Grove Press
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Dogma
$18.00 Add to cartOne of the major hits of the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, a film that proved too hot for Disney to handle, Kevin Smith’s ribald, revolutionary new film Dogma is a comic theological fantasy that is sure … [more below]
- Author: Smith, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 16 1999
- ISBN10: 0802136796
- Language: English
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One Thousand Roads to Mecca: (Updated with New Material)
$24.00 Read moreMichael Wolfe’s exemplary (Library Journal) collection of historical writings on the Hajj, now updated with a new introduction by Reza Aslan.
Since its inception in the seventh century, the pilgrimage- Author: Wolfe, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 22 1998
- ISBN10: 802135994
- Language: English
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Insatiable: Porn — A Love Story
$18.00 Add to cartAsa Akira (28) has already had an extremely unusual life. Educated at the United Nations International School in Manhattan, she soon was earning a good living by stripping and working as a dominatrix … [more below]
- Author: Akira, Asa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 20 2015
- ISBN10: 080212349X
- Language: English
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The Blacks: And Other Joys of Sexual Intimacy
$16.00 Read more“In form, it flows as freely as an improvisation, with fantasy, allegory and intimations of reality mingled into a weird, stirring unity. . . . Genet’s investigation of the color black begins where mo
- Series: Genet, Jean
- Author: Genet, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: January 18 1994
- ISBN10: 0802150284
- Language: English
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Happiness: A History
$20.00 Add to cartToday, human beings tend to think of happiness as a natural right. But they haven’t always felt this way. For the ancient Greeks, happiness meant virtue. For the Romans, it implied prosperity and divi… [more below]
- Author: McMahon, Darrin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 18 2006
- ISBN10: 0802142893
- Language: English
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The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand
$19.00 Read moreJim Harrison is one of this country’s most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. For more than twenty years, he has also been writing some of the best essays o… [more below]
- Author: Harrison, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 17 2002
- ISBN10: 080213937X
- Language: English
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Kubrick
$15.00 Add to cartKubrick is Michael Herr’s memoir of his nearly twenty-year friendship and collaboration with Stanley Kubrick, one of the greatest filmmakers of all time and the creator of such classics as Dr. Strange… [more below]
- Author: Herr, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 05 2001
- ISBN10: 0802138187
- Language: English
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Reservoir Dogs: The Screenplay
$17.00 Add to cartQuentin Tarantino’s films have single-handedly revived and redefined American noir, bringing to Hollywood a new energy, irony, and cool. Tarantino has won awards and accolades around the world, earned… [more below]
- Author: Tarantino, Quentin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 04 2000
- ISBN10: 0802136850
- Language: English
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The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times
$18.00 Add to cartIlyon Woo’s The Great Divorce is a dramatic, richly textured narrative history of early America’s most infamous divorce case. A young mother singlehandedly challenged her country’s notions of women’s … [more below]
- Author: Woo, Ilyon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 16 2011
- ISBN10: 080214537X
- Language: English
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The Red Flag: A History of Communism
$24.00 Add to cartCommunism was one of the most powerful political and intellectual movements the world has ever seen. At the height of their influence, Communists controlled more than a third of the earth’s surface. B… [more below]
- Author: Priestland, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 675
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0802145124
- Language: English
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America’s War with Militant Islam
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America’s first battle with militant Islam. On November 4, 1979, a group of radical I… [more below]
- Author: Bowden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 0802143032
- Language: English
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Neither Snow Nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service
$18.00 Add to cartFew institutions are as loved, as loathed, and as historically important as the United States Post Office, the subject of this landmark century-spanning social, political, and economic history.
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- Author: Leonard, Devin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 080215901X
- Language: English
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Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels: The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away, Prize Stock, Teach Us to Outgrow Our
$18.00 Add to cartThese four novels display Oe’s passionate and original vision. Oe was ten when American jeeps first drove into the mountain village where he lived, and his literary work reveals the tension and ambigu… [more below]
- Series: OE, Kenzaburo
- Author: Oe, Kenzaburo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 261
- Publish Date: October 13 1994
- ISBN10: 080215185X
- Language: English
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Stories I Stole from Georgia
$18.00 Add to cartFed up with working for Time magazine in London, Wendell Steavenson spent two years in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Stories I Stole captures the exuberance of a fledgling nation of local des… [more below]
- Author: Steavenson, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 277
- Publish Date: February 24 2004
- ISBN10: 080214067X
- Language: English
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Wagons West: The Epic Story of America’s Overland Trails
$20.00 Add to cartFrank McLynn has penned a year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer and settle the American West. Wagons West is a stirring history of the years from 1840 to 1849 — between the era of… [more below]
- Author: McLynn, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 27 2004
- ISBN10: 0802140637
- Language: English
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Off to the Side: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartSelected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Off to the Side is the tale of one of America’s most beloved writers. Jim Harrison traces his upbringing in Michigan amid the austerities of the … [more below]
- Author: Harrison, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0802140300
- Language: English
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Hiroshima Notes
$17.00 Add to cartHiroshima Notes is a powerful statement on the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature. Oe’s account of the lives of the many victims of Hiroshima and the v… [more below]
- Author: Oe, Kenzaburo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 07 1996
- ISBN10: 0802134645
- Language: English
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The Complete Plays: The Hostage, the Quare Fellow, Richard’s Cork Leg
$19.00 Add to cartThis volume contains everything Behan wrote in dramatic form in English. First come the three famous full-length plays: The Quare Fellow, set in an Irish prison, is “something very like a masterpiece”… [more below]
- Series: Black Cat Books
- Author: Behan, Brendan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 12 1994
- ISBN10: 0802130704
- Language: English
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The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain’s Greatest Dynasty
$22.00 Add to cartEngland’s Tudor monarchs–Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I–are perhaps the most celebrated and fascinating of all royal families in history. Their love affairs, their politic… [more below]
- Author: Borman, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0802127541
- Language: English
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Rock Concert: An Oral History as Told by the Artists, Backstage Insiders, and Fans Who Were There
$18.00 Add to cartA lively, entertaining, wide-ranging oral history of the golden age of the rock concert based on over ninety interviews with musicians, promoters, stagehands, and others who contributed to the huge cu
- Author: Myers, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0802157920
- Language: English
