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Exploring themes of identity, belonging, war and memory, love and mercy, Chang-rae Lee's latest novel, THE SURRENDERED, spans decades and continents in its spell-blinding story about how love and war can... more info...

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(Books on Books series, No.8). A shocking document from a socially concerned and politically engaged Dutch photojournalist. Published in 1973, just months after the fall of Salvador Allende to Augusto... more info...

Made in collaboration with the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives in Taliesin, Arizona, Taschen's stupendously admirable 3-volume monograph covers all of the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright's designs.... more info...

When twenty-three-year-old Sister Evangeline accidentally stumbled upon some mysterious letters exchanged between the late mother superior of her convent and the famous philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller,... more info...

Seventy-five-year-old Betty Weissmann has just been dumped by her husband of forty-eight years. Determined to find some peace and quiet in which to rebuild her life, Betty heads to the beach cottage of... more info...

I'd like to see Jesus find enough of a woman to compare to Tammy Wynette, the one-of-a-kind country music phenomenon. Whether encouraging you, woman to woman, to stand by your man or warning that love... more info...

Winning comparisons to John Steinbeck, Cormac McCarthy, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ron Rash captures the complexities of a place as though it were a person, and rarer still reveals sublimely a land as... more info...

You are Philip M. Noir, Private Investigator. A mysterious young widow hires you to find her husband's killer - if he was killed. Then your client is killed and her body disappears - if she was your client.... more info...

Filled with glorious pop-ups, detailed pop-up booklets, special effects, and the complete original text, this classic bursts with vibrant new energy. Color illus. (Ages: Infants & Preschool). more info...

In his ambitious debut novel "The Lost Books of the Odyssey," author Zachary Mason puts a contemporary spin on Homer's classic story. The tale begins familiarly, but soon the fates of the characters and... more info...

Lisbeth Salander, computer genius and woman of independent means, has learned to use every weapon in the book to achieve her ends. She does not forget and she does not forgive, and wherevershe finds corruption... more info...

This practical guide contains proven advice on navigating today's treacherous financial landscape and will put you in a better position to make more informed investment decisions. Page by page, this reliable... more info...

The title essay of this new collection of prose pieces, which first appeared in The New Yorker a decade ago, has become McPhee's most anthologized essay. In the nine other pieces here, the author ranges... more info...

When Lynn Barber was sixteen, a stranger in a maroon sports car pulled up beside her as she was on her way home from school and offered her a ride. It was the beginning of a long journey from innocence... more info...

Ignatius Perrish had it all. Born into wealth and comfort, Ig had security, power, and rank in his community - and he had Merrin Williams, the love of his life. But Ig's life changed forever the night... more info...

Hidden at the bottom of the world is a quiet seaside town where the beach is sunny, the tea is hot, the locals are friendly and everyone loves comics. When reporter Leonard Batts turns up in Hicksville... more info...

(Fotografie 58). This sumptuous catalogue includes an interview with the (notorious) and successful photographer, Herb Ritts. Nearly one hundred photographs, some previously unpublished, exemplify the... more info...

Winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, Kenzaburo Oe takes readers from the forests of southern Japan to the washed-out streets of Berlin as he investigates the impact our real and imagined pasts... more info...

For more than seven years Anders Ryman traveled the world documenting life cycle rituals, depicting people at emotional events. The result is a book that in intimate and stunnting pictures portrays more... more info...

Complete with Nancy's very own poetry anthology, FANCY NANCY: POET EXTRAORDINAIRE! shows how a true love of words can be...so fancy! And with a little inspiration which is fancy for something that helps... more info...

A defense of the reality of evil, drawing on literary, theological, and psychoanalytic sources to suggest that evil, no mere medieval artifact, is a real phenomenon with palpable force in the contemporary... more info...

In the summer of 1962, Andy Warhol unveiled 32 Soup Cans in his first solo exhibition of the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles - and sent the art world reeling. The response ran from incredulity to outrage;... more info...

The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries now gives us an electrifying stand-alone thriller that takes off into a sweeping international drama. January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjovallen,... more info...

Nebraska-born, Oklahoma-raised, Ed Ruscha belongs to Los Angeles. Since the 1960s, Ruscha's iconic images of the cityscape and culture of Los Angeles - freeways, gas stations, parking lots, palm trees,... more info...

Nazi-affiliated philosopher Martin Heidegger sought to enoble Man's existence in relation to Death. Yet, in a time of crisis, he sought personal advancement, becoming the most prominent German intellectual... more info...

