New Hardback Books

Victor Pelevin / Homo Zapiens (Hardback)

In post-Soviet Russia, a man tamed Tartarsky is hired as a copywriter to help push new products on the populace. A former clerk in a shop, Tartarsky is overwhelmed by the success of his efforts, and has to figure out what to do when he begins to lose...

Eugenio Montale / Collected Poems, 1920-1954 (Hardback)

A new translation of the poetry of the greatest modern Italian poet, who updated Dante's lyric tradition for the twentieth century and whose love poems stand with literature's greatest, offers extensive notes and discussions of these subtle and difficult...

John Batt / Stolen Innocence: A Mother's Fight for Justice (Hardback)

The tragic story of Sally Clark, wrongly imprisoned for the deaths of two of her sons, and her eventual exoneration three years later. With the power of a thriller, the book lays bare the nightmare of being on the wrong side of the law.   This book...

George Klein / Elvis: My Best Man (Hardback)

When George Klein was an eighth grader at Humes High, he couldn’t have known how important the new kid with the guitar—the boy named Elvis—would later become in his life. But from the first time GK (as he was nicknamed by Elvis) heard...

Philip Davison / The Illustrator (Hardback)

Lawrence Butler, a commercial illustrator in London, is desperately seeking his wife, who has walked out on him, leaving behind a reminder to water the plants. Disconsolate, Lawrence designs British postage stamps with Sheila's face on them. He rashly...

Eduardo Galeano / Hunter of Stories (Hardback)

This is Eduardo Galeano's last book, a masterful, deeply considered, and poetic autobiography, written in his signature style of short essays, fables, stories, snippets of dialogue, and epigraph-length fragments with illustrations. A mix of old and new...

Juan Gabriel Vásquez / The Secret History of Costaguana (Hardback)

London, 1903. Joseph Conrad is struggling with his new novel ('I am placing it in South America in a Republic I call Costaguana'). Progress is slow and the great writer needs help from a native of the Caribbean coast of South America. Jose Altamirano,...

Joan Haslip / Madame du Barry (Hardback)

Jeanne du Barry, courtesan and Louis XV's official mistress until his death, was the last of the French royal favourites, succeeding Madame de Pompadour. For four years she was feted as one of France's most beautiful women, patron of artists such as...

Leila Aboulela / Bird Summons (Hardback)

  BIRD SUMMONS is a magic carpet ride into the forest of history and the lives of women. Deep and wild' Lucy Ellmann, author of SWEET DESSERTS and MIMISalma, happily married, tries every day to fit into life in Britain. When her first love contacts...

John D. Spooner / No One Ever Told Us That (Hardback)

This is the book that every grandparent (or parent) has always meant to write for their children.... but has never found the time to do so.In short, John D. Spooner has been carefully crafted a series of essential life lessons that every young person...

David A. Hollinger / Postethnic America (Hardback)

Sympathetic with the new ethnic consciousness, Hollinger argues that the conventional liberal toleration of all established ethnic groups no longer works because it leaves unchallenged the prevailing imbalance of power. Yet the multiculturalist...

Claudio Magris / Microcosms (Hardback)

Translated from the Italian, Magis delves into the environment of his Triestine homeland and uncovers the whole of human striving in a microcosm. The city's homes, cafes, markets and railway stations are all forums where humanity descends to transact its...

Mark Kharitonov / Lines of Fate (Hardback)

A philosophical mystery novel populated with artists, criminals, and drug addicts, Lines of Fate is one of the most extraordinary novels to emerge from the last years of the Soviet Union. Written at the height of Gorbachev's power in 1985 but not...

Cole Porter / You're the Top (Hardback)

A Valentine keepsake, this greeting-card sized package brings to life the loving and tender words of one of Porter's most popular and poignant songs, with lyrics complemented by beautiful black and white photographs. 75,000 first printing.   This...

Yrsa Sigurdardottir / My Soul to Take (Hardback)

“American readers first met Icelandic lawyer and investigator Thóra Gudmundsdóttir in Last Rituals. In My Soul to Take, internationally acclaimed author Yrsa Sigurdardóttir plunges her intrepid heroine...

Ann Beattie / Park City (Hardback)

  Thirty-six stories--eight appearing in a book for the first time and a generous selection from her earlier collections--give us Ann Beattie at stunning mid-career.Emotionally complex, edgy, and funny, the stories encompass a huge range of tone and...

