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  • AUNTIE POLDI AND THE HANDSOME ANTONIO
    MARIO GIORDANO
    The latest installment in Mario Giordano's best-selling series of charming mysteries, starring Sicily's most glamorous gumshoe, Auntie Poldi. All the beloved, irascible Auntie Poldi wanted from her Sicilian retirement was time to enjoy the sunshine, a free-flowing supply of wine, and a sultry romance with Chief Inspector Vito Montana. But then her idyll is rudely disrupted by t...

    $273.49

  • THE FARMER'S SON
    JOHN CONNELL
    For fans of The Shepherd’s Life, a poignant memoir—and #1 Irish bestseller—about a wayward son’s return home to his family’s farm, and how he found a new beginning in an age-old world Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, after more than a decade away, he finds himself back on the...

    $309.99

  • AUNTIE POLDI AND THE VINEYARDS OF ETNA
    MARIO GIORDANO
    Amateur sleuth Auntie Poldi finds a body in a vineyard—with the Mafia nipping at her heels—in “another wine-snortingly funny entry” (People) in this national-bestselling series. When Prosecco-loving Auntie Poldi retired to Sicily from Germany, she never dreamed her tranquil days would be interrupted by murder. But Sicily had other plans, and Poldi found herself honor-bound to s...

    $291.99

  • THE TWENTY-NINTH YEAR
    HALA ALYAN
    Wild, lyrical poems that examine the connections between physical and interior migration, from award-winning Palestinian American poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan, author of Salt Houses. For Hala Alyan, twenty-nine is a year of transformation and upheaval, a year in which the past—memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another l...

    $291.99

  • AUNTIE POLDI AND THE SICILIAN LIONS
    MARIO GIORDANO
    “Break out the prosecco! There’s a new detective in town” (People Magazine). Now available in paperback, the delightfully sexy and bighearted novel starring Auntie Poldi, Sicily’s newest amateur sleuth “To the ranks of amateur sleuths, from Miss Marple to Jessica Fletcher, welcome Auntie Poldi.” — Newsday On her sixtieth birthday, Auntie Poldi retires to Sicily, intending to wh...

    $273.49

  • SILENCER
    MARCUS WICKER
    “Tough talk for tough times. Silencer is both lyrical and merciless–Wicker’s mind hums in overdrive, but with the calm and clarity of a marksman.”   —Tim Seibles, author of One Turn Around the Sun and finalist for the National Book Award A suburban park, church, a good job, a cocktail party for the literati: to many, these sound like safe places, but for a young black man these...

    $291.99

  • RAMSHACKLE ODE
    KEITH LEONARD
    A sparkling debut collection from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet that makes an ecstatic argument for living Containing joy and suffering side by side, Ramshackle Ode offers elegies and odes as necessary partners to bring out the greatest power in each. By turns celebratory, meditative, tender, and rebellious, these poems reimagine the divisions and intersections of life and de...

    $327.49

  • THREE BOOKS
    GALWAY KINNELL
    These three books--Body Rags, Mortal Acts, Mortal Words, and The Past--are central to the life's work of one of the masters of contemporary poetry. Published here in one volume, they include many of Galway Kinnell's best loved and most anthologized poems. In a note, Galway Kinnell comments on the numerous revisions he has made to many of the poems for this edition. ...

    $382.49

  • SCHOOL OF DREAMS
    EDWARD HUMES
    What is the price of an education at a top public high school? Whitney High delivers everything we ask of a school: a love of learning, a sense of mission, and SAT scores to die for. But there are unintended consequences to attending the school of our dreams, as author Edward Humes found during his year inside this world of high achievement and high pressure. Students work near...

    $564.49

  • THE BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING 2015
    JOHNSON, ADAM / 826 NATIONAL
    For the past year, a group of high school students met at a publishing house in San Francisco every Monday night to read literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, and countless articles. This committee was assisted by a group of students that met in the basement of a robot shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Together, and under the guidance of guest editor Adam Johnson, these hig...

