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Islam’s Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora
$22.00 Add to cartA comprehensive study of the Eastern slave trade by an eminent British scholar
A companion volume to The Black Diaspora, this groundbreaking work tells the fascinating and horrifying story of the Islam
- Author: Segal, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 273
- Publish Date: October 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0374527970
- Language: English
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Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
$34.99 Add to cart2010 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction
Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secre- Author: Spring, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0374533024
- Language: English
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The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
$27.00 Add to cartThe Metaphysical Club is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History.
A national bestseller and “hugely ambitious, unmistakably brilliant” (Janet Maslin, New York Times) book about the creation o- Author: Menand, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0374528497
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$23.99 Add to cartDrawing from every stage of his career, this volume collects selected poems from Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott’s lifetime of work.
Walcott’s Selected Poems brings together famous pieces from his ear- Author: Walcott, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0374531110
- Language: English
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My Brother
$17.00 Read moreJamaica Kincaid’s brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid’s incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother’s life and death
- Author: Kincaid, Jamaica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 09, 1998
- ISBN10: 0374525625
- Language: English
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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
$24.00 Add to cart“Meticulous . . . [Nagle’s] passion for the subject really comes to life.” —The New York Times
New York City produces more than twelve thousand tons of household trash and recyclables a day. As quick- Author: Nagle, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534276
- Language: English
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Philip Larkin: The Complete Poems
$33.00 Add to cartThe complete poems of the most admired British poet of his generation
This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin’s poems. In addition to those that appear in Collected Poems (1988)- Author: Larkin, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0374533660
- Language: English
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The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
$30.00 Add to cartIsaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of our time and one of its finest writers. The Proper Study of Mankind brings together his most celebrated writing: here the reader will find Berlin’s fam
- Author: Berlin, Isaiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: August 02 2000
- ISBN10: 0374527172
- Language: English
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Scorsese on Scorsese
$21.00 Read moreMartin Scorsese’s challenging and often controversial films are a record of the most personal achievement in modern American cinema. Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Gooodfellas–these titles
- Author: Thompson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 325
- Publish Date: January 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0571220029
- Language: English
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Money of the Mind: How the 1980s Got That Way
$36.00 Add to cartThe 1980s witnessed a lemming-like rush into the sea of debt on the part of the American industrial and financial communities, with consequences we are only beginning to appreciate. But the speculativ
- Author: Grant, James L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0374524017
- Language: English
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Cool: How the Brain’s Hidden Quest for Cool Drives Our Economy and Shapes Our World
$21.99 Add to cartIf you have ever wondered why SUVs replaced minivans, how one rap song turned the cognac industry upside down, or what gives Levi’s jeans their iconic allure, look no further–in Cool, Steven Quartz a
- Author: Quartz, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0374535930
- Language: English
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The Vietnam War
$29.99 Add to cartA graphically told history of the Vietnam War, interweaving U.S. political and cultural history with the military history of the war.
When Senator Edward Kennedy declared, Iraq is George Bush’s Vietnam- Author: Mactavish
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0809094959
- Language: English
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Forty-one False Starts
$24.00 Add to cartA National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism
A deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics. Janet Malcolm’s In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murd- Author: Malcolm, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534586
- Language: English
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The Old Gringo
$18.00 Add to cartOne of Carlos Fuentes’s greatest works, The Old Gringo tells the story of Ambrose Bierce, the American writer, soldier, and journalist, and of his last mysterious days in Mexico living among Pancho Vi
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Fuentes, Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 20 2007
- ISBN10: 0374530521
- Language: English
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August 1914: A Novel: The Red Wheel I
$35.00 Add to cartThe Russian Nobelist’s major work, back in print for the centenary of World War I and the Russian Revolution
In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russia
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: August 19 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534691
- Language: English
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Novel of the Century
$23.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Les Mis rables is among the most popular and enduring novels ever written. Like Inspector Javert’s
Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award, 2017- Author: Bellos, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0374537402
- Language: English
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Epitaph of a Small Winner
$18.00 Add to cartIn these memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short chapters that are filled with philosophical digressi
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: de Assis, Machado
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531234
- Language: English
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The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
$17.00 Add to cartThe first of Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke’s novels to be published in English, The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick is a true modern classic that “portrays the…breakdown of a murderer in ways
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Handke, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 10 2007
- ISBN10: 0374531064
- Language: English
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Wise Children
$17.99 Add to cartIn their heyday on the vaudeville stages of the early twentieth century, Dora Chance and her twin sister, Nora–unacknowledged daughters of Sir Melchior Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Carter, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 10 2007
- ISBN10: 0374530947
- Language: English
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Prater Violet
$22.00 Add to cart“Prater Violet is the most charming novel I have read in a long time.” —Diana Trilling
Originally published in 1945, Christopher Isherwood’s Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the fil- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Isherwood, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535248
- Language: English
