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Jamaica Kincaid's Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya is the classic travel memoir about a master novelist's journey to the Himalaya in search of seeds...Author: Jamaica KincaidPublisher:...

And a Dog Called Fig is the story of one writer?s life with dogs (including a frisky new puppy), how they are uniquely ideal companions for building a creative life, and some delightful tales about...

A brilliantly funny seasonal treat for bestselling poet Brian Bilston's loyal fans and newcomers alike.Author: Brian BilstonPublisher: PicadorPublication Date: Sep 10, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

A wide-ranging, controversial collection of critical essays on the political mania plaguing the West by one of the most important public intellectuals of our time. In America and in England,...

Outstanding . . . Emlen's book on animal warfare reveals a world far more fascinating and intriguing than one we could summon with our imagination. -The Seattle Times Every animal relies on a weapon...

The international star Sara Stridsberg returns with The Antarctica of Love, an unnamed woman's tale of her murder, her brief life, and the world that moves on after she left it. [Stridsberg] writes...

Approaching Eye LevelAuthor: Vivian GornickPublisher: PicadorPublication Date: March 03, 2020Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0374538255ISBN-13: 9780374538255

In Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childhood, a funky, tight-knit small town in the big city,...

A Sunday Times (London) Top 100 Novel of the Twenty-First Century ?No one has written better about what, I suppose, is generally known as female experience . . . All of it is familiar from life but...

Melanie Mitchell separates science fact from science fiction in this sweeping examination of the current state of AI and how it is remaking our world No recent scientific enterprise has proved as...

?Many days I believe menopause is the new (if long overdue) frontier for the most compelling and necessary philosophy; Darcey Steinke is already there, blazing the way. This elegant, wise,...

The first comprehensive biography of Weegee?photographer, ?psychic,? ultimate New Yorker?from Christopher Bonanos, author of Instant: The Story of Polaroid. Arthur Fellig?s ability to arrive at a...

Pulitzer Prize finalist At Weddings and Wakes is a brilliant, highly complex, extraordinary piece of fiction" (Chicago Tribune)"--Author: Alice McdermottPublisher: PicadorPublication Date: May 02,...

Author: Mario Vargas LlosaPublisher: PicadorPublication Date: Oct 02, 2007Number of Pages: 384 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0312427247ISBN-13: 9780312427245

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, And Punish The Poor - 9781250215789Author: Virginia EubanksPublisher: PicadorPublication Date: Aug 06, 2019Number of Pages: 288...

An internationally acclaimed documentary novel that describes one of the largest single mass executions of the Holocaust from an author who witnessed it.Author: Anatoly Kuznetsov, A...

The book teems with eccentric characters and scenes that made my skin crawl.... Explained simply, read easily, Bad Paper defies expectations. It should also raise quite a few alarms.-Colin Dwyer, NPR...

A stunning tale of a little-known figure in history. Robert Smalls' astounding heroism during the Civil War helped convince Lincoln and the country that African Americans were extraordinarily capable...

The poet and visual artist Mina Loy has long had an underground reputation as an exemplary avant-gardist. Born in London of mixed Jewish and English parentage, and a much photographed beauty, she...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 "In this superbly articulate cri de coeur, Safina gives us a new way of looking at the natural world that is radically different."?The Washington Post New York...

How can we ever be sure that we really know the other? To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the non-humans, the...

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post Apple iBooks The New York Times Book Review NPR Amazon Chicago Tribune Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of...

Poet and essayist Lisa Wells takes us on a pilgrimage to the margins, where trailblazers and outliers imagine new ways to live and reconnect to the Earth in the face of climate change--Author: Lisa...

Explores the efforts of physicians to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of insurmountable obstacles, discussing such topics as the ethical considerations of...

Author: Carl SafinaPublisher: PicadorPublication Date: Jul 12, 2016Number of Pages: 496 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1250094593ISBN-13: 9781250094599

An against-the-grain polemic on American capitalism from New York Times bestselling author Tyler Cowen. We love to hate the 800-pound gorilla. Walmart and Amazon destroy communities and small...

Black Water: A NovelAuthor: Louise DoughtyPublisher: PicadorPublication Date: Sep 12, 2017Number of Pages: 352 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Paperback/FictionISBN-10: 1250141028ISBN-13: 9781250141026

A National Indie Bestseller Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Story Prize, and a Windham-Campbell Literature Prize A Best Book of the Year at The New York Times, The New Yorker,...

Out walking with his wife, Lauren, beside the river Tyne, Tom Seymour instinctively risks his life to save a young man who they happen to notice just before he jumps into the icy current. Tom's...

A bittersweet farewell to the world and the word by the Australian master ?The mind is a place best viewed from borderlands . . .? Border Districts, purportedly the Australian master Gerald Murnane?s...