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Series:
A House of My Own
Stories from My Life
Paperback
Sandra Cisneros
9780345807175
$21.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 06, 2016
Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative NonfictionFrom Chicago to Mexico, the places Sandra Cisneros has lived have provided inspiration for her now-classic works of fiction and poetry. But a house of her own, a place where she could truly take root, has eluded her. In this jigsaw autobiography, made up of essays and images spanning three decades—and including never-before-published work—Cisneros has come home at last. Written with her trademark lyricism, in these signature pieces the acclaimed author of The House on Mango Stre...
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Series: Bruno, Chief of Police Series
The Patriarch
A Mystery of the French Countryside
Paperback
Martin Walker
9780804173513
$22.00
FICTION
Sep 06, 2016
The tenth installment in the delightful, internationally acclaimed series featuring Chief of Police Bruno.Bruno Courrèges is thrilled when he receives an invitation to the lavish birthday celebration of his childhood hero, World War II flying ace Marco “the Patriarch” Desaix. But when the party ends in the death of one of Marco’s longtime friends, Gilbert, it turns into another day on the job for St. Denis's chief of police. All signs point to a tragic accident, but Bruno isn’t so sure, for there is more to the Desaix family's lives and loyalt...
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Series:
Skinny Dip
Paperback
Carl Hiaasen
9781101973035
$21.95
FICTION
Sep 06, 2016
Chaz Perrone may care more about Hummers than hammerheads, but he’s done pretty well for himself as a marine biologist, doctoring water samples so that an agribusiness tycoon can continue dumping fertilizer into the Everglades. When Chaz suspects that his wife, Joey Perrone, has figured out his scam, he resolves to push her overboard a cruise liner into the seething Atlantic. But if Chaz is a subpar scientist, he’s an even worse killer. Joey, clinging blindly to a bale of Jamaican pot, is plucked from the ocean by a rugged stranger. Instead of ...
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Series:
The Household Spirit
A Novel
Paperback
Tod Wodicka
9780307388643
$22.95
FICTION
Sep 06, 2016
Although they’ve lived side by side in the only two houses on Route 29 in rural upstate New York for over twenty years, Howie Jeffries—avid fisherman, accidental recluse—and Emily Phane—seemingly well-adjusted college student—have never actually spoken to each other. Both have their reasons: Howie is debilitatingly shy, and Emily has been hiding the fact that she suffers from a nighttime affliction that makes her terrified to go to sleep. But one day, when they least expect it, their worlds finally intersect. A most curious—and curiously funny—...
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Series:
Eyes
Novellas and Stories
Paperback
William H. Gass
9781101873335
$22.00
FICTION
Sep 20, 2016
The point where an underground spring suddenly bursts to the surface is known as an eye. It is a place of mystery, where dry ground becomes soaked with life-giving water, and nature gives us a glimpse of all that happens out of the realm of human vision. So begins William Gass’s latest collection, with these evocative lines from Jan DeBlieu. What follows are six extraordinary works of fiction: stories and novellas that capture these moments of mystery and explore the hidden philosophical depths of everyday life as only Gass can. “Charity” exam...
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Series: Vintage Contemporaries
The Mare
A Novel
Paperback
Mary Gaitskill
9780307743602
$22.95
FICTION
Oct 04, 2016
One of the Best Books of the YearThe New York Times • The Washington Post • NPR • San Francisco Chronicle • Vanity Fair • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel • Kansas City StarWhen Velveteen Vargas, an eleven-year-old Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn, comes to stay with a family in upstate New York, what begins as a two-week visit blossoms into something much more significant. Soon Velvet finds herself torn between her host family—Ginger, a failed artist and shakily recovered alcoholic; and Paul, a college professor—and her own deeply tormented mother. ...
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Series:
The Big Book of Jack the Ripper
Paperback
Otto Penzler
9781101971130
$34.00
FICTION
Oct 04, 2016
Edgar Award–winning editor Otto Penzler's latest anthology takes its inspiration from the historical enigma whose name has become synonymous with fear: Jack the Ripper. Of the real-life serial killers whose gruesome acts have been splashed across headlines, none has reached the mythical status of Jack the Ripper. In the Ripper's wake, terror swept through the streets of London’s East End in the fall of 1888. As quickly as his nightmarish reign came, Saucy Jack vanished without a trace—leaving future generations to speculate upon his identity...
