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GREEN - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Fall 2013
Series: Sam Levitt CapersThe Marseille CaperPaperback
Peter Mayle9780307740953
$16.95FICTION
Jul 02, 2013
Lovable rogue and sleuth extraordinaire Sam Levitt is back in another beguiling, as-only-Peter-Mayle-can-write-it romp through the south of France.When Sam’s last adventure in France ended, he thought it’d be a while before he went back, especially with the charms of Elena Morales to keep him in Los Angeles. But when the immensely wealthy Francis Reboul asks him to take a job in Marseille, it’s impossible for Sam and Elena to resist the possibility of further excitement…to say nothing of the pleasures of the region. Soon the two are enjoying th... + Read More
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Series: Vintage InternationalAncient LightPaperback
John Banville9780307946928
$22.00FICTION
Jul 02, 2013
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: “a devastating account of a boy’s sexual awakening and the loss of his childhood…. Seamless [and] profound ... An unsettling and beautiful work.” —Wall Street JournalIs there a difference between memory and invention? That is the question that haunts Alexander Cleave as he reflects on his first, and perhaps only, love—an underage affair with his best friend’s mother. When his stunted acting career is suddenly, ine... + Read More
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Series: Vintage InternationalLong LankinPaperback
John Banville9780345807069
$19.00FICTION
Jul 02, 2013
A collection of short stories from the early years of the Man Booker Prize-winning author's career that explores the passionate emotions—fear, jealousy, desire—that course beneath the surface of everyday life. From a couple at risk of being torn apart by the allure of wealth to an old man’s descent into nature, the tales in this collection showcase the talents that launched Banville onto the literary scene. Offering a unique insight into the mind of “one of the great living masters of English-language prose” (Los Angeles Times), these nine haun... + Read More
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Series: Six Months in 1945FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman--from World War to Cold WarPaperback
Michael Dobbs9780307456670
$23.95HISTORY
Jul 02, 2013
When Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin met in Yalta in February 1945, Hitler’s armies were on the run, and victory was imminent. The Big Three wanted to draft a blueprint for a lasting peace—but instead they set the stage for a forty-four year division of Europe into Soviet and Western spheres of influence. After fighting side by side for nearly four years, their political alliance was beginning to fracture. Although the most dramatic Cold War confrontations such as the Berlin airlift were still to come, a new struggle fo... + Read More
5.
Series: Vintage ContemporariesThe News from SpainPaperback
Joan Wickersham9780307949295
$22.00FICTION
Jul 02, 2013
The author of the acclaimed memoir The Suicide Index returns with a virtuosic collection of stories, each a stirring parable of the power of love and the impossibility of understanding it. • “Like Alice Munro at her best.” —Julia Glass, author of Three JunesSpanning centuries and continents, from eighteenth-century Vienna to contemporary America, Joan Wickersham shows, with uncanny exactitude, how we never really know what’s in someone else’s heart—or in our own.Publication History: Knopf Hardcover: October 2012
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Series: Apocalyptic PlanetField Guide to the Future of the EarthPaperback
Craig Childs9780307476814
$18.95NATURE
Jul 02, 2013
An exhilarating, surprising exploration of our globe: a scientific adventure that reveals the ways in which our world is constantly moving toward its end and a guide for how we can change our place within the cycles that rule the planet.In a riveting narrative, Craig Childs makes clear the fact that ours is not a stable planet; that it is prone to sudden, violent natural disasters and extremes of climate. He refutes the idea of an apocalyptic end, and finds clues to the more inevitable end in some of the most physically challenging places on ea... + Read More
A stunning work of fiction about contemporary immigrant life from a dazzling new writer. It's New Year's Eve 1982. At Victor and Nandini's home, family and friends gather to celebrate. Whiskey and arrack have been poured, poppadoms are freshly fried, and baila music is on the stereo. In the middle of it all is sixteen-year old Preethi, tipsy on youth, friendship, and pilfered wine, desperate to belong. Moving back and forth in time, between London and Sri Lanka, and circling the people in Preethi’s world, Homesick is a poignant narrative that b... + Read More
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls turns to memoir in this “intimate and powerful” account (Chicago Tribune) of his lifelong bond with his high-strung, spirited mother—and the small town she spent her life trying to escape. Anyone familiar with Russo’s novels will recognize Gloversville—once famous for producing nine out of ten dress gloves in the United States. By the time Rick was born, ladies had stopped wearing gloves and Gloversville was on its way out. Jean Russo instilled in her son her dream of a bet... + Read More
