Out in the Open by Jesús Carrasco
$18.58 NZD
Category: Translation
After suffering violence and betrayal at home, a young boy flees into an uncompromising landscape ravaged by drought. Without food or water, exposed to the heat of the sun and the violence of his pursuers, the boy sets out across the Spanish plains. An encounter with an elderly goatherd offers hope of ...Show more
Patriot Number One - American Dreams in Chinatown by Lauren Hilgers
$19.25 NZD
Category: Biography
The deeply reported story of one indelible family transplanted from rural China to New York City, forging a life between two worlds In 2014, in a snow-covered house in Flushing, Queens, a village revolutionary from Southern China considered his options. Zhuang Liehong was the son of a fisherman, the ...Show more
Severance by Ling Ma
$0.00 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction
Maybe it's the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma's offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance. Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devot ...Show more
She Has Her Mother's Laugh - The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer
$0.00 NZD
Category: Literary Science Writing
Heredity is redefined in this sweeping, resonating overview of a force that shaped human society--a force set to shape our future even more radically. One of New York Times 100 Notable Books for 2018 One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Books of 2018 One of Kirkus's Best Books of 2018 One of Mental Flos ...Show more
Some Say the Lark by Jennifer Chang
$11.39 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
"Some Say the Lark is a piercing meditation, rooted in loss and longing, and manifest in dazzling leaps of the imagination--the familiar world rendered strange." --Natasha Trethewey Chang's poems narrate grief and loss, and intertwines them with hope for a fresh start in the midst of new beginnings. Wi ...Show more
Some Trick: Thirteen Stories by Helen Dewitt
$48.00 NZD
Category: Debut Short Story Collection
At last a new book: a baker's dozen of stories all with Helen DeWitt's razor-sharp genius For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most yonder dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be ...Show more
Sonora by Hannah Lillith Assadi
$11.43 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction
A fevered, lyrical debut about two young women drawn into an ever-intensifying friendship set against the stark, haunted landscape of the Sonoran desert and the ecstatic frenzy of New York City. Ahlam, the daughter of a Palestinian refugee and his Israeli wife, grows up in the arid lands of desert subur ...Show more
Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang
$18.58 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction
I will never forget the first time I read Jenny Zhang ... I was stunned, moved and quite frankly a little jealous ' Lena Dunham These seven startling stories of family, femininity, sexuality and otherness will plunge you into the tender and chaotic hearts of narrators you won 't easily forget. Centred ...Show more
Sting Like a Bee: Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971 by Leigh Montville
$65.00 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
In the mid-1960s, boxer Cassius Clay was young, successful, brash, and hugely admired. Then he joined the Nation of Islam, renounced his "slave name," and redubbed himself Muhammad Ali. Finally, after being drafted in 1966, he refused to join the military for religious and conscientious reasons, trigger ...Show more
Sunshine State: Essays by Sarah Gerard
$40.00 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay
Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay A New York Times Critics' Best Books of the Year - An NPR Best Book of the Year - A NYLON Best Nonfiction Book of the Year - A Buzzfeed Best Nonfiction Book of the Year - An Entrophy Magazine Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year ...Show more
The Arena - Inside the Tailgating, Ticket-Scalping, Mascot-Racing, Dubiously Funded, and Possibly Haunted Monuments of American Sport by Rafi Kohan
$11.57 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
In this "addictive" (Publishers Weekly) romp, intrepid sportswriter Rafi Kohan finagles access to our most beloved fields to find out just what makes them tick: from old-timer Wrigley, creakily adjusting to the twenty-first century, to the oversized monstrosity of Jerry's World in Dallas. Investigating ...Show more