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The Trouble with Being Born
"A love of Cioran creates an urge to press his writing into someone's hand, and is followed by an equal urge to pull it away as poison."--The New Yorker In this volume, which …
Marrying Off Mother: And Other Stories
"These stories are full of romps, archness, and old-fashioned silliness."--Boston Globe. A world-famous conservationist and humorist, Gerald Durrell shares eight irresistible …
Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
Nobel prize winner 2012!Today's most revered, feared, and controversial Chinese novelist offers a tour de force in which the real, the absurd, the comical, and the tragic are …
In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
"Makes for compelling reading in America today."--New York Times Book Review. "I want to try and understand why so many people commit crimes in the name of identity," writes Amin …
Socialism: Past and Future
"Mr. Harrington is a sensitive, compassionate advocate of a just, humane, and civilized future. . . . Socialism] has a lively air of optimism and boldly challenges traditional …
All Gall Is Divided: The Aphorisms of a Legendary Iconoclast
"An antidote to a world gone mad for bedside affirmation"--Washington Post. E. M. Cioran has been called the last worthy disciple of Nietzsche and "a sort of final philosopher of …
The Temple and the Lodge: The Strange and Fascinating History of the Knights Templar and the Freemasons
From the authors of the international bestseller Holy Blood, Holy Grail, a history of the Freemasons from the Knights Templar to America's founding fathers. In The Temple and the …
Wild Ride Home: Love, Loss, and a Little White Horse, a Family Memoir
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
Dream of Fair to Middling Women
Samuel Beckett's first novel and "literary landmark" (St. Petersburg Times), Dream of Fair to Middling Women is a wonderfully savory introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. …