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Notes of a Native Son
Written by James Baldwin
Foreword by Edward P. Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $15.00
A new edition of the book many have called James Baldwin’s most influential work
Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil...
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New and Selected Poems, Volume One
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2005
Price: $32.50
When
New and Selected Poems, Volume One was originally published in 1992, Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award. In the fourteen years since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume...
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The Annotated Emma
Written by Jane Austen and David M. Shapard
Format: Trade Paperback, 928 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $17.95
From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Emma that makes her beloved tale of an endearingly inept matchmaker an even more satisfying read. Here is the complete text of the novel with more than 2,200 annotations on facing pages, including:
-Explanations of...
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eBook.
Indian Givers
How Native Americans Transformed the World
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: August 3, 2010
Price: $15.00
"As entertaining as it is thoughtful...Few contemporary writers have Weatherford's talent for making the deep sweep of history seem vital and immediate."
THE WASHINGTON POST
After 500 years, the world's huge debt to the wisdom of the Indians of the Americas has finally been explored in all its vivid drama by anthropologist Jack...
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eBook.