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Presents the life of the first black heavyweight boxing champion, whose flamboyant personality and defiance of racial stereotypes in the early twentieth century often made him the object of public...

From the world-renowned physicist, co-founder of the World Science Festival, and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes this utterly captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's...

A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ? Through the curious life of Dick Kallman?a real-life celebrity striver, poisonously charming actor, and eventual murder victim?the unforgiving worlds of...

Author: William BergerPublisher: VintagePublication Date: September 12, 2000Number of Pages: 512 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 037570518XISBN-13: 9780375705182

Although Rebecca Wright has pieced her life back together after a major tragedy, she can?t shake a sense that the world around her feels off-kilter. Meanwhile, her husband?s dedication to his...

From the Pulitzer and Story Prize winner: sixteen new stories?rovocative, funny, disturbing, enchanting?hat delve into the secret lives and desires of ordinary people, alongside retellings of myths...

- TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, TIME, Entertainment Weekly, Slate - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Boston Globe, NPR, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Economist, Bustle...

Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands is a story I wish I had written. ?From the Foreword by John Grisham The once...

Spanning millennia and continents, here is a stunningly revealing history of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilization. Boccaletti, of The Nature Conservancy, ?tackles the most...

Set in the coastal town of Danvers, Massachusetts, where the accusations began that led to the 1692 witch trials ... follows the 1989 Danvers High School Falcons field hockey team, who will do...

A warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing college friendship over the course of forty years?from the best-selling author of The End of Your Life Book Club By the...

Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years, she has...

In a best-selling memoir, the award-winning Japanese writer recalls his preparation for the 2005 New York City marathon, interweaving his reflections on the meaning of running in his life, his...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - From the widely acclaimed, bestselling author of American War--a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving novel that looks at the...

From the acclaimed author of We Ride Upon Sticks comes a luminous novel that moves across a windswept Mongolia, as estranged twin brothers make a journey of duty, conflict, and renewed understanding...

A collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns by the celebrated author, newspaper columnist, and Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg, culled from his best-loved pieces in Southern Living...

Where Is The Mango Princess? A Journey Back From Brain InjuryAuthor: C. E. CrimminsPublisher: VintagePublication Date: Oct 09, 2001Number of Pages: 272 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies about a woman questioning her place in the world, wavering between...

Whiteout: Lost In AspenAuthor: Ted ConoverPublisher: VintagePublication Date: Jan 19, 1993Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 067974178XISBN-13: 9780679741787

Author: John GimlettePublisher: VintagePublication Date: Jun 12, 2012Number of Pages: 384 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0307473627ISBN-13: 9780307473622

Two best friends. One huge crush. A year that could change everything... A warmhearted, hilarious queer rom-com about what happens when a group of friends are actually brave enough to live the dream...

A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.Author: Cheryl...

In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels--Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973--that launched the...

A true epic: a love story that spans sixty years, generationsÆ worth of feuds, and secrets withheld and revealed. One day, elderly, demented Harry Eide steps out of his sickbed and disappears into...

Wolf Of The Deep: Raphael Semmes And The Notorious Confederate Raider Css Alabama (Vintage Civil War Library)Author: Stephen FoxPublisher: VintagePublication Date: Aug 12, 2008Number of Pages: 336...

The author of The House on Mango Street gives voice to characters on both sides of the Mexican border, from a young girl harboring special secrets to a witch woman circling above her village. Reprint...

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME and GOODREADS ? A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango Street. It has been twenty-eight years since Sandra...

Turn every page -- Robert Moses. The city-shaper ; Carbon footprint ; Sanctum sanctorum for writers -- Lyndon Johnson. LBJA ; "Why can't you do a biography of Napoleon?" ; Interviewing. "I lied under...

A sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuff it is made of?an unparalleled deep-dive into how everyday garments have transformed our lives, our societies, and our planet. ?We...

Country crock' first published, in different form, in Nasty women: feminism, resistance, and revolution in Trump's America (Macmillan Publishing Group, 2017), and 'Hysterical!' first published, in...