Zsuzsa Bánk / The Swimmer (Hardback)

Hungary, 1956. Without a word, Katalin leaves her family and sets out for the West. Her husband, Kalman, abandons the family farm and begins a long and circuitous journey through Hungary with his two young children, Kata and Isti. Staying briefly with...

Patrick deWitt / Ablutions (Hardback)

In a famous but declining Hollywood bar works A Barman. Morbidly amused by the decadent decay of his surroundings, he watches the patrons fall into their nightly oblivion, making notes for his novel. In the hope of uncovering their secrets and motives,...

Professor Jan Kott / Still Alive (Hardback)

Still Alive recounts the perilous odyssey of a renowned man of letters through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-twentieth-century. Jan Kott - Polish essayist and theater critic, author of the landmark work Shakespeare Our...

The Usual Gang of Idiots / The Mad Bathroom Companion (Hardback)

  This compilation contains all the books of The MAD Bathroom Reader, The MAD Bathroom Companion Number Two, and The MAD Bathroom Companion Turd in a Series. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Martin M. Šimečka / The Year of the Frog (Hardback)

Denied entrance into college because of his father's political views, Milan, a young Czech, finds solace in long-distance running and in his developing relationship with Tania, a university student   This book is second hand, and while you may not...

Thomas Swick / Unquiet Days (Hardback)

The author describes life in Poland during the two years he lived in Warsaw, drawing on history, politics, and personal experience to reveal the traditional ways of Polish life and the realities of living under martial law   This book is second...

Klaus Wagenbach / Kafka (Hardback)

  In Kafka's writing, Albert Camus tells us, we travel "to the limits of human thought." And in this book, the world's leading Kafka authority conducts us to the deepest reaches of Kafka's own troubled psyche, to reveal the inner workings of the man...

Martha Wells / Artificial Condition (Hardback)

It has a dark past--one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot." But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a Research...

V.S. Naipaul / The Writer and the World (Hardback)

  For 40 years, Naipaul has been traveling and, through his writing, creating one of the most wide-ranging and sustained meditations on the world. Now, for the first time, his finest shorter pieces of reflection and reportage--nearly all of them...

Julian Barnes / The Porcupine (Hardback)

With the brilliant wit and idiosyncratic intelligence that have marked his previous novels—and with a bold, sure grasp of intricate political realities—Julian Barnes now gives us a startling look at the fallout from the recent transformation...

James Sidanius / Social Dominance (Hardback)

This book suggests that the major forms in intergroup conflict, such as racism, classism and patriarchy, are essentially derived from the human predisposition to form and maintain hierarchical and group-based systems of social organization. Using social...

Günter Grass / Too Far Afield (Hardback)

Two old men roam through Berlin observing life in the former German Democratic Republic after the fall of the Wall in 1989. The men are Theo Wuttke, a former East German cultural functionary, keen observer, and gifted speaker; and Ludwig Hoftaller, a...

Julian Barnes / Something to Declare (Hardback)

Julian Barnes's long and passionate relationship with la belle France began more than forty years ago, and in these essays on the country and the culture he combines a keen appreciation, a seemingly infinite sphere of reference, and prose as stylish as...

Michael March / Description of a Struggle (Hardback)

Gathers together prose from ten countries which seek cultural integration with the rest of Europe and brings to the fore the vitality and range of fiction from these Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia,...

Wayne Johnston / The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (Hardback)

"The Colony of Unrequited Dreams" is Newfoundland--that vast, haunting near-continent upon which the two lovers and adversaries of this miraculously inventive novel pursue their ambitions.Joey Smallwood, sprung from almost Dickensian privation, is a...

Gerald Stern / This Time (Hardback)

An exhilarating new collection by the poet often applauded as the modern Walt Whitman. "For over two decades," the Library Journal has said, "no one has equaled Gerald Stern's compassionate, surreal parables about the burden of and the exaltation of...

Mark Mazower / Dark Continent (Hardback)

Dark Continent is a searching history of Europe's most brutal century. Stripping away the comforting myths and illusions that we have grown up with since the Second World War, Mark Mazower presents an unflinching account of a continent locked in a finely...

Pico Iyer / Video Night in Kathmandu (Hardback)

Mohawk hair-cuts in Bali, yuppies in Hong Kong and Rambo rip-offs in the movie houses of Bombay are just a few of the jarring images that Iyer brings back from the Far East.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Rogers Brubaker / Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town (Hardback)

Situated on the geographic margins of two nations, yet imagined as central to each, Transylvania has long been a site of nationalist struggles. Since the fall of communism, these struggles have been particularly intense in Cluj, Transylvania's cultural...