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Series:
This Gulf of Fire
The Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason
Paperback
Mark Molesky
9780307387509
$23.00
HISTORY
Oct 18, 2016
Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book AwardA Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistThe captivating and definitive account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake--the most consequential natural disaster of modern times.On All Saints’ Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring approximately 9.0 or perhaps higher on the magnitude scale swept furiously toward Lisbon, then one of the wealthiest cities in the world and the capital of a vast global empire. Within minutes, much of the city lay in ruins. A half hour later, a giant tsunami unleas...
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Series:
The Improbability of Love
A Novel
Paperback
Hannah Rothschild
9781101872574
$22.95
FICTION
Sep 06, 2016
Finalist for the Baileys Women's PrizeAnnie McDee, thirty-one, lives in a shabby London flat, works as a chef, and is struggling to get by. Reeling from a sudden breakup, she’s taken on an unsuitable new lover and finds herself rummaging through a secondhand shop to buy him a birthday gift. A dusty, anonymous old painting catches her eye. After spending her meager savings on the artwork, Annie prepares an exquisite birthday dinner for two—only to be stood up. The painting becomes hers, and Annie begins to suspect that it may be more valuable t...
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Series:
When Parents Part
How Mothers and Fathers Can Help Their Children Deal with Separation and Divorce
Paperback
Penelope Leach
9781101872192
$22.00
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Oct 18, 2016
Using the latest scientific research in child development, Penelope Leach, author of the best-selling Your Baby & Child, details the effects of divorce on children in five stages of life—infants, toddlers, primary-school children, teenagers, and young adults—some of whom are far more deeply affected than previously thought. She explains recent studies that overturn common assumptions, showing, for example, that many standard custody arrangements for young children can be harmful. Leach’s advice is meticulously considered and exhaustive, coveri...
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Series:
Custer's Trials
A Life on the Frontier of a New America
Paperback
T.J. Stiles
9780307475947
$24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 25, 2016
Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryIn this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer’s legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer’s historical caricature, revealing a capable yet insecure man, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military (court-martialed twice in six years) and the new corporate economy, a wartime emancipator who rejected racial equality. Sti...
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Series: Vintage Classics
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Paperback
Thomas Hardy
9780345804013
$15.00
FICTION
Nov 08, 2016
The Mayor of Casterbridge, one of Thomas Hardy’s most powerful novels, opens with a scene of shocking heartlessness. In a fit of drunken rage, Michael Henchard, an out-of-work laborer, sells his wife and baby daughter to a passing sailor. When the horror of what he has done dawns on him the next day, he determines to set his life on a different path, and through years of hard work and ambition rises to become the rich and respectable mayor of his town. Secret guilt continues to haunt this proud and brooding man, however, and when his wife and g...
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Series:
Gender Outlaw
On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us
Paperback
Kate Bornstein
9781101973240
$22.00
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 15, 2016
“I know I’m not a man . . . and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m probably not a woman, either. . . . . The trouble is, we’re living in a world that insists we be one or the other.” With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers readers on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity. On one level, Gender Outlaw details Bornstein’s transformation from heterosexual male to lesbian woman, from a one-time IBM salesperson to a playwright and performance artist. But this particular coming-of-age story is a...
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Series:
The Invention of Nature
Alexander von Humboldt's New World
Paperback
Andrea Wulf
9780345806291
$23.00
NATURE
Oct 04, 2016
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the process created modern environmentalism.NATIONAL BEST SELLEROne of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, The James Wright Award for Nature Writing, the Costa Biography Award, the Royal Geographic Society's Ness Award, the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing AwardFinalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excell...
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Series: Vintage Classics
Poems
Paperback
William Blake
9781101973141
$22.00
POETRY
Dec 13, 2016
Patti Smith’s personal selection of poems by the visionary Romantic poet and artist, with a moving introduction in which she calls him “the spiritual ancestor” of generations of poets and invites us to “walk with him.” VINTAGE CLASSICS.William Blake is one of England’s most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, was also a painter, engraver, radical, and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source of inspiration to the ma...
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Series:
The Life of Saul Bellow
To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964
Paperback
Zachary Leader
9780307388933
$29.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Nov 15, 2016
For much of his adult life, Saul Bellow was the most acclaimed novelist in America, the winner of, among other awards, the Nobel Prize in Literature, three National Book Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize. The Life of Saul Bellow, by the literary scholar and biographer Zachary Leader, draws on unprecedented access to Bellow’s papers, including much previously restricted material, as well as interviews with more than 150 of the novelist’s relatives, close friends, colleagues, and lovers, a number of whom have never spoken to researchers before. Thro...
