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Muck: A Novel
Author: Dror Burstein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In a Jerusalem both ancient and modern, where the First Temple squats over the populace like a Trump casino, two young...
Marvelous Things Overheard
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Author: Ange Mlinko Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 A vibrant and eclectic collection from a stunningly mature young poet The world--the time has come to say it, though the...
The Last Laugh
Author: Lynn Freed Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Since their children left home, Ruth, Dania, and Bess have grown used to living wonderfully free lives. Only now they're beset...
Before and After
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Author: Rosellen Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The New York Times bestseller from Rosellen Brown, Before and After--the basis for the major film of the same name starring...
The Quiet Girl
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Author: Peter Hoeg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The internationally acclaimed bestselling author of Smilla's Sense of Snow returns with this engrossing, beautifully written tale of suspense . ....
Caught inside: a Surfer's Year on the California Coast
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Author: Daniel Duane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A wondrous, uproarious, and surprisingly informative account of a year spend surfing, Caught Inside marks the arrival of an exuberant new...
A Feather on the Breath of God
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Author: Sigrid Nunez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, comes A Feather on the Breath of God: a mesmerizing...
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
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Author: Sonia Shah Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 309 [A] tour-de-force. --The New York Times "The Fever is a vivid and compelling history with a message that's entirely relevant today."...
Byzantium: Stories
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Author: Ben Stroud Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 206 Winner of the Bakeless Prize for Fiction, an imaginative debut that ranges from Havana to Berlin * A Kansas City Star...
Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories
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Author: Deborah Eisenberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Deborah Eisenberg is nearly unmatched in her mastery of the short-story form. Now, in her newest collection, she demonstrates once again...
My Son's Story (Us)
Author: 0 Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 When Will skips school to slip off to a movie theater near Johannesburg, he is shocked to see his father. An ordinary...
Paper Lantern: Love Stories
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Author: Stuart Dybek Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 A new collection of short stories by a master of the form with a common focus on the turmoils of romantic...
Theory of Shadows
Author: Paolo Maurensig Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 On the morning of March 24, 1946, the world chess champion Alexander Alekhine was found dead in his hotel room in...
New Haven Noir: Akashic Noir
Author: Amy Bloom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Amy Bloom masterfully curates a star-studded cast of contributors, including Michael Cunningham and Roxana Robinson, to portray that city's underbelly. Lisa...
Cost
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Author: Roxana Robinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Julia Lambert, an artist, is spending the summer in her old Maine farmhouse. During a visit from her elderly parents, she...
The Secret of Parenting: How to Be in Charge of Today's Kids--From Toddlers to Preteens--Without Threats or Punishment
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Author: Anthony E Wolf, Ph.D. Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Essential advice from the author of the bestselling Get Out Of My Life Today's children--from toddlers to preteens--challenge their...
All the Living
Author: C E Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice One of the National Book Foundation's 5 Best Writers Under 35 Finalist...
Acceptance
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Author: Susan Coll Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Acceptance is a satire of America's overachievers, a novel set over one year in the college application process, when students and...
The Tummy Trilogy: American Fried / Alice, Let's Eat / Third Helpings
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Author: Calvin Trillin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In the 1970s, Calvin Trillin informed America that its most glorious food was not to be found at the pretentious restaurants...
Let's No One Get Hurt
Author: Jon Pineda Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Fifteen-year-old Pearl is squatting in an abandoned boathouse with her father, a disgraced college professor, and two other grown men, deep...
The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature
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Author: Jonathan Rosen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 324 We are all birdwatchers. Over cities and jungles and open plains, the sky is animated by the flight of birds, and...
Caribou
Author: Charles Wright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Charles Wright's truth - the truth of nature, of man's yearning for the divine, of aging - is at the heart...
The Dharma of the Princess Bride: What the Coolest Fairy Tale of Our Time Can Teach Us about Buddhism and Relationships
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Author: Ethan Nichtern Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 An engagingly contemporary approach to Buddhism--through the lens of an iconic film and its memorable characters Humorous yet spiritually rigorous in...
Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
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Author: Alva Noe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Alva Noe is one of a new breed--part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist--who are radically altering the study of consciousness...
The Accidental Connoisseur: An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World
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Author: Lawrence Osborne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 What is taste? Is it individual or imposed on us from the outside? Why are so many of us so intimidated...
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
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Author: Sujatha Gidla Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2017 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017 A Shelf Awareness Best...
God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother
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Author: Amy Seek Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 God and Jetfire is a mother's account of her decision to surrender her son in an open adoption and of their...
Trickster Travels
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Author: Natalie Zemon Davis (University of Toronto) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers Al-Hasan...
The House of Hidden Mothers
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Author: Meera Syal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Life hasn't always been easy for Shyama, a woman in her mid-forties whose husband abandoned her when their daughter was still...
Love for Sale: Pop Music in America
Author: David Hajdu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 David Hajdu begins Love for Sale, his personal history of pop music, in an unexpected place - not with nostalgic reminiscences...
All Decent Animals
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Author: Oonya Kempadoo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 260 Oonya Kempadoo's moving third novel, All Decent Animals, looks at the personal and aesthetic choices of a multifaceted cast of characters...
World in the Evening
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Author: Christopher Isherwood (New Directions) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A deeply introspective book about war, religion, and sexuality Against the backdrop of World War II, The World in...
Wait Till You See Me Dance: Stories
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Author: Deb Olin Unferth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 200 "Deb Olin Unferth's stories are so smart, fast, full of heart, and distinctive in voice--each an intense little thought-system going...
Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America
Author: John F Kasson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A remarkable new work from one of our premier historians In his exciting new book, John F. Kasson examines the...
1831: Year of Eclipse
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Author: University Louis P Masur (City College of the City University of NY) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 1776, 1861, 1929. Any high-school student should know what these years...
Station Zed: Poems
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Author: Tom Sleigh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 118 Station Zed is the terminal outpost beyond which is the unknown. It is also poet Tom Sleigh's finest work. In this...
The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges
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Author: Aatish Taseer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where...
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
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Author: Matthew B Crawford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of manual competence,...
Pickup
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Author: Nadine Gordimer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Africa Ranks as one of Gordimer's best novels...It...
Odds Against Tomorrow
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Author: Nathaniel Rich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 New York City, the near future: Mitchell Zukor works on the cutting edge of corporate irresponsibility, and business is booming. A...
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
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Author: Hector Tobar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Deep Down Dark is the novel that inspired the film The 33 starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Cote de Pablo and Antonio...
Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
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Author: Mona Eltahawy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The journalist Mona Eltahawy is no stranger to controversy. Through her articles and actions she has fought for the autonomy, security,...
Selected Poems
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Author: Derek Walcott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Drawing from every stage of his career, this volume collects selected poems from Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott's lifetime of work....
The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington
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Author: Martha Saxton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 An insightful biography of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of our nation's father The Widow Washington is the first life of...
Down There on a Visit
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Author: Christopher Isherwood (New Directions) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher...
Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time--and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything
Author: George Musser Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 What is space? Space is the venue of physics; it's where things exist, where they move and take shape. Yet over...
Dom Casmurro
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Author: Machado de Assis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 This is a fictional memoir by the nineteenth-century Brazilian writer whom Philip Roth has described as 'a great ironist, a...
No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship
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Author: Linda K Kerber (University of Iowa) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 This pioneering study redefines women's history in the United States by focusing on civic obligations rather than...