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  • AUNTIE POLDI AND THE HANDSOME ANTONIO
    MARIO GIORDANO
    A glamorous Munich matron's Sicilian retirement is interrupted when her ex-husband draws her into a Mafia-connected murder investigation. "Enjoyable. . . . The prose remains sharp, the humor pointed, and Poldi—a whirlwind of sexual bravado and confidence—shines. Readers will hope to see a lot more of her." — Publishers Weekly All the beloved, irascible Auntie Poldi wanted from ...

    $273.49

  • CONSTELLATIONS
    SINÉAD GLEESON
    The #1 Irish bestseller and winner of Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2019 An Post Irish Book Awards, winner of the 2020 Dalkey Literary Awards, named Best Book of the Year by the Guardian, Observer, Image, Irish Times, New Statesman, and Irish Independent, Sinéad Gleeson's essays chronicle—in crystalline, tender, powerful prose—life in a body as it goes through sickness, h...

    $291.99

  • THE CALLIGRAPHER'S DAUGHTER
    EUGENIA KIM
    Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize A  Washington Post Best Book of the Year Winner of the 2009 Borders Original Voices Award In early-twentieth-century Korea, Najin Han, the privileged daughter of a calligrapher, longs to choose her own destiny. But her country is in tumult under Japan's harsh occupation, and her family's traditions, entitlements, and wealth crumble. ...

    $182.49

  • THE FARMER'S SON
    JOHN CONNELL
    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 farm. Connell records the hypno...

    $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 ...

    $291.99

  • HOW TO BE LOVED
    EVA HAGBERG
    A luminous memoir about how friendship saved one woman's life, for anyone who has loved a friend who was sick, grieving, or lost—and for anyone who has struggled to seek or accept help Eva Hagberg spent her lonely youth looking everywhere for connection: drugs, alcohol, therapists, boyfriends, girlfriends. Sometimes she found it, but always temporarily. Then, at age thirty, an ...

    $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

  • DEVIL'S DAY
    ANDREW MICHAEL HURLEY
    In this gothic horror novel, a schoolteacher and his wife must deal with a devilish legend when they travel to his remote rural hometown for a funeral. Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the farm where he grew up, to help gather the sheep down from the moors for the winter. Very little changes in the Endlands, but this year, his grandfather—the Gaffer—has died and John's n...

    $273.49

  • YOUNG WASHINGTON
    PETER STARK
    FINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BOOK PRIZE A new, brash, and unexpected view of the president we thought we knew, from the bestselling author of Astoria Two decades before he led America to independence, George Washington was a flailing young soldier serving the British Empire in the vast wilderness of the Ohio Valley. Naïve and self-absorbed, the twenty-two-year-old officer...

    $279.00

  • AUNTIE POLDI AND THE SICILIAN LIONS
    MARIO GIORDANO
    A Munich ex-pat retires to Sicily where she uncovers romance and murder in this humorous mystery series debut. "To the ranks of amateur sleuths, from Miss Marple to Jessica Fletcher, welcome Auntie Poldi." — Newsday "Break out the prosecco! There's a new detective in town—and she's sixty, sexy, wise, and utterly adorable." — People magazine On her sixtieth birthday, Auntie Pold...

    $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 thes...

    $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 d...

    $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
    Selections by Bryan Stevenson, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Daniel Alarcon, Rebecca Curtis, Claudia Rankine, Paul Tough, Wells Tower, and more! For a 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...

    $272.99

  • PRODIGAL
    LINDA GREGERSON
    In her first book of collected work, prize-winning poet Linda Gregerson mines nearly forty years of poetry, bringing us a full range of her talents. Ten new poems introduce Prodigal, followed by fifty poems, culled from Gregerson's five collections, that range broadly in subject from class in America to our world's ravaged environment to the wonders of parenthood to the interse...

    $309.49

  • 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


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