New Hardback Books

Tim Winton / Breath (Hardback)

A modern classic of Australian literature. A deep meditation on the entrance to adulthood and the broken promises of adolescence. Bruce Pike is eleven years old and lives in a logging town near the wild coast of Western Australia. Loner by nature, he...

Joni Sensel / The Humming of Numbers (Hardback)

Aidan is poised to take his monastic vows—until a girl enters the abbey, one who hums of the number eleven. Aidan has the ability to hear the humming of numbers, a buzzing energy given off by living things. He is captivated and tormented by the...

Michael E. Gerber / E-Myth Mastery (Hardback)

The bestselling author of the phenomenally successful essential entrepreneur handbook The E-Myth Revisited presents the next big step in entreprenuerial management and leadershipIn this practical, real-world program that can be implemented real-time into...

Gee & Mike Seabrook / Turf accounts (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

John Lahr / Dame Edna Everage (Hardback)

In 1989, the author spent a month in the wings of the Theatre Royal watching Barry Humphries perform as Dame Edna Everage. What emerges in this title is an account of the act and a portrait of the comedian and his art.   This book is second hand,...

AP / The Enchanted Little Egg (Hardback)

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Jean Trumpington / Coming Up Trumps (Hardback)

In this characteristically trenchant memoir, a Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller, the indomitable Jean Trumpington looks back on her long and remarkable life. The daughter of an officer in the Bengal Lancers and an American heiress, Jean Campbell-Harris...

Ivan Klima / Lovers for a Day (Hardback)

A collection of short stories by the author of Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light includes the tale of a doctor who has escaped to London and returns to communist Czechoslovakia to be with a woman only to discover too late that he barely knows...

David Walliams / Astrochimp (Hardback)

From million-copy bestselling author David Walliams comes a laugh-out-loud animal space adventure.Chump the chimpanzee was always being silly. He- make rude noises from BOTH ENDS…- pick his nose with his little toe…- eat the skins of...

W.H. Auden / Lectures on Shakespeare (Hardback)

"W. H. Auden, poet and critic, will conduct a course on Shakespeare at the New School for Social Research beginning Wednesday. Mr. Auden has announced that in his course . . . he proposes to read all Shakespeare's plays in chronological order." The New...

Wil Tirion / Night Sky Almanac 2025 (Hardback)

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Michael Andre Bernstein / Conspirators (Hardback)

Galicia, Austria-Hungary, 1913. In the castle of a frontier town, on the border between Europe and the East, the worldly, corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches helplessly while a wave of assassinations sweeps the empire, and his province. When a...

Justin Haythe / The Honeymoon (Hardback)

The first time that Gordon meets Annie they make love in a park. Soon afterwards, on the forty-fourth anniversary of D-Day, they are married. Gordon, though American-born, has never had a home; instead, he led the life of barren privilege, travelling...

Tyler Anbinder / Five Points (Hardback)

Details the notorious neighborhood that was once filled with gaming dens, bordellos, dirty streets, and tenements, that welcomed such visitors as Charles Dickens and Abraham Lincoln, and brings to light the hidden world that existed beneath its squalor...

Victor Pelevin / Homo Zapiens (Hardback)

In post-Soviet Russia, a man tamed Tartarsky is hired as a copywriter to help push new products on the populace. A former clerk in a shop, Tartarsky is overwhelmed by the success of his efforts, and has to figure out what to do when he begins to lose...

George Klein / Elvis: My Best Man (Hardback)

When George Klein was an eighth grader at Humes High, he couldn’t have known how important the new kid with the guitar—the boy named Elvis—would later become in his life. But from the first time GK (as he was nicknamed by Elvis) heard...

Philip Davison / The Illustrator (Hardback)

Lawrence Butler, a commercial illustrator in London, is desperately seeking his wife, who has walked out on him, leaving behind a reminder to water the plants. Disconsolate, Lawrence designs British postage stamps with Sheila's face on them. He rashly...

Eduardo Galeano / Hunter of Stories (Hardback)

This is Eduardo Galeano's last book, a masterful, deeply considered, and poetic autobiography, written in his signature style of short essays, fables, stories, snippets of dialogue, and epigraph-length fragments with illustrations. A mix of old and new...