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Series:
The English and Their History
Paperback
Robert Tombs
9781101873366
$34.00
HISTORY
Nov 29, 2016
Named a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The EconomistThe English first materialized as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. From the armed Saxon bands that descended onto Roman-controlled Britain in the fifth century to the travails of the Eurozone plaguing the prime-ministership of today's multicultural England, acclaimed historian Robert Tombs presents a momentous and challenging history of a people who have a claim to be the...
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Series:
The Spectacle of Skill
New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes
Paperback
Robert Hughes
9780307385994
$27.00
LITERARY CRITICISM
Nov 29, 2016
Over the course of his distinguished career, Robert Hughes wrote with brutal honesty about art, architecture, culture, religion—and himself. The Spectacle of Skill brings together some of his most unforgettable pieces, culled from nine of his most widely read and important books, alongside never-before-published pages from his unfinished second volume of memoirs. Showcasing Hughes’s enormous range, this indispensable anthology offers a uniquely cohesive view of both the critic and the man.
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Series:
1946
The Making of the Modern World
Paperback
Victor Sebestyen
9781101910283
$24.00
HISTORY
Nov 29, 2016
Nineteen forty-six is the year that would signal the beginning of the Cold War, the end of the British Empire, and the beginning of the rivalry between the United States and the USSR. Victor Sebestyen reveals the year’s events by chronologically framing what was taking place in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, with seminal decisions made by heads of state that would profoundly change the old order forever. The map of Eastern Europe would be redrawn, Chinese communists would gain decisive victories in their fight for power, and the world would...
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Series:
Stories I Tell Myself
Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson
Paperback
Juan F. Thompson
9780307277855
$22.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Dec 13, 2016
Hunter S. Thompson, “smart hillbilly,” boy of the South, born and bred in Louisville, Kentucky, son of an insurance salesman and a stay-at-home mom, public school-educated, jailed at seventeen on a bogus petty robbery charge, member of the U.S. Air Force (Airmen Second Class), copy boy for Time, writer for The National Observer, et cetera. From the outset he was the Wild Man of American journalism with a journalistic appetite that touched on subjects that drove his sense of justice and intrigue, from biker gangs and 1960s counterculture to pres...
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Series:
The Annotated Big Sleep
Paperback
Raymond Chandler
9780804168885
$34.00
LITERARY CRITICISM
Jul 17, 2018
The first fully annotated edition of Raymond Chandler’s 1939 classic The Big Sleep, with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem, features hundreds of illuminating notes and images alongside the full text of the novel and is an essential addition to any crime fiction fan’s library. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original.A masterpiece of noir, Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep helped to define a genre and remains one of the most celebrated and stylish novels of the twentieth century. Now, this comprehensive, annotated edition offers a fascinating look ...
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Series:
The Winter Girl
Paperback
Matt Marinovich
9781101873816
$22.00
FICTION
Dec 13, 2016
It’s wintertime in the Hamptons, where a young couple, Scott and his wife, Elise, are staying at the home of her terminally ill father, awaiting the inevitable. As weeks turn to months, the fault lines in their marriage start to show and Scott, bored and left to his own devices, decides to sneak into the seemingly vacant house next door. Exhilarated by his transgression, he soon convinces Elise to join him for a return visit, but their decision leads to a shocking discovery. As deep-buried secrets come to the fore and it becomes clear that thin...
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Series:
NeuroLogic
The Brain's Hidden Rationale Behind Our Irrational Behavior
Paperback
Eliezer Sternberg
9780345807250
$22.00
MEDICAL
Dec 13, 2016
A groundbreaking investigation of the brain’s hidden logic behind our strangest behaviors, and of how conscious and unconscious systems interact in order to create our experience and preserve our sense of self. From bizarre dreams and hallucinations to schizophrenia and multiple personalities, the human brain is responsible for a diverse spectrum of strange thoughts and behaviors. When observed from the outside, these phenomena are often written off as being just “crazy,” but what if they were actually planned and logical? NeuroLogic explores t...
