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One of the New York Times' 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years "A towering landmark of postwar Realism?A sustained work of prose so lucid and fine it seems less written...

Author: Nathan BomeyPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: May 30, 2017Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0393354431ISBN-13: 9780393354430

One of NPR's Books We Love for 2022 - A New Yorker Best Books of 2022 So Far - A Publishers Weekly Best Novel of 2022 - A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2022 - One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books...

Author: Rodney R. Jones, Charles M. Sevilla, Gerald F. UelmenPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: Aug 17, 1999Number of Pages: 172 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

A spellbinding, genre-bending debut that follows a woman's attempt to heal from an abusive relationship--with the help of black magic. As the sun sets on a feverishly hot July evening, a young woman...

A powerfully expansive novel...Thien writes with the mastery of a conductor. New York Times Book ReviewAuthor: Madeleine ThienPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: Oct 03, 2017Number of...

Describes the history of accounting and double-entry bookkeeping from Mesopotamia to the Renaissance to modern finance and explains how a system developed that could work across all trades and...

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year "Note-perfect. Heartbreaking. Profound?A] polished dagger of a novel that will cut out your heart." ?harles Bock, New York Times best-selling author of...

A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Earthling confronts our deepest fears in clear and haunting language, from "a poet of extraordinary gifts" (American Academy of Arts and Letters)...

A leading economist trains a lens on his own discipline to uncover when it fails and when it works.Author: Dani RodrikPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: October 11, 2016Number of...

A playful, analytical, informed, and poetic exploration of the delight and transformative power of real-life encounters. The light touch of a hairdresser's hands on one's scalp, the euphoric energy...

Points out the importance of the world's energy supply in shaping global politics, and argues that the energy source of the future should be natural gas in the form of shale deposits.Author: Richard...

Epigenetics: How Environment Shapes Our GenesAuthor: Richard C. FrancisPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: Jun 04, 2012Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Clear, provocative, and persuasive, Ever Green is an inspiring call to action to conserve Earth?s irreplaceable wild woods, counteract climate change, and save the planet. Five stunningly large...

Everything And More: A Compact History Of InfinityAuthor: David Foster Wallace, Neal StephensonPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: Oct 04, 2010Number of Pages: 384 pagesLanguage:...

?If you want to understand the most immersive new communications medium to come along since cinema? I?d suggest starting with Mr. Bailenson?s [book].? ?Wall Street Journal Virtual reality is able to...

Winner of the Costa Poetry Award ò Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Award and the Forward Prize ôThese lyricsàillustrate poetryÆs unique ability to shock readers into a renewed awareness of the world...

Winner of the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award "Gorgeously tender at its core?beautiful, heartstopping?Family Life really blazes." ?Sonali Deraniyagala, New York Times Book Review Hailed as a...

A groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between capitalism, communism, and Arctic ecology since the dawn of the industrial age.Author: Bathsheba DemuthPublisher: W. W. Norton &...

Favorite African FolktalesAuthor: Nelson MandelaPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: Nov 17, 2004Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0393326241ISBN-13:...

A powerful work of lyric art. --New York Times Book Review, Editors' ChoiceAuthor: Reginald Dwayne BettsPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: March 30, 2021Number of Pages: 112...

One of The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of the Month A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent. The King of Jordan is turning 60!...

Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation's most visionary satirist in this, his first book. Fight Club's estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of...

A spectacular new anthology of the best short-short fiction from across the United States. It has been more than thirty years since the term ?flash fiction? was first coined, perfectly describing the...

An engaging and frank guide to writing the very short story, full of sound advice, exemplary models, and provocative exercises. The history of fiction has been dominated by the novel and the short...

Floaters: Poems - 9781324021810Author: Martín EspadaPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: May 17, 2022Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

An entertaining and fascinating memoir of ?gifted storyteller? (People) Ann Hood?s adventurous years as a TWA flight attendant. In 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight...

In lucid, elegant poems, Forever contemplates love against the pressing question of mortality after a diagnosis of cancer.Author: James LongenbachPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date:...

For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania?s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordained future, a guarantee of security among enthusiastic comrades. That is, until she found herself...

Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to...