Juan Gabriel Vasquez / The Secret History of Costaguana (Hardback)

London, 1903. Joseph Conrad is struggling with his new novel ('I am placing it in South America in a Republic I call Costaguana'). Progress is slow and the great writer needs help from a native of the Caribbean coast of South America. Jose Altamirano,...

Leila Aboulela / Bird Summons (Hardback)

  BIRD SUMMONS is a magic carpet ride into the forest of history and the lives of women. Deep and wild' Lucy Ellmann, author of SWEET DESSERTS and MIMISalma, happily married, tries every day to fit into life in Britain. When her first love contacts...

John D. Spooner / No One Ever Told Us That (Hardback)

This is the book that every grandparent (or parent) has always meant to write for their children.... but has never found the time to do so.In short, John D. Spooner has been carefully crafted a series of essential life lessons that every young person...

David A. Hollinger / Postethnic America (Hardback)

Sympathetic with the new ethnic consciousness, Hollinger argues that the conventional liberal toleration of all established ethnic groups no longer works because it leaves unchallenged the prevailing imbalance of power. Yet the multiculturalist...

Claudio Magris / Microcosms (Hardback)

Translated from the Italian, Magis delves into the environment of his Triestine homeland and uncovers the whole of human striving in a microcosm. The city's homes, cafes, markets and railway stations are all forums where humanity descends to transact its...

Mark Kharitonov / Lines of Fate (Hardback)

A philosophical mystery novel populated with artists, criminals, and drug addicts, Lines of Fate is one of the most extraordinary novels to emerge from the last years of the Soviet Union. Written at the height of Gorbachev's power in 1985 but not...

Cole Porter / You're the Top (Hardback)

A Valentine keepsake, this greeting-card sized package brings to life the loving and tender words of one of Porter's most popular and poignant songs, with lyrics complemented by beautiful black and white photographs. 75,000 first printing.   This...

Yrsa Sigurdardottir / My Soul to Take (Hardback)

“American readers first met Icelandic lawyer and investigator Thóra Gudmundsdóttir in Last Rituals. In My Soul to Take, internationally acclaimed author Yrsa Sigurdardóttir plunges her intrepid heroine...

Ann Beattie / Park City (Hardback)

  Thirty-six stories--eight appearing in a book for the first time and a generous selection from her earlier collections--give us Ann Beattie at stunning mid-career.Emotionally complex, edgy, and funny, the stories encompass a huge range of tone and...

Zsuzsa Bank / The Swimmer (Hardback)

Hungary, 1956. Without a word, Katalin leaves her family and sets out for the West. Her husband, Kalman, abandons the family farm and begins a long and circuitous journey through Hungary with his two young children, Kata and Isti. Staying briefly with...

Patrick deWitt / Ablutions (Hardback)

In a famous but declining Hollywood bar works A Barman. Morbidly amused by the decadent decay of his surroundings, he watches the patrons fall into their nightly oblivion, making notes for his novel. In the hope of uncovering their secrets and motives,...

Professor Jan Kott / Still Alive (Hardback)

Still Alive recounts the perilous odyssey of a renowned man of letters through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-twentieth-century. Jan Kott - Polish essayist and theater critic, author of the landmark work Shakespeare Our...

Martin M. Simecka / The Year of the Frog (Hardback)

Denied entrance into college because of his father's political views, Milan, a young Czech, finds solace in long-distance running and in his developing relationship with Tania, a university student   This book is second hand, and while you may not...

Thomas Swick / Unquiet Days (Hardback)

The author describes life in Poland during the two years he lived in Warsaw, drawing on history, politics, and personal experience to reveal the traditional ways of Polish life and the realities of living under martial law   This book is second...

Klaus Wagenbach / Kafka (Hardback)

  In Kafka's writing, Albert Camus tells us, we travel "to the limits of human thought." And in this book, the world's leading Kafka authority conducts us to the deepest reaches of Kafka's own troubled psyche, to reveal the inner workings of the man...

Martha Wells / Artificial Condition (Hardback)

It has a dark past--one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot." But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a Research...

V.S. Naipaul / The Writer and the World (Hardback)

  For 40 years, Naipaul has been traveling and, through his writing, creating one of the most wide-ranging and sustained meditations on the world. Now, for the first time, his finest shorter pieces of reflection and reportage--nearly all of them...

