Ecco Press
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The Food of Spain
$75.00 Read moreOne of our foremost authorities on Mediterranean, North African, and Italian cooking, Claudia Roden brings her incomparable authenticity, vision, and immense knowledge to bear in The Food of Spain. Th… [more below]
- Author: Roden, Claudia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: June 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0061969621
- Language: English
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Racing the Clock: Running Across a Lifetime
$18.99 Add to cartAn award-winning, much-loved biologist turns his gaze on himself, using his long-distance running to illuminate the changes to a human body over a lifetime
Part memoir, part scientific investigation, R
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0062973282
- Language: English
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Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
$18.99 Add to cart“Delightful.” —Mary Norris, The New Yorker
A page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world’s most polarizing punctuation mark
The semicolon. Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut,
- Author: Watson, Cecelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0062853066
- Language: English
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Poor People
$19.99 Add to cartThat was the simple yet groundbreaking question William T. Vollmann asked in cities and villages around the globe. The result of Vollmann’s fearless inquiry is a view of poverty unlike any previously
- Author: Vollmann, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0060878843
- Language: English
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
$16.99 Add to cart“Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an indelible history of the largely forgotten Jews of Egypt . . . ”
–Miami Herald
In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty an
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Lagnado, Lucette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 006082218X
- Language: English
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The Vortex: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
$22.99 Read moreLONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE
AN AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTABLE BOOK IN NONFICTION
“[A] tremendous new book.” —The Boston Globe
“Carney and Miklian write vividly in the fashion
- Author: Carney, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0062985426
- Language: English
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America
$19.99 Add to cartOne of TIME’s Best New Books to Read This Summer
“Brilliant–a keen, elegantly written, and scorching account of the American family today. Through vivid stories, sharp analysis and wit, Quart anatomiz
- Author: Quart, Alissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0062412264
- Language: English
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Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
$19.99 Add to cartThe author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created–William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct–a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one
- Author: Standiford, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062251457
- Language: English
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The Tree
$16.99 Add to cartThe classic meditation on creativity and the natural world
“For years I have carried this book. . . with me on travels to reread, ponder, envy. In prose of classic gravity, precision, and delicacy, Fow
- Author: Fowles, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0061997773
- Language: English
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Dearly: New Poems
$27.99 Read moreA new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret Atwood
In Dearly, Margaret Atwood’s first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses them
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 006303249X
- Language: English
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Mockingbird Wish Me Luck
$19.99 Add to cart“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”–Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author
“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”–Leonard Cohen, songwriter
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck captures glimpses of
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0876851383
- Language: English
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The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems
$17.00 Add to cartCharles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the ordinary extraordinary; and not least, the sardon… [more below]
- Author: Simic, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 14 2012
- ISBN10: 015603073X
- Language: English
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A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents
$19.99 Add to cartA poetic coming-of-age memoir that probes the legacies and myths of family, race, and religion–from Nigeria to England to America
Mary-Alice Daniel’s family moved from West Africa to England when she
- Author: Daniel, Mary-Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 62960059
- Language: English
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Dinner: A Love Story: It All Begins at the Family Table
$29.99 Read more“As long as people keep having kids, jobs, marriages, and appetites, this cookbook is destined to remain a classic.” -Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
The first book from the author of The
- Author: Rosenstrach, Jenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 0062080903
- Language: English
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D.V.
$19.99 Add to cart“An evening with D.V. is almost as marvelous as an evening with D.V. herself–same magic, same spontaneity and, above all, never a boring moment. –Bill Blass
Brilliant, funny, charming, imperious, Dia
- Author: Vreeland, Diana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 19, 2011
- ISBN10: 006202440X
- Language: English
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Summer World
$19.99 Add to cartHow can cicadas survive–and thrive–at temperatures pushing 115 F? Do hummingbirds know what they’re up against before they migrate over the Gulf of Mexico? Why do some trees stop growing taller even
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0060742186
- Language: English
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The Book of Nightmares
$19.99 Add to cartGalway Kinnell’s poetry has always been marked by richness of language, devotion to the things and creatures of the world, and an effort to transform every understanding into the universality of art.
A… [more below]
- Author: Kinnell, Galway
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: November 22 2010
- ISBN10: 395120985
- Language: English
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The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems
$19.99 Add to cart“No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass.”
—Atlantic MonthlyThe National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials, Robert Hass is one of the most revered of all living poets. With
- Author: Hass, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0061923907
- Language: English
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The Captain is Out to Lunch
$19.99 Add to cart“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”–Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author
“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”–Leonard Cohen, songwriter
A book length collaboration between two underg
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 31 2002
- ISBN10: 1574230581
- Language: English
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Who’s in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
$19.99 Add to cart“Big questions are Gazzaniga’s stock in trade.”
—New York Times“Gazzaniga is one of the most brilliant experimental neuroscientists in the world.”
–Tom Wolfe“Gazzaniga stands as a giant among neurosci
- Author: Gazzaniga, Michael S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0061906115
- Language: English
