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
The World in a Grain - The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization by Vince Beiser
$50.00 NZD
Category: Literary Science Writing
The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives. After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer scr ...Show more
There There by Tommy Orange
$0.00 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction
NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLER "This is a novel about what it means to inhabit a land both yours and stolen from you, to simultaneously contend with the weight of belonging and unbelonging. There is an organic power to this book--a revelatory, controlled chaos. Tommy Orange writes the way a storm makes la ...Show more
Today by Juan Gelman; Lisa Rose Bradford (Translator)
$0.00 NZD
Category: Poetry in Translation
Poetry. Latinx Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Rose Bradford. Appearing in English translation for the first time, TODAY (HOY) by Juan Gelman (1930-2014) is the final book published during the life of one of Latin America's most important and celebrated poets. Written as both a reckoning an ...Show more
Trick by Domenico Starnone; Jhumpa Lahiri (Translator)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Translation
Sharp, succinct storytelling and breathtaking prose combine in this new novel by the author of Ties, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a Kirkus Reviews and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year. Trick is a stylish drama about ambition, family, and old-age that goes beyond the ordinary and pre ...Show more
Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World by Andrea Barnet
$0.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Four influential women we thought we knew well--Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters--and how they spearheaded the modern progressive movement This is the story of four visionaries who profoundly shaped the world we live in today. Together, these women--linked not by friendship or ...Show more
We Can't Breathe - On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival by Jabari Asim
$0.00 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay
Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Insightful and searing essays that celebrate the vibrancy and strength of black history and culture in America by critically acclaimed writer Jabari AsimIn We Can't Breathe, Jabari Asim disrupts what Toni Morrison has exposed a ...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