New Hardback Books

Michael Andre Bernstein / Conspirators (Hardback)

Galicia, Austria-Hungary, 1913. In the castle of a frontier town, on the border between Europe and the East, the worldly, corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches helplessly while a wave of...

Justin Haythe / The Honeymoon (Hardback)

The first time that Gordon meets Annie they make love in a park. Soon afterwards, on the forty-fourth anniversary of D-Day, they are married. Gordon, though American-born, has never had a home;...

Tyler Anbinder / Five Points (Hardback)

Details the notorious neighborhood that was once filled with gaming dens, bordellos, dirty streets, and tenements, that welcomed such visitors as Charles Dickens and Abraham Lincoln, and brings to...

Victor Pelevin / Homo Zapiens (Hardback)

In post-Soviet Russia, a man tamed Tartarsky is hired as a copywriter to help push new products on the populace. A former clerk in a shop, Tartarsky is overwhelmed by the success of his efforts, and...

George Klein / Elvis: My Best Man (Hardback)

When George Klein was an eighth grader at Humes High, he couldn’t have known how important the new kid with the guitar—the boy named Elvis—would later become in his life. But from the first time GK...

Philip Davison / The Illustrator (Hardback)

Lawrence Butler, a commercial illustrator in London, is desperately seeking his wife, who has walked out on him, leaving behind a reminder to water the plants. Disconsolate, Lawrence designs British...

Eduardo Galeano / Hunter of Stories (Hardback)

This is Eduardo Galeano's last book, a masterful, deeply considered, and poetic autobiography, written in his signature style of short essays, fables, stories, snippets of dialogue, and...

Juan Gabriel Vasquez / The Secret History of Costaguana (Hardback)

London, 1903. Joseph Conrad is struggling with his new novel ('I am placing it in South America in a Republic I call Costaguana'). Progress is slow and the great writer needs help from a native of...

Leila Aboulela / Bird Summons (Hardback)

  BIRD SUMMONS is a magic carpet ride into the forest of history and the lives of women. Deep and wild' Lucy Ellmann, author of SWEET DESSERTS and MIMISalma, happily married, tries every day to fit...

John D. Spooner / No One Ever Told Us That (Hardback)

This is the book that every grandparent (or parent) has always meant to write for their children.... but has never found the time to do so.In short, John D. Spooner has been carefully crafted a...

David A. Hollinger / Postethnic America (Hardback)

Sympathetic with the new ethnic consciousness, Hollinger argues that the conventional liberal toleration of all established ethnic groups no longer works because it leaves unchallenged the prevailing...

Claudio Magris / Microcosms (Hardback)

Translated from the Italian, Magis delves into the environment of his Triestine homeland and uncovers the whole of human striving in a microcosm. The city's homes, cafes, markets and railway stations...

Mark Kharitonov / Lines of Fate (Hardback)

A philosophical mystery novel populated with artists, criminals, and drug addicts, Lines of Fate is one of the most extraordinary novels to emerge from the last years of the Soviet Union. Written at...

Cole Porter / You're the Top (Hardback)

A Valentine keepsake, this greeting-card sized package brings to life the loving and tender words of one of Porter's most popular and poignant songs, with lyrics complemented by beautiful black and...

Yrsa Sigurdardottir / My Soul to Take (Hardback)

“American readers first met Icelandic lawyer and investigator Thóra Gudmundsdóttir in Last Rituals. In My Soul to Take, internationally acclaimed author Yrsa Sigurdardóttir plunges her intrepid...

Ann Beattie / Park City (Hardback)

  Thirty-six stories--eight appearing in a book for the first time and a generous selection from her earlier collections--give us Ann Beattie at stunning mid-career.Emotionally complex, edgy, and...

Zsuzsa Bank / The Swimmer (Hardback)

Hungary, 1956. Without a word, Katalin leaves her family and sets out for the West. Her husband, Kalman, abandons the family farm and begins a long and circuitous journey through Hungary with his two...

Patrick deWitt / Ablutions (Hardback)

In a famous but declining Hollywood bar works A Barman. Morbidly amused by the decadent decay of his surroundings, he watches the patrons fall into their nightly oblivion, making notes for his novel...

Professor Jan Kott / Still Alive (Hardback)

Still Alive recounts the perilous odyssey of a renowned man of letters through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-twentieth-century. Jan Kott - Polish essayist and theater...

Martin M. Simecka / The Year of the Frog (Hardback)

Denied entrance into college because of his father's political views, Milan, a young Czech, finds solace in long-distance running and in his developing relationship with Tania, a university...

Thomas Swick / Unquiet Days (Hardback)

The author describes life in Poland during the two years he lived in Warsaw, drawing on history, politics, and personal experience to reveal the traditional ways of Polish life and the realities of...

Klaus Wagenbach / Kafka (Hardback)

  In Kafka's writing, Albert Camus tells us, we travel "to the limits of human thought." And in this book, the world's leading Kafka authority conducts us to the deepest reaches of Kafka's own...

Martha Wells / Artificial Condition (Hardback)

It has a dark past--one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot." But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it...

V.S. Naipaul / The Writer and the World (Hardback)

  For 40 years, Naipaul has b

Julian Barnes / The Porcupine (Hardback)

With the brilliant wit and idiosyncratic intelligence that have marked his previous novels—and with a bold, sure grasp of intricate political realities—Julian Barnes now gives us a startling look at...

James Sidanius / Social Dominance (Hardback)

This book suggests that the major forms in intergroup conflict, such as racism, classism and patriarchy, are essentially derived from the human predisposition to form and maintain hierarchical and...

