Etgar Keret

Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature

Fiction
Short story 
Literary 
Israel 
Translation 


Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Ohio

Stories

A bestseller in Israel, this volume of short stories--from a case of impotence cured by a pet terrier to a pessimistic Middle Eastern talking fish--is an extraordinary collection from the preeminent Israeli writer of his generation.

The Nimrod Flipout

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Six seasons of bloopers club’s technical screw ups and plot discrepancies for discriminating fans of Star Trek the next generation
First edition 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Nitpicker’s Guide for Next Generation Trekkers

1945
Library edition, first edition 
Biographies 
African-American history 
Good condition with age wear library pocket, etc. 
Mid-century 

Great American Negroes

Antique
1922/4 edition 
Volume two
The Outline of History Vol.2
by HG Wells
First two pages ripped
Illustrated with line drawings by JF Horrabin
Reproductions of famous paintings
History book
Antique age and wear


The Outline of History Volume 2

Steve Martin

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

From a re-imagining of the Schroedinger's Cat conundrum to a skit entitled "I Love Loosely", in which Lucy and Ricky Ricardo play the parts of Hillary and President Clinton, this collection by comic genius Steve Martin--some pieces of which have appeared in The New Yorker--is both hilariously funny and intelligent in its skewering of the topic at hand.

Pure Drivel

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John Bude

Martin Edwards

Crime Fiction
Paperback
Classic mystery
British

"Originally published in 1947 by Macdonald & Co."--Copyright page.

Death Makes a Prophet

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Sydney Sheldon‘s first novel
Suspense 
HC
DJ 
BCE
1970 

 The Naked Face

HC
DJ
1950s 
Martha’s Vineyard memoir
Family relationships
1951 first edition

A warm wise and entertaining chronicle of a happy family holiday on Martha’s Vineyard

An Island Summer

No Dust Jacket
Literary
HC
First Edition 1998
Grove Press

The Undiscovered Country

Elga Wasserman

HC
DJ 
Conversations with eminent woman in science 
Pen, inscription, title page 

Conversations with Eminent Women in Science

In an informal and engaging manner, Wasserman provides a fascinating window into the changing status and representation of women in science in the 20th century.

The Door in the Dream

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Les Roberts

HC
DJ
Biography of Les Roberts well-known mystery author 
A memoir of a novelist and a city 

A Memoir of a Novelist and a City

Fans of Les Robert's "Milan Jacovich" mystery series will enjoy this memoir in which Roberts tells how he discovered the heart and soul of a city while fictionalizing it for the series.

We'll Always Have Cleveland

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Stewart O'Nan

A Love Story

In the new novel from the author of Last Night at the Lobster, a middle-age couple goes all in for love at a Niagara Falls casino Lokk out for City of Secrets coming from Viking on April 26, 2016 Stewart O'Nan's thirteenth novel is another wildly original, bittersweet gem like his celebrated Last Night at the Lobster. Valentine's weekend, Art and Marion Fowler flee their Cleveland suburb for Niagara Falls, desperate to recoup their losses. Jobless, with their home approaching foreclosure and their marriage on the brink of collapse, Art and Marion liquidate their savings account and book a bridal suite at the Falls' ritziest casino for a second honeymoon. While they sightsee like tourists during the day, at night they risk it all at the roulette wheel to fix their finances-and save their marriage. A tender yet honest exploration of faith, forgiveness and last chances, The Odds is a reminder that love, like life, is always a gamble.

The Odds

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

DJ
HC
New York Times, best seller 
Rice 
Literary 

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • Vogue • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • New York • Newsday • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.

Between the World and Me

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Saint Augustine

Henry Chadwick

This new translation conveys to the English reader with accuracy and art the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life.

Confessions

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Pete Hamill

A Memoir

20 years after his last drink Pete Hamill looks back on his early life. As a child during the depression and World War II he learnt that drinking was to be an essential part of being a man, it was only later he discovered its ability to destroy lives.

A Drinking Life

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Mary V. Dearborn

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Biography

The first full biography of Ernest Hemingway in more than fifteen years; the first to draw upon a wide array of never-before-used material; the first written by a woman, from the widely acclaimed biographer of Norman Mailer, Peggy Guggenheim, Henry Miller, and Louise Bryant.