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Series: Vintage ContemporariesLeading ManPaperback
Benjamin Svetkey9780307949615
$16.95FICTION
Sep 03, 2013
In the tradition of David Nicholls and Nick Hornby comes a hilarious, bittersweet, heartwarming debut novel about love of all kinds: first, unrequited, delusional, obsessive, and, ultimately, the kind that lasts. A VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES ORIGINALAt 26, Maxwell Lerner thinks he has his whole life figured out. He’s got the girl—his high-school sweetheart Samantha. He’s got the job—low-level reporter for a prestigious national magazine. He even lives with aforementioned girl in a walk-up studio apartment in the West Village. Life is sweet. Until h... + Read More
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Series: Open Water Swimming ManualAn Expert's Survival Guide for Triathletes and Open Water SwimmersPaperback
Lynne Cox9780345806093
$22.95SPORTS & RECREATION
Jul 30, 2013
Lynne Cox has set open water swimming records across the world, and now she has focused her decades-long experience and expertise into this definitive guide to swimming. Open Water Swimming Manual provides a wealth of knowledge for all swimmers, from seasoned triathletes and expert swimmers to beginners exploring open water swimming for the first time. Cox methodically addresses what is needed to succeed at and enjoy open water swimming, including choosing the right bathing suit and sunscreen; surviving in dangerous weather conditions, currents... + Read More
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Series: The DistancersAn American MemoirPaperback
Lee Sandlin9780345806765
$16.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aug 13, 2013
A sweeping, lush, and quintessentially American tale that is heartbreaking, hopeful, and cut from the very fabric of the heartland.A VINTAGE ORIGINAL.In The Distancers, seven generations worth of joy and heartache is artfully forged into a family portrait that is at once universally American yet singularly Lee Sandlin’s own. From the nineteenth century German immigrants who settled on a small Midwestern farm, to the proud and upright aunts and uncles with whom Sandlin spent the summers of his youth, a whole history of quiet ambition and stoic p... + Read More
Updated and With a New IntroductionWhen the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street bankers. But Robert B. Reich, one of our most experienced and trusted voices on public policy, suggests another reason for the meltdown. Our real problem, he argues, lies in the increasing concentration of income at the top, robbing the vast middle class of the purchasing power it needs to keep the economy going. This thoughtful and detailed account of the American economy—and how we can fix it—is a practical, hum... + Read More
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Series: The Barbarous YearsThe Peopling of British North America--The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675Paperback
Bernard Bailyn9780375703461
$24.95HISTORY
Aug 13, 2013
Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeA compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.The immigrants were a mixed multitude. They came from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa, Sweden, and Finland, and they moved to the western hemisphere for different reasons, from different social backgrounds and cultures. They represented a spectrum... + Read More
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Series: Glittering ImagesA Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star WarsPaperback
Camille Paglia9780307278029
$35.00ART
Aug 13, 2013
Modern life is a sea of images. With so much visual data bombarding us—from personal devices to mass media—our brains must rapidly adapt to make sense of it all. Here to guide us is America's premier intellectual provocateur, Camille Paglia. In these pages, Paglia returns to the subject that made her famous, situating our current visual environment within the epic scope of all of art history. With trademark audacity, Paglia tours through more than two dozen seminal paintings, sculptures, architectural styles, performance pieces, and digital a... + Read More
From a wildly popular, award-winning Japanese writer, author of Villain, a novel about a group of lonely slacker roommates in Tokyo and the mysterious stranger who worms his way into their lives, disturbing the balance. A Vintage Original.Ryosuke, Kotomi, Mirai, and Naoki are four Japanese twenty-somethings who share a small, crowded two-bedroom apartment. They’ve all come to Tokyo with big dreams—except life isn’t exactly panning out as expected. Ryosuke, the son of a sushi-restaurant owner, is a junior in college studying economics and sleepi... + Read More
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Series: Basket CasePaperback
Carl Hiaasen9780345806536
$24.00FICTION
Aug 13, 2013