Gunter Grass / Too Far Afield (Hardback)

Two old men roam through Berlin observing life in the former German Democratic Republic after the fall of the Wall in 1989. The men are Theo Wuttke, a former East German cultural functionary, keen...

Michael March / Description of a Struggle (Hardback)

Gathers together prose from ten countries which seek cultural integration with the rest of Europe and brings to the fore the vitality and range of fiction from these Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia,...

Wayne Johnston / The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (Hardback)

"The Colony of Unrequited Dreams" is Newfoundland--that vast, haunting near-continent upon which the two lovers and adversaries of this miraculously inventive novel pursue their ambitions.Joey...

Gerald Stern / This Time (Hardback)

An exhilarating new collection by the poet often applauded as the modern Walt Whitman. "For over two decades," the Library Journal has said, "no one has equaled Gerald Stern's compassionate, surreal...

Mark Mazower / Dark Continent (Hardback)

Dark Continent is a searching history of Europe's most brutal century. Stripping away the comforting myths and illusions that we have grown up with since the Second World War, Mark Mazower presents...

Pico Iyer / Video Night in Kathmandu (Hardback)

Mohawk hair-cuts in Bali, yuppies in Hong Kong and Rambo rip-offs in the movie houses of Bombay are just a few of the jarring images that Iyer brings back from the Far East.   This book is second...

Rogers Brubaker / Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town (Hardback)

Situated on the geographic margins of two nations, yet imagined as central to each, Transylvania has long been a site of nationalist struggles. Since the fall of communism, these struggles have been...

Ernest Gellner / Nationalism (Hardback)

A defining force in world history, nationalism remains an inescapable feature of a modern condition. It has underpinned the emergence of many states, and the conflict it has often generated has...

Richard Vinen / A History in Fragments (Hardback)

The problem with the history of twentieth-century Europe is that we all think we know it. The great stories of the century—the two world wars, the rise and fall of Nazism and Communism—seem...

Michael Schumacher / Dharma Lion (Hardback)

Draws from eight years of research and full access to Ginsberg's journals to present a dramatic biography that depicts three centuries of vanguard popular culture, from the Beat Generation of the...

Tina Rosenberg / The Haunted Land (Hardback)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern EuropeFrom the Trade Paperback edition.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Peter Nadas / A Book of Memories (Hardback)

A psychological novel about the memory of things in Europe's recent past interweaves the first-person narratives of a young Hungarian writer, his literary creation--an egomaniacal Marxist and...

Frank Kermode / Shakespeare's Language (Hardback)

Plumbing the sweet mysteries of Shakespeare's "language," the author argues that the Bard's tragedies were probably difficult even for his contemporaries to understand and identifies a shift in...

Iva Pekarkova / The World Is Round (Hardback)

  Chronicles the adventures of Jitka, a Czechoslovak refugee who awaits a visa in an Italian refugee camp where the male-female ratio is 1,800 to 17 This book is second hand, and while you may not...

Tibor Fischer / Under The Frog (Hardback)

Set in post-war Hungary between 1944 and 1956, this ferociously funny and bitterly sad story follows the fortunes of two young men in the pursuit of sex and the avoidance of work and army service...

Slavenka Drakulic / S. (Hardback)

A Bosnian woman who was repeatedly raped by Serbian soldiers in 1992 recalls the events as she prepares to give birth to a child conceived through their abuse of her.   This book is second hand, and...

Dubravka Ugresic / The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (Hardback)

This is a deeply East European novel in flavour reminiscent of Kundera and Borges. Through weaving together fragments, stories, and diaries Dubravka Ugresic, a prize-winning novelist in the former...

Jerzy Ficowski / Regions of the Great Heresy (Hardback)

"Bruno Schulz was one of the great writers....[His] verbal art strikes usstuns, evenwith its overload of beauty."John Updike Exactly sixty years after his death, Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) remains one...

Pavel Kohout / I Am Snowing (Hardback)

When Petra Marova is asked to help Professor Victor Kral, a returned exile and economic reformer, clear himself of charges of collaborating with the secret police, what she finds out causes her to...

Caroline Graham / Camilla (Hardback)

  The story of the secret affair between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the...

Matthew Kelly / Off Balance (Hardback)

The research upon which this book is based shows overwhelmingly that people want satisfaction much more than they want balance. And yet, one of the dominant topics in the area of personal and...

Chloe Dalton / Jak wychowac zajaca (Hardback)

Historia kobiety i dzikiego zająca, który nauczył ją żyć inaczej.Wyobraź sobie, że trzymasz w dłoni małego zająca i karmisz go z butelki. Mieszka pod twoim dachem i nocą wpada w podskokach do twojej...

J.R. Moehringer / The Tender Bar (Hardback)

In a place that inspired Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby, young J. R. Moehringer lives with his single mother and mercurial grandfather in a cramped home with a rather-too-colorful cast of strident...

Andrew Michael Hurley / Saltwash (Hardback)

ALL WILL BE FORGIVEN, IF ALL CAN BE FORGOTTEN.The dilapidated seaside town of Saltwash isn't a place that Tom Shift would have chosen to come to at all, let alone on such a bleak November afternoon...

Philip Reeve / Kevin vs the Unicorns (Hardback)

Max and his best friend Kevin, the only roly-poly flying pony in Bumbleford, decide to enter the Magical Pony Club Steeplechase. Kevin is not particularly keen, as the other participants are all...

Karen Casey / Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow (Hardback)

  Thirty years ago best-selling author Karen Casey (Each Day a New Beginning) wandered into a support group and learned there was only one thing she could change--herself She found a group of people...