Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2021. Hardcover. Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed's On Juneteenth provides a historian's view of the country's long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since.....
Timber Press (OR), 2021. Hardcover. "A timely and much needed call to plant, protect, and delight in these diverse, life-giving giants." --David George Haskell, author of The Forest Unseen and The Songs of Trees With Bringing Nature Home, Doug Tallamy changed the conversation about gardening in America. His second book.....
Flatiron Books, 2021. Paperback. Now a documentary narrated by Common, produced by Grant Hill, Dwyane Wade, and 9th Wonder, from filmmaker Mary Mazzio The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-Black high school rowing team in the.....
Doubleday Books, 2021. Hardcover. "Absolutely riveting historical fiction that reads like the most pageturning of thrillers." -Lisa ScottolineA young Puritan woman--faithful, resourceful, but afraid of the demons that dog her soul--plots her escape from a violent marriage in this riveting and propulsive novel of historical suspense from the #1 New.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2021. Hardcover. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade.....
Vintage, 2021. Paperback. An Instant New York Times Bestseller From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower--a riveting thriller and "all-too-convincing chronicle of science, espionage, action and speculation" (The Wall Street Journal)At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When epidemiologist Henry.....
Grove Press, 2021. Hardcover. Aminatta Forna is one of our most important literary voices, and her novels have won the Windham Campbell Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book. In this elegantly rendered and wide-ranging collection of new and previously published essays, Forna writes intimately about displacement, trauma.....
Henry Holt & Company, 2021. Hardcover. New York Times bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims is back with a groundbreakingly frank guide to being a grown-up What does it mean to be an adult? In the twentieth century, psychologists came up with five markers of adulthood: finish your education, get a job.....
University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. Paperback. In 1921 Tulsa's Greenwood District, known then as the nation's "Black Wall Street," was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the United States. But on May 31 of that year, a white mob, inflamed by rumors that a young Black man.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2021. Paperback. On November 8, 2018, the ferocious Camp Fire razed nearly every home in Paradise, California, and killed at least 85 people. Jouranalists Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano reported on Paradise from the day the fire began and conducted hundreds of in-depth interviews with.....
London: Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1878. First Edition. Half Leather. 5 x 7-1/4", half brown leather, marbled paper over boards, marbled endpapers, raised tooled bands, ix, 480pp, 511pp, index each volume, text illustrations throughout. Bound by Mudie.Two volumes of strolls through 19th century London. The first volume focuses chiefly on the.....
Prague: Nakladatelstvi Ceskoslovenskych Vytvarnych Umelcu, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. 6-7/8 x 9-5/8", black print on white cloth, bright pictorical endpapers, 293pp, 128 full page color plates, additional monochromes throughout, ribbon marker, all edges yellow. Monograph on book covers designed by Czech graphic artist Josef Capek, Czech text by Vladimir Thiele.Toning.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. First American Edition. Hardcover. 5-7/16 x 8", beige cloth with green accents and red titles, green endpapers, 312pp. First American Edition of avant-garde author Anna Kavan's first fictional work under her new name. Kavan wrote 6 novels under the name of.....
Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1949. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 6-5/8 x 9-3/4", gilt titled maroon cloth, top-edge gilt, deckled fore-edge, light grey endpapers, xvii, 562pp, headpieces and 32 full-page color plates by Rockwell Kent. #640 of a limited edition of 1500 sets.....
Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii: Rice Street Press, 2007. Hardcover. 8-5/8 x 11-1/4", pictorial paper over thick boards, map endpapers, viii, 369pp, fully illus. Signed by the author on the title page. The story of the Coco Palms Hotel, from the year that Grace Buscher took over its management in 1953 until.....
Boston: Shambhala, 1999. Hardcover. 6-1/4 x 9-1/4", blue cloth, xvii, 730pp, appendix, glossary, table of Tibetan words, index. The life-story and teaching of the greatest Poet-Saint ever to appear in the history of Buddhism. This was the first complete version of this classic to appear in the West. Tibetans accord.....
Eugene, Oregon: Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon, 1975. Hardcover. 6-1/8 x 9-1/2", green cloth, 411pp, biblio., glossary, index, illus. The first published record of plants growing in the Wallowa Mountains of Oregon based mostly on the author's own collection over a period of 11 years, and supplemented by.....
Pacific Grove, CA: International Institute of Medical Qigong, 2002. Paperback. 7-1/4 x 9-1/4", xxviii, 568pp, stiff pictorial wrappers, glossary, biblio., clinic references, index, other resources, illustrated with graphs, diagrams, ancient charts. Fourth volume in a five-volume series which seeks to explain the esoteric Daoist and Buddhist structures, theories, and practical.....
Pacific Grove, CA: International Institute of Medical Qigong, 2005. Paperback. 7-1/4 x 9-1/4", xxx, 614pp, stiff pictorial wrappers, apps., glossary, biblio., clinical protocol references, about the author, other resources, illustrated with graphs, diagrams, ancient charts. First volume in a five-volume series which seeks to explain the esoteric Daoist and Buddhist.....
Ecco Press, 2021. Hardcover. A guide to some of the world's most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of.....
Vintage, 2021. Paperback. A memoir in essays about so many things--growing up in an abusive cult, coming of age as a lesbian in the military, forced out by homophobia, living on the margins as a working class woman and what it's like to grow into the person you are meant.....
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2021. Paperback. From Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Renée Watson comes the first book in a young middle grade series about Ryan Hart, a girl who is pure spirit, kindness, and sunshine. Ryan Hart has a lot on her mind--school, self-image, and especially.....
Workman Publishing, 2021. Hardcover. The moving stories of children in migration--in their own words."In Spanish and in English, a devastating first-person account of children's experiences in detention at the southern U.S. border.... A powerful, critical document only made more heartbreaking in picture-book form." --Kirkus Reviews starred reviewEvery day, children in.....
Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book, 2021. Hardcover. Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand. "Through this lens we can build a renewed sense of personal.....
Vintage, 2021. Paperback. From the bestselling author of Sweetbitter, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction, and of one woman's attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past.After selling her first novel--a dream she'd worked long and hard for--Stephanie Danler knew.....
