University of Chicago Press
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House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again
$18.00 Add to cartThe Great American Recession resulted in the loss of eight million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than four million homes were lost to foreclosures. Is it a coincidence that the United States witnes… [more below]
- Author: Mian, Atif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 20 2015
- ISBN10: 022627165X
- Language: English
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The Sour Lemon Score
$17.00 Add to cartBank robberies should run like clockwork, right? If your name’s Parker, you expect nothing less. Until, that is, one of your partners gets too greedy for his own good. The four-way split following a j… [more below]
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0226771105
- Language: English
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Comeback: A Parker Novel
$18.00 Add to cartAfter the bloodbath of Butcher’s Moon, the action-filled blowout Parker adventure, Donald Westlake said, “Richard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. He was gone.”
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 15, 2011
- ISBN10: 0226770583
- Language: English
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The Jugger
$17.00 Add to cartThey say the past always catches up to you–but if he can help it, Parker won’t let his. In The Jugger, an old contact who could blow Parker’s cover tells Parker he’s in trouble — then turns up dead.
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0226771024
- Language: English
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Firebreak
$18.00 Add to cartBetween Parker’s 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the whole world of crime changed. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0226770656
- Language: English
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Yes
$17.00 Add to cartThe narrator, a scientist working on antibodies and suffering from emotional and mental illness, meets a Persian woman, the companion of a Swiss engineer, at an office in rural Austria. For the scient… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction
- Author: Bernhard, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: November 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0226043908
- Language: English
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Slayground
$17.00 Add to cart- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0226770923
- Language: English
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The Black Ice Score
$17.00 Add to cartA corrupt African colonel has converted half his country’s wealth into diamonds and smuggled them to a Manhattan safe house. Four upstanding citizens plan to rescue their new nation by stealing the di… [more below]
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0226771091
- Language: English
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The Green Eagle Score
$17.00 Add to cartIn The Green Eagle Score, Parker cuts his vacation with Claire short with a new job: stealing the entire payroll of an Air Force base in upstate New York. With help from Marty Fusco, fresh out of the … [more below]
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0226771083
- Language: English
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The Raj Quartet, Volume 2: The Day of the Scorpion Volume 2
$26.00 Add to cartIn The Day of the Scorpion, Scott draws us deeper in to his epic of India at the close of World War II. With force and subtlety, he recreates both private ambition and perversity, and the politics of … [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction #2
- Author: Scott, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 493
- Publish Date: May 22 1998
- ISBN10: 0226743411
- Language: English
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The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
$22.50 Read moreWith The Modern Myths, brilliant science communicator Philip Ball spins a new yarn. From novels and comic books to B-movies, it is an epic exploration of literature, new media and technology, the natu… [more below]
- Author: Ball, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0226823849
- Language: English
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The Rare Coin Score: A Parker Novel
$17.00 Add to cartWhen it comes to heists, Parker believes in some cardinal rules. On this job, he breaks two of them: never bring a dame along–especially not one you like–and never, ever, work with amateurs. Neverth
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226771075
- Language: English
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The Handle
$17.00 Add to cartIn The Handle, Parker is enlisted by the mob to knock off an island casino guarded by speedboats and heavies, forty miles from the Texas coast. With double-crosses and double-dealings from the word go
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226771067
- Language: English
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Staying on
$21.00 Add to cartIn this sequel to The Raj Quartet, Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley stay on in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them of their colonial status. Finally fed up with accommodating he… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction
- Author: Scott, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0226743497
- Language: English
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The Daily Henry David Thoreau: A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season
$15.00 Add to cart“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each.”
Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing the stre- Series: Year of Quotes
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 022662496X
- Language: English
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Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis
$18.00 Add to cartA year in Paris . . . since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision-and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories … [more below]
- Author: Kaplan, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 22 2013
- ISBN10: 022605487X
- Language: English
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The Voice Imitator
$15.00 Add to cartThe Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) is acknowledged as among the major writers of our times. At once pessimistic and exhilarating, Bernhard’s work depicts the corrupt… [more below]
- Author: Bernhard, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: October 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0226044025
- Language: English
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Butcher’s Moon
$18.00 Read moreStark’s antihero Parker attempts to retrieve money he had to leave in an amusement park, but the money is gone. He enlists Alan Grofield to assist, but when Grofield is taken hostage, Parker assembles… [more below]
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0226770958
- Language: English
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The Chinese Maze Murders: A Judge Dee Mystery
$13.00 Add to cartPoisoned plums, a cryptic scroll picture, passionate love letters, and a hidden murderer with a penchant for torturing and killing women lead Judge Dee to the heart of the Governor’s garden maze and t… [more below]
- Series: Judge Dee Mysteries
- Author: Van Gulik, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0226848787
- Language: English
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The Blackbird
$17.00 Add to cartDonald E. Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hardboiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent
- Series: Alan Grofield Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0226770427
- Language: English