    $272.99

  • PAGANS
    JAMES J. O'DONNELL
    "Trenchantly interprets how an oddball religious cult became the official faith of Rome. . . . It makes for a thoughtful tour of Rome." — New York Times Book Review Pagans explores the rise of Christianity from a surprising and unique viewpoint: that of the people who witnessed their ways of life destroyed by what seemed then a powerful religious cult. These "pagans" were actua...

    $369.00

  • EPITAPH
    MARY DORIA RUSSELL
    The New York Times –bestselling author of Doc follows Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday to Tombstone, Arizona, and to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. A deeply divided nation. Vicious politics. A shamelessly partisan media. A president loathed by half the populace. Smuggling and gang warfare along the Mexican border. Armed citizens willing to stand their ground and take law into thei...

    $249.00

  • THE COUNTRY OF ICE CREAM STAR
    SANDRA NEWMAN
    In the aftermath of a devastating plague, a fearless young heroine embarks on a dangerous and surprising journey to save her world in this brilliantly inventive dystopian thriller, told in bold and fierce language, from a remarkable literary talent. My name be Ice Cream Fifteen Star and this be the tale of how I bring the cure to all the Nighted States . . . In the ruins of a f...

    $279.00

  • TALES FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE BRAIN
    MICHAEL S. GAZZANIGA
    A renowned neuroscientist presents a behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on that unlikely couple, the right and left brain. With a Foreword by Steven Pinker In the mid-twentieth century, Michael S. Gazzaniga, "the father of cognitive neuroscience," was part of a team of pioneering neuroscientists who developed the now foundational split-brain brain theory: the notion tha...

    $279.00

  • THE GARDENER'S SON
    CORMAC MCCARTHY
    The first screenplay by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road tells the saga of rival families in post-Civil War South Carolina. Set in Graniteville, South Carolina,  The Gardener's Son is a tale of privilege and hardship, animosity and vengeance. The McEvoys, a poor family beset by misfortune, must work in the cotton mill owned by the Greggs. But when Robert McEvoy los...

    $249.00

  • LET ME BE FRANK WITH YOU
    RICHARD FORD
    A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land. In his trio of world-acclaimed novels portraying the life of an entire American ...

    $274.00

  • MASTERING MY MISTAKES IN THE KITCHEN
    DANA COWIN / JULIA TURSHEN
    The editor-in-chief of Food & Wine shares reliable recipes and straightforward kitchen advice from the pros in this accessible-for-all cookbook. For years, Dana Cowin kept a dark secret: From meat to vegetables, broiling to baking, breakfast to dinner, she ruined literally every kind of dish she attempted to make. Now, in this cookbook confessional, the vaunted first lady of fo...

    $251.00

  • THE PRINCE OF LOS COCUYOS
    RICHARD BLANCO
    In this coming-of-age memoir, the poet recounts his youth in a family of Cuban exiles, searching for his poetic voice and the courage to accept himself. A poignant, hilarious, and inspiring memoir from the first Latino and openly gay presidential inaugural poet in US history, which explores his coming-of-age as the child of Cuban immigrants and his attempts to understand his pl...

    $274.00

  • ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTS
    CHRISTOPHER BEHA
    A drama teacher finds unlikely celebrity thanks to a nearly forgotten sex tape in this ingenious . . . entertaining and thought provoking" novel ( Booklist). At thirty-three, Eddie Hartley has given up his dream of becoming an actor for the reality of life as a drama teacher at a boys' prep school. But when Eddie and his wife, Susan, discover they cannot have children, it is on...

    $229.00

  • FOURTH OF JULY CREEK
    SMITH HENDERSON
    In this shattering and iconic American novel, PEN prize-winning writer, Smith Henderson explores the complexities of freedom, community, grace, suspicion and anarchy, brilliantly depicting our nation's disquieting and violent contradictions. After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker P...