Ernest Gellner / Nationalism (Hardback)

A defining force in world history, nationalism remains an inescapable feature of a modern condition. It has underpinned the emergence of many states, and the conflict it has often generated has caused enormous suffering, both directly and indirectly...

Richard Vinen / A History in Fragments (Hardback)

The problem with the history of twentieth-century Europe is that we all think we know it. The great stories of the century—the two world wars, the rise and fall of Nazism and Communism—seem self-evident in their importance. But behind the...

Michael Schumacher / Dharma Lion (Hardback)

Draws from eight years of research and full access to Ginsberg's journals to present a dramatic biography that depicts three centuries of vanguard popular culture, from the Beat Generation of the 1950s to the Buddhist revival of the seventies...

Tina Rosenberg / The Haunted Land (Hardback)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern EuropeFrom the Trade Paperback edition.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the...

Péter Nádas / A Book of Memories (Hardback)

A psychological novel about the memory of things in Europe's recent past interweaves the first-person narratives of a young Hungarian writer, his literary creation--an egomaniacal Marxist and aesthete--and his childhood friend.   This book is second...

Frank Kermode / Shakespeare's Language (Hardback)

Plumbing the sweet mysteries of Shakespeare's "language," the author argues that the Bard's tragedies were probably difficult even for his contemporaries to understand and identifies a shift in Shakespeare's use of language around 1600.   This book...

Iva Pekarkova / The World Is Round (Hardback)

  Chronicles the adventures of Jitka, a Czechoslovak refugee who awaits a visa in an Italian refugee camp where the male-female ratio is 1,800 to 17 This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition...

Tibor Fischer / Under The Frog (Hardback)

Set in post-war Hungary between 1944 and 1956, this ferociously funny and bitterly sad story follows the fortunes of two young men in the pursuit of sex and the avoidance of work and army service. They survive the chaos of communism by becoming part of a...

Slavenka Drakulić / S. (Hardback)

A Bosnian woman who was repeatedly raped by Serbian soldiers in 1992 recalls the events as she prepares to give birth to a child conceived through their abuse of her.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Dubravka Ugrešić / The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (Hardback)

This is a deeply East European novel in flavour reminiscent of Kundera and Borges. Through weaving together fragments, stories, and diaries Dubravka Ugresic, a prize-winning novelist in the former Yugoslavia, captures the world of a group of characters...

Jerzy Ficowski / Regions of the Great Heresy (Hardback)

"Bruno Schulz was one of the great writers....[His] verbal art strikes usstuns, evenwith its overload of beauty."John Updike Exactly sixty years after his death, Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) remains one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic...

Pavel Kohout / I Am Snowing (Hardback)

When Petra Marova is asked to help Professor Victor Kral, a returned exile and economic reformer, clear himself of charges of collaborating with the secret police, what she finds out causes her to doubt the professor's innocence and to begin her own...

Caroline Graham / Camilla (Hardback)

  The story of the secret affair between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing...

Yael van der Wouden / W dobrych rękach (Hardback)

Laureatka Women's Prize for Fiction i finalistka Nagrody Bookera.Tajemnicza, zmysłowa i prowokująca powieść.Isabel wiedzie samotne życie na holenderskiej prowincji – uporządkowane niczym odziedziczona przez nią porcelana. Wszystko ma tu swoje...

Matthew Kelly / Off Balance (Hardback)

The research upon which this book is based shows overwhelmingly that people want satisfaction much more than they want balance. And yet, one of the dominant topics in the area of personal and professional development for the past twenty years has been...

Chloe Dalton / Jak wychować zająca (Hardback)

Historia kobiety i dzikiego zająca, który nauczył ją żyć inaczej.Wyobraź sobie, że trzymasz w dłoni małego zająca i karmisz go z butelki. Mieszka pod twoim dachem i nocą wpada w podskokach do twojej sypialni, bębniąc łapami o kołdrę, gdy chce...

J.R. Moehringer / The Tender Bar (Hardback)

In a place that inspired Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby, young J. R. Moehringer lives with his single mother and mercurial grandfather in a cramped home with a rather-too-colorful cast of strident aunts, down-on-their-luck uncles, and their...