Grove Press
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The Physicists: A Comedy in Two Acts
$16.00 Add to cartThe Physicists is a provocative and darkly comic satire about life in modern times, by one of Europe’s foremost dramatists and the author of the internationally celebrated The Visit. The world’s great… [more below]
- Author: Durrenmatt, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0802144276
- Language: English
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Small Fry: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES AND NEW YORKER TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR
“Beautiful, literary, and devastating.”–New York Times Book Review – “Revelatory.”–Entertainment Weekly – “A masterly Silicon Valley gothic.”
- Author: Brennan-Jobs, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 0802147216
- Language: English
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Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett
$26.00 Read moreDamned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett, mysterious and reclusive master of twentieth-century literature. Professor James Knowlson, Beckett… [more below]
- Author: Knowlson, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: April 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0802141250
- Language: English
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Closer: A Play
$15.00 Add to cartNew York Dram Critc’s Circle Award for Best Foreign Play
Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy
London Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play
Time Out Award for Best West End Play
The award-winning play
- Author: Marber, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: December 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0802136451
- Language: English
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Manual of Zen Buddhism
$16.00 Add to cartHere are the famous sutras, or sermons, of the Buddha; the gathas, or hymns; the intriguing philosophical puzzles known as koan; and the dharanis, or invocations to expel evil spirits. Included also a… [more below]
- Author: Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 13 1994
- ISBN10: 0802130658
- Language: English
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Barefoot to Avalon: A Brother’s Story
$18.00 Add to cartAn Amazon Best Book of 2015, A Kirkus Reviews’ Best Book of 2015
“A brave book with beautiful sentences on every page.”–New York Times “Piercing…a tour de force.”–Los Angeles Times In 2000, while- Author: Payne, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 09 2016
- ISBN10: 0802125174
- Language: English
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Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War II
$19.00 Add to cartThe vivid and largely untold story of the dramatic Allied air campaign against Germany that was a turning point in World War II and ultimately crucial to the success of D-Day and the Allied invasion o
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 080214778X
- Language: English
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Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls
$27.00 Read moreThe first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the American judicial system, the trials of adolescence, and the power of the internet
On May 31, 2014, in t… [more below]
- Author: Hale, Kathleen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 080215980X
- Language: English
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Jumpers
$17.00 Add to cart“Jumpers is simply dazzling. It takes your breath away with its sheer exuberance of literacy, its cascade of words and conspicuous display of intellect. It is also extraordinarily funny. Jumpers is on… [more below]
- Series: Tom Stoppard
- Author: Stoppard, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0802160816
- Language: English
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The Cello Suites: J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
$20.00 Add to cartOne evening, journalist Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suites and began an epic quest that would unravel three centuries of intrigue, politics, and passion. Winner of … [more below]
- Author: Siblin, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0802145248
- Language: English
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Indaba My Children: African Folktales
$22.00 Add to cartA definitive compendium of African myth and folktale, retold in rich, vibrant prose, Indaba, My Children is a stunning literary and ethnographic achievement.
As a young man, Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, a
- Author: Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: February 05 1999
- ISBN10: 0802136044
- Language: English
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Thelma and Louise/Something to Talk about: Screenplays
$18.00 Add to cartWhen Thelma & Louise opened in 1991, it was greeted with acclaim and controversy, quickly earning first-time screenwriter Callie Khouri a reputation as one of the only writers of real movie roles for … [more below]
- Author: Khouri, Callie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 12 1996
- ISBN10: 0802134629
- Language: English
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My Venice and Other Essays
$17.00 Add to cartDonna Leon’s wildly popular novels starring Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti have been praised for their intricate plots and gripping narratives, but also for their insight into the culture, politi… [more below]
- Author: Leon, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0802122809
- Language: English
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How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of Its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance
$20.00 Add to cartThe story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when Arabs established a representative democracy–and how the West crushed it
When Europe’s Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationa
- Author: Thompson, Elizabeth F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0802148603
- Language: English
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Selected Poems: Pablo Neruda
$16.00 Add to cartThe winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda is regarded as the greatest Latin American poet of the twentieth century. This bilingual edition makes available a major selection of hi… [more below]
- Series: Neruda, Pablo
- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 10 1994
- ISBN10: 0802151027
- Language: English
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Liberty’s Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty
$18.00 Add to cartThe Statue of Liberty has become one of the most recognizable monuments in the world: a symbol of freedom and the American Dream. But the story of the creation of the statue has been obscured by myth…. [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0802123791
- Language: English
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Halsey’s Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue
$22.00 Add to cartHalsey’s Typhoon is the story of World War II’s most unexpected disaster at sea. In the final days of 1944, Admiral William “Bull” Halsey is the Pacific theater’s most popular and colorful naval hero…. [more below]
- Author: Drury, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 10 2007
- ISBN10: 0802143377
- Language: English
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Lobby Hero: A Play
$17.00 Add to cartNominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play, Lobby Hero tells the story of Jeff, a luckless young security guard trying to get his life together after being thrown o
- Author: Lonergan, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 01, 2002
- ISBN10: 0802138551
- Language: English
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The Spirit of Zen: A Way of Life, Work, and Art in the Far East
$16.00 Add to cartAlan Watts’s The Spirit of Zen was one of the first books to introduce the basic foundation of Zen Buddhism to English-speaking audiences. This volume still stands as one of the most lucid and concise… [more below]
- Series: Wisdom of the East
- Author: Watts, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 14 1994
- ISBN10: 0802130569
- Language: English
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Rock ‘n’ Roll: A New Play
$17.00 Add to cart“One of the great political plays in the English language.”–Sunday Times (UK)
It is 1968, and the world is ablaze with rebellion. Clutching his prized collection of rock albums, Jan, a Cambridge gradu… [more below]
- Author: Stoppard, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0802160794
- Language: English
