Grove Press
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Simone Weil: An Anthology
$19.00 Add to cartPhilosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist, political activist — Simone Weil was among the foremost thinkers of our time. Best known in this country for her theological writing, Weil wrote on a gre… [more below]
- Author: Miles, Sian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 18 2000
- ISBN10: 0802137296
- Language: English
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Asleep
$17.00 Add to cartDemonstrating again the artful simplicity and depth of her vision, Banana Yoshimoto reestablishes her place as a writer of international stature in a book that may be her most delightful since Kitchen… [more below]
- Author: Yoshimoto, Banana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0802138209
- Language: English
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Walking with Ghosts
$17.00 Add to cart“Make no mistake about it: Walking with Ghosts is a masterpiece. A book that will wring out our tired hearts. It is by turns poetic, moving, and very funny. You will find it on the shelf alongside oth
- Author: Byrne, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0802157130
- Language: English
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Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment’s Bloody War from D-Day to Ve-Day
$22.00 Add to cartCelebrated military historian James Holland chronicles the experiences in World War II of the legendary tank unit, the Sherwood Rangers
In the annals of World War II, certain groups of soldiers stand o
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0802160387
- Language: English
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Tropic of Capricorn
$18.00 Add to cartBanned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller’s Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank po… [more below]
- Series: Miller, Henry
- Author: Miller, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: January 13 1994
- ISBN10: 0802151825
- Language: English
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Life and Death in Shanghai
$20.00 Add to cartUpon its initial publication, Life and Death in Shanghai, Nien Cheng’s searing memoir of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, was an instant international best seller. This phenomenal, unforgettable book
- Author: Nien, Cheng
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0802145167
- Language: English
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Anatomy of 55 More Songs: The Oral History of Top Hits That Changed Rock, Pop and Soul
$18.00 Add to cartNEW AND EXPANDED EDITION, NOW WITH 58 SONGS
Following his 2016 smash hit Anatomy of a Song, acclaimed music
journalist Marc Myers collects fifty-five new oral histories of
iconic songs from his popular W… [more below]- Author: Myers, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 080216126X
- Language: English
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An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
$17.00 Add to cartOne of the world’s leading authorities on Zen Buddhism, D. T. Suzuki was the author of more than a hundred works on the subject in both Japanese and English, and was most instrumental in bringing the … [more below]
- Author: Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 13 1994
- ISBN10: 0802130550
- Language: English
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Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
$27.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE“A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood . . . An impressive, fierce novel about the lives of black British families, their struggles, pains, laught
- Series: Booker Prize Winner
- Author: Evaristo, Bernardine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 080215770X
- Language: English
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Father of the Rain
$17.00 Add to cart“Haunting, incisive . . . King is brilliant.” — Elle
An absorbing, insightful story written in cool, polished prose right to the last conflicted line.” —Washington Post
“Spellbinding . . . You won’t b
- Author: King, Lily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0802160298
- Language: English
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The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy
$18.00 Add to cartJokes change from generation to generation, but the experience of the comedian transcends the ages: the drive, jealousy, heartbreak, and triumph. From the Marx Brothers to Milton Berle to George Carli… [more below]
- Author: Nesteroff, Kliph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0802125689
- Language: English
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An Unnecessary Woman
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the California Book Award
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Finalist for the National Book Award
“Beautiful and absorbing.”–New York TimesAn Unnecessary Woman is a breathtak
- Author: Alameddine, Rabih
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0802122949
- Language: English
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The Zen Teaching of Huang-Po: On the Transmission of Mind
$16.00 Add to cartThis complete translation of the original collection of sermons, dialogues, and anecdotes of Huang Po, the illustrious Chinese master of the Tang Dynasty, allows the Western reader to gain an understa… [more below]
- Author: Calthorpe Blofeld, John Eaton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 18 1994
- ISBN10: 0802150926
- Language: English
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The Awkward Black Man
$17.00 Add to cartA masterful collection of stories that showcases one of the country’s most beloved and acclaimed writers–award-winning author, Walter Mosley.
Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a mast
- Author: Mosley, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0802156851
- Language: English
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Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Live of the Stars
$18.00 Add to cartNow the subject of the hit documentary Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, praised by Vanity Fair as “full of revelations” and Entertainment Weekly as “deliciously salacious,” Full Service is … [more below]
- Author: Bowers, Scotty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0802120555
- Language: English
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Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
$19.00 Add to cartEnglish is the world language, except that most of the world doesn’t speak it–only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world’s 7.4 billion people in the… [more below]
- Author: Dorren, Gaston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0802147801
- Language: English
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
$18.00 Add to cart“Magnificent . . . A tour de force of literature and love.”–Vogue
“Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is raucous. It hums with a dark refulgence from its first pages. . . . Singular and electric- Author: Winterson, Jeanette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0802120873
- Language: English
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Transient Desires: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
$18.00 Add to cartIn the landmark thirtieth installment of the bestselling series the New Yorker has called “an unusually potent cocktail of atmosphere and event,” Guido Brunetti is forced to confront an unimaginable c
- Series: The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries #30
- Author: Leon, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0802158188
- Language: English
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Goodbye Tsugumi
$17.00 Add to cartBanana Yoshimoto’s novels of young life in Japan have made her an international sensation. Goodbye Tsugumi is an offbeat story of a deep and complicated friendship between two female cousins that rank… [more below]
- Author: Yoshimoto, Banana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 06 2003
- ISBN10: 0802139914
- Language: English
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Mother Courage and Her Children
$10.99 Add to cartWidely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modem stage, Mother Courage and Her Children is Bertolt Brecht’s most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth… [more below]
- Series: Brecht, Bertolt
- Author: Brecht, Bertolt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 11 1994
- ISBN10: 0802130828
- Language: English
