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Cesare: A Novel of War-Torn Berlin by Jerome Charyn 9781942658504
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.60A spy navigates the labyrinthine horrors of Nazi Germany, on a mission to save the woman he loves"Charyn's blunt, brilliantly crafted prose bubbles with the pleasure of nailing life to the page in... -
The Talented Miss Farwell: A Novel by Emily Gray Tedrowe
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $6.30Catch Me If You Can meets Patricia Highsmith in this "stylish" (New York Times Book Review) page-turner of greed and obsession, survival and self-invention that is a piercing character study of one... -
Dooneen Keith Ridgway 9781804272459
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Bartholomew Port, known to all as Mew, steps into the bushes in a London park and steps out of the bushes in a Dublin one. Not only that - there are no cars; there are moving footpaths; there is no... -
The Great Eastern by Howard A Rodman 9781644285541
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.99From the shipyards of London to the ports of New York, from the undersea abyss to the halls of empire, The Great Eastern is a sweeping tale of invention, rebellion, and the war between creation and... -
The Sprawl by Jason Diamond
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and again, the story is one of gems formed under pressure and that resentment of... -
Trouble the Living: A Novel by Francesca McDonnell Capossela 9781662511233
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.51From Northern Ireland to Southern California and back-a mother and daughter confront the violence of the past in an enthralling novel about the possibility of love and redemption during the most... -
The Nature Book by Tom Comitta
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Part sweeping evocation of Earth's rhythms, part literary archive, part post-human novel, The Nature Book collages descriptions of the natural world into a singular symphonic paean to the planet.What... -
In Ascension: Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2023 by Martin MacInnes 9781838956271
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $7.78'Monumental' Telegraph'Magnificent' Guardian'Transcendent' New ScientistLeigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by... -
110 Stories: New York Writes after September 11 by Ulrich Baer 9780814799055
Booksplease Price: $116.84New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its writers began to do what writers do, they began to look and feel and think and write, began to struggle to process an event... -
By The Book: Stories and Pictures by Diane Schoemperlen 9781927428818
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.97New from the Winner of the Writers' Trust of Canada Marian Engel Award and the Governor General's Award for English Fiction Once touted as compendiums of human knowledge, the encyclopedias and... -
Didion & Babitz Lili Anolik 9781805463948
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26A TOP 12 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK IN THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMESTHE BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK FOR NOVEMBER 2024'This book is magic. It's all I ever needed' LENA DUNHAMEve Babitz died on December 17, 2021... -
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe 9780061992117
Booksplease Price: $18.34Operating out of a tiny office on Madison Avenue in the early 1960s, a struggling company called Marvel Comics presented a cast of brightly costumed characters distinguished by smart banter and... -
Sergeant Salinger by Jerome Charyn 9781942658740
Booksplease Price: $17.04A shattering biographical novel of J.D. Salinger in combat"Charyn skillfully breathes life into historical icons." -New YorkerJ.D. Salinger, mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye, is remembered... -
The Eighth Moon: A Memoir of Belonging and Rebellion by Jennifer Kabat 9781639550685
Booksplease Price: $20.25"Beautifully written, The Eighth Moon uses a very light touch to probe the most essential, unresolvable questions of belief, kinship, fidelity, history, and identity."-Chris KrausA rebellion, guns,... -
The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55From the author of The World and All That It Holds, Aleksandar Hemon's The Book of My Lives is an unforgettable memoir of a life forever marked by international conflict.Aleksandar Hemon grew up in a... -
Riots I Have Known by Ryan Chapman 9781501197314
Booksplease Price: $13.44Longlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Ryan Chapman's "gritty, bracing debut" (Esquire) set during a prison riot is "dark, daring, and laugh-out-loud hilarious...one of the... -
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.31As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and the charismatic Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity... -
Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge by Joseph McBride
RRP: $150.93Booksplease Price: $127.04The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films-including Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment-Billy Wilder earned acclaim as American cinema's... -
Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge by Joseph McBride 9780231216616