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Series:
La luz entre nosotros
Paperback
Laura Lynne Jackson
9781101974339
$22.00
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
Aug 09, 2016
La historia de una mujer con un increíble poder psíquico y un maravilloso mensaje del Otro Lado, que nos ayudará a tener una vida plena en el aquí y en el ahora. La luz entre nosotros narra la vida de Laura Lynne Jackson, quien tiene un don extraordinario: puede hablar con las almas que están en el Otro Lado. Madre, esposa, maestra y médium, Laura nos cuenta su lucha por aceptar ese don, la negación que vivió durante muchos años, y cómo, al final, encontró la paz al entender científicamente esta gran virtud y descubrir que podía ayudar a la g...
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Series:
Divorcio en el aire
Paperback
Gonzalo Torne
9781101974018
$22.00
FICTION
Aug 16, 2016
La tercera novela de Gonzalo Torné confirma lo que se apuntaba en Hilos de sangre: la construcción de un mundo que indaga en las profundidades de la condición humana a la vez que se exploran las posibilidades formales de la novela. Divorcio en el aire empieza cuando Joan-Marc y Helen se marchan a un balneario para tratar de salvar su matrimonio. Ese espacio se convierte en el eje de una historia que relata el origen de su relación con Helen, primero en Madrid y luego en Barcelona, así como la biografía del propio Joan-Marc: su educación, su in...
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Series:
Una casa propia
Historias de mi vida
Paperback
Sandra Cisneros
9780345807182
$21.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 06, 2016
Desde Chicago a México, los lugares en los que Sandra Cisneros ha vivido han servido de inspiración para sus trabajos ya clásicos de ficción y poesía. Sin embargo, una casa propia, un lugar en el que realmente pueda echar raíces, la ha eludido. En esta autobiografía rompecabezas, formada de ensayos e imágenes a través de tres décadas (algunas nunca antes publicadas) Cisneros ha llegado por fin a casa. Escrito con su muy conocido lirismo, la autora de La casa en Mango Street comparte los recuerdos que la han transformado y revela sus influencias...
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Series:
El manual del paciente
Paperback
Leslie D. Michelson
9781101969809
$22.95
HEALTH & FITNESS
Oct 18, 2016
Una llamada a la acción –a que cambies la manera en que gestionas tu salud y la de tu familia. Consejo experto para ayudarte a · Elegir a los mejores médicos· Seleccionar los planes médicos apropiados· Mejorar las búsquedas online· Organizar tu equipo de apoyo· Prevenir errores médicos
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Series:
Inferno (Movie Tie-in edition en Espanol)
Paperback
Dan Brown
9781101974438
$19.00
FICTION
Sep 20, 2016
El profesor de simbología en Harvard Robert Langdon despierta en un hospital a media noche. Desorientado y con una herida en la cabeza, no recuerda nada de las últimas treinta y seis horas, incluyendo como llegó allí o el origen de ese macabro objeto que los médicos han descubierto entre sus pertenencias. Con una incansable asesina persiguiéndoles por Florencia, Langdon y la ingeniosa doctora Sienna Brooks se ven obligados a huir. Embarcados en un aterrador viaje, deberán desentramar una serie de códigos desarrollados por un brillante cien...
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Series:
Born to Run (Spanish-language edition)
Paperback
Bruce Springsteen
9781101974469
$24.00
MUSIC
Sep 27, 2016
“Escribir sobre uno mismo es algo muy curioso. [...] Pero en un proyecto como este el escritor hace una promesa: mostrarle su mente al lector. Y eso es lo que he intentado hacer en estas páginas”. —Bruce Springsteen En 2009, Bruce Springsteen y la E Street Band actuaron durante el intermedio de la Super Bowl. La experiencia fue tan maravillosa que Bruce se propuso escribir sobre ello. Así comenzó esta extraordinaria autobiografía, que el cantante ha escrito durante los últimos siete años, dotando a estas páginas de la misma honestidad, humor...
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Series:
Huracán
Paperback
Sofía Segovia
9781101973851
$21.00
FICTION
Oct 11, 2016
Por la autora de El murmullo de las abejas,una historia desgarradora e inolvidableEsta novela da cuenta de la impactante historia de Aniceto Mora, el Regalado. Hijo de un padre sin escrúpulos en el seno de una familia asolada por la miseria y el resentimiento, Aniceto es abandonado a su suerte: su infancia transcurre entre la pobreza y el desdén de los adultos. A cada vuelta de página, asistimos al vertiginoso despeñamiento de un personaje cuyo destino está marcado por la fatalidad.Un huracán arrasa la isla de Cozumel dejando a su paso tragedia...
