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<<< 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 >>>     sort list by title | publication date Embers of War The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam Fredrik Logevall The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. Fought over a period of three decades, the conflict drew in all the world's powers and saw two of them—first France, then the United States... John Barleycorn Jack London I would say that London is one of the best fiction writers to ever hold the pen. But these tales are more of a memoir of the man himself--a poor Bay Area native whose words of travel and woe and drunkenness and poetry would later give birth to the... 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... 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... 1491 New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Charles C. Mann This is an important book. Mann presents such a massive amount of new material that it represents an absolute return to square-one for Western Hemisphere studies. Easy to understand, even... San Francisco Noir Peter Maravelis San Francisco Noir lashes out with hard-biting, all-original tales exploring the shadowy nether regions of scenic "Baghdad by the Bay." Virtuosos of the genre meet up with the best of S.F.'s literary fiction community to chart a unique psycho-geography... Girls to the Front The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution Sara Marcus In the early 1990s a group of friends in Olympia, Washington decided to tell the world what it felt like to be young and female in America. Through consciousness-raising meetings, zine exchanges, and numerous kick-ass all-girl punk bands, with the... Epitaph for a Tramp & Epitaph for a Dead Beat The Harry Fannin Detective Novels David Markson Before he became known to the literary world for the brilliant Wittgenstein's Mistress, Markson made a living by writing pulps. But these were no ordinary pulps. Markson had great fun playing with the conventions of the genre, and they are just as fun... Rule by Secrecy The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids Jim Marrs You can believe this book or not -- but first you must read it, so that you can contemplate your misunderstanding of the past. This is a book of disturbing secret societies that have run the world as we know it for too long. After you finish you will... Oddfellow's Orphanage Emily Winfield Martin Finding wonderful chapter books for the under-eights has been the most frustrating part of what I do here... and then I read this. Beautifully written and illustrated, intelligent and witty, as well as warm and fuzzy, this is as good as it gets. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie Ayana Mathis The arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction. A debut of extraordinary distinction: Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration through the trials of one unforgettable family. Suttree Cormac McCarthy McCarthy's last book set in the South before he moved his focus to the West, this is an emotionally opaque but terribly powerful portrait of a damaged man. This book teaches by a sort of unrelenting immersion; plunging you into a world of vivid squalor... Cubop City Blues A Novel Pablo Medina Not a large book but voluminous and various and well worth reading twice or thrice. Medina's ravishing, sportive anatomy of nostalgia will earn the admiration of fans of that genre's grandmaster, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. —Recommended by Matthew The City & The City China Mieville A wonderfully labyrinthine novel. Ostensibly a murder mystery cum police procedural, Mieville has much more on his mind here -- how does a class of people define itself and coexist with another class of people with whom it may, on the surface, have... <<< 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 >>>