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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem Publisher Comments A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers — an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals. At the center of Jonathan Lethem’s superb new novel stand two extraordinary women. Rose Zimmer, the aptly... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.57 Sale - Hardcover
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MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood Staff Pick In the powerful finale to her too-close-for-comfort dystopian/apocalyptic trilogy (following the mind-blowingly awesome Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood), Atwood leaves us with an epic tale filled with survival, humor, and — ultimately... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.57 Sale - Hardcover
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Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon Publisher Comments Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet. It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $20.27 Sale - Hardcover
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The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng Publisher Comments Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Doctor Sleep by Stephen King Publisher Comments Stephen King returns to the character and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Salinger by David Shields and Shane Salerno Publisher Comments Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people — and published in coordination with the international theatrical release of a major documentary film from the Weinstein Company — Salinger is a... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $26.25 Sale - Hardcover
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Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith by William Todd Schultz Publisher Comments Elliott Smith was one of the most gifted songwriters of the '90s, adored by fans for his subtly melancholic words and melodies. The sadness had its sources in the life. There was trauma from an early age, years of drug abuse, and a chronic sense of... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.90 Sale - Hardcover
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Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? by Alan Weisman Publisher Comments A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us. In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $19.60 Sale - Hardcover
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Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo and K.G. Campbell Publisher Comments Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo. It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $12.59 Sale - Hardcover
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The Artisan Jewish Deli at Home by Nick Zukin and Michael Zusman Publisher Comments If you don’t happen to live near one of the new wave of artisan-style Jewish delis that have sprung up around North America over the last few years, not to worry. With this book, the world of Jewish deli, in all its unsubtle splendor &mdash... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.59 Sale - Hardcover
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer Staff Pick I absolutely loved Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close a most precious and delightful novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. Oskar Schell made me laugh, smile, and just feel good. He is a charmer who's won my heart through the tears and the joy.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Year of the Jungle by Suzanne Collins and James Proimos Publisher Comments New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Collins has created a deeply moving autobiographical picture book about a father who must go off to the war in Vietnam — and the daughter who stays behind. When young Suzy's father leaves for Vietnam, she... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $12.59 Sale - Hardcover
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The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock Staff Pick In The Devil All the Time, Pollock mixes equal parts Tod Browning (Freaks) and Davis Grubb (The Night of the Hunter) to concoct an entirely original work that is as heartfelt as it is visceral. Simply put, it's an astonishing debut novel.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Enon by Paul Harding Publisher Comments Hailed as “a masterpiece” (NPR), Tinkers, Paul Harding’s Pulitzer Prize–winning debut, is a modern classic. The Dallas Morning News observed that “like Faulkner, Harding never shies away from describing what seems impossible... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $18.20 Sale - Hardcover
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The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild by Lyanda Lynn Haupt Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Crow Planet, a compelling journey into the secret lives of the wild animals at our back door. In The Urban Bestiary, acclaimed nature writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt journeys into the heart of the everyday wild, where coyotes,... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.90 Sale - Hardcover
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Old-School Iron-Ons by Chronicle Books Publisher Comments With over 50 unique designs inspired by old-school iron-ons from the '70s and '80s, this collection makes it easy to customize T-shirts, tote bags, or any other fabric — vintage-style! Complete with application instructions, these instant decals... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.47 Sale - Miscellaneous
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Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson Publisher Comments Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy and 2312, has, on many occasions, imagined our future. Now, in Shaman, he brings our past to life as never before. There is Thorn, a... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.90 Sale - Hardcover
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The Phantom Tollbooth 50th Anniversary Edition by Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer Publisher Comments It has been fifty years — and millions of readers — since the world was first introduced to Milo and his adventures in the Lands Beyond with Tock, the Humbug, and the captive princesses Rhyme and Reason. Now we have a remarkable 50th... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson Publisher Comments From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn Trilogy, Brandon Sanderson, comes the first book in a new, action-packed thrill ride of a series — Steelheart. Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $13.29 Sale - Hardcover
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