Knopf, April 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful.....
Dey Street Books, October 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. The #1 New York Times Bestseller * Named one of Variety's Best Music Books of 2021 * Included in Audible's Best of The Year list * A Business Insider Best Memoirs of 2021 * One of NME's Best Music Books of.....
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her poet-warrior road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals.....
Harper Collins, May 1995. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. One of the most popular and acclaimed of Latin American authors presents an unforgettable memoir. An exquisitely rendered, deeply moving mother-daughter story that doubles as Allende's autobiography, Paula is a prodigious evocation and a hymn to life.....
Three Rivers Press, August 2004. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - ONE OF ESSENCE'S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama "guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class.....
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 478 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Undeniably one of the most controversial figures of past half century, Norman Mailer has also been one of the most influential. Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, once.....
Penguin (Non-Classics), March 2005. Trade Paperback. The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton! Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation. Grand-scale biography at its best--thorough.....
W. W. Norton & Company, February 2005. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Diane Arbus's unsettling photographs of dwarves and twins, transvestites and giants, both polarized and inspired, and her work had already become legendary when she committed suicide in 1971. This groundbreaking biography examines the private life behind Arbus's controversial.....
Simon & Schuster, November 2017. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A New York Times bestseller from Grammy and Academy Award-winning songwriter Carole Bayer Sager shares "a delightful and funny tell-all crammed with famous names and famous songs" (Steve Martin), from her fascinating (and sometimes calamitous) relationships to her collaborations with.....
William Morrow Paperbacks, December 2016. Trade Paperback. The #1 New York Times bestseller The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space--a powerful, revelatory history essential to our understanding of race, discrimination, and achievement in modern America.....
Viking Adult, February 2004. Hardcover. Martin Marty?professor, author, pastor, historian, and journalist?is, in Bill Moyers's words, ?the most influential interpreter of American religion.? In "Martin Luther" this man of unswerving faith, rooted in his own Lutheran tradition yet deeply committed to helping enrich a pluralist society, brings to powerful life.....
Little, Brown and Company, October 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place;.....
Parallax Press, October 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. The never-before-told story of the friendship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh--icons who changed each other and the world The day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a heartbroken letter to their.....
Viking, October 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. "An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times and also through the life and times of roses." --Margaret Atwood "A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, parent, and endlessly curious thinker." --Claire Messud, Harper's "Nobody who reads it will ever think of.....
Riverhead Hardcover, November 2002. Hardcover. Kurt Cobain filled dozens of notebooks with lyrics, drawings, and writings about his plans for Nirvana and his thoughts about fame, the state of music, and the people who bought and sold him and his music. Over twenty of these notebooks survived his many moves.....
Printed by Castle Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 225 pages. B/W illustrations. Memoir of life in Port Townsend, Washington, and Southern California. Inscribed by the author on title page: 'For Zamorama in Memory of Garner A. Beckett, Adele Stevens Beckett'. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine.....
The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. 436 pages. Biography of the author's father, General Stephen Perry Jocelyn, drawn from the general's letters and journals. General Jocelyn served for over thirty years in grueling assignments throughout the western frontier. He was an officer at Oregon's Camp Warner when the.....
Washington State Historical Society, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. 136 pages. An edition of 1000 copies. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in illustrated paper over boards and faux leather covers. Lettering on bright gilt on spine. No dust jacket.
Silas Andrus, 1818. First Edition. Hardcover. xii, 13-(317) (page 316 is numbered twice). First edition (first printing). A very good copy in worn brown leather. Prior owner signature on front free endpaper and dedication page with date November 25th, 1827. Pages darkening with scatterd mild foxing. Hinges cracked but binding.....
Ecco, September 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. New York Times bestseller An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew him best When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who.....
Ballantine Books, November 1992. Mass Market Paperback. A new copy. Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum.....
E. P. Dutton, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 304 pages. A biography of the Vaudevillians, comedians, and actors, Gracie Allen and George Burns. Illustrated from black-and-white photographs. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by both authors on the title page.
Gallery Books, September 2020. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER What Melania wants, Melania gets. The former director of special events at Vogue and producer of nine legendary Met Galas, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff met Melania Knauss in 2003 and had.....
Little, Brown and Company, November 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. "Genius... It is miraculous to read these pieces... You must read The Best of Me." --Andrew Sean Greer, New York Times Book Review A New York Times.....
Harper Perennial, February 1993. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 1991 PEN/Jerard Fund Award, Talking to High Monks in the Snow captures the passion and intensity of an Asian-American woman's search for cultural identity.