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.48The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films-including Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment-Billy Wilder earned acclaim as American cinema's... -
Lost and Wanted Nell Freudenberger 9780241374559
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60'A novel of female friendship . . . startling and moving' New York Times _______________________________________________'In the first few months after Charlie died, I began hearing from her much more... -
110 Stories: New York Writes after September 11 by Ulrich Baer
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $29.28Collected stories from renowned and emerging voices writing fiction, poetry, and dramatic prose in the aftermath of 9/11 New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its... -
How Did Lubitsch Do It? by Joseph McBride 9780231186445
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $107.62Orson Welles called Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) "a giant" whose "talent and originality are stupefying." Jean Renoir said, "He invented the modern Hollywood." Celebrated for his distinct style and... -
How Did Lubitsch Do It? by Joseph McBride
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $29.15Orson Welles called Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) "a giant" whose "talent and originality are stupefying." Jean Renoir said, "He invented the modern Hollywood." Celebrated for his distinct style and... -
Cartoons by Kit Schluter 9780872869288
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95One of The Millions Most Anticipated Books for Spring !Set in the uncanny valley between Bugs Bunny and Franz Kafka, Cartoons is an explosive series of outrageous, absurdist tales."The true... -
My Captain America: A Memoir by Megan Margulies
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.66A finely wrought coming-of-age memoir about the author's relationship with her beloved grandfather Joe Simon, cartoonist and co-creator of Captain America.In the 1990s, Megan Margulies's Upper West... -
Love Among the Particles by Norman Lock 9781934137642
Booksplease Price: $15.26"Topical, astonishing and provocative ...a masterful collection." --Shelf Awareness for Readers (starred review) "[Lock's stories] are gems, rich in imagination and language ...For all their... -
Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America's First Celebrity by Tana Wojczuk 9781501199530
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $15.35Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for the Publishing Triangle's Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Finalist for the Marfield Prize For fans of Book of Ages and American Eve, this... -
What Would Lynne Tillman Do? by Lynne Tillman 9781935869214
Booksplease Price: $22.60Here is an American mind contemplating contemporary society and culture with wit, imagination, and a brave intelligence. Tillman upends expectations, shifts tone, introduces characters, breaches... -
Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy by Siva Vaidhyanathan 9780190056544
RRP: $21.27Booksplease Price: $15.47If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and bigotry, erode social trust, undermine respectable... -
What's Good: Notes on Rap and Language by Daniel Levin Becker
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.97A NEW YORKER & GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA love letter to the verbal artistry of hip-hop, What's Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis"What's Good is, among a great many other... -
In the Land of Men: A Memoir by Adrienne Miller
Booksplease Price: $16.15A fiercely personal memoir about coming of age in the male-dominated literary world of the nineties, becoming the first female literary editor of Esquire, and Miller's personal and working... -
The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll by Ian S. Port 9781501141737
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.68"A hot-rod joy ride through mid-20th-century American history" (The New York Times Book Review), this one-of-a-kind narrative masterfully recreates the rivalry between the two men who innovated the... -
A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century by Jerome Charyn
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55PEN/ Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Longlist O, The Oprah Magazine "Best Books of Summer" selection "Magnetic nonfiction." --O, The Oprah Magazine "Remarkable insight ...[a] unique... -
Celine Dion Let's Talk About Love by Carl Wilson
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.02This book is a riveting investigation of what it means to love music and what it means to hate music, both of good and bad taste.Non-fans regard Celine Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who... -
Search History by Eugene Lim
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Search History oscillates between a wild cyberdog chase and lunch-date monologues as Eugene Lim deconstructs grieving and storytelling with uncanny juxtapositions and subversive satire. Frank... -
A New Literary History of America by Greil Marcus
RRP: $43.80Booksplease Price: $39.09America is a nation making itself up as it goes along-a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In...