This exploration of the national debate over whether we are overdiagnosing and overmedicating children uses extensive research and interviews with dozens of doctors, researchers, family experts, and parents... more info...

Renowned theoretical mathematician Adam Godley is dying, his family gathered at his bedside. But this is not a family alone in their vigil. Around them hovers a family of mischievous immortals - among... more info...

With 250 tempting recipes to take you from breakfast all the way through dessert, this book makes up an indispensable collection. Organized into familiar categories - including sandwiches & pizzas, appetizers,... more info...

Henrietta Lacks may have been pronounced dead on October 4, 1951, but today the cells of this poor Southern tobacco farmer are still very much alive. In fact, if you could pile all the 'HeLa' cells ever... more info...

This book retells, in vibrant graphic detail, a most immediate and relevant chapter of A PEOPLE'S HISTORY: the story of America's growing role on the world stage. Narrated by Zinn himself, this version... more info...

"Fun with Problems" is a captivating, engrossing collection of short stories from Robert Stone, author of "Bear and His Daughters," a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In these moving and utterly original... more info...

In nineteenth-century industrial Ameria, while Carnegie provided the steel, Rockefeller the oil, Morgan the money, and Vanderbilt the railroads, Joseph Pulitzer ushered in the modern mass media. James... more info...

Following its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, France had become a nation at odds with itself and the rest of the world. With the emmergence of two major factions, the moderates and the... more info...

In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver's license. For the next seven years, he traveled the country, tracking how the automobile... more info...

From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award winner: a hugely illuminating book about roads and their power to change the world. Metaphorically and literally, roads bind our... more info...

In 1995, economist Rachel Kranton wrote future Nobel Prize-winner George Akerlof a letter insisting that his most recent paper was wrong. Identity, she argued, was the missingelement that would help to... more info...

Born in Brooklyn in 1969, Jean-Michel Basquiat was only twenty-seven when he died, his meteoric and often controversial career having lasted for just eight dazzling years. Despite his early death, Basquiat's... more info...

The thirteen featured writers are not confined to the 1990s, but their engrossing, detailed, and richly personal stories create "a snapshot of a profession in motion." Emphasizing the craft of writing... more info...

For many of its citizens, the Soviet Union existed, like their childhood, as a fairy tale in which many of the realities of life were hidden. Then, when the Berlin Wall fell, so did the illusion of the... more info...

The 2010 edition of Hugh Johnson's best-selling "Pocket Wine Book" has landed on our shores. It is fully updated and expanded with a new full-color supplement on South American wines. this definitive,... more info...

When Irene America discovers that her husband, Gil, has been reading her diary, she begins a secret Blue Notebook, stashed securely in a safe-deposit box. There she records the truth about her life and... more info...

The hunt for 39 hidden Clues that lead to an unimaginable power have taken a heavy toll on fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan. They've just seen a woman die. They're wanted by the... more info...

In this brief and wry volume, Peter Handke conjures his take on the famous seducer. Don Juan's story - "his own version" - is filtered through the consciousness of an anonymous narrator,a failed innkeeper... more info...

The availability of newly unearthed material makes possible this complete account of the triumphs and difficulties of the brilliant and high-tempered Nina Simone, whose distinctive voice and music occupy... more info...

A gigantic collection of the best small press cartoonists to emerge in the 1970s after the first generation of underground cartoonists (i.e., R. Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Art Spiegelman) paved the way. These... more info...

Boy archaeolotgist Will Burrowas, having gone in search of his missing father, discovered a sinister subterranean world (Tunnels(). Here, wandering the dark, dry depths beneath the Colony with his best... more info...

In "The Genius of the Beast," the author of the acclaimed books "The Lucifer Principle" and "Global Brain" insists that Western civilization has only begun to realize its full potential. Bloom argues that... more info...

The art and music worlds would call them, but until that journey seemed more prevalent, Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe promised themselves to each other. As they meandered through New York looking... more info...

From the National Book Award-winning author of White Noise and Underworld, a taut, unnerving, and exceptionally hard-hitting new novel about a secret war advisor and the young filmmaker who visits him... more info...

In this forthright and incisive book, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz details how the current global financial crisis carries a "made-in-America" label. He explains how America exported bad economics,... more info...

(An Elephant and Piggie Book). Piggie is going, so who will Gerald skip with, play Ping-Pong with, and wear silly hats with? Color illus. (Ages: 4-8). more info...