Titian: His Life

Hale, Sheila
Harper Collins, New York

The first definitive biography of the master painter in more than a century, Titian: His Life is being hailed as a "landmark achievement" for critically acclaimed author Sheila Hale (Publishers...

Brazil

Updike, John
2013, Random House Paperbacks, New York

They meet by chance on Copacabana Beach: Tristao Raposo, a poor black teen from the Rio slums, surviving day to day on street smarts and the hustle, and Isabel Leme, an upper-class white girl,...

The Prague Orgy

Roth, Philip
Vintage Books, New York, 1996

In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed...

Debriefing: Collected Stories

Sontag, Susan
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

Debriefing collects all of Susan Sontags shorter fiction, a form she turned to intermittently throughout her writing life. The book ranges from allegory to parable to autobiography and shows her...

A Brief Fantasy History Of A Himalayan

Norbu, Thinley
Shambhala, Boston & London, 2014

Illustrated with color photos published for the first time, this collage of reminiscences affords a rare glimpse into the life of an esteemed Tibetan Buddhist teacher. The author sets a magical...

A History of Cannibalism

Constantine, Nathan
Arcturus Publishing Limited, 2018, London

This work is presented in a blisteringly honest, nothing-barred style of narrative. It tackles one of society's last remaining taboo subjects unflinchingly. "Silence of the Lambs", "Deliverance",...

How to Keep a Pet Squirrel

Scheffler, Axel
Faber and Faber Limited, London, 2010

While dipping into The Children's Encyclopaedia of 1910, Axel Scheffler came across a small but indispensable guide to procuring and caring for your pet squirrel. Intrigued by the unlikely notion...

J. D. Salinger - A Life

Slawenski, Kenneth
Random House Trade Paperback, New York, 2012

One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, author of the classic Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now comes a...

Who Rules The World?

Chomsky, Noam
Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2016

The world's leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American century, the nature of US policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights....

The Pigeon Tunnel

Le Carr?, John
Viking, New York, 2016

From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion, to Russia before...

The Mafia

Cimino, Al & Smith, Durden Jo & Frasca, M.A.
Arcturus Publishing, London

The Mafia began on a small island in the Mediterranean, Sicily. It grew to become a major political force in Italy, while its tentacles penetrated every aspect of life in the United States. Through...

Architects of Death: The Family Who Engineered the Death Camps

Bartlett, Karen
St. Martin's Press, New York

Architects of Death tells the astonishing story of how the gas chambers and crematoria that facilitated the murder and incineration of more than one million people in the Holocaust were designed...

Fire and Flames

Geronimo
Pm Press, Oakland CA

Translated for the first time into English, the history of the German autonomous anticapitalist movement is traced back to the 1970s in this firsthand account. Battling police in riot gear, the...

The Relive Box and other stories

Boyle, T.C.
Harper Collins, 2017, New York

While T.C. Boyle is known as one of our greatest American novelists, he is also an acknowledged master of the short story and is perhaps at his funniest, his most moving, and his most surprising in...

On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures

Chomsky, Noam
Haymarket Books, Chicago Il

In the late 1980s, in the midst of Reagan's interventions in Central America, Chomsky travelled to Nicaragua and gave the lectures that became On Power and Ideology. The lectures provide a master...

pigeon feathers and other stories

Updike, John
Fawcett, Random House, New York

When this classic collection of stories first appeared in 1962, on the author?s thirtieth birthday Arthur Mizener wrote in The New York Times Book Review: Updike is a romantic [and] like all...

Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs

Chomsky, Noam
Haymarket Books, Chicago Il

In this still-timely classic, Noam Chomsky argues that the real rogue states are the United States and its allies. Chomsky turns his penetrating gaze toward U.S. involvement in the Middle East,...

The Coup

Updike, John
Random House Paperbacks, 2012, New York

The Coup describes violent events in the imaginary African nation of Kush, a large, landlocked, drought-ridden, sub-Saharan country led by Colonel Hakim F?lix Ellello?. (A leader, writes Colonel...

Wilhelm Liebknecht and German Social Democracy

Pelz, William A.
Haymarket Books, Chicago Il

Wilhelm Liebknecht and German Social Democracy is the most comprehensive collection available in English of the speeches and writings of Wilhelm Liebknecht, founder and leading voice of the German...

Raven Girl

Niffenegger, Audrey

A postman who encounters a fledgling raven while on the edge of his route decides to bring her home. The unlikely couple falls in love and conceives a child--an extraordinary raven girl trapped in...

Rare Books Uncovered

Rego Barry, Rebecca

Read about the family whose discovery in their attic of a copy of Action Comics No. 1--the first appearance of Superman-saved their home from foreclosure. Or the Salt Lake City bookseller who...

The Schooldays of Jesus

Coetzee, J. M.

Dav?d is the small boy who is always asking questions. Sim?n and In?s take care of him in their new town, Estrella. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog...

Revolution: The History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo

Ackroyd, Peter

The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England, beginning in 1688 with a revolution and ending in 1815 with a famous victory. In Revolution, Peter Ackroyd takes readers from...

The Shadow Girls

Mankell, Henning

A poet of middling acclaim who is saddled by his underwhelming book sales, an exasperated girlfriend, a demanding mother, and a rapidly fading tan starts an unlikely writing group that requires...

Vulgar Tongues

D?charn?, Max

Slang is the language of pop culture, low culture, street culture, underground movements and secret societies; depending on your point of view, it is a badge of honor, a sign of identity or a...

Short Stories

Oscar Wilde

This collection of Oscar Wilde's writing includes fairy tales, short stories, and poetry. Influenced by the Irish fairy tales he heard as a child, Wilde allowed his imagination to run free across a...

Einstein and the Rabbi

Levy, Naomi

A bestselling author and rabbi?s profoundly affecting exploration of the meaning and purpose of the soul, inspired by the famous correspondence between Albert Einstein and a grieving rabbi.

Couples

Updike, John

One of the signature novels of the American 1960s, Couples is a book that, when it debuted, scandalized the public with prose pictures of the way people live, and that today provides an engrossing...