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A rollicking and hilarious novel from the bestselling author of Squeeze Me and “Florida’s most entertainingly indignant social critic” (New York Times Book Review).Jack Tagger’s years in exile at the obituaries desk of a South Florida daily haven’t dulled his investigative reporter’s nose for a good story. When Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dies in a fishy scuba accident, Jack sees his ticket back to page one—if only he can figure out what really happened. Standing in his way are, just ... + Read More
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Series: A Wicked WarPolk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of MexicoPaperback
Amy S. Greenberg9780307475992
$24.00HISTORY
Aug 13, 2013
The definitive history of the often forgotten U.S.-Mexican War paints an intimate portrait of the major players and their world—from Indian fights and Manifest Destiny, to secret military maneuvers, gunshot wounds, and political spin.“If one can read only a single book about the Mexican-American War, this is the one to read.” —The New York Review of BooksOften overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided the nation, paved the way for the Civil War a generation later, and ... + Read More
In Highland Fling—Nancy Mitford’s first novel, published in 1931—a set of completely incompatible and hilariously eccentric characters collide in a Scottish castle, where bright young things play pranks on their stodgy elders until the frothy plot climaxes in ghost sightings and a dramatic fire. Inspired in part by Mitford’s youthful infatuation with a Scottish aristocrat, her story follows young Jane Dacre to a shooting party at Dulloch Castle, where she tramps around a damp and chilly moor on a hunting expedition with formidable Lady Prague, ... + Read More
Two delightful, sparkling comedies from early in Nancy Mitford’s career, long unavailable to her fans, now reissued in one volume.In Christmas Pudding, an array of colorful characters converge on the hunt-obsessed Lady Bobbin’s country house for a holiday visit, including her rebellious daughter Philadelphia; the girl’s suitor, pompous Lord Lewes; a couple of children obsessed with newspaper death notices; and an aspiring writer whose earnest first novel has been acclaimed as the funniest book of the year, to his utter dismay. In Pigeon Pie, se... + Read More
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Series: HeartlessA PlayPaperback
Sam Shepard9780345806802
$17.00DRAMA
Oct 08, 2013
When Roscoe, a 65-year-old Cervantes scholar, runs off with a young woman named Sally, he decides to stay a while in her family home. Soon he discovers that Sally’s house—once inhabited by James Dean; perched precariously over the San Fernando valley—is filled with secrets, sadness, and haunted women who cannot leave themselves or anyone else in peace. From Lucy, Sally’s suspicious sister, to Mable, their Shakespeare-quoting invalid mother, to Elizabeth, Mable’s lovely and mysteriously mute nurse, the forces of the house conspire to make Roscoe... + Read More
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Series: Stella Adler on America's Master PlaywrightsEugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward AlbeePaperback
Stella Adler9780679746997
$24.00LITERARY CRITICISM
Sep 10, 2013
Stella Adler was one of the most influential acting teachers of all time, a legendary force of nature whose generations of students include Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Anthony Quinn, Diana Ross, Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, Annette Benning, and Mark Ruffalo.This long-awaited companion to her book on the master European playwrights brings to life America’s most revered playwrights, whom she knew, loved, and worked with. Brilliantly edited by Barry Paris, Adler’s lectures on the giants of twentieth-century theater feature her indispensable insi... + Read More
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Series: 38 NoosesLincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's EndPaperback
Scott W. Berg9780307389138
$23.00HISTORY
Sep 10, 2013
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year In August 1862, after suffering decades of hardship, broken treaties, and relentless encroachment on their land, the Dakota leader Little Crow reluctantly agreed that his people must go to war. After six weeks of fighting, the uprising was smashed, thousands of Indians were taken prisoner by the US army, and 303 Dakotas were sentenced to death. President Lincoln, embroiled in the most devastating period of the Civil War, personally intervened to save the lives of 265 of the condemned men, but in the end, 3... + Read More
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Series: Vintage InternationalThe Counselor (Movie Tie-in Edition)A ScreenplayPaperback
Cormac McCarthy9780345803597
$16.95PERFORMING ARTS
Oct 15, 2013
From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road—in this screenplay of the major motion picture, the Counselor makes a risky entrée into the drug trade, on the eve of becoming a married man, and gambles that the consequences won’t catch up to him. Along the gritty terrain of the Texas–Mexico border, a respected and recently engaged lawyer throws his stakes into a cocaine trade worth millions. His hope is that it will be a one-time deal and that, afterward, he can settle into life with his beloved fia... + Read More
