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A study of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis chronicles the standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over the placement of missiles in Cuba, analyzing the events and personalities involved to...

New York Times Bestseller A startlingly original debut from the actor, writer, director, and executive producer hailed as ?a gifted observer of the human condition and a very funny writer capable of...

This book presents eight of the author's short stories. In "Bog Girl: A Romance," a story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he's extracted from a mass...

A provocative critique of Western attitudes about the Orient, this history examines the ways in which the West has discovered, invented, and sought to control the East from the 1700s to the present...

Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest For The Ultimate Nature Of RealityAuthor: Max TegmarkPublisher: VintagePublication Date: Feb 03, 2015Number of Pages: 432 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ò A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the...

Out of Place: A MemoirAuthor: Edward W. SaidPublisher: VintagePublication Date: September 12, 2000Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0679730672ISBN-13: 9780679730675

Draws on recent scientific breakthroughs to explain the mechanisms underlying dyslexia, offering parents age-specific, grade-by-grade instructions on how to help their children.Author: Sally E...

Nabokov's parody, half poem and half commentary on the poem, deals with the escapades of the deposed king of Zemala in a New England college townAuthor: Vladimir NabokovPublisher: VintagePublication...

?They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.? So begins Toni Morrison's Paradise, which opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an...

In these twelve interconnected tales, David Peace?acclaimed author of the Red Riding Quartet, Occupied City, and Tokyo Year Zero?weaves fact and fiction as he takes up the brief but fiercely lived...

Originally published in the United States by Rescue Press, LLC, in Iowa City, Iowa, in 2017.Author: Andrea LawlorPublisher: VintagePublication Date: April 23, 2019Number of Pages: 352 pagesLanguage:...

Perfume: The Story of a MurdererAuthor: Patrick SuskindPublisher: VintagePublication Date: February 13, 2001Number of Pages: 255 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0375725849ISBN-13:...

Personal WritingsAuthor: Albert CamusPublisher: VintagePublication Date: Aug 04, 2020Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0525567216ISBN-13: 9780525567219

Plainwater: Essays and PoetryAuthor: Anne CarsonPublisher: VintagePublication Date: March 28, 2000Number of Pages: 272 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0375708421ISBN-13: 9780375708428

Examines the effect of a racially divided society on nineteenth century American writings, and discusses works by Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and TwainAuthor: Toni MorrisonPublisher: VintagePublication...

An "engrossing, affecting, and singular" (Publishers Weekly) debut novel about love, family, queerness, and losing your mind in the modern world. While god is sending her signs through Instagram and...

Depicts the struggles of Timofey Pnin, a professor of Russian, who attempts to adapt himself to life at an institution.Author: Vladimir NabokovPublisher: VintagePublication Date: June 18, 1989Number...

William Blake is one of England? most fascinating writers; he was not only a groundbreaking poet, but also a painter, engraver, radical, and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by...

Author: Gwyneth CravensPublisher: VintagePublication Date: October 14, 2008Number of Pages: 439 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0307385876ISBN-13: 9780307385871

Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir Of Work, Doubt, Discernment, And Moments Of GraceAuthor: Nora GallagherPublisher: VintagePublication Date: Jan 06, 2004Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage:...

Prisoners: A Story Of Friendship And TerrorAuthor: Jeffrey GoldbergPublisher: VintagePublication Date: Jan 15, 2008Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams tackles big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way" (Wall Street Journal)...

Much has changed since Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her groundbreaking Sexual Personae, but the laser-sharp insights of this major American thinker continue to be ahead of the...

With a new preface by Tayari Jones and a new afterword by the author--Cover.Author: SapphirePublisher: VintagePublication Date: June 22, 2021Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement?quantum computing?which may eventually illuminate the deepest mysteries of science, supercharge...

A young, well-born Osaka widow, Sonoko Kakiuchi, describes her husband's humiliation and the influence of a beautiful and totally corrupt art student on their lives, in a novel set in the...

Quicksand: What It Means To Be A Human BeingAuthor: Henning MankellPublisher: VintagePublication Date: Jan 10, 2017Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

A much-anticipated, hilarious new essay collection from #1 New York Times bestselling unabashed fan-favorite Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that...

Radical Hope is a collection of lettersùto ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouragedùwritten by award-winning...