Fear City - New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-Fein
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster--and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world today When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the cou ...Show more
Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart
$75.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
WINNER OF THE 2018 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRYWINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRYThe collected works of one of contemporary poetry's most original voices Gathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary l ...Show more
Hitler in Los Angeles - How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America by Steven J. Ross
$14.51 NZD
Category: History
A 2018 FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE "[Hitler in Los Angeles] is part thriller and all chiller, about how close the California Reich came to succeeding" (Los Angeles Times). No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda machine in the wor ...Show more
In the Distance by Hernán Díaz
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing West. Driven back again and again, he meets naturalists, criminals, re ...Show more
Incendiary Art: Poems by Patricia Smith
$13.09 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Winner, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in the Poetry category Winner, 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Winner, 2018 BCALA Best Poetry Award Finalist, Neustadt International Prize for Literature Winner, 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner, Abel Meeropol Award for Social Justice Fin ...Show more
Less (HB) by Andrew Sean Greer
$48.58 NZD
Category: Fiction
A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Times Book Review). WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE National Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 A Washington Post Top Ten B ...Show more
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr. (Contribution by)
$29.89 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-FictionLong-listed for the National Book AwardFinalist, Current Interest Category, Los Angeles Times Book PrizesOne of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2017Short-listed for the Inaugural Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Soc ...Show more
Notes on a Foreign Country - An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen
$10.36 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award - Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionNew York Times Book Review Notable Book - Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Magazine and The Progressive"A deeply honest and brave portrait of of an individual sensibility reckoning ...Show more
Prairie Fires - The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder HB by Caroline Fraser
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography or Autobiography
Millions of devoted readers believe they know Laura Ingalls - the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains and went on to write the famous autobiographical books. But the full saga of her life has never been told. Now Caroline Fraser, editor of the Library of America's ...Show more
Richard Nixon: The Life by John A. Farrell
$14.74 NZD
Category: Biography or Autobiography
In Richard Nixon, award-winning biographer John A. Farrell examines the life and legacy of one of America's most controversial political figures. Beginning in 1946, when young Navy lieutenant 'Nick' Nixon returned from the Pacific and set his cap at Congress, Farrell traces how this idealistic dreamer b ...Show more
Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character by Kay Redfield Jamison
$60.00 NZD
Category: Biography or Autobiography
A Pulitzer Prize Finalist In this magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind brings a fresh perspective to the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Lowell. In his poetry, Lowell put his manic-depressive illness (now known as ...Show more
Semiautomatic by Evie Shockley
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Runner-up for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2018) Art can't shield our bodies or stabilize the earth's climate, but Evie Shockley's semiautomatic insists that it can feed the spirit and reawaken the imagination. The volume responds primarily to the twenty-first century's inescapable evidence of ...Show more