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Series:
Una inspiración para cada día
Paperback
Robin S. Sharma
9781101972168
$22.00
SELF-HELP
Nov 01, 2016
Todos necesitamos inspirarnos a diario. Tanto para ser brillantes en nuestro trabajo como para tener éxito en nuestra vida. La inspiración resulta imprescindible para alcanzar nuestros sueños y para convertirnos en aquel que siempre hemos querido ser. En definitiva, necesitamos iluminación para sobrellevar los momentos más duros de nuestra existencia, y también para saborear los mejores instantes y atesorarlos en nuestra memoria. En Una inspiración para cada día, Robin Sharma destila los conceptos más reveladores y significativos de su bes...
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Series:
Supergenes (En Espanol)
Spanish-language edition of Super Genes
Paperback
Deepak Chopra M.D.
9781101973363
$23.00
HEALTH & FITNESS
May 02, 2017
Authors of the New York Times bestseller Super Brain mix cutting-edge science and spiritual wisdom to present a bold new understanding of our genes and how changes in lifestyle can not only benefit our genetics but help lead us to happier, healthier, and more fulfilling lives.[English-language edition: Super Genes, Harmony Books, HC, 11/10/2015]“You are not simply the sum output of your genome,” writes Deepak Chopra and Rudy Tanzi, “you are the user and inventor of your genome.” This revolutionary idea is at the heart of the new book from the b...
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Series:
Más agudo, más rápido y mejor
Los secretos para ser más productivo en la vida y en el trabajo
Paperback
Charles Duhigg
9781101973868
$22.00
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Nov 15, 2016
“La productividad tiene que ver sobre todo con elegir ciertas opciones de ciertas maneras; con cómo nos vemos a nosotros mismos y nos enfrentamos a las decisiones cotidianas, con las historias que nos contamos y los objetivos fáciles que ignoramos, con el sentimiento de grupo que creamos entre nuestros compañeros de equipo y con las costumbres creativas que instauramos como líderes. Estas son las cosas que diferencian a los simplemente ocupados de los genuinamente productivos”. —Charles Duhigg
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Series:
Audaz, Productivo y feliz
Paperback
Robin S. Sharma
9781101973882
$21.00
SELF-HELP
Dec 06, 2016
Audaz, productivo y feliz constituye una valiosa guía para alcanzar la excelencia personal y profesional. Este libro ofrece propuestas prácticas que contribuirán a un cambio rápido en los hábitos diarios para alcanzar el máximo potencial de cada uno. Robin Sharma incluye aquí 36 módulos capaces de transformar radicalmente la dinámica vital para conducir al lector a horizontes profesionales y personales más elevados. El autor nos invita a reflexionar sobre la forma en que vivimos y trabajamos, y a compro-meternos a introducir cambios de rumbo pr...
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Series:
The Foxfire Book of Simple Living
Celebrating Fifty Years of Listenin', Laughin', and Learnin'
Paperback
Foxfire Fund, Inc.
9780804173100
$25.95
CRAFTS & HOBBIES
Aug 23, 2016
First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the old-fashioned way, or learn the art of successful moonshining, The Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center had a contact who could teach you how with clear, step-by-step instructions. Today, Foxfire's mission remains the same, and The Foxfire Book of Simple Living is both a rich look back at five decades of collected wisdom, as well as an intriguing lo...
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Series:
Black Flags
The Rise of ISIS
Paperback
Joby Warrick
9780804168939
$22.00
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Sep 06, 2016
WINNER OF THE 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION“A Best Book of 2015”—The New York Times, The Washington Post, People Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Kansas City Star, and Kirkus ReviewsIn a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents. Drawing on unique high-level access to CIA and Jordanian sources, Warrick weaves gripping, moment-by-moment operationa...
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Series:
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016
Paperback
Laura Furman
9781101971116
$22.00
FICTION
Sep 06, 2016
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories range in setting from Japan at the outset of World War II to a remote cabin in the woods of Wyoming, and the characters that inhabit them range from a misanthropic survivor of an apocalyptic flood to a unicorn hidden in a suburban house. Whether fantastical or realistic, gothic or lyrical, the stories here are uniformly breathtaking. They are accompanied by the editor’s introduction, ...
