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New Fiction

Point Omega by Don Delillo

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... (Save 20%) more...

New Economics

Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz

In this forthright and incisive book, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz details how the current global financil crisis carries a "made-in-America" label. He explains how America exported bad economics,... (Save 20%) more...

New Automotive

Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster by Paul Ingrassia

Paul Ingrassia's book "Crash Course" has all the elements of a good story: hubris, denial, missed opportunities, and more. It tells the epic saga of the American automobile industry's rise and demise.... (Save 20%) more...

New Ralph Ellison

Three Days Before the Shooting... by Ralph Ellison; John F. Callahan; Adam Bradley

Ralph Ellison is one of the most well-known and beloved American authors in history. His novel "The Invisible Man" won the National Book Award and is still studied in classrooms across the nation. At Ellison's... (Save 20%) more...

New French Literature

Hocus Bogus by Romain Gary; (Writing As Emile Ajar) ; (Translation From The French) David Bellos

In this brilliantly translated work by the French writer, the struggle to assert and deny authorship is part of a wider protest against suffering and universal hypocrisy. Playing with novelistic categories... (Save 20%) more...

New Biography

Mark Twain: Man In White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years by Michael Shelden

Mark Twain-- America's first literary superstar-- had a strange and often unheralded late life. Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Shelden presents that later life in "Mark Twain: Man In White." Starting with... (Save 20%) more...

New York

Over Here!: New York City During World War II by Lorraine B. Diehl

The World War II home front was centered around New York more so than even military bases deploying thousands of troops to the battles. As Hitler's rise to power in Germany became a pre-eminent problem... (Save 20%) more...

New Fiction

Don Juan: His Own Version by Peter Handke; (Translator) Krishna Winston

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... (Save 20%) more...

New Short Stories

Wild Child: And Other Stories by T.C. Boyle

T.C. Boyle is one of the most renowned and best-loved American authors of all time. His novel, "World's End," won the PEn/Faulkner Award, and he is a regular on the New York Times bestseller list. In "Wild... (Save 20%) more...

New Black Studies

Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations by Ira Berlin

The story of Africans and African-Americans in America is one of great suffering, triumph, and transition. In "The Making of African America," award-winning author Ira Berlin examines the four major migrations... (Save 20%) more...

New Americana

Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State by Garry Wills

Though it is well-known that the atomic bomb altered the course of humanity and the environment, its impact was not just physical. The atomic bomb also profoundly altered the nature of American democracy... (Save 20%) more...

New Economics

Relentless Revolution: A History of of Capitalism by Joyce Appleby

The centuries-long history of capitalism is rich and eventful. Approaching capitalism as a culture, as important for its ideals and values as for its inventions and systems, Joyce Appleby gives readers... (Save 20%) more...

New Fiction

Privileges by Jonathan Dee

Adam and Cynthia Morey have it all: they're smart, socially gifted, well-to-do, desperately in love, young, influential, and they have two beautiful children. But their posh lifestyle in upper Manhattan... (Save 20%) more...

New Short Stories

Day Out of Days: Stories by Sam Shepard

Made up of short narratives, lyrics, and dialogues, this collection of stories sets conversation against tale, song against memory, in a cubistic counterpoint that finally links each piece together. The... (Save 16%) more...

New Fiction

36 Arguments for the Existence of God by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

In her novel "36 Arguments for the Existence of God," author Rebecca Newberger Goldstein speculates about the age old question of religion: the existence of God. "36 Arguments" centers around rising author... (Save 20%) more...

New Fiction

Godfather of Kathmandu by John Burdett

Sonchai Jitpleecheep - author John Burdett's inimitable Royal Thai Police detective with the hard-bitten demeanor and the Buddhist soul - is summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of... (Save 20%) more...

New Economics

I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester

Even as the economy slowly picks back up, it can still be difficult for many people to understand the reasons for the sudden collapse in the first place. That is what author John Lanchester seeks to reveal... (Save 20%) more...

Medical and Health

Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande

With so much information in the world - facts, technical specifics, procedural protocols, et al. - it is importamt to explore the ways in which we can keep ourselves and our information organized and on... (Save 20%) more...

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