Julian Barnes / The Porcupine (Hardback)

With the brilliant wit and idiosyncratic intelligence that have marked his previous novels—and with a bold, sure grasp of intricate political realities—Julian Barnes now gives us a startling look at the fallout from the recent transformation...

James Sidanius / Social Dominance (Hardback)

This book suggests that the major forms in intergroup conflict, such as racism, classism and patriarchy, are essentially derived from the human predisposition to form and maintain hierarchical and group-based systems of social organization. Using social...

Gunter Grass / Too Far Afield (Hardback)

Two old men roam through Berlin observing life in the former German Democratic Republic after the fall of the Wall in 1989. The men are Theo Wuttke, a former East German cultural functionary, keen observer, and gifted speaker; and Ludwig Hoftaller, a...

Michael March / Description of a Struggle (Hardback)

Gathers together prose from ten countries which seek cultural integration with the rest of Europe and brings to the fore the vitality and range of fiction from these Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia,...

Wayne Johnston / The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (Hardback)

"The Colony of Unrequited Dreams" is Newfoundland--that vast, haunting near-continent upon which the two lovers and adversaries of this miraculously inventive novel pursue their ambitions.Joey Smallwood, sprung from almost Dickensian privation, is a...

Gerald Stern / This Time (Hardback)

An exhilarating new collection by the poet often applauded as the modern Walt Whitman. "For over two decades," the Library Journal has said, "no one has equaled Gerald Stern's compassionate, surreal parables about the burden of and the exaltation of...

Mark Mazower / Dark Continent (Hardback)

Dark Continent is a searching history of Europe's most brutal century. Stripping away the comforting myths and illusions that we have grown up with since the Second World War, Mark Mazower presents an unflinching account of a continent locked in a finely...

Pico Iyer / Video Night in Kathmandu (Hardback)

Mohawk hair-cuts in Bali, yuppies in Hong Kong and Rambo rip-offs in the movie houses of Bombay are just a few of the jarring images that Iyer brings back from the Far East.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Rogers Brubaker / Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town (Hardback)

Situated on the geographic margins of two nations, yet imagined as central to each, Transylvania has long been a site of nationalist struggles. Since the fall of communism, these struggles have been particularly intense in Cluj, Transylvania's cultural...

Ernest Gellner / Nationalism (Hardback)

A defining force in world history, nationalism remains an inescapable feature of a modern condition. It has underpinned the emergence of many states, and the conflict it has often generated has caused enormous suffering, both directly and indirectly...

Richard Vinen / A History in Fragments (Hardback)

The problem with the history of twentieth-century Europe is that we all think we know it. The great stories of the century—the two world wars, the rise and fall of Nazism and Communism—seem self-evident in their importance. But behind the...

Michael Schumacher / Dharma Lion (Hardback)

Draws from eight years of research and full access to Ginsberg's journals to present a dramatic biography that depicts three centuries of vanguard popular culture, from the Beat Generation of the 1950s to the Buddhist revival of the seventies...

Tina Rosenberg / The Haunted Land (Hardback)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern EuropeFrom the Trade Paperback edition.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the...

Peter Nadas / A Book of Memories (Hardback)

A psychological novel about the memory of things in Europe's recent past interweaves the first-person narratives of a young Hungarian writer, his literary creation--an egomaniacal Marxist and aesthete--and his childhood friend.   This book is second...

Frank Kermode / Shakespeare's Language (Hardback)

Plumbing the sweet mysteries of Shakespeare's "language," the author argues that the Bard's tragedies were probably difficult even for his contemporaries to understand and identifies a shift in Shakespeare's use of language around 1600.   This book...

Iva Pekarkova / The World Is Round (Hardback)

  Chronicles the adventures of Jitka, a Czechoslovak refugee who awaits a visa in an Italian refugee camp where the male-female ratio is 1,800 to 17 This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition...

Tibor Fischer / Under The Frog (Hardback)

Set in post-war Hungary between 1944 and 1956, this ferociously funny and bitterly sad story follows the fortunes of two young men in the pursuit of sex and the avoidance of work and army service. They survive the chaos of communism by becoming part of a...