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10 best books like The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test/The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby/Radical Chic & Mau Mauing the Flak Catchers (Tom Wolfe): The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis, The Best American Travel Writing 2016, Be There Now: Travel Stories from Around the World, The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties, The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-90, Confessions of a Barbarian, Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box, Counterfeit Unrealities, Figures in a Landscape: People and Places, The American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings
The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis
| Author | David E. Fishman |
| ISBN | 1512600490 |
The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts—first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets—by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale of heroism and resistance,...
The Best American Travel Writing 2016
Why do I travel? Why does anyone of us travel? Bill Bryson poses these questions in his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2016, and though he admits, “I wasn’t at all sure I knew the answer,” they are questions worthy of examination. While the various contributors to this collection...
Be There Now: Travel Stories from Around the World
Be There Now is a collection of true travel stories featuring twenty-two contributors who share adventures and escapades from around the world.
The stories include the tale of an amateurish kidnapping in Nicaragua in a story that could have been told by Woody Allen, and a David Sedaris-esque...
At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington—Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar congressmen, her husband as a Treasury department...
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 0393035468 |
In the tradition of other groundbreaking Norton anthologies, Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Atteberry's Norton Book of Science Fiction provided the first truly comphrehensive and cohereent look at the best of contemporary science fiction. Its 67 stories, all published since 1960, offer compelling...
| Author | Edward Abbey |
| ISBN | 1555662870 |
Edward Abbey was an anarchist, activist, philosopher, and the spiritual father of the environmental movement. He was also a passionate journal keeper, a man who filled page after page with notes, philosophical musings, character sketches, illustrations, musical notations, and drawings. His...
| Author | Angela P. Dodson |
| ISBN | 1455570931 |
2017 begins the centennial celebrations of women first winning the right to vote, culminating in national suffrage three years later. This book documents the milestones in that hard won struggle and reflects on women's impact on politics since.
From the birth of our nation to...
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 0739426141 |
Mood organs. Scramble suits. Poison tongue darts. Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) may have invented more wildly imaginative creations per novel than any of his peers. An eccentric whose mind danced on the blurry edge between illusion and reality, madness and metaphysics, he produced a body of work that...
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0544870301 |
A delectable collection of Theroux’s recent writing on great places, people, and prose
In the spirit of his much-loved Sunrise with Seamonsters and Fresh Air Fiend, Paul Theroux’s latest collection of essays leads the reader through a dazzling array of sights, characters, and experiences,...
Transcendentalism was the first major intellectual movement in U.S. history, championing the inherent divinity of each individual, as well as the value of collective social action. In the mid-nineteenth century, the movement took off, changing how Americans thought about religion, literature,...
| Author | Joshua Piven |
| ISBN | 0811874834 |
Following the success of The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook (more than 150,000 copies sold!), this ruggedly handsome hardcover collection brings together new and classic advice from Worst-Case experts to help readers master the manly arts from wrestling an alligator to calming...
| Author | Andrés Neuman |
| ISBN | 8420406082 |
Un cruce entre la narrativa más actual y la crónica relámpago. Una visión literaria, en tiempo real, de la geografía entera del español.
«Cuando me comunicaron el itinerario de la gira del Premio Alfaguara, lamenté no tener más tiempo para ver cada lugar. Pero después pensé: ¿no...
| Author | John Swartzwelder |
| ISBN | 0975579983 |
If you're a fan of The Simpsons, you're already a John Swartzwelder fan. Not only has he written more episodes than any other writer, but his episodes are many fan favorites, such as Whacking Day (1993), Homer the Great (Stonecutters, 1995), Homer the Smithers (1996), and Homie the Clown (Clown School,...
| Author | Barry Miles |
| ISBN | 0805060448 |
More than forty years after the publication of On the Road, Jack Kerouac is more widely read and revered by a new generation than ever before. Why this is so is the subject of Barry Miles's fresh and revealing portrait of the writer who is the acknowledged leader of the Beats, the group of writers that included...
The Best American Essays 2018
| Author | Hilton Als |
| ISBN | 0544817346 |
The Pulitzer–Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing “the fierce style of street reading and the formal tradition of critical inquiry, reads culture, race, and gender” (New York Times) to the task.
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The Spider-Man Handbook: The Ultimate Traning Manual
| Author | Seth Grahame-Smith |
| ISBN | 1594741255 |
For Would-Be Super Heroes of All Ages
The Spider-Man Handbook describes everything you need to live the Super Hero life--from the fine points of web-slinging and wall-crawling to keeping your identity a secret. You'll also discover:
- How to Treat a Radioactive Spider Bite
- How to Design...
Total Fears: Selected Letters to Dubenka
| Author | Bohumil Hrabal |
| ISBN | 8090217192 |
In these letters written to April Gifford between 1989 and 1991 but never sent, Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) chronicles the momentous events of those years as seen, more often than not, from the windows of his favorite pubs. In his palavering style that has marked him as one of the major writers and innovators...
The New Kingmakers: How Developers Conquered the World
As analysts, pundits and researchers alike seek to understand what turned Apple from a technology afterthought into the largest company in the world, they would do well to listen to the man most responsible for that recovery. In a 1995 interview, the late Steve Jobs claimed that the secret to his and...
Voices from the Rust Belt
| Author | Anne Trubek |
| ISBN | 1250162971 |
The essays in Voices from the Rust Belt "address segregated schools, rural childhoods, suburban ennui, lead poisoning, opiate addiction, and job loss. They reflect upon happy childhoods, successful community ventures, warm refuges for outsiders, and hidden oases of natural beauty. But mainly...
Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America's Most Radical Idea
| Author | Erik Reece |
| ISBN | 0374106576 |
For Erik Reece, life, at last, was good: he was newly married, gainfully employed, living in a creekside cabin in his beloved Kentucky woods. It sounded, as he describes it, "like a country song with a happy ending." And yet he was still haunted by a sense that the world--or, more specifically, his country--could...
The Wet Engine: Exploring Mad Wild Miracle of Heart
| Author | Brian Doyle |
| ISBN | 1557254052 |
"Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime. You can spend them slowly, like a tortoise, and live to be two hundred years old, or you can spend them fast, like a hummingbird, and live to be two years old."
The heart: it is known as the seat of the soul,...
| Author | Russell Banks |
| ISBN | 0062120883 |
The acclaimed, award-winning novelist takes us on some of his most memorable journeys in this revelatory collection of travel essays that spans the globe, from the Caribbean to Scotland to the Himalayas.
Now in his mid-seventies, Russell Banks has indulged his wanderlust for more than half...
| Author | Alfred Adler |
| ISBN | 1406768642 |
The Science of Living explores 'Individual Psychology' as a science in its own right, and discusses the different aspects of 'individual psychology' and how it can be applied to everyday life. This book includes sections on the inferiority complex, the superiority complex, and other related aspects...
Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight
| Author | David A. Mindell |
| ISBN | 0262134977 |
As Apollo 11's Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the guidance computer's software nearly caused a mission abort. Neil Armstrong responded by switching off the automatic mode and taking direct control. He stopped monitoring the computer and began...
