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Local Authors and Themes Browse All See all items Names of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Current price: $22.00 "A casually wondrous experience; it made me feel like the city was unfolding beneath my feet.” —Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror ... The Farm That Feeds Us: A year in the life of an organic farm Nancy Castaldo Current price: $19.95 Where does our food come from? What role do farms play? What’s it like to be a farmer? In this charmingly illustrated book, follow a farm throughout the year to discover how the farmer grows fresh and tasty food for us to eat in a sustainable and natural way. ... Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table Ruth Reichl Current price: $22.00 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The debut memoir from the renowned author of Save Me the Plums, about the people who“steered her on the path to fulfill her destiny as one of the world’s leading food writers” (Chicago Sun-Times). ... Homeland Elegies: A Novel Ayad Akhtar Current price: $28.00 This "profound and provocative" work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish followsan immigrant father and his son as they search for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with each other (Kirkus Reviews). ... The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis Lydia Davis Current price: $28.00 The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters. ... New York City's Hart Island: A Cemetery of Strangers (Landmarks) Michael T. Keene Current price: $21.99 Just off the coast of the Bronx in Long Island Sound sits Hart Island, where more than one million bodies are buried in unmarked graves. ... Diamond Street: The Story of the Little Town with the Big Red Light District Bruce Edward Hall Current price: $16.95 This is the astonishing illicit history of Hudson, New York, which for many years was the unlikely setting for a world of prostitution, gambling, murder, and government corruption?with more than a touch of the Keystone Kops thrown in. ... We Are Inevitable Gayle Forman Current price: $18.99 "No one writes about love like Gayle Forman. Lose yourself in her passionate mash note to rock music, indie bookstores and best of all, the miracles that can happen when you take chances on other people." — E. ... Quantum Girl Theory: A Novel Erin Kate Ryan Current price: $18.00 Part detective novel, part ghost story, this brilliant debut asks a tantalizing question: What really happens when a girl goes missing? ... Pig Years Ellyn Gaydos Current price: $27.00 This captivating memoir is a “startling testimony to the glories and sorrows of raising and harvesting plants and animals” (Anthony Doerr, best-selling author of All the Light We Cannot See), as an itinerant farmhand chronicles the wonders hidden within the ever-blooming seasons ... Staff Picks Browse All See all items The Group Mary McCarthy Current price: $19.99 Written with a trenchant, sardonic edge, The Group is a dazzlingly outspoken novel and a captivating look at the social history of America between two world wars. ... On Beauty: A Novel Zadie Smith Current price: $18.00 Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction, another bestselling masterwork from the celebrated author of Swing Time and White Teeth "In this sharp, engaging satire, beauty's only skin-deep, but funny cuts to the bone." —Kirkus Reviews ... Confessions of the Fox: A Novel Jordy Rosenberg Current price: $27.00 A New York Times Editors’ Choice: “A mind-bending romp through a gender-fluid, eighteenth century London . . . a joyous mash-up of literary genres shot through with queer theory and awash in sex, crime, and revolution.” ... The Sarah Book Scott McClanahan Current price: $16.95 "McClanahan's prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the chaos and humanity of the place from which he hails. He writes in an elliptical fever dream so contagious that slowing down is not an option. ... Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. Eve Babitz Current price: $16.95 No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated “its own kind of moral laws,” spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the 1960s and ’70s. ...
Names of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Current price: $22.00 "A casually wondrous experience; it made me feel like the city was unfolding beneath my feet.” —Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror ...
The Farm That Feeds Us: A year in the life of an organic farm Nancy Castaldo Current price: $19.95 Where does our food come from? What role do farms play? What’s it like to be a farmer? In this charmingly illustrated book, follow a farm throughout the year to discover how the farmer grows fresh and tasty food for us to eat in a sustainable and natural way. ...
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table Ruth Reichl Current price: $22.00 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The debut memoir from the renowned author of Save Me the Plums, about the people who“steered her on the path to fulfill her destiny as one of the world’s leading food writers” (Chicago Sun-Times). ...
Homeland Elegies: A Novel Ayad Akhtar Current price: $28.00 This "profound and provocative" work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish followsan immigrant father and his son as they search for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with each other (Kirkus Reviews). ...
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis Lydia Davis Current price: $28.00 The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters. ...
New York City's Hart Island: A Cemetery of Strangers (Landmarks) Michael T. Keene Current price: $21.99 Just off the coast of the Bronx in Long Island Sound sits Hart Island, where more than one million bodies are buried in unmarked graves. ...
Diamond Street: The Story of the Little Town with the Big Red Light District Bruce Edward Hall Current price: $16.95 This is the astonishing illicit history of Hudson, New York, which for many years was the unlikely setting for a world of prostitution, gambling, murder, and government corruption?with more than a touch of the Keystone Kops thrown in. ...
We Are Inevitable Gayle Forman Current price: $18.99 "No one writes about love like Gayle Forman. Lose yourself in her passionate mash note to rock music, indie bookstores and best of all, the miracles that can happen when you take chances on other people." — E. ...
Quantum Girl Theory: A Novel Erin Kate Ryan Current price: $18.00 Part detective novel, part ghost story, this brilliant debut asks a tantalizing question: What really happens when a girl goes missing? ...
Pig Years Ellyn Gaydos Current price: $27.00 This captivating memoir is a “startling testimony to the glories and sorrows of raising and harvesting plants and animals” (Anthony Doerr, best-selling author of All the Light We Cannot See), as an itinerant farmhand chronicles the wonders hidden within the ever-blooming seasons ...
The Group Mary McCarthy Current price: $19.99 Written with a trenchant, sardonic edge, The Group is a dazzlingly outspoken novel and a captivating look at the social history of America between two world wars. ...
On Beauty: A Novel Zadie Smith Current price: $18.00 Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction, another bestselling masterwork from the celebrated author of Swing Time and White Teeth "In this sharp, engaging satire, beauty's only skin-deep, but funny cuts to the bone." —Kirkus Reviews ...
Confessions of the Fox: A Novel Jordy Rosenberg Current price: $27.00 A New York Times Editors’ Choice: “A mind-bending romp through a gender-fluid, eighteenth century London . . . a joyous mash-up of literary genres shot through with queer theory and awash in sex, crime, and revolution.” ...
The Sarah Book Scott McClanahan Current price: $16.95 "McClanahan's prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the chaos and humanity of the place from which he hails. He writes in an elliptical fever dream so contagious that slowing down is not an option. ...
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. Eve Babitz Current price: $16.95 No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated “its own kind of moral laws,” spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the 1960s and ’70s. ...