    $279.00

  • TIBETAN PEACH PIE
    TOM ROBBINS
    Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins' legendary memoir—wild tales of his life and times, both at home and around the globe. Tom Robbins' warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels—including Still Life with Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates—provide an entryway into the frontier of his singular imagination. Madca...

    $314.00

  • TED WILLIAMS, MY FATHER
    CLAUDIA WILLIAMS
    In this poignant memoir, Claudia Williams, the last surviving child of legendary Boston Red Sox great and Hall of Famer Ted Williams, tells her father's story, including never-before-told anecdotes about his life on and off the field that reveal the flesh and blood man behind "The Kid." Born after her father retired from baseball, Claudia Williams grew up with little idea that ...

    $229.00

  • THE GIRL WHO SAVED THE KING OF SWEDEN
    JONAS JONASSON / RACHEL WILLSON-BROYLES
    A picaresque novel of how one person's actions can have far-reaching—even global—consequences, from a #1 international bestselling author. "A funny and completely implausible farce about a woman, a bomb and a man's frustrated ambition to overthrow the king of Sweden. . . . The rest of the world will chuckle all the way through it." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In a tiny sh...

    $249.00

  • YOU ARE NOT SPECIAL
    DAVID MCCULLOUGH
    A profound expansion of David McCullough, Jr.'s popular commencement speech—a call to arms against a prevailing, narrow, conception of success viewed by millions on YouTube— You Are (Not) Special is a love letter to students and parents as well as a guide to a truly fulfilling, happy life. Children today, says David McCullough—high school English teacher, father of four, and so...

    $229.00

  • CONGO
    DAVID VAN REYBROUCK
    "A magnificent, epic look at the history of the region. . . . A monumental contribution to the annals of Congo scholarship" ( Christian Science Monitor). The International Bestseller From the beginnings of the slave trade through colonization, the struggle for independence, Mobutu's brutal three decades of rule, and the civil war that has raged from 1996 to the present day, Con...

    $338.00

  • THE EMPEROR OF WINE
    ELIN MCCOY
    The first book to chronicle the rise of Robert M. Parker, Jr., the world's most influential and controversial wine critic, who, over the last twenty–five years, has dominated the international wine world and embodied the triumph of American taste. This is the story of how an American lawyer raised on Coca–Cola caused a revolution in the way wines around the globe are made, sold...

    $314.00

  • THE MASTER OF CONFESSIONS
    THIERRY CRUVELLIER
    Renowned journalist Thierry Cruvellier takes us into the dark heart of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge with The Master of Confessions, a suspenseful account of a Chief Interrogator's trial for war crimes. On April 17, 1975, the communist Khmer Rouge, led by its secretive prime minister Pol Pot, took over Cambodia. Renaming the country Democratic Kampuchea, they cut the nation off from t...

    $229.00

  • MY USUAL TABLE
    COLMAN ANDREWS
    A vivid memoir and an "appealing" love letter to great restaurants by a James Beard Award winner and founding editor of Saveur ( Los Angeles Times). For Colman Andrews, restaurants have been his playground, his theater, his university, his church, his refuge. The establishments he has loved have not only influenced culinary trends at home and abroad, but represent the changing ...

    $251.00

  • KHOMEINI'S GHOST
    CON COUGHLIN
    From the bestselling author of Saddam comes the definitive biography of Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic revolution and how his fundamentalist legacy has forever influenced the course of Iran's relationship with the West. In February 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran after nearly fifteen years in exile and received a hero's welcome. Just as the new world order so...

    $229.00

  • OUTERBRIDGE REACH
    ROBERT STONE
    In this towering story about a man pitting himself against the sea, against society, and against himself, Robert Stone again demonstrates that he is "one of the most impressive novelists of his generation" (New York Review of Books). Inviting comparison with the great sea novels of Conrad, Melville, and Hemingway, Outerbridge Reach is also the portrait of two men and the powerf...

    $363.99


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