Jonathan Lethem

If you loved Motherless Brooklyn, you’ll love this novel from Jonathan Lethem

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively black despite the first whispers of something that will become known as "gentrification." This is the story of 1970s America, a time when the most simple human decisions—what music you listen to, whether to speak to the kid in the seat next to you, whether to give up your lunch money—are laden with potential political, social and racial disaster. This is the story of 1990s America, when no one cared anymore. This is the story of punk, that easy white rebellion, and crack, that monstrous plague. This is the story of the loneliness of the avant-garde artist and the exuberance of the graffiti artist. This is the story of what would happen if two teenaged boys obsessed with comic book heroes actually had superpowers: They would screw up their lives. This is the story of joyous afternoons of stickball and dreaded years of schoolyard extortion. This is the story of belonging to a society that doesn't accept you. This is the story of prison and of college, of Brooklyn and Berkeley, of soul and rap, of murder and redemption. This is the story Jonathan Lethem was born to tell. This is THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE.

The Fortress of Solitude

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Keith Blanchard

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Novel

From the editor-in-chief of "Maxim" magazine comes a hip and hilarious debut about a 20-something guy searching for love, for meaning, and for a long-lost deed that could make him heir to the island of Manhattan.

The Deed

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Michael Lewis

The best book on baseball I’ve ever read. 

The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Explains how Billy Beene, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, is using a new kind of thinking to build a successful and winning baseball team without spending enormous sums of money.

Moneyball

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Joshua Braff

Jacob Green, a young Jewish boy growing up in 1970s suburban New Jersey, struggles to deal with his fear of disappointing and yearning to escape the demands and expectations of his tyrannical and narcissistic father, Abram. A first novel.

The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green

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Steve Martin

What’s not to like it’s Steve Martin?!

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Daniel, a troubled man who lives alone, detached from the world, passes his time filling out contest applications and counting ceiling tiles, until his attachment to Clarissa and Teddy helps him rediscover the outside world.

The Pleasure of My Company

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Eric Chase Anderson

For the fan of Wes Anderson movies comes a fun little book from his brother. A cute story with great illustrations. 

On the day of his 18th birthday, Midshipman Chuck Dugan receives a startling letter, which includes a treasure map.

Chuck Dugan Is AWOL

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Bill Buford

An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

A staff writer for The New Yorker and author of Among the Thugs offers an exuberant, witty account of his entry into the world of a professional cook-in-training, documenting his experiences in the kitchen of Mario Batali's acclaimed restaurant Babbo, his apprenticeships with Batali's former teachers, his relationship with Batali, and his immersion in the world of food. 100,000 first printing.

Heat

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Allan Weisbecker

A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road

In 1996, Allan Weisbecker sold his home and his possessions, loaded his dog and surfboards into his truck, and set off in search of his longtime surfing companion, Patrick, who had vanished into the depths of Central America. In this rollicking memoir of his quest from Mexico to Costa Rica to unravel the circumstances of Patrick's disappearance, Weisbecker intimately describes the people he befriended, the bandits he evaded, the waves he caught and lost en route to finding his friend. In Search of Captain Zero is, according to Outside magazine, "A subtly affecting tale of friendship and duty. [It] deserves a spot on the microbus dashboard as a hell of a cautionary tale about finding paradise and smoking it away."

In Search of Captain Zero

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Jim Gaffigan

This is a collection of hilarious essays from a hilarious comic about his love of bacon, 
burgers, and his hatred of kale!

Book has never been read. In great condition. 

A Love Story

A follow-up to Dad Is Fat celebrates the comedian's offbeat love affair with American junk foods, sharing his uproarious observations about such topics as unappetizing coconut water, the essential nature of pretzel bread and the deliciousness of bacon cheeseburgers. 200,000 first printing.

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