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Series: Catastrophic CareWhy Everything We Think We Know about Health Care Is WrongPaperback
David Goldhill9780345802736
$18.95MEDICAL
Nov 05, 2013
In 2007 David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a well-regarded New York hospital. The bill, for several hundred thousand dollars, was paid by Medicare. Angered, Goldhill became determined to understand how it was possible that well-trained personnel equipped with world-class technologies could be responsible for such inexcusable carelessness—and how a business that failed so miserably could still be rewarded with full payment. Catastrophic Care is the eye-opening result. In it Goldhill explodes the myth that Medicare and insur... + Read More
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Series: RadiationWhat It Is, What You Need to KnowPaperback
Robert Peter Gale9780307950208
$18.95SCIENCE
Oct 08, 2013
The universe was born in a nuclear explosion. We live on a radioactive planet. Without radiation there would be not life. And yet radiation remains deeply misunderstood and often mistakenly feared. Now Dr. Robert Peter Gale—one of the world’s leading experts on the subject—and Eric Lax set the record straight about subjects like uranium, plutonium, iodine-131, X-Rays, CT scans, and the radiation of food, while lucidly debunking myths about radioactivity. In this fascinating book, the authors explore the science, benefits, and risks of radiation... + Read More
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Series: Sugar in the BloodA Family's Story of Slavery and EmpirePaperback
Andrea Stuart9780307474544
$23.95HISTORY
Oct 08, 2013
In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a revolution was fully under way: the farming of sugar cane, and the swiftly increasing demands for sugar worldwide, would not only lift George Ashby from abject poverty and shape the lives of his descendants, but it would also bind together ambitious white entrepreneurs ... + Read More
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Series: The FractalistMemoir of a Scientific MaverickPaperback
Benoit Mandelbrot9780307389916
$28.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jan 14, 2014
Here is the remarkable life story of Benoit Mandelbrot, the creator of fractal geometry, and his unparalleled contributions to science mathematics, the financial world, and the arts. Mandelbrot recounts his early years in Warsaw and in Paris, where he was mentored by an eminent mathematician uncle, through his days evading the Nazis in occupied France, to his education at Caltech, Princeton, and MIT, and his illustrious career at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. An outside to mainstream scientific research, he managed to do what others... + Read More
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Series: Informing the NewsThe Need for Knowledge-Based JournalismPaperback
Thomas E. Patterson9780345806604
$22.95LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
Oct 08, 2013
A frank assessment of the failings of journalism today and what needs to be done in order to provide the knowledge-based reporting necessary to maintain the health of our democratic political process. A VINTAGE PAPERBACK ORIGINAL.Information is the linchpin to a healthy democracy. Substantive policy debates critically depend on an educated and well-informed public. However, with “balanced” reporting in which equal weight is given to facts and biased opinion, journalists have become part of the problem. Though the failure of the political proc... + Read More
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Series: Vintage ContemporariesAmerican TropicA ThrillerPaperback
Thomas Sanchez9781400076901
$23.00FICTION
Oct 22, 2013
From the author of Mile Zero come a heart-racing, “power-packed thriller" (San Francisco Chronicle) set in Key West that illuminates a world of dark desires, hidden truths, and colliding destinies at America’s famous southernmost continental point.Key West is being terrorized by a series of bizarre murders committed by a mysterious voodoo assassin. With each new kill, it becomes clearer that the skeleton-clad executioner has an ecological agenda. Everyone dreads becoming the killer’s next victim: the rapacious developers, the ruthless scammers,... + Read More
The most complete collection of Yuletide whodunits ever assembled • The Edgar Award-winning editor collects sixty of his all-time favorite holiday crime stories—from Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Hardy to Sara Paretsky and Ed McBain.“Anyone who cares about the best mystery writing of the past century and beyond would be lucky to receive this thick volume during the holidays." —The Washington Post This collection touches on all aspects of the holiday season, and all types of mysteries. They are suspenseful, funny, frightening, and poignant. In... + Read More
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Series: Los Heroes del OlimpoEl hijo de NeptunoHeroes del Olimpo 2Paperback
Rick Riordan9780345805393
$12.95YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 10
Aug 06, 2013
