• Educated: A Memoir


    • ASIN: 0399590501
    • ASIN: 0399590501
    • Brand: Manning
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mi... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1501168681
    • ASIN: 1501168681
    • ISBN: 1501168681
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • Stoner (New York Review Books Classics)

    Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe. William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his c... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1590171993
    • ASIN: 1590171993
    • ISBN: 1590171993
    • Brand: John Williams
    • Manufacturer: NYRB Classics

  • How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence


    • ASIN: 1594204225
    • ASIN: 1594204225
    • ISBN: 1594204225
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Press

  • For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education (Race, Education, and Democracy)

    A New York Times Best SellerMerging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and learning for every stakeholder in urban education.Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as a young man of color and merging his experiences with more than a decade of teaching and researching in urban America, award-winning educator Christopher Emdin offers a new lens on an approach to teaching and learning in urban schools. For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest of Y’all Too is the much-needed... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0807028029
    • ASIN: 0807028029
    • ISBN: 0807028029
    • Brand: Emdin Christopher
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

  • Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis

    Now a USA TODAY and Publishers Weekly bestseller!“Patti Callahan seems to have found the story she was born to tell in this tale of unlikely friendship turned true love between Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis, that tests the bounds of faith and radically alters both of their lives. Their connection comes to life in Callahan’s expert hands, revealing a connection so persuasive and affecting, we wonder if there’s another like it in history. Luminous and penetrating.” —Paula McLain, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris WifeIn a most improbable friendship, she found love. In a wo... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0785224505
    • ASIN: 0785224505
    • ISBN: 9780785224501
    • Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
    • Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

  • The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

    Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction * New York Times Bestseller * Starred Booklist and Library Journal Editors’ Spring Pick * A Huffington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year * One of the Best Books of the Month on Goodreads * Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book of the Year * An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year “Sy Montgomery’s The Soul of an Octopus does for the creature what Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk did for raptors.” —New Statesman, UK “One of the best science books of the year.” —Science Friday, NPR Another New York Times ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00LD1RZX0
    • ASIN: B00LD1RZX0
    • Manufacturer: Atria Books

  • Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

    "For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. In his acclaimed book―based on his legendary Harvard course―Sandel offers a rare education in thinking through the complicated issues and controversies we face in public life today. It has emerged as a most lucid and engaging guide for those who yearn for a more robust and thoughtful public discourse. "In terms we can all understand," wrote Jonathan Rauch in The New York Times, Justice "confronts us with the concepts that lurk . . . beneath our conflicts." Affirmative action, same-sex marriag... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0374532508
    • ASIN: 0374532508
    • ISBN: 9780374532505
    • Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  • The Story of a New Name: Neapolitan Novels, Book Two

    Now an HBO series, the follow-up to My Brilliant Friend in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted family epic by Italy’s most beloved and acclaimed writer, Elena Ferrante, “one of the great novelists of our time.” (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)In The Story of a New Name, Lila has recently married and made her enterée into the family business; Elena, meanwhile, continues her studies and her exploration of the world beyond the neighborhood that she so often finds stifling. Love, j... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1609451341
    • ASIN: 1609451341
    • ISBN: 1609451341
    • Brand: Europa Editions
    • Manufacturer: Europa Editions

  • Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania

    Read award-winning journalist Frank Bruni's New York Times bestseller: an inspiring manifesto about everything wrong with today's frenzied college admissions process and how to make the most of your college years. Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their worth established by which schools say yes and which say no. In Where You Go is Not Who Yo... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1455532681
    • ASIN: 1455532681
    • ISBN: 1455532681
    • Brand: Frank Bruni
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

  • Friday Night Lights, 25th Anniversary Edition: A Town, a Team, and a Dream

    The 25th anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller and Sports Illustrated's best football book of all time, with a new afterword by the authorReturn once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa—the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Socially and racially divided, Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams, but every Friday night from September to December, when the Panthers play football, dreams can come true.With frankness and compassion, H. G. Bissinger unforgettably captures a season in the life of Odessa and shows how single-m... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0306824205
    • ASIN: 0306824205
    • ISBN: 0306824205
    • Brand: Da Capo Press
    • Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

