"RELENTLESSLY FUNNY . . . BARRY SHINES."--People A self-professed computer geek who actually does Windows 95, bestselling humorist Dave Barry takes us on a hilarious hard drive via t
The first book from acclaimed interior designer Barbara Barry explores the beauty and principles of good design. Barbara Barry’s work has long been praised for its quiet refinement, soothing palette,
"In Writers: 13 Vignettes, great American storyteller Barry Gifford paints portraits of famous writers caught in imaginary vulnerable moments in their lives. In prose that is funny, grotesque, and a t
‧ 50 new fun-filled, pun-filled puzzles‧ Large, Sunday-size puzzles‧ Written by Sylvia Bursztyn and Barry Tunick, renowned for their trademark wit and wordplay‧ Our best-selling puzzle series!
The idea of contemporary art sometimes allows us to pretend we have made a clean break with the past. InThe Perpetual Guest, poet and critic Barry Schwabsky demonstrates that any robust understanding
The idea of contemporary art sometimes allows us to pretend we have made a clean break with the past. InThe Perpetual Guest, poet and critic Barry Schwabsky demonstrates that any robust understanding
The latest volume of the successful LA Times Sunday Crossword Puzzles series. ‧ Sylvia Bursztyn and Barry Tunick are renowned for their trademark wit and wordplay.‧ 50 new pun-filled puzzles‧ Large, S
Sylvia Bursztyn and Barry Tunick have been collaborating on puzzle construction for 25 years. Each of these contemporary puzzles is filled with humor, wit, and plenty of puns. Casual solvers and seri
In Banquet at Delmonico’s, Barry Werth, the acclaimed author of The Scarlet Professor, draws readers inside the circle of philosophers, scientists, politicians, businessmen, clergymen, and scholars wh
The latest compilation of 200 fun-filled, pun-filled puzzles from the pages of the Los Angeles Times. Edited with care by renowned puzzlers Sylvia Bursztyn and Barry Tunick, who have been puzzle-writi
American Falls is the first major collection of short stories from Barry Gifford, master of the dark side of the American reality. These stories range widely in style and period, from the 1950s to the
In print for the first time in 15 years, Landscape with Traveler is the first full-length novel by Barry Gifford, laying bare the themes that have marked his lifelong career: gay issues, a winsome, Be
The latest volume of the successful LA Times Sunday Crossword Puzzles series. - Sylvia Bursztyn and Barry Tunick are renowned for their trademark wit and wordplay.- 50 new pun-filled puzzles- Large, S
For everyone whose precious family photographs have been gathering dust in a ho-hum photo album, here?s an inspired guide to creating gifts and keepsakes for family and friends. In FUN WITH FAMILY PHO
A central player in every major church-state-separation battle for decades, the Rev. Barry W. Lynn understands the complexities of this divisive issue like few others. As a long-time activist, a civil
Reflections from the Journey of Life presents quotations from the Dalai Lama selected from personal conversations with editor Catherine Barry. The Fourteenth Dalai Lama is known throughout the world f
Did you ever wish that you really understood money? Well, Dave Barry wishes that he did, too. But that hasn’t stopped him from writing this book. In it, Dave explores (as only he can) such topics as:‧
A searing, surreal novel that bleeds fantasy and reality—and Beatles fandom—from one of literature's most striking contempotary voices, author of the international sensationCity of Bohane.It is 1978,
"Perfectly crafted. . . . [These] stories expand of their own accord, lingering in the mind the way intense light lingers in the retina."??--Los Angeles Times"Animals and landscapes have not had this
“You’ll smile with joy turning every page.” —Barry Hannah Reverend Maloney isn’t the world’s greatest spiritual advisor. He drinks gin out of his coffee cup and has sex dreams about the Holy Ghost. Hi
A luminous fiction debut: the tumultuous history of modern Vietnam as experienced by a young girl born under mysterious circumstances a few years before reunification—and with the otherworldly ability
From acclaimed author and dramatist Peter May comes the Barry award-winning The Blackhouse, the first book in the Lewis Trilogy--a riveting mystery series set on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland's Outer
Taking the case of a woman who reports that someone has been stealing sentimental trinkets and jewels from her home, tough-talking octogenarian private detective Harry Lipkin is compelled to investiga
Addressed to the layperson, uses non-technical language and almost no mathematics to explain Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity and General Theory of Relativity.
Quan Barry’s luminous fiction debut brings us the tumultuous history of modern Vietnam as experienced by a young girl born under mysterious circumstances a few years before the country’s reunification
This fascinating blend of popular science and military history examines the science of war, demonstrating the close connection between the discovery of basic physical principles and the development of
Alex Treven has sacrificed everything to make partner in his high-tech law firm. But then the inventor of a technology Alex is banking on is murdered, the patent examiner who reviewed the innovation d
The National Book Award winner pens this surprising collection of short fiction about a twentieth-century man's obsession with recently uncovered love letters from the seventeenth century and a man's
A novel of violence, of love, and introspection, The Up-Down follows a man who leaves home and all that’s familiar, finds true love, loses it, and finds it again. Pace’s voyage is outward, among stran
"Gifford, a master of the short story and nasty vignette, can sum up in a few words the cruelty, horror, and crushing banality that shape an entire life."–New York Times Book ReviewNew stories and col
“Andrew Porter is a born storyteller . . . He makes his own space instantly and invites you in. Hats off!” —Barry Hannah From a commanding new voice in fiction comes a novel as perceptive as it is
A world of poems as populous and diverse as it is ephemeral and evanescent, born of the world and of books and art in equal measure, yielding granite truths and feather truths of people's roller-coast
"Scientist Charles Neumann loses a leg in an industrial accident. It's not a tragedy. It's an opportunity. Charlie always thought his body could be better. He begins to explore a few ideas. To build p
The latest addition to the successful Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword series from Random House Puzzles & Games! Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzles, Volume 29, includes 50 new pun-filled
Building can be seen as a master metaphor for modernity, which some great irresistible force, be it fascism or communism or capitalism, is always busy building anew, andHouses is a book about
"Chandler never wrote an autobiography or a memoir. Now Barry Day, making use of Chandler's novels, short stories, and letters as well as Day's always illuminating commentary, gives us the life of "th