Libro segundo de la serie Los héroes del Olimpo Tres amigos. Una misión de locos. Y un enemigo con poderes sobrehumanos. ¿A qué juegan los dioses del Olimpo? Gaia, la madre Tierra, está despertando a un ejército de monstruos para acabar con la humanidad... y ellos se entretienen mareando a los semidioses, los únicos que pueden derrotar sus perversos planes. Ahora han mandado a Percy al campamento Júpiter casi sin recuerdos y con la inquietante sensación de que él, el griego, es el enemigo. Por suerte, contará con el apoyo de Hazel, una chica na... + Read More
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Series: El peregrino / The Pilgrimage(Diario de un mago)Paperback
Paulo Coelho9780345807045
$22.00BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
Jul 02, 2013
Este libro es la confirmación de que uno mismo es el señor de sus pasos, el dueño absoluto de su camino, el arquitecto de su sueño. Es un libro sobre la determinación. El primer libro escrito por Paulo Coelho, el autor de El Alquimista, en esta edición es conmemorativa del 25 aniversario. “Santiago de Compostela, ciudad española conocida como centro internacional de peregrinación, está delante, y no puedo imaginar que este camino me conduce no sólo a esta ciudad, sino a muchas otras ciudades del mundo. Ni Petrus, mi maestro, ni yo sabemos ... + Read More
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Series: Encuentro en el árticoArtemis Fowl 2Paperback
Eoin Colfer9780345805355
$10.95YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Jul 16, 2013
En esta segunda parte descubrimos que Artemis tenía razón: su padre está vivo... ¿Alguien ha podido olvidar a Artemis; aquel niño que puso en jaque la estabilidad de las especies chantajeando a las criaturas mágicas? En esta segunda parte descubrimos que Artemis tenía razón: su padre está vivo, secuestrado en algún lugar del Artico. Por otro lado, el mundo subterráneo, con el comandante Remo y la capitana Canija a la cabeza, no está viviendo lo que se dice su mejor momento. El comandante Remo necesita saber quién es el humano que trafica... + Read More
El autor de EL ALQUIMISTA revela en esta novela profundamente reflexiva que la gran sabiduría de la vida es que podemos ser dueños de las cosas que intentan esclavizarnos.No hay arma más poderosa que las palabras14 de julio de 1099. Mientras Jerusalén se prepara para la invasión de los cruzados, un griego convoca una reunión con los jóvenes y los viejos, los hombres y las mujeres de la ciudad. El misterioso hombre, conocido por todos como Copta, no busca unirse a ninguna religión en particular, pero guarda en su memoria todo lo que ha escuchad... + Read More
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Series: El rey de cocaínaMi vida con Roberto Suárez Gómez y el nacimiento del primer narcoestadoPaperback
Ayda Levy9780345805317
$18.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 17, 2013
Bautizado por la prensa internacional como “el rey de la cocaína”, Roberto Suárez Gómez llegó a exportar diariamente casi dos toneladas de la droga desde sus laboratorios en la Amazonía boliviana a sus socios del cártel de Medellín, dirigido por Pablo Escobar, a Estados Unidos, en una operación conjunta con la CIA, y a Europa. Protegida por la corrupción de mandatarios de varios países, así como por militares y gobernantes bolivianos, La corporación fue conocida como “la General Motors del narcotráfico”. Ayda Levy, viuda de Roberto Suárez, de ... + Read More
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Series: Diario de guerraLa última travesía del Che y Benigno en BoliviaPaperback
Mariano Rodriguez9780345805478
$17.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 03, 2013
“No importa dónde nos llegue la muerte, será bienvenida siempre y cuando nuestro grito de guerra se escuche”. — Che Guevara Diario de guerra es un estremecedor testimonio sobre los últimos días de la vida del Che Guevara. La historia la cuenta Daniel Alarcón Ramírez, un militar cubano a quien también se le conoce como Benigno, quien luchó en la Revolución cubana al lado del Che y después lo acompañó en su aventura guerrillera en Bolivia, donde fue uno de los tres cubanos sobrevivientes. Después de numerosas conversaciones que sostuvo con Benig... + Read More
En julio de 2006 un avión de la DEA sacó a Virginia Vallejo de Colombia. Su vida estaba en peligro por haberse convertido en el testigo clave de los dos procesos criminales más importantes de la segunda mitad del siglo veinte en su país: el asesinato de un candidato presidencial y la toma del Palacio de Justicia, donde fallecieron alrededor de cien personas, entre magistrados, guerrilleros y civiles. Veintiocho años antes, Virginia Vallejo era presentadora de televisión en Colombia y modelo que aparecía en las portadas de las principales revis... + Read More
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Series: El nombre del vientoCronicas del asesino de reyes: Primer diaPaperback
Patrick Rothfuss9780345805362
$20.00FICTION
Sep 03, 2013
Viajé, amé, perdí, confié y me traicionaron. En una posada en tierra de nadie, un hombre de dispone a relatar, por primera vez, la auténtica historia de su vida. Una historia que únicamente él conoce y que ha quedado diluida tras los rumores y los cuentos de taberna que lo han convertido en un personaje legendario a quien todos daban ya por muerto: Kvothe…músico, mendigo, ladrón, estudiante, mago, héroe y asesino. Ahora va a revelar la verdad sobre sí mismo. Y para ello debe empezar por el principio: su infancia en una troupe de artistas nóma... + Read More
