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The Paris Review Book of People with Problems – $200
Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Picador; 1st edition (July 14, 2005) Language: English All fiction concerns people with problems but the characters in these 17 stories, originally published in the...
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science – $235
The authors of this audacious debunking apparently want nothing less than to embarrass some of the foremost academic stars of the postwar period including Jacques Lacan, Luce Irigaray and Paul Virilio,...
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The Interpretation of Murder – $150
In the summer of 1909, Sigmund Freud arrived by steamship in New York Harbor for a short visit to America. Though he would live another thirty years, he would never return to this country. Little is...
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The appointment – $235
A fierce novel about a young Romanian woman’s discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life. “I’ve been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp.” Thus begins one day in the life of a young...
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Regarding the pain of others – $230
Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity–a daily commonplace in our “society of spectacle.” But are viewers inured -or incited–to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and...
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Never Mind (Melrose Novels 1) – $235
THE FIRST PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL At his mother’s family house in the south of France, Patrick Melrose has the run of a magical garden. Bravely imaginative and self-sufficient, five-year-old Patrick...
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Bad News (Melrose Novels 2) – $225
THE SECOND PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL Twenty-two years old and in the grip of a massive addiction, Patrick Melrose is forced to fly to New York to collect his father’s ashes. Over the course of a weekend,...
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Lives Other Than My Own: A Memoir – $230
In Sri Lanka, a tsunami sweeps a child out to sea, her grandfather helpless against the onrushing water. In France, a woman dies from cancer, leaving her husband and small children bereft. What links...
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Privacy – $250
American essayist and Harper’s contributing editor Garret Keizer offers a brilliant, literate look at our strip-searched, over-shared, viral-videoed existence. Body scans at the airport, candid pics...
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Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance – $245
The struggle to perform well is universal: each of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in...
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Why We Build – $575
A provocative and brilliant examination of what inspires great architecture and how buildings can change your life. Architecture, good and bad, is shaped by emotions. In Why We Build Rowan Moore...
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Wolf Hall: A Novel – $260
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry...
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An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World – $225
An End to Suffering tells of Pankaj Mishra‘s search to understand the Buddha’s relevance in today’s world, where religious violence, poverty and terrorism prevail. As he travels among Islamists and...
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle: A Novel – $245
The classic novel from “America’s best crime novelist” (Time), with a new introduction by Dennis Lehane. George V. Higgins‘s seminal crime novel is a down-and-dirty tale of thieves, mobsters, and...
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Cairo: The City Victorious – $235
From a noted journalist who has spent much of his life in Cairo, here is a dazzling cultural excavation of that most ancient, colorful, and multifaceted of cities. The seat of pharaohs and sultans,...
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Clockers: A Novel – $230
Price (The Breaks, 1982, etc.) has spent the past ten years writing for Hollywood (Sea of Love, etc.)–but you wouldn’t know it from the dense textures and supple dramatics of this epic slice of urban...
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Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story – $295
Twenty contemporary authors introduce twenty sterling examples of the short story from the pages of The Paris Review. What does it take to write a great short story? In Object Lessons, twenty...
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The Breaks: A Novel – $275
Peter Keller, first college grad from a working-class Yonkers family, thought he was on the road to success. Until no law school wanted him. As he watches his friends advance into promising careers,...
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis – $385
Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers, a storyteller celebrated for her emotional acuity, her formal inventiveness, and her ability to capture the mind in overdrive. She has...
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Venus Drive: Stories – $225
An intense, mordantly funny collection of short fiction from the author of Home Land and The Ask. A man with an “old soul” finds himself at a Times Square peep show, looking for more than just a little...
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