The Streak - Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken, and Baseball's Most Historic Record by John Eisenberg
$18.58 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
The fascinating story of baseball's most legendary "Iron Men," Cal Ripken Jr. and Lou Gehrig, who each achieved the coveted and sometimes confounding record of most consecutive games played.When Cal Ripken Jr. began his career with the Baltimore Orioles at age 21, he had no idea he'd beat the historic r ...Show more
The Tower of the Antilles by Achy Obejas
$42.99 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
Finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction Longlisted for the 2018 PEN Open Book Award and The Story Prize Included in The Rumpus's "What to Read When You've Made it More Than Halfway Through 2017"Selected as one of Rigoberto Gonzalez's Favorite Books of 2017/Critics Pick, LA Times Jacket CopyOne o ...Show more
The Trials of a Scold: The Incredible True Story of Writer Anne Royall by Jeff Biggers
$44.99 NZD
Category: Biography
"A role model for those of us living in the age of Trump"--Dorothy AllisonLonglisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyAnne Royall was an American original, a stranger to fear who defied 19th century skeptics as a prolific literary force, satirist and social critic.Drawing from Royal ...Show more
What Counts As Love by Marian Crotty
$12.14 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction | Series: Iowa Short Fiction Award Ser.
In these nine stories, Marian Crotty inhabits the lives of people searching for human connection. Her characters, most often young women, are honest, troubled, and filled with longing. In the title story, a young woman begins a job on a construction site after leaving an abusive marriage. In "Crazy for ...Show more
What Made Maddy Run - The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen by Kate Fagan
$19.29 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
*Instant New York Times Bestseller* The #1 New York Times Monthly Sports and Fitness bestseller From noted ESPN commentator and journalist Kate Fagan, the heartbreaking and vital story of college athlete Madison Holleran, whose death by suicide rocked the University of Pennsylvania campus and whose lif ...Show more
Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River by David Owen
$55.00 NZD
Category: Literary Science Writing | Reading Level: General Adult
The Colorado River is a crucial resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado's headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. ...Show more
You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages by Carina Chocano
$12.11 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY "If Hollywood's treatment of women leaves you wanting, you'll find good, heady company in You Play the Girl."--ELLE As a kid in the 1970s and 80s, Carina Chocano wa ...Show more
You Say to Brick by Wendy Lesser
$44.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Born to a Jewish family in Estonia in 1901 and brought to America in 1906, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia; by the time of his death in 1974, he was widely recognized as one of the greatest architects of his era. Yet this enormous reputation was based on only a handful of mas ...Show more