Sus compañeros se burlan de ella, pero Carrie tiene un don. Puede mover cosas con su mente. Este es su poder y su gran problema. Pero aunque un acto de bondad, tan espontáneo como las burlas crueles de sus compañeros, le ofrece a Carrie la oportunidad de ser normal, una inesperada crueldad transforma su don en un arma de horror y destrucción. Con un pulso mágico que mantiene la tensión a lo largo de todo el libro, Stephen King narra la atormentada adolescencia de Carrie, y nos envuelve en una atmósfera sobrecogedora hasta llegar a un terrible m... + Read More
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Series: Gol!La unión hace la fuerzaGol 4Paperback
Luigi Garlando9780345805331
$13.50JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 9
Oct 01, 2013
Ocho niñ@s. Una pasión: el fútbol. Un sueño: ¡ser los mejores! Ya hemos llegado al ecuador del campeonato, ¡y los Cebolletas están a solo un punto del líder! Pero su mayor reto no va a ser conseguir el primer puesto, sino superar los problemas internos. Desde que Fidu dejó el futbol, nada es lo que era: a Dani le disgusta estar bajo los tres palos, Tomi tiene celos de Becan y las gemelas se despistan continuamente... Por suerte, Gaston Champignon les va a recordar la lección básica del deporte en equipo: lo más importante es mantenerse unidos.
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Series: La eternidad y un díaOscuros 5Paperback
Lauren Kate9780345805379
$11.95YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12
Oct 01, 2013
Descubre esta nueva novela situada en el inolvidable universo de Oscuros. Inesperado Prohibido No correspondido Eterno El amor tiene muchas caras pero un solo corazón… “El amor eterno de Luce y Daniel es emblemático, pero no es el único tipo de amor posible... Este es un libro inspirado por ustedes, mis lectores, que han compartido conmigo sus historias de amor desde el principio y me han mostrado las distintas formas que puede adoptar el más elevado de los sentimientos. Oscuros: La eternidad y un día es un grand tour de romanticismo que a... + Read More
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Series: Hugo Chávez: mi primera vidaConversaciones con Hugo ChávezPaperback
Ignacio Ramonet9780345805386
$21.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Feb 25, 2014
Pocos personajes de la historia reciente han tenido el impacto de Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (1954-2013). Presidente de Venezuela desde 1999 hasta 2013, su mensaje de las realizaciones de la Revolución Bolivariana inició un movimiento en América Latina que abrió el camino para dirigentes nuevos, de origen sindical, militante social, militar o hasta guerrillero: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva y Dilma Rousseff en Brasil, Evo Morales en Bolivia, Rafael Correa en Ecuador, Néstor Kirchner y Cristina Fernández en Argentina, Tabaré Vázquez y José “Pepe” Muji... + Read More
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Series: Heads in BedsA Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called HospitalityPaperback
Jacob Tomsky9780307948342
$17.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jul 30, 2013
In the tradition of Kitchen Confidential and Waiter Rant, a rollicking, eye-opening, fantastically indiscreet memoir of a life spent (and misspent) in the hotel industry.“Highly amusing."—New York Times Jacob Tomsky never intended to go into the hotel business. As a new college graduate, armed only with a philosophy degree and a singular lack of career direction, he became a valet parker for a large luxury hotel in New Orleans. Yet, rising fast through the ranks, he ended up working in “hospitality” for more than a decade, doing everything fr... + Read More
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Series: The InvestigationPaperback
Philippe Claudel9780307946706
$18.95FICTION
Jul 02, 2013
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearThe Investigator, a humble and ordinary man, has been ordered to conduct an Investigation into a series of suicides that have taken place at the Enterprise—a huge, sprawling complex in an unnamed Town. But the Investigator’s train is delayed. When he finally arrives, no one is there to meet him at the station. When he reaches the Enterprise, he is denied entrance. The harder the Investigator tries to fulfill his task, the more senseless obstacles he encounters: regulations hamstring him, street layouts befu... + Read More
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Series: The ShiningPaperback
Stephen King9780345806789
$27.99FICTION
Aug 27, 2013
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Before Doctor Sleep, there was The Shining, a classic of modern American horror from the undisputed master, Stephen King.Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote . . . and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible... + Read More
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Series: The Niceville TrilogyNicevilleBook One of the Niceville TrilogyPaperback
Carsten Stroud9780307745354
$16.95FICTION
Aug 13, 2013
