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Recently Published Books in Hardcover:
See what's new in paperbacks...
Razor by Amiri Baraka - Intended to cut clean through the oppression imposed upon the mainstream by society's "intellectual superstructure," this collection of revolutionary essays by literary and cultural legend Amiri Baraka raises numerous issues concerning contemporary African American life. The socially conscious will appreciate the creative analyses and stimulating critiques on display here, buoyed by Baraka's distinctive, bold, and aggressive opinions about the ways our culture bestows ignorance upon the ignorant merely to exploit them.(March 2009) 
Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey - A luminous biography, a revelation of a writer of timeless fiction and of the man behind the page. (March 2009) Selling Your Father's Bones: America's 140 Year Destruction of the Nez Perce Tribe by Brian Schofield - Part historical narrative, part travelogue, and part environmental plea, Selling Your Father's Bones recounts one of the most astonishing journeys in the history of the American West. (February 2009) A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight by Robert J. Mrazek The Writer as Migrant by Ha Jin - As a teenager during China’s Cultural Revolution, Ha Jin served as an uneducated soldier in the People’s Liberation Army. Thirty years later, a resident of the United States, he won the National Book Award for his novel Waiting, completing a trajectory that has established him as one of the most admired exemplars of world literature. (November 2008) Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell - (November 2008) Against Medical Advice: One Family's Struggle with an Agonizing Medical Mystery by James Patterson and Hal Friedman (October 2008) ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future by Vijay Vaitheeswaran and Iain Carson (October 2008) More Information Than You Require by John Hodgeman - (October 2008) State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey - Inspired by the example of the legendary WPA American Guide series of the 1930s and '40s, now 50 of our foremost writers have produced original pieces of reportage and memoir that capture the 50 states in our time, creating a fresh portrait of America as it lives and breathes today.(September 2008) The Slippery Art of Book Reviewing by Mayra Calvani, Anne K. Edwards - If you're an experienced reviewer, The Slippery Art of Book Reviewing will serve as an excellent reference tool and amalgam of resources. If you're a beginner, this book will show you how to write a well-written, honest, objective and professional book review. (June 2008) While They Slept: An Inquiry into The Murder of a Family by Kathryn Harrison (June 2008) This Land is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation by Barbara Ehrenreich - From the author of Nickled and Dimed. (June 2008) Out of Mao's Shadow by Philip P. Pan - From an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post and one of the leading China correspondents of his generation comes an eloquent and vivid chronicle of the world's most successful authoritarian state -- a nation undergoing a remarkable transformation. (June 2008) The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us by Robyn Meredith - An essential guide to understanding how India and China are reshaping our world. (June 2008 pb) When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris - (June 2008) The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi - Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi set out to describe the nature of George Bush’s America in the post-9/11 era and ended up vomiting demons in an evangelical church in Texas, riding the streets of Baghdad in an American convoy to nowhere, searching for phantom fighter jets in Congress, and falling into the rabbit hole of the 9/11 Truth Movement. (May 2008) The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport by Carl Hiaasen (May 2008) Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands by Michael Chabon - (May 2008) The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder by Vincent Bugliosi - (May 2008)
Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, Lies by
Ginger Strand
- Americans call Niagara Falls a natural wonder, but the Falls aren't very natural anymore. In fact, they are a study in artifice. Water diverted, riverbed reshaped, brink stabilized and landscape redesigned, the Falls are more a monument to man's meddling than to nature's strength. Held up as an example of something real, they are hemmed in with fakery -- waxworks, haunted houses, IMAX films and ersatz Indian tales. (May 2008) |
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Related to this Bookshelf:
| Nonfiction | Fiction |
| David Sedaris | Ruth Francisco |
| Cheryl Peck | Leslie Epstein |
| Judith Newman | Steven Carter |
| Farley Mowat | Kate Moses |
| Michael Walsh |
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About this Bookshelf:
"Adventure
is discomfort recollected in tranquility."
- Desmond
Bagley
When I was seventeen, I went on a picnic with friends in the NH White Mountains and ended
up on the statewide news as rescuers searched for my boyfriend and I. We were really lost. Though I don't think my dad ever believed me. There's nothing like getting so twisted around that it
starts to make more sense to go up than down. And then nightfall arrives
and it is so black that hands disappear along with the ground as we step
down very vertical hillside into air. We stop, build an illegal
campfire hoping to attract attention and it rains. So we attempt sleep
on a 45 degree angle using the picnic blanket as a tent, worrying about bears and other mountain animals. When morning comes,
we see a river flowing in the distance. We know it flows down the mountain; we follow it and eventually it brings us to
a road, and the awaiting authorities.
