Straus and Giroux
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Khirbet Khizeh
$17.00 Read more“Exhilarating . . . How often can you say about a harrowing, unquiet book that it makes you wrestle with your soul?” –Neel Mukherjee, The Times (London)
It’s 1948 and the Arab villagers of Khirbet Kh- Author: Yizhar, S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 09 2014
- ISBN10: 0374535566
- Language: English
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Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
$27.00 Add to cart“[Oliver Burkeman] will challenge you to rethink many of your beliefs about getting things done–and you’ll be wiser because of it.” –Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again a
- Author: Burkeman, Oliver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0374611998
- Language: English
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Twenty Years: Hope, War, and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation
$30.00 Read moreAn intimate history of the Afghan war–and the young Afghans whose dreams it enabled and dashed.
No country was more deeply affected by 9/11 than Afghanistan: an entire generation grew up amid the uph- Author: Rasmussen, Sune Engel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0374609942
- Language: English
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The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
$30.00 Add to cartOne of Literary Hub‘s most anticipated books of 2024
How do the disillusioned, the forgotten, an
A lyrical meditation on how Black Americans have envisioned utopia–and sought to transform their lives.- Author: Robertson, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0374604983
- Language: English
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Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History
$30.00 Add to cartA bold reinterpretation of the causes and legacy of Nat Turner’s rebellion–and the new definitive account.
In August 1831, a group of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, rose up to fight- Author: Kaye, Anthony E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0809024373
- Language: English
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Intermezzo
$29.00 Add to cartAn exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family–but especially love–from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have l- Author: Rooney, Sally
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0374602638
- Language: English
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Highway Thirteen: Stories
$27.00 Add to cartA gripping, enigmatic collection of linked short stories about the reverberations of a serial killer’s crimes in the lives of everyday people.
In the small town of Barrow, Australia, people go about t- Author: McFarlane, Fiona
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0374606269
- Language: English
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The Salt of the Universe: Praise, Songs, and Improvisations
$27.00 Read moreA book of mischief and improvisation that answers fundamentalism with rage, music, and delight in this earth.
A book of mischief and improvisation, The Salt of the Universe answers fundamentalism of a- Author: Leach, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0374607923
- Language: English
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So What: Poems
$27.00 Read moreA bristling, beautiful new collection from “the Dark Prince of American Poetry” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times).
In So What, Frederick Seidel writes of speeding his racetrack-only Superbike acros- Author: Seidel, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0374614180
- Language: English
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Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love
$29.00 Read moreA celebration of the beauty and mystery of language and how it shapes our lives, our loves, and our world.
If there is one feature that defines the human condition, it is language: written, spoken, si- Author: Sedivy, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0374601836
- Language: English
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Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life
$45.00 Read moreA no-holds-barred biography of the great poet and sexual rebel, who could “give the dead a voice, make them sing” (Hilton Als, The New Yorker).
Thom Gunn was not a confessional poet, and he withheld m- Author: Nott, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0374279209
- Language: English
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Christopher Isherwood Inside Out
$45.00 Add to cartA stunningly intimate exploration of the writer and gay cultural icon and of his lifelong search for authenticity.
The story of Christopher Isherwood’s life is one of pilgrimage: away from the constra- Author: Bucknell, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0374119368
- Language: English
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Q: A Voyage Around the Queen
$35.00 Add to cartWith equal measures of wit and wisdom, the author of 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret draws a deeply original, hilarious, and telling portrait of the Queen herself.
She was the most famous person on e- Author: Brown, Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0374610924
- Language: English
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The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide
$18.00 Add to cartThe Poet Laureate’s clear and entertaining account of how poetry works.
“Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art,” Robert Pinsky declares in The Sounds of Poetry. “The medium of poetry is the- Author: Pinsky, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0374526176
- Language: English
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The Playwright’s Guidebook: An Insightful Primer on the Art of Dramatic Writing
$21.00 Read moreA Crucible for Creativity: Unleashing the Playwright Within
This engaging and concise handbook is a beacon for both budding and seasoned playwrights alike, illuminating the path to creating compelling- Author: Spencer, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0571199917
- Language: English
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Encounters with the Archdruid: Narratives about a Conservationist and Three of His Natural Enemies
$19.00 Add to cartThe narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses – on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here ha
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0374514313
- Language: English
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A Steady Rain
$15.00 Add to cartJoey and Denny have been best friends since kindergarten, and after working together for several years as policemen in Chicago, they are practically family: Joey helps out with Denny’s wife and kids;
- Author: Huff, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0865479364
- Language: English
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War Music: An Account of Homer’s Iliad
$21.00 Add to cartA remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and invention
Picture the east Aegean sea by night,
And on a beach aslant its shimmering
Upwards of 50,000 men
Asleep like spoons beside their lethal Flee- Author: Logue, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0374536813
- Language: English
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Ghetto
$24.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of 2016
On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto–a closed quarter name
Winner of the Z calo Public Square Book Prize- Author: Duneier, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0374536775
- Language: English
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The Tongue Set Free
$21.99 Add to cartWinner of the 1981 Nobel Prize, this first volume of the author’s autobiography provides a searching portrait of his personal background and creative development.
Elias Canetti was one of the major- Author: Canetti, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: October 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0374518025
- Language: English
