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  • The Loneliness of the Long Distance Book Runner

    by Bill Rees ...
    More than just a travel memoir, this book is a behind-the-scenes glimpse inside the antique book trade. Hurdling from one anecdote to the next, Bill Rees regales readers with his many adventures selling valuable books. From finding a first edition on a Parisian pub shelf to opening a store in Paris and trading rare titles with big names like Ian McEwan and Alan Sillitoe, this account is packed ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner

    Stories

    by Alan Sillitoe ...
    Nine classic short stories portraying the isolation, criminality, morality, and rebellion of the working class from award-winning, bestselling author Alan SillitoeThe titular story follows the internal decisions and external oppressions of a seventeen-year-old inmate in a juvenile detention center who is known only by his surname, Smith. The wardens have given the boy a light workload because he ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unbelievable

    My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

    by Katy Tur ...
    The New York Times bestseller. "This book couldn't be more timely, appearing as President Trump ratchets up his attacks on the news media." —Jill Abramson, The New York Times Book ReviewKaty Tur lived out of a suitcase for a year and a half, following Trump around the country, powered by packets of peanut butter and kept clean with dry shampoo. She visited forty states with the candidate, made ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father

    A Memoir of My Father

    by Alysia Abbott ...
    A beautiful, vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and ’80s San Francisco with an openly gay father.After his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old daughter to San Francisco. There they discover a city in the midst of revolution, bustling with gay men in search of liberation—few of whom are raising a child.Steve throws ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Guerrilla Nation

    My Wars In and Out of Vietnam

    In September 1969, Michael Maclear, the first Western television journalist allowed inside North Vietnam, was in Hanoi for major Canadian and U.S. networks. He recounted in gripping detail how an entire population had been trained for generations in guerrilla combat. His reporting that the North was motivated more by nationalism than Marxism was highly controversial.Later Maclear was taken ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Time of Their Lives

    The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors, and Authors

    by Al Silverman ...
    A lively portrait of mid-twentieth-century American book publishing—"A wonderful book, filled with anecdotal treasures" ( The New York Times).According to Al Silverman, former publisher of Viking Press and president of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the golden age of book publishing began after World War II and lasted into the early 1980s.In this entertaining and affectionate industry biography, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Imperial Messenger

    Thomas Friedman at Work

    Series series Counterblasts
    Factual errors, ham-fisted analysis, and contradictory assertions—compounded by a penchant for mixed metaphors and name-dropping—distinguish the work of Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist and author Thomas Friedman. The Imperial Messenger reveals the true value of this media darling, a risible writer whose success tells us much about the failures of contemporary journalism. Belén ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Letters to My Torturer

    Love, Revolution, and Imprisonment in Iran

    **Meet Brother Hamid. He knows how to get answers.“A searing and unforgettable account” (Publishers Weekly) comes to mass-market paperback**Houshang Asadi’s Letters to My Torturer is one of the most harrowing accounts of human suffering to emerge from Iran and is now available for the first time in paperback.Kept in solitary confinement for over two years in an infamous Tehran prison, Asadi ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Woodward and Bernstein

    Life in the Shadow of Watergate

    Based on new interviews and never-before-seen archival materials, Woodward and Bernstein takes a fresh, thought-provoking look at this unlikely journalistic duo. Thrown together by fate or luck, Woodward and Bernstein changed the face of journalism and the American presidency. For the first time, Shepard separates myth from reality as she traces the lives of the iconic journalists before and after ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • City Son

    Andrew W. Cooper's Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn

    by Wayne Dawkins ...
    Series series Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
    In 1966, a year after the Voting Rights Act began liberating millions of southern blacks, New Yorkers challenged a political system that weakened their voting power. Andrew W. Cooper (1927-2002), a beer company employee, sued state officials in a case called Cooper vs. Power. In 1968, the courts agreed that black citizens were denied the right to elect an authentic representative of their ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Carolina Israelite

    How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights

    This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1903–1981) — author of the 1958 national best-seller Only in America — illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish popular culture, and the sometimes precarious position of Jews in the South and across America during the 1950s.After recounting Golden’s childhood ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Louis Austin and the Carolina Times

    A Life in the Long Black Freedom Struggle

    Louis Austin (1898–1971) came of age at the nadir of the Jim Crow era and became a transformative leader of the long black freedom struggle in North Carolina. From 1927 to 1971, he published and edited the Carolina Times, the preeminent black newspaper in the state. He used the power of the press to voice the anger of black Carolinians, and to turn that anger into action in a forty-year crusade ... Read more

    $18.99 USD