The Far Away Brothers - Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life by Lauren Markham
$19.29 NZD
Category: Biography
The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California--fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong. Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, the United States was a distant fantasy to identical twins Ernesto and Raul ...Show more
The Greatest Story Ever Told ... So Far - Why Are We Here? by Lawrence M. Krauss
$19.29 NZD
Category: Literary Science Writing
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorInternationally renowned award-winning theoretical physicist, New York Times bestselling author of A Universe from Nothing, and passionate advocate for reason, Lawrence Krauss tells the dramatic story of the discovery of the hidden world of reality -- a grand poetic vi ...Show more
The Heritage: The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of the Black Political Athlete by Howard Bryant
$0.00 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today's Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotism It used to be that politics and sports were as separate from one another as church and state. The ballfield was an escape from the world's worst pro ...Show more
The Impossible Fairy Tale by Han Yujoo
$11.43 NZD
Category: Translation
A chilling, wildly original novel from a major new voice from South Korea The Impossible Fairy Taleis the story of two unexceptional grade-school girls. Mia is "lucky"--she is spoiled by her mother and, as she explains, her two fathers. She gloats over her exotic imported color pencils and won't be den ...Show more
The Kelloggs - The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek by Howard Markel
$25.01 NZD
Category: Biography
John Harvey Kellogg was one of America's most beloved physicians; a bestselling author, lecturer, and health-magazine publisher; founder of the Battle Creek Sanitarium; and patron saint of the pursuit of wellness. His youngest brother, Will, was the founder of the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company ...Show more
The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead: Stories by Chanelle Benz
$49.00 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING* Named a Best Book of 2017 by The San Francisco Chronicle Named one of Electric Literature's 15 Best Short Story Collections of 2017 A stunningly original deb ...Show more
The Mother of All Questions - Further Reports from the Feminist Revolutions by Rebecca Solnit
$38.00 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay
In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.In h ...Show more
The Operator - The Life and Times of Walter O'Malley by Jerald Podair
$79.99 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
On the sixtieth anniversary of the Dodgers' move to Los Angeles, the full story of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform the city.When Walter O'Malley moved his Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 with plans to construct a new ballpark next to downtown, he ignited ...Show more
The Overstory (US HB) by Richard Powers
$7.16 NZD
Category: Book Award
** LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 ** 'It's not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book.' - Margaret Atwood A monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most 'prodigiously talented' (The New York Times Book Review) novelists. The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of ...Show more
The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas
$20.00 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction
Longlisted for 2018 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut FictionKirkus Reviews's Best Fiction of 2017Kirkus Reviews's Best Debut Novels of 2017Booklist's Top 10 First Novels: 2017The New York Times Book Review's Editors' ChoiceIndie Next Pick for September 2017Kirkus Reviews's 13 Fiction Debuts & B ...Show more
The Shutters by Ahmed Bouanani; Emma Ramadan (Translator)
$0.00 NZD
Category: Poetry in Translation
The Shutters collects the two most important poetry collections--"The Shutters" and "Photograms"--by the legendary Moroccan writer Ahmed Bouanani. By intertwining myth and tradition with the familiar objects and smells of his lived present, Bouanani reconstructs vivid images of Morocco's past. He weaves ...Show more
The Stone Building and Other Places by Asli Erdogan; Sevinç Türkkan (Translator)
$32.99 NZD
Category: Translation
Longlisted for the 2019 PEN Translation Award The New York Times calls Turkish writer Asli Erdogan one of the "11 Powerful Women We Met Around the World in 2017""Aslı Erdoğan is an exceptionally perceptive and sensitive writer who always produces perfect literary texts."--Orhan Pamuk"One volume of short ...Show more