Anchor Books
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The Man with the Silver SAAB: A Detective Varg Novel (3)
$16.00 Add to cartIn the hilarious new novel in the best-selling Detective Varg series, an eminent art historian is framed and the ace investigators of the department of sensitive crimes are on the case.
Detective Ulf- Series: Detective Varg
- Author: McCall Smith, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0593313631
- Language: English
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The Dressmaker
$17.00 Read moreTess, 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 catche
- Author: Alcott, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0307948196
- Language: English
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
$18.00 Add to cartBased upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions, here is a notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves, using theatrical performance as a framework.
This book … [more below]- Author: Goffman, Erving
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 20 1959
- ISBN10: 0385094027
- Language: English
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There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
$23.00 Add to cartFrom the nineteenth-century textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for the Am
- Author: Dray, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 20 2011
- ISBN10: 0307389766
- Language: English
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The Daydreamer
$16.00 Read moreA delightful literary foray for adults and children alike, from the inexhaustible imagination of the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement.
“As far-fetched and funny as anything by R- Author: McEwan, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 18 2000
- ISBN10: 0385498055
- Language: English
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The Plotters
$18.00 Read moreONE OF TIME MAGAZINE‘S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME – A fantastical crime novel set in an alternate Seoul where assassination guilds compete for market dominance.
“The Plotters‘s fir… [more below]- Author: Kim, Un-Su
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0525564802
- Language: English
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The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom’s Guide to Style, Sanity, and Success After Baby
$20.00 Add to cartPacked with honest, funny, and comforting advice–“a book you MUST read if you are returning to work after the birth of a child…. I loved it and you will too.” —New York Times bestselling author Lo… [more below]
- Author: Smith Brody, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1101971886
- Language: English
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The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for American Freedom
$17.95 Read moreFrom the acclaimed historian and bestselling author: a page-turning account of the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln–two men moved to radically different acts t… [more below]
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0525563458
- Language: English
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Palace of Desire
$17.00 Add to cartPalace of Desire is the second novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.
The novels of the Cairo- Series: Cairo Trilogy #02
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0307947114
- Language: English
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Obasan
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the American Book Award
Based on the author’s own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of J- Author: Kogawa, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 27 1993
- ISBN10: 0385468865
- Language: English
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Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
$19.00 Add to cartOne of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world–and the bestselling author of such acclaimed books as A History of God, Islam, and Buddha–now gives us a thoughtful, and… [more below]
- Author: Armstrong, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0307742881
- Language: English
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Brood
$16.00 Read moreAn exquisite new literary voice–wryly funny, nakedly honest, beautifully observational, in the vein of Jenny Offill and Elizabeth Strout–depicts one woman’s attempt to keep her four chickens alive w… [more below]
- Author: Polzin, Jackie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0593311337
- Language: English
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A Different Drummer
$16.00 Add to cartThe stunning, thought-provoking first novel by a “lost giant of American literature” (The New Yorker)
June, 1957. One hot afternoon in the backwaters of the Deep South, a young black farmer named Tuck- Author: Kelley, William Melvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0385413904
- Language: English
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This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
$20.00 Read moreWinner of the Ren Wellek Prize
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Millions, and The Sydney Morning Herald This Life offers a profoundly inspiring basis for transforming our lives, dem- Author: Hägglund, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1101873736
- Language: English
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How to Raise an Elephant: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (21)
$17.00 Read moreIn this latest installment in the cherished No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Mma Ramotswe must balance family obligations with the growing needs of one of Charlie’s pet projects.
Precious Ramo- Series: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
- Author: McCall Smith, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0593310950
- Language: English
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The Department of Sensitive Crimes: A Detective Varg Novel (1)
$17.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – In the Swedish criminal justice system, certain cases are considered especially strange and difficult, in Malmö, the dedicated detectives who investigate these crimes are member… [more below]
- Series: Detective Varg #1
- Author: McCall Smith, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0525565671
- Language: English
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Spring
$19.00 Read moreFrom the Man Booker Prize Finalist comes the third novel in her Seasonal Quartet–a New York Times Notable Book and longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2020
What unites Katherine Man- Series: Seasonal Quartet
- Author: Smith, Ali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1101969962
- Language: English
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The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories
$19.00 Read moreA remarkable volume that brings together the complete fiction of the author of Passing and Quicksand, one of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance. – “An original and hugely insightful wri… [more below]
- Author: Larsen, Nella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0385721005
- Language: English
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Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
$15.95 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments “A clear-eyed glance into the shadows where writers work and live.” —The Washington Post Book World
In this wise and irresistibl- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 1400032601
- Language: English
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural ant- Author: King, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0525432329
- Language: English