Rainey Teague disappears on his way home from school, literally vanishing into thin air. He's there one moment and gone the next, captured on security cameras. After he is found, the nightmare only gets deeper, especially for detective Nick Kavanaugh and his wife, Kate, a family practice lawyer. They have all been drawn into a shadow world between life and death--a world where a man killed on Friday night is in a duel on Sunday, where an armed robbery triggers a disastrous cascade of events that ricochets across twenty different lives, and wher... + Read More
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Series: The Broken OnesPaperback
Stephen M. Irwin9780307744449
$17.95FICTION
Aug 13, 2013
In the near-future murder is still the same. Its who’s watching that’s different. The worldwide aftershock of what becomes known as "Gray Wednesday" is immediate and catastrophic, leaving governments barely functioning and economies devastated. Hollow-eyed apparitions appear, haunting their loved ones and others. But some things never change. When Detective Mariani discovers the grisly remains of an anonymous murder victim in the city sewage system, his investigation will pit him against a corrupt police department and a murky cabal conspiring ... + Read More
From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey that makes her lighthearted satire of the gothic novel an even more satisfying read. Here is the complete text of the novel with more than 1,200 annotations on facing pages, including: -Explanations of historical context-Citations from Austen’s life, letters, and other writings-Definitions and clarifications-Literary comments and analysis-Maps of places in the novel-An introduction, bibliography, and detailed chronology of e... + Read More
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Series: The O. Henry Prize CollectionThe O. Henry Prize Stories 2013Including stories by Donald Antrim, Andrea Barrett, Ann Beattie, Deborah Eisenberg, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Kelly Link, Alice Munro, and Lily TuckPaperback
Laura Furman9780345803252
$17.95FICTION
Sep 10, 2013
Twenty unforgettable stories—the best of the year—by famous writers as well as new and emerging voices. AN ANCHOR ORIGINAL.The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year. The winning stories take place in such far-flung locales as a sugar plantation in Cuba, a river in Alaska, a mansion in New Delhi, and the ghost-haunted rubble of a Turkish girls’ school in the aftermath of an explosion. They feature a dazzling array of characters brought vividl... + Read More
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Series: Carrie (Movie Tie-in Edition)Now a Major Motion PictureMedia tie-inPaperback
Stephen King9780345805874
$9.99FICTION
Sep 24, 2013
NEWLY ADAPTED FOR THE BIG SCREEN, STARRING CHLOE GRACE MORETZ AND JULIANNE MOORE. COMING TO MOVIE THEATERS EVERYWHERE OCTOBER 2013.Stephen King's legendary debut novel about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates. Carrie White may have been unfashionable and unpopular, but she had a gift. Carrie could make things move by concentrating on them. A candle would fall. A door would lock. This was her power and her sin. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offered Carrie a chance to... + Read More
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Series: A Jew Among RomansThe Life and Legacy of Flavius JosephusPaperback
Frederic Raphael9780307456359
$24.95HISTORY
Oct 08, 2013
From the acclaimed biographer, screenwriter, and novelist Frederic Raphael, here is an audacious history of Josephus (37–c.100), the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose emblematic betrayal is a touchstone for the Jew alone in the Gentile world. Joseph ben Mattathias’s transformation into Titus Flavius Josephus, historian to the Roman emperor Vespasian, is a gripping and dramatic story. His life, in the hands of Frederic Raphael, becomes a point of departure for an appraisal of Diasporan Jews seeking a place in the dominant cultures the... + Read More
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Series: Parlor GamesA NovelPaperback
Maryka Biaggio9780307950895
$17.95FICTION
Oct 08, 2013
A sparkling historical novel based on the remarkable true story of turn-of-the-century con artist May Dugas, once dubbed America's "Most Dangerous Woman.” It’s 1887, and eighteen-year-old May Dugas has ventured to Chicago in hopes of earning enough money to support her family. Yet when circumstances force her to take up residence at the city’s most infamous bordello, she chooses to use her feminine wiles to extract not only sidelong looks but also large sums of money from the men she encounters. Insinuating herself into high society, May lands ... + Read More
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Series: The Drowning HouseA NovelPaperback
Elizabeth Black9780307949066
$18.95FICTION
Oct 08, 2013
Mourning for her daughter and her crumbling marriage, photographer Clare Porterfield returns to her childhood home in Galveston, Texas, hoping to find distraction in mounting an exhibition featuring the island’s vivid history. Things haven’t changed much during her decade away: her relationship with her mother and older sister is still fraught and competitive, and their neighbors, the Carradays, wield the same moneyed influence they have for generations. But Clare finds that she is now an outsider, out of step with the unique rhythms of Galvest... + Read More
