Used Books
There are 2562 books in this aisle.
|
by Julian Rathbone  Synopsis The Sheen Associates have landed many lucrative deals disposing of western toxic waste in Eastern Europe. Their latest involves moving a steaming container from a nuclear reactor near the small town of Burghaven, Germany. But the clients have their own... (read more)  List Price $12.99 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
add to wish list
by Granta Publisher Comments In Granta 75: Brief Encounters, the Irish poet Richard Murphy recalls his meetings with remarkable men, including W.H. Auden, J. R. Ackerley, and Theodore Roethke ("Why are you always praising Robert Lowell? I'm as mad as he is!"); Michael Mewshaw at... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Lewtin Thomas Jones and Dennis Ford and Megan Laney and S.P. Clarke Publisher Comments "In this book, 100 poems/ 4 Poets, by Lewton Thomas Jones, Dennis Ford, Megan Laney, and S.P. Clarke, the memorable work of four bards is presented. Poet Lewton Thomas Jones begins by dazzling the reader with a series of surreal images which riddle his... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $1.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Ian Jack Publisher Comments The politics of religion around the world, featuring John McGahern, A. L. Kennedy, Richard Mabey, Simon Gray, Geoff Dyer, Jackie Kay, Pankaj Mishra, Nell Freudenberger, and more on their personal experiences--close, baffling, acrimonious, or nonexistent--... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by A. P. Smith and Mike Force Publisher Comments From the BET awards to Disney World, Phish tour to the Democratic Convention, heartland swing states to the ghettos of Brooklyn, A.P. Smith captures the crazed consciousness of a country "circled 'round the dying embers of campfire democracy." Whether he'... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Jarret Keene Publisher Comments Popular culture has never been so poetically observed as in this debut collection by Jarret Keene. Insights into contemporary social issues, including abandoned babies and concealed weapons, complement reflections on Aubrey Beardsley and Mad's Alfred E... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Sparrow Publisher Comments Famous for creating a stir in 1995 when he picketed "The New Yorker" holding a placard reading, "My poetry is as bad as yours" (the magazine subsequently published some of his poems) renowned poet and comedian Sparrow also challenged Bob Dole for the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Michelle Tea and Larenn McCubbin Publisher Comments A graphic and uncompromising autobiographical bender, the story of Tea's years as a prostitute, with provocative illustrations by Laurenn McCubbin.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Michael Martone Review "He works his mischief well, facetiously and in dead earnest." IndyStar... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Mary Koncel Publisher Comments In her debut collection of prose poetry, Mary A. Koncel invites her readers to gaze at life through a darkly humorous kaleidoscopic lens. Her eccentric characters long for salvation and insight, as they travel through landscapes and circumstances that... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
|
|
|
|
by Yongsoo Park Publisher Comments Life hits rock bottom for 12-year-old Peter Kim when his family's apartment gets burglarized and he loses his most-prized possession, an Apple computer. "Las Cucarachas "documents the most important 48 hours of a young urban boy's life. "Park has... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Mark Macdonald Publisher Comments Two friends are inexplicably drawn to a carnival-like -orchid garden. A man works obsessively on restoring a mansion he has inherited. An urban dweller is haunted by the echo of cries in the night. A traveler is lured by highway signs directing him to a... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.23 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Ian Jack Publisher Comments The secret enthusiasms that sustain us -- bicycling, stamp collecting, butterfly hunting, gardening, absurd days with a golf club or finding a fishing rod: what writers do or dream of when not writing. Featuring new writings by Sean Wilsey, Thomas Lynch,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Nick Mamatas 
Synopsis Northern Gothic is the story of supernaturally crossed worlds — Manhattan's Chelsea district of the present and New York during the Civil War draft riots. William, a young Irish immigrant trying to avoid the war, and Ahmadi, a gay man from the South... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $3.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Ian Jack Publisher Comments It can be hard to love the people we should love; sometimes objects of affection are easier. This issue features Jonathan Taylor's frank and funny account of a boyhood spent caring for a father with Parkinson's Disease ('Who are you?'), and James Lasdun... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Jonathan Goldstein
Powells.com Staff Pick Goldstein, a former fixture on the Montreal spoken word scene, delivers a disjointed blast of fictions (is it a novel, are they "deep thoughts," are they short stories??) with Lenny Bruce is Dead. The bite-sized chapters are full of skewed observations... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Emmanuel Burgin Publisher Comments "[Emmanuel] Burgin's characters are brutal and endearing. He is a relentless and impassioned storyteller."-Void Magazine An insider's peek at minor league football in the early 80s, where leagues are filled with drug users, Vietnam vets, and NFL misfits.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by D Publisher Comments The debut title from The Armory, a new high-quality street-lit imprint edited by Bed-Stuy's Kenji Jasper. There a young man living in the infamous Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. He is an orphaned college student trying to get through his... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Edward Stone Cohen Publisher Comments "Eccentric, hilarious. . . . This may not be the first environmental novel, but it's the first one that produces belly laughs."-Mary Bringle, author of "Murder Most Gentrified" "Firewater" is a brutally funny environmental suspense novel featuring Chief... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Ian Jack Publisher Comments Published in the U.S. since 1979, Granta is a handsomely illustrated paperback featuring outstanding articles that illustrate a theme. The Music issue examines how music is made and what it means -- from plainsong to bounce. Contributors include Philip... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
|
