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100 Poems
$13.40
Selected poems from a Nobel laureateIn 100 Poems, readers will enjoy the most loved and celebrated poems, and will discover new favorites, from "The Cure at Troy" to "Death of a Naturalist." It is a singular and welcoming anthology, reaching far and wide, for now and for years to come.Seamus Heaney ..
2666: A Novel
$50.72
THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM “ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS” (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW)Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño’s life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in ..
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
A Bit More Bert
$9.72
The bumbling, child-friendly hero of The Adventures of Bert returns to transform mundane moments and everyday tasks into "adventures" that are now even more ridiculous. We meet Bert's mother (and learn Bert's secret regarding her boiled cabbage). We help Bert get a haircut (with uneven results). And..
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
A Boy Named Giotto
$15.28
A sparkling celebration of the pre-Renaissance masterCenturies ago, a shepherd boy drew pictures of his sheep in the sand and on stones. Today, everyone knows him as Giotto, the pre-Renaissance master whose magnificent frescoes illuminate the Church of St. Francis in Assisi and the Scrovegni Chapel ..
A Circle of Quiet
$13.78
Records one woman's attempt to understand the complexities of human nature and life Author: L'Engle, Madeleine Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0374123748 ISBN-13: 9780374123741..
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
A Dangerous Engine: Benjamin Franklin, from Scient...
$8.45
At the time of his famous kite experiment, Benjamin Franklin was unaware that his theories about electricity had already made him a celebrity all over Europe, especially in France, where fashionable circles loved to discuss scientific discovery. Admired by the French court and beloved by French citi..
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
A Family Secret
$12.96
While searching his grandmother’s attic for likely items to sell at a yard sale, Jeroen finds a photo album that brings back hard memories for his grandmother, Helena. Helena tells Jeroen for the first time about her experiences during the German occupation of the Netherlands during the Second World..
A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story
$8.61
One of the rare memoirs of Afghanistan to have been written by an Afghan, A Fort of Nine Towers reveals the richness and suffering of life in a country whose history has become deeply entwined with our own.For the young Qais Akbar Omar, Kabul was a city of gardens where he flew kites from his grandf..
A Giacometti Portrait
$9.05
When we look at a painting hanging on an art gallery wall, we see only what the artist has chosen to disclose--the finished work of art. What remains mysterious is the process of creation itself--the making of the work of art. Everyone who has looked at paintings has wondered about this, and numerou..
A Mauriac Reader
$56.92
A Mauriac Reader Author: Francois Mauriac Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0374204209 ISBN-13: 9780374204204..
A Mauriac Reader: Including A Kiss for the Leper, ...
$21.39
A Mauriac Reader: Including A Kiss for the Leper, Genetrix, The Desert of Love, The Knot of Vipers, and Woman of the Pharisees Author: Mauriac, François Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0374668000 ISBN-13: 9780374668006..
A model childhood
$19.50
Text: English, German (translation) Author: Wolf, Christa Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0374211701 ISBN-13: 9780374211707..
A Riot of Our Own: Night and Day with the Clash
$10.60
Johnny Green was a footloose slacker who loved punk rock, stumbled into being a roadie for the Sex Pistols, then tripped again into a job pushing sound equipment for the Clash and driving their beat-up van to performances in the mean industrial towns of England. Disaffected youth anointed the Clash ..
A Small Place
$8.32
A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may ..
A Summer World: The Attempt to Build a Jewish Eden...
$12.75
The story of the attempt to build a Jewish Eden in the Catskills, from the days of the ghetto to the rise and decline of the great resorts. Author: Kanfer, Stefan Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0374271801 ISBN-13: 9780374271800..
A Vanished World
$28.74
This pictorial history of Jewish life in Germany in the 1930s before the Holocaust, shows the stories of individuals, their increasing poverty, sad wisdom and enduring love in the years leading up to World War II. Author: Vishniac, Roman Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Binding: Paperback Langua..
A Vanished World
$29.99
This pictorial history of Jewish life in Germany in the 1930s before the Holocaust, shows the stories of individuals, their increasing poverty, sad wisdom and enduring love in the years leading up to World War II. Author: Roman Vishniac Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Binding: Hardcover Languag..
A Wave: Poems
$11.87
First published in 1984 and now appearing in a new edition, A Wave is widely considered one of Ashbery's finest books of poetry. The 44 pieces collected here--particularly the long title-poem--find the poet applying his uniquely lyric, meditative, and often hilarious sensibility to the mysterious an..
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure
$8.73
In this groundbreaking book, Tim Harford, the Undercover Economist, shows us a new and inspiring approach to solving the most pressing problems in our lives. When faced with complex situations, we have all become accustomed to looking to our leaders to set out a plan of action and blaze a path to su..
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Adèle & Simon (Adele & Simon)
$9.07
When Simon's older sister, Adèle, picks him up from school, he has his hat and gloves and scarf and sweater, his coat and knapsack and books and crayons, and a drawing of a cat he made that morning. Adèle makes Simon promise to try not to lose anything. But as they make their way home, distractions ..
Adventures in the Atomic Age: From Watts to Washin...
$11.50
America's greatest twentieth-century scientist tells his own story.Glenn T. Seaborg (1912-1999) won a Nobel Prize before he was forty. He discovered the element that makes atomic bombs explode and the isotopes used to treat millions of cancer patients. He ran the University of California at Berkeley..
Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer's Tour ...
$25.17
A noted wine importer offers a tour of the great wines and talented winemakers of France, as well as restaurants grand and small, and introduces a host of fascinating characters Author: Lynch, Kermit Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0374100926 ISBN-1..
Alice in Bed: A Play
$8.73
Alice in Bed is a free dramatic fantasy which merges the life of Alice James, the brilliant sister of William and Henry James, with the heroine of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. It is a play about the anguish and grief and rage of women; and about the triumphs and limitations of the imaginatio..
All the Odes: A Bilingual Edition
$18.36
A career-spanning volume, charting the Nobel laureate's work in the ode formPablo Neruda was a master of the ode, which he conceived as an homage to just about everything that surrounded him from an artichoke to the clouds in the sky, from the moon to his own friendship with Federico García Lorca, f..
All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems
$19.55
A NEW RETROSPECTIVE OF ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST INNOVATIVE POETSAll the Whiskey in Heaven brings together Charles Bernstein's best work from the past thirty years, an astonishing assortment of different types of poems. Yet despite the distinctive differences from poem to poem, Bernstein's characteristi..