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Series: FriendfluenceThe Surprising Ways Friends Make Us Who We ArePaperback
Carlin Flora9780307946959
$18.95FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Oct 08, 2013
Told with warmth as well as rigor, an invaluable book that not only illuminates and interprets the science of friendship but will help you wisely navigate your present and future friendships."Timely, savvy, and judicious.... Awash in arresting insights with practical implications, many of them counter-intuitive.” —The Huffington PostJust as the role of friends is expanding in our culture, Friendfluence explores their powerful and often under-appreciated influence on our personalities, habits, physical health, and even our chances of success in ... + Read More
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Series: 'Salem's LotPaperback
Stephen King9780345806796
$27.99FICTION
Sep 24, 2013
#1 BESTSELLER • Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem’s Lot in hopes that exploring the history of the Marsten House, an old mansion long the subject of rumor and speculation, will help him cast out his personal devils and provide inspiration for his new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods, and only one returns alive, Mears begins to realize that something sinister is at work.In fact, his hometown is under siege from forces of darkness far beyond his imagination. And only he, with a small group of allies, can hope to contain the ... + Read More
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Series: Everyman's Library Classics SeriesThe MetamorphosesIntroduction by J. C. McKeownHardcover
Ovid9780375712319
$48.00FICTION
Sep 10, 2013
Ovid’s famous mock epic—a treasury of myth and magic that is one of the greatest literary works of classical antiquity—is rendered into fluidly poetic English by world-renowned translator Allen Mandelbaum. Roman poet Ovid’s dazzling cycle of tales begins with the creation of the world and ends with the deification of Caesar Augustus. In between is a glorious panoply of the most famous myths and legends of the ancient Greek and Roman world—from Echo’s passion for Narcissus to Pygmalion’s living statue, from Perseus’s defeat of Medusa to the fall... + Read More
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Series: Everyman's Library Classics SeriesThe BetrothedIntroduction by Jonathan KeatesHardcover
Alessandro Manzoni9780375712340
$40.00FICTION
Sep 17, 2013
Italy’s greatest novel and a masterpiece of world literature, The Betrothed chronicles the unforgettable romance of Renzo and Lucia, who endure tyranny, war, famine, and plague to be together.Published in 1827 but set two centuries earlier, against the tumultuous backdrop of seventeenth-century Lombardy during the Thirty Years’ War, The Betrothed is the story of two peasant lovers who want nothing more than to marry. Their region of northern Italy is under Spanish occupation, and when the vicious Spaniard Don Rodrigo blocks their union in an at... + Read More
A towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society—and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been assigned at conception. Government-sanctioned drugs and recreational sex ensure that everyone is a happy, unquestioning consumer; messy emotions have b... + Read More
Jules Verne’s most beloved novels are gathered here in one hardcover volume: three thrilling tales of fabulous journeys under, through, and around the earth.Verne was one of the great pioneers of science fiction. Born in France in 1828, he wrote brilliantly about space, air, and underwater travel long before airplanes and space ships had been invented, and he is still one of the most widely read internationally of all science-fiction writers. But beyond charting new territory for adventurous fiction, his creations have entered our culture and ... + Read More
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Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics SeriesThe Poppy Seed CakesIllustrated by Maud and Miska PetershamHardcover
Margery Clark9780375712326
$32.00YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Oct 08, 2013
The Poppy Seed Cakes is a beloved children's classic first published in 1924: eight charming and humorous linked stories about little Andrewshek and his Auntie Katushka, with colorful woodcuts by Caldecott Award-winning illustrators Maud and Miska Petersham. Auntie Katushka has just come from the Old Country, bringing poppy seeds to make cakes for a mischief-prone four-year-old boy named Andrewshek. A little neighbor girl named Erminka, who wears red boots that are too big for her, joins Andrewshek for a series of adventures with talking animal... + Read More
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Aftershock(Inequality for All--Movie Tie-in Edition) The Next Economy and America's Future Paperback 9780345807229 $22.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sep 24, 2013
Series: Vintage Contemporaries American Tropic A Thriller Paperback 9781400076901 $23.00 FICTION Oct 22, 2013
Series: The Niceville Trilogy Niceville Book One of the Niceville Trilogy Paperback 9780307745354 $16.95 FICTION Aug 13, 2013