Anchor Books
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The Well of Loneliness: The Classic of Lesbian Fiction
$17.00 Read moreOriginally published in 1928, Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness is the timeless story of a lesbian couple’s struggle to be accepted by “polite” society. Shockingly candid for its time, this nove… [more below]
- Author: Hall, Radclyffe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 18 1990
- ISBN10: 0385416091
- Language: English
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The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont
$19.00 Add to cartThe definitive–and salacious–history of the iconic hotel that Hollywood stars have called a home away from home for almost a century.
“Fascinating, dishy, and glimmering with insight…. This is the- Author: Levy, Shawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0525435662
- Language: English
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The Immortal Game: A History of Chess
$18.00 Add to cartA fresh, engaging look at how 32 carved pieces on a Chess board forever changed our understanding of war, art, science, and the human brain.
Chess is the most enduring and universal game in history. He- Author: Shenk, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 02 2007
- ISBN10: 1400034086
- Language: English
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The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
$21.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year – Drawing on previously classified CIA documents and on interviews with firsthand participants, The Billion Dollar Spy is a brilliant f
- Author: Hoffman, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 0345805976
- Language: English
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Pain Hustlers: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup Originally Published as the Hard Sell
$18.00 Add to cartThe inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillers–until their scheme unraveled, putting them at the center of a landmark criminal trial. – THE BASIS FOR THE… [more below]
- Author: Hughes, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0525566325
- Language: English
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
$19.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus. – “This work of nonfiction is more terrifying than any sci-fi nightmare.” —USA TODAY
Also a min- Author: Preston, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0385495226
- Language: English
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Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying
$19.00 Add to cartThe first book that explains how to open to the immensity of living with death–and how participating fully in life is the perfect preparation for whatever may come next.
In Who Dies?, the Levines pr… [more below]- Author: Levine, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 18 1989
- ISBN10: 0385262213
- Language: English
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Ramses the Damned: The Reign of Osiris
$17.00 Read moreThe gilded adventures of Ramses the Damned, iconic creation of the legendary bestselling author, continue in this breathtakingly suspenseful tale of a titanic supernatural power unleashed on the eve o… [more below]
- Series: Ramses the Damned
- Author: Rice, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1101970332
- Language: English
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The Keep
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “Part horror tale, part mystery, part romance … utterly fantastic.”—O, The Oprah Magazine – The bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad brilliantly co
- Author: Egan, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 10 2007
- ISBN10: 1400079748
- Language: English
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MaddAddam
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testamants–this final volume of the internationally celebrated MaddAddam trilogy “has brought the previous two books t… [more below]
- Series: Maddaddam Trilogy #3
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 12 2014
- ISBN10: 307455483
- Language: English
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The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont
$18.00 Read moreThe definitive–and salacious–history of the iconic hotel that Hollywood stars have called a home away from home for almost a century.
“Fascinating, dishy, and glimmering with insight…. This is the- Author: Levy, Shawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0525435662
- Language: English
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Intro to Haiku: An Anthology of Poems and Poets from Basho to Shiki
$17.00 Add to cartHarold G. Henderson was, from 1927 to 1929, the Assistant to the Curator of Far Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Musuem of Art. In 1930 he went to Japan, where he lived the following three years. On hi… [more below]
- Author: Henderson, Harold Gould
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 20 1958
- ISBN10: 0385093764
- Language: English
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The Circus Fire
$16.95 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism–the great Hartford circus fire of 1944.
It was a midsumm- Author: O’Nan, Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0385496850
- Language: English
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The Bear’s Embrace: A Story of Survival
$15.00 Add to cartAn astonishing memoir about how one woman survived a brutal attack by a grizzly bear, and how she recovered–as a survivor, a wife and a mother.
“Overwhelmingly inspirational…. Van Tighem’s story is- Author: Van Tighem, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 04 2003
- ISBN10: 038572165X
- Language: English
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Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective
$19.00 Read moreThis lucid and lively book, punctuated with witty, incisive examples, is addressed both to the layman who wants to know what sociology is all about and to students and sociologists who are concerned a… [more below]
- Author: Berger, Peter L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0385065299
- Language: English
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Empress Dowager CIXI: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
$30.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
In 1852, at age sixteen, Cixi was chosen as one of Emperor Xianfeng’s numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succ
An NPR Best Book of the Year- Author: Chang, Jung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 0307456706
- Language: English
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A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies
$22.00 Add to cartA Pretext for War reveals the systematic weaknesses behind the failure to detect or prevent the 9/11 attacks, and details the Bush administration’s subsequent misuse of intelligence to sell preemptive
- Author: Bamford, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 10 2005
- ISBN10: 140003034X
- Language: English
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The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
$19.00 Add to cart“Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —… [more below]
- Author: Friedman, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0767923057
- Language: English
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Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant: Essays
$18.00 Add to cart*National Bestseller*
Joel Golby’s writing f
“This is a funny and beautiful book. What a little bastard.” –Russell Brand
“Every paragraph is like doing a shot with a friend. A double.” –Caitlin Moran- Author: Golby, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 052556277X
- Language: English
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The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession
$20.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education that brings the lessons of the past to bear on the dilemmas we face today–and brilliantly illuminates the path … [more below]
- Author: Goldstein, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0345803620
- Language: English