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Series:
Nine Essential Things I've Learned About Life
Paperback
Harold S. Kushner
9780804173452
$21.00
RELIGION
Sep 06, 2016
In this compassionate and deeply personal work, Rabbi Harold S. Kushner distills his experiences as a twenty-first-century rabbi into nine essential takeaways. Offering readers a lifetime’s worth of spiritual food for thought, pragmatic advice, and strength for trying times, he gives fresh, vital insight into belief, conscience, mercy, and more. Grounded in Kushner’s brilliant readings of scripture, history, and popular culture, Nine Essential Things I’ve Learned About Life is practical, illuminating, and compulsory advice for living a good life.
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Series:
Inferno (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Paperback
Dan Brown
9781101972977
$13.99
FICTION
Sep 20, 2016
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLERHarvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital, disoriented and with no recollection of the past thirty-six hours, including the origin of the macabre object hidden in his belongings. With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Brooks, are forced to flee. Embarking on a harrowing journey, they must unravel a series of codes, which are the work of a brilliant scientist whose obsession with the end of the worl...
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Series:
Inferno (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Paperback
Dan Brown
9781101974117
$22.00
FICTION
Sep 20, 2016
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLERHarvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital, disoriented and with no recollection of the past thirty-six hours, including the origin of the macabre object hidden in his belongings. With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Brooks, are forced to flee. Embarking on a harrowing journey, they must unravel a series of codes, which are the work of a brilliant scientist whose obsession with the end of the worl...
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Series:
Empire of Self
A Life of Gore Vidal
Paperback
Jay Parini
9780345805836
$24.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 20, 2016
An intimate, authorized yet totally frank biography of Gore Vidal (1925–2012), one of the most accomplished, visible, and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini’s Empire of Self digs behind the glittering surface of Gore Vidal’s colorful career to reveal the complex emotional and sexual truths underlying his celebrity-strewn life. But there is plenty of glittering surface as well—a virtual Who’s Who of the twentieth century, from Eleanor Ro...
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Series:
The Apartment
Paperback
S L Grey
9781101972946
$21.00
FICTION
Oct 04, 2016
From Blumhouse Books, a haunting thriller about a troubled married couple whose vacation to Paris leads them into a nightmare. "Dark and deeply disturbing. I'm still shuddering."--R.L. Stine“An impressively compelling chiller… an ideal choice for late nights alone.” -- CultureCrypt Mark and Steph have a relatively happy family with their young daughter in sunny Cape Town until one day when armed men in balaclavas break in to their home. Left traumatized but physically unharmed, Mark and Steph are unable to return to normal and live in constant ...
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Series:
This Old Man
All in Pieces
Paperback
Roger Angell
9781101971390
$22.00
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Oct 18, 2016
Roger Angell, the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, steps up with a selection of writings that celebrate a view from the tenth decade of an engaged, vibrant life. Whether it’s a Fourth of July in rural Maine, the opening game of the 2015 World Series, editorial exchanges with John Updike, a letter to a son, or his award-winning essay on aging, “This Old Man,” what links the pieces is Angell’s unique perceptions and humor, his utter absence of self-pity, and his appreciation of friends and colleagues encountered over a fruitful career unli...
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Series:
American Housewife
Paperback
Helen Ellis
9781101970997
$21.00
FICTION
Oct 18, 2016
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Catchy, smart and very, very funny.” —The Washington Post Meet the women of American Housewife. They wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it’s cloudy. They casserole. They pinwheel. And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the body to pull cookies from the oven. Taking us from a haunted pre-war Manhattan apartment building to the unique initiation ritual of a book club, these twelve delightfully demented stories are a refreshing and wicked answer to the question: “What do housewives do all day?”
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Series:
Sinatra
The Chairman
Paperback
James Kaplan
9780307946935
$27.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 25, 2016
One of the Best Books of the Year The Washington Post • Los Angeles Times • Milwaukee Journal SentinelThe story of Frank Sinatra’s second act, Sinatra finds the Chairman on top of the world, riding high after an Oscar victory—and firmly reestablished as the top recording artist of his day. Following Sinatra from the mid-1950s to his death in 1998, Kaplan uncovers the man behind the myth, revealing by turns the peerless singer, the (sometimes) powerful actor, the business mogul, the tireless lover, and—of course—the close associate of the powerf...
