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
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as seven other awards, The Sympathizer is the breakthrough novel of the year. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal.
from "Ozone Journal"
Bach’s cantata in B-flat minor in the cassette,
we lounged under the greenhouse-sky, the UVBs hacking
at the acids and oxides and then I could hear the difference
between an oboe and a bassoon
at the river’s edge under cover—
trees breathed in our respiration;
there was something on the other side of the river,
some$30.00ISBN: 9780307592644Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Knopf - October 27th, 2015Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History
From the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award, a brilliant biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times.$27.95ISBN: 9781594203473Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Penguin Press - July 21st, 2015**Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography**
$28.95ISBN: 9780385538213Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Doubleday - September 29th, 2015WINNER OF THE 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION
“A Best Book of 2015”—The New York Times, The Washington Post, People Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Kansas City Star, and Kirkus Reviews$28.00ISBN: 9781476746586Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Scribner - May 6th, 2014WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural His$15.95ISBN: 9781935536505Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Four Way Books - October 7th, 2014From Epicurus to Sam Cooke, the Daily News to Roots, Digest draws from the present and the past to form an intellectual, American identity. In poems that forge their own styles and strategies, we experience dialogues between the written word and other art forms.$18.00ISBN: 9780374535117Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Hill and Wang - March 17th, 2015Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History
$20.00ISBN: 9780812983678Availability: Backordered at WarehousePublished: Random House Trade Paperbacks - January 6th, 2015PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
$18.00ISBN: 9781250062185Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Picador - January 6th, 2015WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST$30.00ISBN: 9780316055437Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Little, Brown and Company - October 22nd, 2013WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
"The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind....Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction."--Stephen King, The New York Times Book Review$22.00ISBN: 9781555976620Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Graywolf Press - September 3rd, 2013* Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry *
The long-awaited third poetry book by Vijay Seshadri, "one of the most respected poets working in America today" (Time Out New York)
$18.95ISBN: 9780393349733Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: W. W. Norton & Company - September 2nd, 2014Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom's swift-winged angels." In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships coming to punish the Americans for declaring war on the empire. Over many nights, hundreds of slaves paddled out to the warships seeking protection for their families from the ravages of slavery.
$16.95ISBN: 9780544245617Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Mariner Books - March 4th, 2014Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
"Thoroughly absorbing, lively . . .
$28.00ISBN: 9780553806533Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Bantam - March 19th, 2013WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • Winner of The New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award • “A new classic of science reporting.”—The New York Times
$17.00ISBN: 9780812982626Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Random House Trade Paperbacks - August 7th, 2012The Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling novel of North Korea: an epic journey into the heart of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship.
“Imagine Charles Dickens paying a visit to Pyongyang, and you see the canvas on which [Adam] Johnson is painting here.”—The Washington Post$40.00ISBN: 9780375504426Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Random House - August 21st, 2012WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
Email or call for priceISBN: 9780307382467Availability: Hard to FindPublished: Crown - September 18th, 2012WINNER OF THE 2013 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY
$16.95ISBN: 9780375712258Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Knopf - September 4th, 2012Stag’s Leap is stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America (Paperback)
$16.99ISBN: 9780061792267Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Perennial - February 19th, 2013Devil in the Grove, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, is a gripping true story of racism, murder, rape, and the law. It brings to light one of the most dramatic court cases in American history, and offers a rare and revealing portrait of Thurgood Marshall that the world has never seen before.
$16.00ISBN: 9781555975845Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Graywolf Press - May 10th, 2011Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize
* Poet Laureate of the United States *
* A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice *
* A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year *Email or call for priceISBN: 9781559364393Availability: Special Order OnlyPublished: Theatre Communications Group - October 16th, 2012"How many plays make us long for grace? Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Hudes is such a rare play; it is a yearning, funny, deeply sad and deeply lyrical piece, a worthy companion to Hudes's Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue.
$26.95ISBN: 9780393064476Availability: Backordered at WarehousePublished: W. W. Norton & Company - September 26th, 2011Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied.
$21.00ISBN: 9780143120322Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Penguin Books - December 28th, 2011Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, the definitive biography of Malcolm X.
$16.00ISBN: 9780307477477Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Anchor - March 22nd, 2011NATIONAL BESTSELLER
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist
A New York Times Book Review Best Book$29.95ISBN: 9780393066180Availability: Backordered at WarehousePublished: W. W. Norton & Company - October 4th, 2010A man of considered words and deliberate actions, Lincoln navigates the dynamic politics deftly, taking measured steps, often along a path forged by abolitionists and radicals in his party. Lincoln rises to leadership in the new Republican Party by calibrating his politics to the broadest possible antislavery coalition.
$40.00ISBN: 9781594202667Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Penguin Press - October 5th, 2010Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a New York Times Bestseller, a landmark biography of George Washington.
$30.00ISBN: 9781439107959Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Scribner - November 16th, 2010Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
The Emperor of All Maladies, now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, re$17.00ISBN: 9780802145215Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Grove Press - April 2nd, 2011Kay Ryan's recently concluded two-year term as the Library of Congress's sixteenth poet laureate is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poet--her awards include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, four Pushcart Prizes, and a Guggenheim fellowship.
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