 | Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment
by David Edmonds
Ecco Orig. $26.95
Our Price: $6.99 | In 1766 Jean-Jacques Rousseau — philosopher, novelist, composer, educational and political provocateur — was on the run from intolerance, persecution, and enemies who decried him as a madman, dangerous to society. David Hume, now recognized as the foremost philosopher in the English language, was universally lauded as a paragon of decency. more... |
 | The Electric Michelangelo
by Sarah Hall
Harper Perennial Orig. $25.95
Our Price: $6.99 | Cy Parks is the Electric Michelangelo, an artist of extraordinary gifts whose medium happens to be the pliant, shifting canvas of the human body. Fleeing his mother's legacy — a consumptives' hotel in a fading English seaside resort — Cy reinvents himself in the incandescent honky-tonk of Coney Island in its heyday between the two world wars. more... |
 | Dancing Revelations Alvin Ailey's Embodi
by Thomas Defrantz
Orig. $32.95
Our Price: $9.99 | In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to the Civil Rights struggle. more... |
 | Seek My Face
by John Updike
Alfred A. Knopf Orig. $23.00
Our Price: $5.99 | John Updike’s twentieth novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair (1959), takes place in one day, a day that contains much conversation and some rain. The seventy-eight-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who in the course of her eventful life has been Hope Ouderkirk, Hope McCoy, and Hope Holloway, answers questions put to her by a New York interviewer named Kathryn, and recapitulates, through the story of her own career, the triumphant, poignant saga of postwar American art. more... |
 | A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
by Stacy Schiff
Henry Holt & Company Orig. $30.00
Our Price: $7.99 | In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career. "In December of 1776 a small boat delivered an old man to France." So begins an enthralling narrative account of how Benjamin Franklin — seventy years old, without any diplomatic training, and possessed of the most rudimentary French — convinced France, an absolute monarchy, to underwrite America's experiment in democracy. more... |
 | The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq
by Christian Parenti
New Press Orig. $16.95
Our Price: $7.50 | Last year, the most superbly equipped fighting force on the planet was led into the only type of war for which its experts deemed it unprepared: a highly politicized urban counterinsurgency. As the casualties mount, American troops discover there is no plan B, only an ad hoc set of tactics cobbled together and called a strategy. more... |
 | The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
by Lauren Willig
New American Library Orig. $14.00
Our Price: $5.99 | Nothing ever goes right for Eloise. The day she wears her new suede boots, it rains. When the subway stops short, she's the one thrown into some stranger's lap. And she's had her share of misfortune in the way of love. more... |
 | Recipes from a Very Small Island
by Linda Greenlaw
Hyperion Books Orig. $18.00
Our Price: $25.95 | The very best New England recipes from America's most beloved fisherman — and her mother! Linda Greenlaw has already let readers in on the thrilling, often hilarious onboard lives of fishermen. Now she and her mother reveal what happens onshore — in fishermen's kitchens. more... |
