Search
Products meeting the search criteria
A Diamond in the Desert: Behind the Scenes in Abu ...
$10.16
Tatchell takes us on a tour of the city with an outlook that’s part native, part critic, part wide-eyed traveler. The result is a truly original collage of perspectives and images, from a regal expatriate whose husband was one of the first Brits to settle in Abu Dhabi to young Emirati artists celebr..
A Foreign Woman
$90.93
After leaving the Soviet Union following a series of unsatisfying relationships, Marusya Tatarovich quickly becomes the center of the Russian community in Queens, New York, but finds that it mirrors in many ways the community she left behind Author: Dovlatov, Sergei Publisher: Grove Pr Binding: Hard..
A Girl Made of Dust
$9.85
A Girl Made of Dust is a sophisticated exploration of one family’s private battle to survive in the midst of civil war.In her peaceful town outside Beirut, Ruba is slowly awakening to the shifting contours within her household: hardly speaking and refusing to work, her father has inexplicably withdr..
A Glass of Water
$9.86
A Glass of Water is a gripping tale of family, loyalty, ambition, and revenge that offers an intimate look into the tragedies unfurling at our country’s borders. The first novel from award-winning memoirist, poet, and activist, Jimmy Santiago Baca, it is a passionate and galvanizing addition to Chic..
A Place to Stand
$8.67
Jimmy Santiago Baca's harrowing, brilliant memoir of his life before, during, and immediately after the years he spent in a maximum-security prison garnered tremendous critical acclaim and went on to win the prestigious 2001 International Prize. Long considered one of the best poets in America today..
A Price Too High
$13.46
Autobiography of Rawlinson Author: Rawlinson, Peter Publisher: Grove Pr Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0297794310 ISBN-13: 9780297794318..
A Symphony in the Brain: The Evolution of the New ...
$8.66
A Newly Revised and Expanded EditionIn the decade since Jim Robbins’s A Symphony in the Brain was first published, the control of our bodies, brains, and minds has taken remarkable leaps. From neurofeedback with functional magnetic resonance imaging equipment, to the use of radio waves, to biofeedba..
Act of the Damned
$11.99
As the socialist revolution closes in, a once-wealthy Portuguese family is accused of "economic sabotage." They must escape across the border to Spain, then on to Brazil -- but the family is bankrupt, financially and spiritually. The patriarch, Diogo, lies dying, while his rapacious offspring rifle ..
Adios, Happy Homeland
$13.66
In this follow-up to her beloved, prize-winning debut, In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Ana Menéndez delivers a liberating, magical, and modern take on the idea of migration and flight.Adios, Happy Homeland! is a wildly innovative collection of interlinked ..
Anthology of Chinese Literature: Volume II: From t...
$11.75
Represented here are examples of various categories of Chinese literary composition-verses, songs, stories, essays, drama, and excerpts from novels from the Y’an and Ching Dynasties, as well as the Republican Period. Highlights include Songs from the Y’an Dynasty, The Temptation of Saint Pigsy by Wu..
Apache: Inside the Cockpit of the World's Most Dea...
$8.79
Apache is the incredible true story of Ed Macy, a decorated Apache helicopter pilot, that takes you inside the cockpit of the world’s most dangerous war machine. A firsthand account of the exhilaration and ferocity of war, Apache chronicles a rescue mission involving a stranded soldier in Afghanista..
At the Full and Change of the Moon
$14.02
Written with lyrical fire in a chorus of vividly rendered voices, Dionne Brand's second novel is an epic of the African diaspora across the globe. It begins in 1824 on Trinidad, where Marie-Ursule, queen of a secret slave society called the Sans Peur Regiment, plots a mass suicide. The end of the Sa..
Baal, A Man's a Man, and the Elephant Calf: Early ...
$13.14
Brecht, Bertolt, Baal, A Man's A Man, The Elephant Calf Author: Bertolt Brecht Publisher: Evergreen/ Grove Press, Inc Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0394174240 ISBN-13: 9780394174242..
Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitu...
$8.72
Barrow's Boys is a spellbinding account of perilous journeys to uncharted areas under the most challenging conditions. Fergus Fleming captures the passion for exploration that led a band of men into situations that would humble today's bravest adventurers.After the Napoleonic wars, John Barrow, Seco..
Berlin in Lights: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessl...
$24.83
Count Harry Kessler (1868-1937), the son of a German banker and an Irish beauty, was a diplomat and publisher who moved easily among the worlds of art, politics, and society. He lived in Berlin but traveled throughout Europe, always with a keen eye for the political climate of the times. His diaries..
Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a M...
$41.72
Dramatizes the experiences of Huck Finn and Jim, a runaway slave, as they travel down the Mississippi River. Author: Miller, Roger Publisher: Grove Pr Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394553640 ISBN-13: 9780394553641..
Birders: Tales of a Tribe
$7.69
For thirty years, journalist Mark Cocker has been a member of a community of fanatics who sacrifice most of their spare time, a good deal of money, sometimes their chances of a partner or family, even their lives, to watch birds. In Birders, Cocker not only introduces lay-readers to the venerable ar..
Birdman (Jack Caffery/Walking Man Series)
$13.08
Now in Grove Press paperback for the first time, Birdman showcases Hayder at her spine-tingling best as beloved series character Jack Caffery tracks down a terrifying serial killer.In his first case as lead investigator with London’s crack murder squad, Detective Inspector Jack Caffery is called on ..
Black Skin, White Masks
$11.20
A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a vit..
Black Spring
$12.45
Continuing the subversive self-revelation begun in Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller takes readers along a mad, free-associating journey from the damp grime of his Brooklyn youth to the sun-splashed cafes and squalid flats of Paris. With incomparable glee, Miller shifts effortle..
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
$10.85
Published to rave reviews in the United Kingdom and named a Richard & Judy Book Club selection-the only work of nonfiction on the 2008 list-Blood River is the harrowing and audacious story of Tim Butcher's journey in the Congo and his retracing of renowned explorer H. M. Stanley's famous 1874 expedi..
Cereus Blooms at Night
$13.15
Judged unfit to stand trial for a murder she is accused of committing many years before, the aging, notoriously crazy Mala Ramchandin is placed under the care of a vivacious male nurse who becomes her unlikely confidant. First serial, Grand Street. Tour. Author: Mootoo, Shani Publisher: Grove Pr Bin..
Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused: Fiction from Tod...
$7.95
Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused is a showcase for 20 writers from the new literary generation in China. Hard-core realism, experimental prose, and black humor; exoticism and eroticism;shocking tales of brutality, tender evocations of love, and engrossing mysteries all coexist in an anthology that s..
Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Li...
$14.32
A former postman and long-term alcoholic who did not become a full-time writer until middle age, Charles Bukowski was the author of autobiographical novels that captured the low life--including Post Office, Factotum, and Women--and made him a literary celebrity, with a major Hollywood film (Barfly) ..
Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor
$11.20
Product DescriptionA portrait of the English-born actor who performed in films and stage roles and set the standards for several major roles, but who faced both professional struggles and personal turmoil and never recognized his own legendary statusFrom Publishers WeeklyCallow, who portrayed Mozart..