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<<< 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 >>>     sort list by title | author Big Machine A Novel Victor LaValle A hybrid of low-lifes and high ideals, his Big Machine runs on suicide cults and the voice of God taking you straight to the bowels of The Bay and the monsters that lurk without and withoin. Hard as a gun-muzzle to the jaw... Islanders Ammiel Alcalay Seen through the prism of personal history, an evocative, unsettling view of a world falling apart Pain Killers A Novel Jerry Stahl Jerry Stahl tears up the literary scene with his razor sharp wit and darkly hilarious prose. He puts a magnifying glass to consensus reality, burning through it's thin veneer with delicious irony. Punk Rabbi, cultural critic, prankster, master wordsmith! Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese Recommended by Paul, City Lights Books. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother's death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a... Trout Fishing in America Richard Brautigan Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life caught the imagination of young people everywhere. He came of age during the Haight-Ashbury period and has been called “the last... Birds of America Stories Lorrie Moore A New York Times Book of the Year A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Winner of the Salon Book Award A Village Voice Book of the Year Birds of America is the celebrated collection of twelve stories from Lorrie Moore, one of the finest authors.. Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited Aldous Huxley The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's legendary vision of a world of tomorrow utterly transformed. In Huxley's darkly satiric yet chillingly prescient imagining of a "utopian" future, humans... Let the Great World Spin A Novel Colum McCann In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a... The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien Tim O'Brien's modern classic that reset our understanding of fiction, nonfiction, and the way they can work together, as well as our understanding of the Vietnam war and its consequences, The Things They Carried now has well over a million copies in... Sea of Poppies Amitav Ghosh Recommended by Paul, City Lights Books The first in an epic trilogy, Sea of Poppies is "a remarkably rich saga . . . which has plenty of action and adventure à la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration--and a drop or two of Dickensian... Flappers and Philosophers (Vintage Classics) F. Scott Fitzgerald All the glamour and cynicismof the dawning Jazz Age are on display in F. Scott Fitzgerald's debut story collection. Flappers and Philosophers was first published in 1920, on the heels of the young author’s smash hit novel This Side of Paradise. The... Home A Novel Marilynne Robinson WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE 2009 A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZEA New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book... Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen An iconic novel dressed in a fierce design by acclaimed fashion illustrator Ruben Toledo Ruben Toledo's breathtaking drawings have appeared in such high-fashion magazines as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Visionaire. Now he's turning his talented hand... A Mercy Toni Morrison In Morrison's latest novel, also her shortest and most accessible, we are reminded of what makes her one of the world's greatest living authors. At times, her prose flirts with the ineffable poetics that defined Beloved. Examining the horrors of... <<< 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 >>>