The Revisionist, the second play by the award-winning actor and regular New Yorker contributor Jesse Eisenberg, is a stunning exploration of obsession, secrets, and the nature of family. The play had
"With easy step-by-step instructions, this book will help kids get creative and recycle and repurpose their trash into handmade treasures. All projects feature common everyday items to reuse in a fun
From Bhutan to Bali, from China to the Ukraine, from Micronesia to Cuba, Paul Chesley has photographed not only the romance of illusions but ?the magic of reality in thousands of instants,” as said by
A LIFE IN BOOKS: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley is an illuminated novel containing 101 books within it, all written by Lehrer’s protagonist who finds himself in prison looking back on his life and c
Running so hard you think you’ll choke on your next breath. Peripheral vision blurred by the same adrenaline that drowns out the cheers coming from the full stadium. And of course, the reporters. The
"Sheer pleasure. . . . Wonderfully entertaining."—Chicago Sun-TimesAcclaimed by Norman Mailer more than twenty years ago as "possibly the only American writer of genius," William S. Burroughs has prod
The Last Animal by Abby Geni is that rare literary find ? a remarkable series of stories unified around one theme: people who use the interface between the human and the natural world to contend with
Mishan, the gentle daughter of the Innkeeper in the Village High Above the White Clouds, transforms those she meets by enabling them to see their better natures and comparing them to plants in the gar
Futurama is a quirky, animated sitcom created by Simpson’s mastermind Matt Groening. Since it first aired on the FOX network from 1999 to 2003, its many dedicated fans have created websites and newsle
Almost four decades after his death Elijah Muhammad (1897?1975) remains by far the most influential African American Muslim. Leader of the Nation of Islam movement for over thirty years and a mentor t
The Los Angeles Review of Books launched in April of 2011 as a humble Tumblr, with a 2600-word essay by Ben Ehrenreich entitled ?The Death of the Book.” The gesture was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but we m
"In the spirit of Push by Sapphire. Bold, beautiful and fierce-Dael Orlandersmith delivers a riveting story in Black n Blue Boys / Broken Men. This gritty, one-man play portrays five unforgettable mal
John F. Kennedy's assassination launched a frantic search to find his killers. It also launched a flurry of covert actions by Lyndon Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, and other top officials to hide the fac
A Gathering of Birds is an anthology containing selected prose about birds by nineteen famous authors, such as Hudson, Audubon, and Thoreau, and includes brief biographical information about each. The
The Road of a Naturalist is a fascinating autobiographical wonder written by one of America's most beloved naturalists at the height of his fame. A scientist, a philosopher, and a poet, Donald Culross
I walk all the way up Hollywood Boulevard to Grauman's Chinese Theatre: past tourists snapping shots; wannabe starlets sparkling by in miniskirts with head shots in their hands and moondust in their e
When two South African police officers are murdered by a culprit who threatens to kill an officer every day until a certain cold case is solved, Inspector Benny Griessel races against time to find ans
O What a Luxury: Verses Lyrical, Vulgar, Pathetic & Profound is the first poetry collection written by Garrison Keillor, the celebrated radio host of A Prairie Home Companion. Although he has edit
The new novel from the winner of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, The Hired Man is a taut, powerful novel of a small town and its dark wartime secrets, unwittingly brought into the light by a family o
A bestselling novel in Iran, despite being banned twice by the government, The Book of Fate follows a teenage girl in pre-revolutionary Iran through five turbulent decades, from before the 1979 revolu
In his 1988 CBC Massey Lecture, Noam Chomsky inquires into the nature of the media in a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force and thus must be subjected to more subtle f
A COMPLETE STEP-BY-STEP PLAN FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY TO PREPARE FOR, SURVIVE, AND THRIVE AFTER A CATASTROPHIC COLLAPSEHurricanes, tornadoes, fires, floods, earthquakes: disaster can strike suddenly, lea
In 2006, Wilkinson Eyre was part of a British-led team that won the design competition for one of the most ambitious cultural projects of recent years?the masterplan for Singapore's Gardens by the Bay
Contemporary art is now inclusive of geographies that until recently had escaped the attention of Western art centres such as Paris and New York. A vast area commonly referred to as the Middle East co
Intimately and without jargon, How to Wake Up: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow, describes the path to peace amid all of life’s ups and downs. Using step by step instructions, th
This collection offers two dozen essays and sketches about one of the passions of Salter’s life, travel, a subject beloved by writers across the centuries. Over twenty years of skiing, hiking, climbin
Hailed by book reviewers as a "masterpiece," "gorgeous and fascinating," and "sheer pleasure," Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape was published in fall 2006 in hardcover. It was met with
Discussing the philosophical issues raised by a fake psychic, this book reveals that the hit TV show has much to tell us about human ways of coping with death, as well as the problem of justified know
Coyote is separated from her mate by a rockfall and searches the park to find him. Sometimes silent, occasionally observed, always watchful, Coyote makes her way from one memorable site to another, si
Raised by a mother who follows the cycles of the ocean and moon, Ruthie and her sister, Dolly, explore the mystery of their heritage from their 1970s Long Beach, California home, where they confront t
Often the most recognized, even brutal, events in American history are assigned a bifurcated public narrative. We divide historical and cultural life into two camps, often segregated by a politicized,
A full-body program featuring step-by-step exercises to sculpt and tone arms, chest, abs, and legs using weighted medicine ballsWhen cavemen lifted and carried heavy boulders, they were not working ou
Neither prose nor poetry but a unique, mesmerizing fusion of both, the Holy Qur’an stands as one of the world’s most important spiritual texts and is a source of law, instruction, code of conduct and
Bill Bryson meets John Vaillant in this life list quest to see the rarest species in North America.Crammed into a minivan with wife, toddler, infant, and dog, accompanied by mounds of toys, diapers, t
The author's second story collection chronicles the lives of young men trapped in the liminal space between adolescence and adulthood as they, haunted by unfulfilled dreams and disappointments, deal w
A collection of writings by the late Modernist and MacArthur Fellowship recipient includes definitive examples of his fiction, essays, poetry and translations spanning more than 40 years and offers in
A hilarious parody that tells parents how to guarantee their child turns out exactly as desired ? no matter how ridiculous the parents' dreamParents today are highly frustrated by kids who reach their
This edition of the Holy Qur'an is very lightweight and easy to carry, by well known translator Abdullah Yusuf Ali. This edition also features a publishers introduction written for those unfamiliar w
A guide to getting ripped by combining weights with the revolutionary BOSUR Balance Trainer Shaped like a stability ball that’s been cut in half, the BOSUR Balance Trainer is one of the most challeng
Lost between the rugged High Sierras and sun-baked Death Valley, bypassed by most visitors on their way somewhere else, this sumptuous alignment of low desert valleys trapped between mountains reachin