A revelatory look into the life and work of Ernest Hemingway, considered in his time to be the greatest living American novelist and short-story writer, winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Mary Dearborn's new biography gives the richest and most nuanced portrait to date of this complex, enigmatically unique American artist, whose same uncontrollable demons that inspired and drove him throughout his life undid him at the end, and whose seven novels and six-short story collections informed--and are still informing--fiction writing generations after his death.

Ernest Hemingway

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Anne Rice

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Anne Rice
Good condition 
Crisp spine


A Novel

A second volume in the author's chronicle of the life of Christ begins prior to his baptism in the Jordan River and concludes with the miracle at Cana, as he leaves Nazareth to confront his destiny and the call to be Israel's liberator from Roman occupati

Christ the Lord: the Road to Cana

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John Irving

John Irving
The Fourth Hand
Literary novel
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When a New York journalist suffers a horrible accident--his left hand eaten by a lion while reporting on a story from India--witnessed by millions on television, viewers rally to help him, in this satiric farce that looks at the power of second chances and the will to change. 300,000 first printing.

The Fourth Hand

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Author Geraldine Brooks
Pulitzer prize winner 
Hardcover fiction 
Literary novel 
Dust jacket 

People of the Book

John Irving
HC
DJ
Split in front pages binding, otherwise good condition 

A collection of one dozen short works includes the title piece, a loving portrait of the author's grandmother, and additional stories, including "The Pension Grillparzer" and "Dinner at the White House"

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

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Neil Gaiman

Dark Classic Modern Fantasy
Neil Gaiman
Excellent condition 

Author's Preferred Text

National Bestseller Selected as one of NPR’s Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of All Time The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s ultimate edition of his wildly successful first novel featuring his “preferred text”—and including his new Neverwhere tale, “How the Marquis Got His Coat Back.” Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew. “A fantastic story that is both the stuff of dreams and nightmares” (San Diego Union-Tribune), Neil Gaiman’s first solo novel has become a touchstone of urban fantasy, and a perennial favorite of readers everywhere. “Delightful … inventively horrific.” —USA Today

Neverwhere

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Evan Osnos

Good condition 
National Book Club Award Winner
Farrah, Strauss and Giroux
PB

Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction

As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval.

Age of Ambition provides a vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation.

From abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global economy-or an addled Goliath, riddled with corruption and on the edge of stagnation. What we don't see is how both powerful and ordinary people are remaking their lives as their country dramatically changes.

In Age of Ambition, Osnos describes the greatest collision taking place in that country: the clash between the rise of the individual and the Communist Party's struggle to retain control. He asks probing questions: Why does a government with more success lifting people from poverty than any civilization in history choose to put strict restraints on freedom of expression? Why do millions of young Chinese professionals-fluent in English and devoted to Western pop culture-consider themselves "angry youth," dedicated to resisting the West's influence? How are Chinese from all strata finding meaning after two decades of the relentless pursuit of wealth?

Writing with great narrative verve and a keen sense of irony, Osnos follows the moving stories of everyday people and reveals life in the new China to be a battleground between aspiration and authoritarianism, in which only one can prevail.

An Economist Best Book of 2014
Winner of the bronze medal for the Council on Foreign Relations' 2015 Arthur Ross Book Award

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Etgar Keret; Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature

The Nimrod Flipout

Phil Farrand

The Nitpicker’s Guide for Next Generation Trekkers

Ben Richardson

Great American Negroes

H.G. Wells

The Outline of History Volume 2

Steve Martin

Pure Drivel

John Bude; Martin Edwards

Death Makes a Prophet

Sidney Sheldon

The Naked Face

Walter Magnus Teller

An Island Summer

Samantha Gillison

The Undiscovered Country

Elga Wasserman

The Door in the Dream

Les Roberts

We'll Always Have Cleveland

Stewart O'Nan

The Odds

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me

Saint Augustine; Henry Chadwick

Confessions

Pete Hamill

A Drinking Life

Mary V. Dearborn

Ernest Hemingway

Anne Rice

Christ the Lord: the Road to Cana

John Irving

The Fourth Hand

Geraldine Brooks

People of the Book

John Irving

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

Neil Gaiman

Neverwhere

Evan Osnos

Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

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