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When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics) by Pema Chodron Publisher Comments A stirring call to move beyond religion for the guidance to improve human life on individual, community, and global levelsincluding a guided meditation practice for cultivating key human values Ten years ago, in his best-sellingEthics for a New... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Staff Pick The story of two young comic book artists in 1940s New York City, Jewish boys, one of whom fled the German steamroller heading toward his home in Czechoslovakia in a coffin, Chabon's third and best novel is utterly original, a generous fictional addition... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem Staff Pick The narrator, Lionel Essrog, known as The Human Freakshow, suffers with Tourette's syndrome and though you might not want to know him in real life, he's got to be one of the most brilliant characters ever created. His quirky rants put me off at first... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Good Owners, Great Dogs by Brian Kilcommons Publisher Comments A Training Manual for Humans and their Canine Companions. With two new chapters on Puppy Training and Dominance Aggression. Instead of going out of your mind, get into his. The only American to study and work with the renowned Barbara Woodhouse... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin Publisher Comments No Ordinary Time is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hours by Michael Cunningham Publisher Comments The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel becomes a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare The Hours tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf, beginning to write... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Soul Mountain by Xingjian Gao Publisher Comments In 1983 Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death. But six weeks later, a second examination revealed the cancer was gone, and he was thrown back into the world of the... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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American Pastoral by Philip Roth Publisher Comments As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hours by Michael Cunningham Publisher Comments A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Publisher Comments Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling new novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S Thompson Publisher Comments Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine: Stories by Thom Jones Review "Spending time with Jones' battle-worn eccentrics and disenfranchised misfits leaves you feeling bruised but also elated." Kate Sekules... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman Publisher Comments No one has more authority to call the shots the way they really are than award-winning economist Paul Krugman, whose provocative New York Timescolumns are keenly followed by millions. One of the world's most respected economists, Krugman has been named... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.25 Used - Hardcover
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High Fidelity by Nick Hornby Publisher Comments High Fidelity is the story of Rob, a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend Laura has just left him for Ian from the flat upstairs. Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have spent his life with... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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After Dark, My Sweet (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Jim Thompson Publisher Comments William Collins is very handsome, very polite, and very friendly. His is also dangerous when aroused. Now Collins, a one-time boxer with a lethal "accident" in his past, has broken out of his fourth mental institution and met up with an affable... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but here Eric Schlosser makes them stick... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ravelstein (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Saul Bellow Publisher Comments Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Slander: Liberal Lies about the American Right by Ann Coulter Publisher Comments "The immutable fact of politics in America is this: liberals hate conservatives." Ann Coulter, whose examination of the Clinton impeachment was a major national bestseller and earned widespread praise, now takes on an even tougher issue. At... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks Publisher Comments It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore gray, and went to church. The bohemians were artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism by Fritjof Capra Publisher Comments After a quarter of a century in print, Capra's groundbreaking work still challenges and inspires. This updated edition of The Tao of Physics includes a new preface and afterword in which the author reviews the developments of the twenty-five years since... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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