P.S.
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China
$19.99 Add to cartA century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Hessler, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 08 2007
- ISBN10: 0060826592
- Language: English
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On Boxing PB
$19.99 Add to cartA reissue of bestselling, award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates’ classic collection of essays on boxing.
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 29 2006
- ISBN10: 0060874503
- Language: English
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Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age
$24.99 Add to cart“A dual life story that reads as pleasurably as the best fiction but with all the intelligence of a first-rate biography. . . . completely absorbing.”–Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of
- Series: P.S.
- Author: MacKenzie Stuart, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0060938250
- Language: English
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The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
$14.99 Add to cartA light-hearted look at the history and practice of “the ultimate human-interest story,” the obituary.
“What a wonderful surprise–a charming, lyrical book about the men and women who write obituaries.
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Johnson, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0060758767
- Language: English
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Ninja
$19.99 Add to cartThe definitive history of the ninja, based on a wealth of historical texts, local Japanese sources, and John Man’s own treks across Asia
“An immensely entertaining history, packed with splendidly blood
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Man, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0062202650
- Language: English
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Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway’s First Wife
$18.99 Add to cart“A bittersweet modern love story that] reads as easily as a novel.” —Vogue
“Fascinating. . . . A detailed, grittier portrait of the woman Hemingway loved and left.” —Newsday
Hadley Richardson and Ern
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Diliberto, Gioia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0062108824
- Language: English
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Bad Blood
$17.99 Add to cartBestselling author Lorna Sage delivers the tragicomic memoirof her escape from a claustrophobic childhood in post-WWII Britain–and thestory of the weddings and relationships that defined three genera… [more below]
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Sage, Lorna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0062080245
- Language: English
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Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival
$19.99 Add to cartDestined to stand with other classic true stories of man against nature–Into Thin Air and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer; Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm—Crazy for the Storm is a literary triump
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Ollestad, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 006176678X
- Language: English
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To a Mountain in Tibet
$17.99 Add to cart“A superb account of a pilgrimage. . . . Characteristically beautiful, though uncharacteristically haunted.” –Pico Iyer, New York Review of Books
“Thubron walks for the dead and writes for the living,
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0061768278
- Language: English
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Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip–Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
$17.99 Add to cartAccording to The Waiter, 80 percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining 20 percent, however, are socially maladjusted psychopaths.
Eye-opening, outrageous, and
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Dublanica, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0061256692
- Language: English
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Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope
$18.99 Add to cartFor a decade in the seventeenth century a woman ran the Catholic Church, through her brother-in-law and reputed lover, Pope Innocent X. Cardinals bowed down to her and princes feted her as she made in
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Herman, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0061245569
- Language: English
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Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle
$18.99 Add to cartA galaxy of legendary figures from the annals of Western history
In this enlightening and entertaining work, Paul Johnson, the bestselling author of Intellectuals and Creators, approaches the subject o
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0061143170
- Language: English
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The Music of the Primes
$17.99 Add to cartInthe tradition of Fermat’s Enigma and Pi, Marcus du Sautoy tells the illuminating, authoritative, and engagingstory of Bernhard Reimann and the ongoing quest tocapture the holy grail of mathematics–… [more below]
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Du Sautoy, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0062064010
- Language: English
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The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir
$16.99 Add to cart“I adore the Beekman boys’ story. Their unlikely story of love, the land, and a herd of goats is hilariously honest. If these two can go from Manhattan to a goat farm in upstate New York, then I can’t
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Kilmer-Purcell, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0061997838
- Language: English
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The Lost Heart of Asia
$17.99 Add to cartA land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia was the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane and scene of Stalin’s cruelest deportations. A remote and
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0061577677
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s Wife
$16.99 Add to cartLittle is known about Ann Hathaway, the wife of England’s greatest playwright; a great deal has been assumed, none of it complimentary. In Shakespeare’s Wife, Germaine Greer boldly breaks new ground,
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Greer, Germaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 17 2009
- ISBN10: 0061537160
- Language: English
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The Snoring Bird: My Family’s Journey Through a Century of Biology
$17.99 Add to cartAlthough Gerd Heinrich, a devoted naturalist, specialized in wasps, Bernd Heinrich tried to distance himself from his “old-fashioned” father, becoming a hybrid: a modern, experimental biologist with a
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 24 2008
- ISBN10: 006074216X
- Language: English
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The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“Dan Ariely is a genius at understanding human behavior: no economist does a better job of uncovering and explaining the hidden reasons for the weird ways we act.” — James Su
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Ariely, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 17 2011
- ISBN10: 0061995045
- Language: English
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Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip
$19.99 Add to cartOne of The Economist‘s Best Books of the Year
From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy on the human side of the economic revolution i
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Hessler, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 006180410X
- Language: English
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April 1865: The Month That Saved America
$19.99 Add to cartOne month in 1865 witnessed the frenzied fall of Richmond, a daring last-ditch Southern plan for guerrilla warfare, Lee’s harrowing retreat, and then, Appomattox. It saw Lincoln’s assassination just f
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Winik, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0060899689
- Language: English
