Trade Paperback; Remainder. A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson. Fiction Literature. (Todd Family #2) A God in Ruins relates the life of Teddy Todd – would-be poet, heroic World War II bomber pilot, husband, father, and grandfather – as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in…
Cloth; Remainder. Akin by Emma Donoghue. First Canadian Edition First Printing. Fiction Literature. Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when he receives an unexpected request. A social worker is looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Although he has never met…
Cloth; Remainder. Amnesty by Aravind Adiga. First Edition First Printing. Fiction Literature. Danny—formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam—is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he’s been trying to create a new identity for himself. And…
Cloth; As New. Dust Jacket; As New. Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life. Signed, First Edition First Printing. An intimate look at the making of a man, an actor, an advocate–and most importantly–a happy human being. A wonderful book that is funny, honest, fearless, and generous in its vulnerability. –Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize-winning author…
Trade Paperback; Remainders. Defectors by Joseph Kanon. Mystery Thriller. In 1949, Frank Weeks, agent of the newly formed CIA, was exposed as a Communist spy and fled the country to vanish behind the Iron Curtain. Now, twelve years later, he has written his memoirs, a KGB- approved project almost certain to be an international bestseller,…
Cloth; Remainder. Doctorow: Collected Stories by E.L. Doctorow. Short Stories. He has been called “a national treasure” by George Saunders. Doctorow’s great topic, said Don DeLillo, is “the reach of American possibility, in which plain lives take on the cadences of history.” This power is apparent everywhere in these stories: the bravery and self-delusion of people…
Trade Paperback; Remainder. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee. Fiction Literature. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch— Scout —returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns…
Trade Paperback; Remainder. Horoscopes for the Dead Poems by Billy Collins. Billy Collins is widely acknowledged as a prominent player at the table of modern American poetry. And in this collection, Horoscopes for the Dead, the verbal gifts that earned him the title “America’s most popular poet” are on full display. The poems here cover the…
Trade Paperback; Remainder. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid. Fiction Literature. The astonishing and riveting tale of a man s journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, it steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by ambitious youths all over rising Asia. It follows its nameless hero…
Cloth; Remainder. Mad Blood Stirring by Simon Mayo. Historical Fiction. 1815: The war is over but for the inmates at Dartmoor Prison, peace – like home – is still a long way away.On the eve of the year 1815, the American sailors of the Eagle finally arrive at Dartmoor prison; bedraggled, exhausted but burning with…
Cloth; Remainder. Memories of the Future by Siri Hustvedt. Fiction Literature. First Edition First Printing. Memories of the Future tells the story of a young Midwestern woman’s first year in New York City in the late 1970s and her obsession with her mysterious neighbor, Lucy Brite.As she listens to Lucy through the thin walls…
Trade Paperback; Remainder. Miracle on Cherry Hill by Sun-Mi Hwang. Fiction Literature. This is the story of a man named Kang Dae-su. His whole life is a miracle, rising from poverty to running a successful construction company. In his twilight years, Kang is diagnosed with a brain tumour. He returns to his childhood home of Cherry…
Trade Paperback; Remainder. Mother Land by Paul Theroux. Fiction Literature. To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work. To her husband and seven children, she is the selfish, petty tyrant of Mother Land. She excels at playing her offspring against each other. Her favorite, Angela, died…
Cloth; As New. Dust Jacket: Near Fine. U.S. First Edition. Paradiso: The Illuminations to Dante s Divine Comedy by Giovanni Di Paolo by John Pope-Hennessy. Beautiful images. A lavishly illustrated edition of one of the greatest epic poems in history. Sir Kenneth Clark calls it unquestionably the most beautiful illustrated Dante in existence.
Trade Paperback; Remainder. Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin. Mark Helprin’s powerful, rapturous new novel is set in a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories. Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour―a maître at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust―must find a balance between…
Trade Paperback; Remainder. State of the Union by Nick Hornby. Tom and Louise meet in a pub before their couple’s therapy appointment. Married for years, they thought they had a stable home life–until a recent incident pushed them to the brink. Going to therapy seemed like the perfect solution. But over drinks before their appointment,…