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Staff Recommendations A listing of current favorites, recommended by the bookstore staff. Check back for new recommendations each month as we bring you the best of what we're reading. Browse by title, author or staff member!   Anah   |  Andy   |  Dia   |  Don   |  Elaine   |  Elaine Kahn   |  Garrett   |  Gent   |  Jeff   |  Jolene   |  Layla   |  Linda   |  Lawrence   |  Luke   |  Maia   |  Matt   |  Nancy   |  Paul   |  Peter   |  Scott   |  Stacey   |  Tân

<<< 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 >>>     sort list by title | author | publication date Just Above My Head James Baldwin Read this book immediately. Just Above My Head is James Baldwin's masterpiece: a deeply moving story of human connection and redemption. This book is about families, given and created, about the trans-formative power of art... Arthur Rimbaud Complete Works Arthur Rimbaud American poets are still trying to catch up to what the French were doing well over a century ago. Read the works of this poet-prodigy to see just how far ahead they were... After Dark Haruki Murakami Murakami places the reader in a world fully of his own creation—related to ours, but a shadow world of misfits caught in a nocturnal stream of casual violence, emotionless sex and meaningful coincidence. Mean Spirit Linda Hogan Mean Spirit is one hundred miles of rough road with people who can show you how to take it. Funny and tragic, fiction and history from a writer you should know about... Rules for Radicals Saul Alinsky How'd Obama do it? Read his playbook to find out. What Machiavelli's The Prince is for the oppressor, Rules for Radicals is for the oppressed. Required reading... The Fire Next Time James Baldwin If you can honestly say that a book has never changed your life, then you haven't read The Fire Next Time. Said to have helped "galvanize" the Civil Rights movement, this powerful book beautifully, honestly, and, at times, heart-breakingly confronts... Discipline & Punish The Birth of the Prison Michel Foucault At the end of 2006, the United States had approximately 7.2 million people who were either incarcerated, on probation, or on parole. Our society's propensity for punishment and justice has manifested into the modern prison system, arguably... The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop A Memoir, a History Lewis Buzbee In The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, a Book Sense selection, Lewis Buzbee celebrates the unique experience of the bookstore—the smell and touch of books, the joy of getting lost in the deep canyons of shelves, and the silent community of readers. He shares... Lolita Vladimir Nabokov One of the most well-crafted books I've ever read. Not one word in this masterpiece isn't as it should be. My advice is to read it in big pieces, as it will take you into a world of Nabokov's making. The images and characters will stay with you... Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez In this magnificent story of a romance, Garcia Marquez beautifully and unflinchingly explores the nature of love in all its guises, small and large, passionate and serene. Love can emerge like a disease in these characters, but it can also outlast bleak.. Hard Candy A Book of Stories Tennessee Williams Recommended by Jade, City Lights Books The Black Book of Colors Menena Cottin "Thomas says that yellow tastes like mustard, but is as soft as a baby chick's feathers." Words in white on all black pages can be read aloud, as a child traces raised line illustrations (in this case, of feathers) which help the sighted "see"... Howl on Trial The Battle for Free Expression Bill Morgan, Nancy J. Peters The inside story of the publication and defense of Howl in correspondence, documents and photographs. Crude Reflections/Cruda Realidad Oil, Ruin and Resistance in the Amazon Rainforest Lou Dematteis, Kayana Szymczak An indigenous community's landmark legal case to hold Chevron accountable for its contamination of the Amazon <<< 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 >>>