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The Stargazer's Sister
A Novel
Paperback
Carrie Brown
9780804172134
$22.95
FICTION
Dec 13, 2016
Caroline, known as “Lina” to her family, has always lived in the shadow of her older brother William Herschel’s accomplishments. And yet when William invites Lina to join him in England to assist in his musical and astronomical pursuits—not to mention to run his bachelor household—she accepts, finding a new sense of purpose. William may be an obsessive genius, but Lina adores him, and aids him with the same fervency as a beloved wife. When William decides to marry, however, Lina’s world collapses. As she attempts to rebuild a future, we witness...
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Series: EML Pocket Classics Series
Shaken and Stirred
Intoxicating Stories
Hardcover
Diana Secker Tesdell
9781101907801
$22.00
FICTION
Sep 06, 2016
Shaken and Stirred is an enticing literary cocktail of stories about drinking and making merry by great writers from the past two centuries. In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppances at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents overimbibe in tales by Jack London and Alice Munro; riotous partying exacts a comic price in stories by P. G. Wodehouse and Kingsley Amis; Charles Jackson and Jean Rhys chronicle liquor-soaked epiphanies; while John Cheever, Vladimir Nabokov, and Robert Coover set their cha...
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Series: EML Pocket Poets Series
Poems About Sculpture
Hardcover
Murray Dewart
9781101907757
$19.95
POETRY
Sep 06, 2016
Poems About Sculpture is a unique anthology of poems from around the world and across the ages about our most enduring art form. Sculpture has the longest memory of the arts: from the Paleolithic era, we find stone carvings and clay figures embedded with human longing. And poets have long been fascinated by the idea of eternity embodied by the monumental temples and fragmented statues of ancient civilizations. From Keats’s Grecian urn and Shelley’s “Ozymandias” to contemporary verse about Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Janet Echelman...
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The Ambassadors
Hardcover
Henry James
9781101907825
$34.00
FICTION
Sep 20, 2016
A new Everyman's Library hardcover edition of The Ambassadors--one of the great masterpieces of Henry James’s late period, and the author’s own favorite among his works.First published in 1903, the novel follows middle-aged Lambert Strether as he is dispatched from Massachusetts to Paris by his wealthy fiancée to rescue her son, Chad Newsome, from the corrupting influences of Europe and its wicked women. Once the mild-mannered and inexperienced Strether arrives in Paris, however, Chad introduces him to a world that he finds refined and sophisti...
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Series:
Collected Nonfiction, Volume 1
Selections from the Autobiography, Letters, Essays, and Speeches
Hardcover
Mark Twain
9781101907702
$40.00
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Nov 15, 2016
The first of two hardcover volumes collecting the major nonfiction by the "father of American literature": more than 150 letters, essays, and speeches selected to showcase the dazzling range of his interests and passions. An Everyman's Library Original. Whether crossing the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans or blazing through Europe and the Americas, Twain turned his trademark wit, candor, and acerbic sarcasm on all his experiences. We can trace his personal evolution through his ambition-filled missives home to Missouri after moving out West to be a...
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Collected Nonfiction, Volume 2
Selections from the Memoirs and Travel Writings
Hardcover
Mark Twain
9781101907726
$40.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Nov 15, 2016
The second of two hardcover volumes collecting the major nonfiction by the "father of American literature," including excerpts from The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, A Tramp Abroad, and Life on the Mississippi. Twain’s playful exuberance and remarkable storytelling gifts are on full display as he regales readers with real-life adventures in these rollicking, shrewd, and hilarious autobiographical works. In these pages, we follow him through his stint as a fledgling reporter out West to his attempt to navigate a steamboat on the Mississippi Riv...
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Blood in the Water
The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Hardcover
Heather Ann Thompson
9780375423222
$47.00
HISTORY
Aug 23, 2016
WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE 2017 BANCROFT PRIZENATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST * NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK FOR 2016 * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE BOSTON GLOBE, NEWSWEEK, KIRKUS, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLYTHE FIRST DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE INFAMOUS 1971 ATTICA PRISON UPRISING, THE STATE’S VIOLENT RESPONSE, AND THE VICTIMS’ DECADES-LONG QUEST FOR JUSTICE On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protes...
