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<<< 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 >>>     sort list by title | author | publication date West of the West Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State Mark Arax With his reportage and essays, Arax is mining territory somewhere between Rebecca Solnit and James Ellroy—here you'll find both thoughtful musings on geography and intense crime investigations. Written with real vitality and engagement, this book makes... Mr. Peanut Adam Ross A terrifying, Hitchcockian portrait of love turned to hate, and to murder. Did our hapless protagonists really kill their wives, or did they just hope someone else would finish the job? Mr. Peanut is a riveting, strange literary thriller, a scary dive... Fatale Jean-Patrick Manchette Aimée Joubert, the central character in Fatale, is a matter-of-fact businesswoman killer. In only his third novel translated into Englisg (the two others published by City Lights), Manchette delivers a terse, immediate tale where Aimée deals the... Nightwood Djuna Barnes Nightwood is a book for long, dark nights. Barnes vividly depicts a world of aristocratic decay in which tormented characters blindly grope toward ambiguous desires, often leading them toward grotesque fates. It is one of the more psychologically... The Typewriter Is Holy The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation Bill Morgan If you would like to find out everything you always wanted to know about the Beat Generation but were afraid to ask, this is the book for you. Amazing stories. —Recommended by Don, City Lights Books In this highly entertaining work, Bill Morgan, the... Bacacay Witold Gombrowicz Stunningly original in both style and content, these stories are hilarious yet have an undercurrent of profound moral disquiet and horror when the respectable turns slowly but inexorably into the outrageous, conveying both the horrors of upper-class... Dreams in a Time of War A Childhood Memoir Ngugi Wa'Thiong'O Born in 1938 in rural Kenya, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o came of age in the shadow of World War II, amidst the terrible bloodshed in the war between the Mau Mau and the British. The son of a man whose four wives bore him more than a score of children, young... The Ask A Novel Sam Lipsyte A New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceMilo Burke—husband, father, development officer at a third-tier university—has just joined the burgeoning class of the newly unemployed. Grasping after odd jobs to support his... What We Are Peter Nathaniel Malae A New York Times Editors' Choice and a blazing and authentic new literary voice, Peter Nathaniel Malae’s raw and powerful, bullet-fast debut novel looks at contemporary America through the eyes of one disillusioned son. What We Are follows... Motorman David Ohle Book Forum, September, 2004 by Shelley Jackson Motorman is the only book ever given to me photocopied in full. That's how hard to get it was, and how badly I wanted it. David Ohle's legendary first novel was published some three decades ago... The Rise of American Democracy Jefferson to Lincoln Sean Wilentz Winner of the Bancroft Award: "Monumental…a tour de force…awesome in its coverage of political events."—Gordon Wood, New York Times Book ReviewAcclaimed as the definitive study of the period by one of the greatest American historians... Against Empire Michael Parenti Richly informed and written in an engaging style, Against Empire exposes the ruthless agenda and hidden costs of the U.S. empire today. Documenting the pretexts and lies used to justify violent intervention and maldevelopment abroad, Parenti shows... Grapefruit A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono Yoko Ono Quiet.It's a bomb. --Recommended by Tân, City Lights Books Back in print for the first time in nearly thirty years, here is Yoko Ono's whimsical, delightful, subversive, startling book of instructions for art and for life. "Burn this book after... Wingshooters Nina Revoyr Nina Revoyr in all her novels takes us through the complexities of race, class and history in riveting, page-turning novels that bring to mind the early work of chester Himes and Walter Mosley. Wingshooters, Revoyr's newest, is a book I could not put... <<< 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 >>>