  • Ragtime: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War.The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disappears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nes... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0812978188
    • ASIN: 0812978188
    • ISBN: 9780812978186
    • Brand: Random House Trade
    • Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

  • Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983

    As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and social eruptions that took place in the city’s subterranean party venues as well as the way they cultivated breakthrough movements in art, performance, video, and film. Interviewing DJs, party hosts, producers, musicians, artists, and dancers, Tim Lawrence illustrates how the relatively discrete post-disco, post-punk, and hip hop scenes becam... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0822362023
    • ASIN: 0822362023
    • ISBN: 0822362023
    • Brand: Duke University Press
    • Manufacturer: Duke University Press Books

  • Camino Island: A Novel

    A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University’s Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars.     Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts.     Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer’s block who has recently been laid off from... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0385543026
    • UPC: 642688062859
    • ASIN: 0385543026
    • ISBN: 0385543026
    • Brand: DOUBLEDAY
    • Manufacturer: Doubleday

  • Beautiful Disaster: A Novel (Beautiful Disaster Series)

    A New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller about a good girl dangerously drawn to the ultimate bad boy.The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance from the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend, her path to a new beginning is quickly challenged by Eastern University’s Walking One-Night Stand. Travis Maddox, lean, cut, and covered in tattoos, is exactly what Abby wants—and needs—to avoid. He spends his nights winning money in a... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1476712042
    • ASIN: 1476712042
    • ISBN: 1476712042
    • Brand: Atria Books
    • Manufacturer: Atria Books

  • The New York Times Supersized Book of Sunday Crosswords : 500 Puzzles

    The biggest, best collection of Sunday crosswords ever

    • UPC: 4936305

  • The New York Times Light and Easy Crossword Puzzles : 130 Fun, Easy Puzzles

    From the #1 name in crosswords comes this fun collection of 130 crosswords that have been chosen from puzzles published in the Monday and Tuesday editions of the "New York Times."

    • UPC: 3586435
    • Rating: 3.5

  • The New York Times Big Book of Sunday Crosswords : 150 Puzzles from the Pages of the New York Times

    Never before have so many Sunday crossword puzzles been packed into a portable paperback! This collection contains almost three years worth of Sunday crosswords! So grab a pencil and enjoy 150 Sunday crossword puzzles wherever

    • UPC: 10726462
    • Rating: 5.0

  • The New York Times Daily Crossword Puzzles (Monday), Volume I

    The first in a series of game books providing some one hundred crossword puzzles for every day from Monday through Saturday challenges puzzle fans with a collection of relatively simple puzzles.

    • UPC: 321468

  • The New York Times Sunday Crossword Omnibus Volume 9 : 200 World-Famous Sunday Puzzles from the Pages of The New York Times

    The biggest and most popular crossword books around! 200 of the famous giant Sunday puzzles from The New York

    • UPC: 4568388
    • Rating: 5.0

  • The New York Times Sunday Funday Crosswords : 75 Sunday Crossword Puzzles

    75 New York Times Sunday crossword puzzles: everyone's favorite!The New York Times Sunday crossword is the undisputed king of crossword puzzles. This collection features 75 of them, all edited by Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and sure

    • UPC: 56076133

  • The New York Times Sunday Crossword Omnibus Volume 6

    This latest collection showcases 200 of the world famous "Times" Sunday puzzles in one irresistible

    • UPC: 1654906
    • Rating: 5.0

  • The New York Times Large-Print Brain Fuel Crosswords: 120 Large-Print Puzzles from the Pages of The New York Times

    These large-print puzzles may be easy on the eyes, but they still challenge the

    • UPC: 55832668

  • The New York Times Tough Crossword Puzzle Omnibus Volume 1 : 200 Challenging Puzzles from The New York Times

    A Challenge That's Tough to Resist!For fans who want a puzzling experience that will test their abilities to the utmost comes this giant collection of 200 of the toughest crosswords ever presented by The New

    • UPC: 2387662
    • Rating: 5.0

  • The New York Times Easiest Crossword Puzzles : 150 Very Easy Puzzles

    9781250025197

    • UPC: 21086984

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