New York: Soho, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5-3/4 x 8-3/8", black boards, 464pp. Anothony Award-winner introducing Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police.A young "national model worker," renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao.....
New York: Soho, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5-3/4 x 8-3/8", black boards, 351pp. Signed on the title page by the author.Inspector Chen has been assigned to escort the wife of a witness in a criminal trial, to the United States. Chen is already en route when he learns.....
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 5-3/4 x 9-7/8", 1/2 black cloth, green paper over boards, 238pp. Signed by the author on the title page. First mystery novel in the Anna Pigeon series. Anna Pigeon has left New York to work as a park ranger in.....
London: Headline, 1998. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5-1/2 x 8-7/8", black paper over boards, 311pp. Signed by the author on the title page.Cornwall, England, is the setting for three recent deaths in the same family. A concerned relative suspects foul play, and Scotland Yard sends shell-shocked WWI veteran.....
Spiegel & Grau, 2010. Paperback. When fifteen-year-old Lydia Pasternak's popular older brother Danny disappears late one summer night, she unwillingly becomes a celebrity in her community and an afterthought to her bereaved parents. In Danny's absence, Lydia blossoms from a bookish outcast to the center of attention, all while grappling.....
Mariner Books, 2004. Paperback. To those who meet Jana Thomas, hers seems a perfect life, with a beautiful home, a successful career as an ER doctor, a loving husband, and a darling six-year-old son named Evan. But inside, Jana is crumbling. Evan's seemingly normal all-boy tendencies are escalating her motherly.....
Red Hen Press, 2018. Paperback. 30-year-old Bronwyn Artair, feeling out of place in her doctoral program in Atmospheric Sciences at MIT, drops out and takes a job as a TV meteorologist, much to the dismay of her mentor, Diane Fenwick. After a year of living alone in Southern New Hampshire.....
Scribner Book Company, 1979. Paperback.
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Originally published in 1978, this classic exploration of humanity's complex relationship with and understanding of wolves returns with a new afterword by the author.Humankind's relationship with the wolf is the.....
Vintage Books USA, 2001. Paperback.
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Winner of the National Book AwardThis bestselling, groundbreaking exploration of the Far North is a classic of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing.The Arctic is a perilous place. Only a few species of wild animals can survive its.....
Vintage, 1999. Paperback. Animals and landscapes have not had this weight, this precision, in American fiction since Hemingway's young heroes were fishing the streams of upper Michigan and Spain. --San Francisco ChronicleA flock of great blue herons descending through a snowstorm to the streets of New York. . ....
Orion Society, 2005. Paperback. Terrorism. Homeland Security. Patriotism. Since September 11, 2001, these terms have emerged as a fundamental part of our cultural lexicon, with their unsaid assumptions and attendant emotions being used to inspire and buttress a varied set of cultural, political, and military responses to the events of.....
Vintage, 2001. Paperback. Moving from fable and historical fiction to contemporary realism, this book of stories from Barry Lopez is erotic and wise, full of irresistible characters doing things they shouldn't do for reasons that are mysterious and irreducible.In The Letters of Heaven, a packet of recently discovered 17th-century Peruvian.....
Harper Perennial, 1990. Paperback. Prankster, warrior, seducer, fool -- Old Man Coyote is the most enduring legend in Native American culture. Crafty and cagey -- often the victim of his own magical intrigues and lusty appetites -- he created the earth and man, scrambled the stars and first brought fire.....
Vintage, 2004. Paperback. In this collection of twelve stories, Barry Lopez--the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams and one of our most admired writers--evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past, and with nature.An anthropologist traveling with an aboriginal people finds.....
Vintage, 1989. Paperback. In Crossing Open Ground, Barry Lopez weaves the same invigorating spell as in his National Book Award-winning classic Arctic Dreams. Here, he travels through the American Southwest and Alaska, discussing endangered wildlife and forgotten cultures. Through his crystalline vision, Lopez urges us toward a new attitude, a......
Vintage, 1999. Paperback. The acclaimed National Book Award winner gives us a collection of spellbinding essays that, read together, form a jigsaw-puzzle portrait of an extraordinary man. With the publication of his best-selling Of Wolves and Men, and with the astonishing originality of Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez established.....
Trinity University Press, 2014. Hardcover. The six stories in Outside showcase Barry Lopez's majestic talent as a fiction writer. Lopez writes in spare prose, but his narratives resonate with an uncanny power. With a reverence for our exterior and interior landscapes, these stories offer profound insight into the relationships between.....
Riverhead Books, 2021. Paperback.
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One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the YearOprah's Book Club PickNamed one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME MagazineA Washington Post Notable NovelFrom the author of the National Book.....
Knopf Publishing Group, 2021. Hardcover.
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From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt.These twelve pieces from 1968.....
Melville House Publishing, 2020. Paperback. ** A New York Times Bestseller **A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto.--Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book ReviewOne of President Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2019NAMED ONE OF.....
Knopf Publishing Group, 2021. Hardcover. Beginners is ultimately about more than learning. It's about the possibilities that reside in all of us.--Daniel H. Pink, New York Times best-selling author of When, Drive, and To Sell is HumanThe best-selling author of Traffic and You May Also Like gives us an inspirational.....
Enchanted Lion Books, 2020. Hardcover. Ages 8-12. Every night, at nine o'clock, wherever he is, Mr. Bianchi, an accountant who often has to travel for work, calls his daughter and tells her a bedtime story. But since it's still the 20th century world of pay phones, each story has to.....
Taschen, 2021. Hardcover. Pop artist, painter of modern life, landscape painter, master of color, explorer of image and perception--for six decades, David Hockney has been known as an artist who always finds new ways of exploring the world and its representational possibilities. He has consistently created unforgettable images: works with.....
Princeton University Press, 2020. Hardcover. A fresh and sharp-eyed history of political conservatism from its nineteenth-century origins to today's hard Right For two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity. By doing so, the Right has won long periods.....
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1980. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 5-3/4 x 8-1/2", 1/2 dark blue cloth, turquoise paper over boards, x, 213pp. First Edition of the 1980 reprint. The novel was originally published in 1969 by Walker & Company. This edition includes an introduction written by the author.....