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The Huntress
The Adventures, Escapades, and Triumphs of Alicia Patterson: Aviatrix, Sportswoman, Journalist, Publisher
Hardcover
Alice Arlen
9781101871133
$38.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aug 23, 2016
From National Book Award–winner Michael J. Arlen and screenwriter Alice Arlen, here is the fascinating, adventurous life of Alicia Patterson, who became, at age thirty-four, one of the youngest and most successful newspaper publishers in America when she founded Newsday.With The Huntress, the Arlens give us a revealing picture of the lifestyle and traditions of the Patterson-Medill publishingdynasty—one of the country’s most powerful and influential newspaper families—but also Alicia’s rebellious early years and her dominating father, Joseph Pa...
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Series: Jewish Encounters Series
Where the Jews Aren't
The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region
Hardcover
Masha Gessen
9780805242461
$34.00
HISTORY
Aug 23, 2016
From the acclaimed author of The Man Without a Face, the previously untold story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia that reveals the complex, strange, and heart-wrenching truth behind the familiar narrative that begins with pogroms and ends with emigration.In 1929, the Soviet government set aside a sparsely populated area in the Soviet Far East for settlement by Jews. The place was called Birobidzhan.The idea of an autonomous Jewish region was championed by Jewish Communists, Yiddishists, and intellectuals, who envisioned a haven of post-o...
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Series:
Against Everything
Essays
Hardcover
Mark Greif
9781101871157
$38.95
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Sep 06, 2016
A brilliant collection of essays by a young writer who is already a star in the intellectual firmament. As William Deresiewicz has written in Harper’s Magazine, “[Mark Greif ] is an intellectual, full stop . . . There is much of [Lionel] Trilling in Greif . . . Much also of Susan Sontag . . . What he shares with both, and with the line they represent, is precisely a sense of intellect—of thought, of mind—as a conscious actor in the world.”Over the past eleven years, Greif has been publishing superb, and in some cases already famous, essays in n...
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Choosing a Jewish Life, Revised and Updated
A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for Their Family and Friends
Paperback
Anita Diamant
9780805210958
$21.95
RELIGION
Feb 24, 1998
The definitive guide to the conversion process, revised and updated for a new generation of Jews-by-choice However you choose to fashion your personal journey to Judaism, Anita Diamant is the perfect guide. In this comprehensive, wide-ranging book you will learn how to choose a rabbi, a synagogue, a denomination, and a Hebrew name; how to discuss your decision with your birth family; what happens at the mikveh (ritual bath) and at the hatafat dam brit (circumcision ritual for those already circumcised); how to find your footing in a new spiritu...
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Series:
Policing the Black Man
Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
Hardcover
Angela J. Davis
9781101871270
$36.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jul 11, 2017
A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars.Policing the Black Man explores and critiques the many ways the criminal justice system impacts the lives of African American boys and men at every stage of the criminal process, from arrest through sentencing. Essays range from an explication of the historical roots of racism in the criminal jus...
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Two She-Bears
A Novel
Hardcover
Meir Shalev
9780805243291
$35.95
FICTION
Sep 13, 2016
One of Israel’s most celebrated novelists—the acclaimed author of A Pigeon and a Boy—gives us a story of village love and vengeance in the early days of British Palestine that is still being played out two generations later. “In the year 1930 three farmers committed suicide here . . . but contrary to the chronicles of our committee and the conclusions of the British policeman, the people of the moshava knew that only two of the suicides had actually taken their own lives, whereas the third suicide had been murdered.” This is the contention of R...
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Series:
Time Travel
A History
Hardcover
James Gleick
9780307908797
$35.95
HISTORY
Sep 27, 2016
“A time-jumping, head-tripping odyssey.” —The Millions “A bracing swim in the waters of science, technology and fiction.” —Washington Post “A thrilling journey of ideas.” —Boston GlobeFrom the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. The story begins at the turn of the previous century, with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his f...
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Series: Pantheon Graphic Novels Series
Last Look
Paperback
Charles Burns
9780375715174
$39.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Oct 04, 2016
A true graphic milestone: the epic trilogy that began with X'ed Out, continued in The Hive, and concluded in Sugar Skull—now in one volume.The long strange trip of Doug in all its mind-bending, heartbreaking totality. The fragments of the past collide with the reality of the present, nightmarish dreams evolve into an even more dreadful reality, and when you finally find out where all of this has been going, and what it means . . . it will make you go right back to the first page and read it all again with new eyes. Just like Doug.(With full-col...
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