Martin Parr: Life's a Beach
By: Martin Parr
4.25
Format: 123 pages, Hardcover
Following on the heels of Martin Parr's limited-edition, album-style publication Life's a Beach , A…
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1. A Thousand Acres
By: Jane Smiley
3.82
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre farm—one of the largest in Zeb… read more
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"Seeing him somewhere was always a pleasure, like taking a drink of water."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"I had a burden lift off me that I hadn't even felt the heaviness of until then, and it was the burden of having to wait and see what was going to happen."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
2. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Fudge, #1)
By: Judy Blume
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Life with his little brother, Fudge, makes Peter Hatcher feel like a fourth grade nothing. Whether … read more
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3. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey
4.00
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Librarian Note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here On a rainy Sunday in Januar… read more
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"Abrió el libro, pero ninguna página parecía ser lo bastante potente para borrar la soledad que sentía."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"If you don't praise people just sometimes a little early on they die of despair, or turn into Hitlers, you know?"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"...pensaba en el amor y en sus espantosas desigualdades. Siempre hay alguien que ofrece la mejilla y otro que la besa."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
4. Ward 81
By: Mary Ellen Mark , None , Miloš Forman
0.00
Format: 798 pages, Unknown Binding
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- art
- photography
- nonfiction
5. Uncommon Places: The Complete Works
By: Lynne Tillman , Stephen Shore , Shore Stephen
1.50
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
Stephen Shore took colour photography beyond the domain of advertising and fashion, and his large-f… read more
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- art
- photography
- nonfiction
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7. Alex Webb: The Suffering of Light
By: Geoff Dyer , Alex Webb
3.14
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The Suffering of Lightis the first comprehensive monograph charting the career of acclaimed America… read more
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- art
- photography
- nonfiction
8. Cloud Atlas
By: David Mitchell
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
Cloud Atlasbegins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to hi… read more
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9. Wishful Drinking
By: Carrie Fisher
3.82
Format: 163 pages, Hardcover
In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitabl… read more
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- nonfiction
"I just have basically too much personality for one person, and not quite enough for two"-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
"And not that it matters, but my mother is not a lesbian! She's just a really, really bad heterosexual."-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
"You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously."-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
"No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away."-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
10. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
By: David Sedaris
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
A guy walks into a bar car and... From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David… read more
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11. Mutant Message Down Under
By: Marlo Morgan
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Mutant Message Down Underis the fictional account of an American woman's spiritual odyssey through … read more
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13. Truth and Beauty
By: Ann Patchett
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writ… read more
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14. On Photography
By: Susan Sontag
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more
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"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
15. Istanbul: City of a 100 Names
By: Orhan Pamuk , Alex Webb
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names, Magnum photographer Alex Webb displays his particular ability… read more
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16. Vivian Maier: Street Photographer
By: Geoff Dyer , Vivian Maier , John Maloof
3.99
Format: 11 pages, Hardcover
Please note that all blank pages in the book were chosen as part of the design by the publisher. A … read more
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17. Girl in a Band
By: Kim Gordon
3.67
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
In Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of wo… read more
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- art
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"All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"I like being in a weak position, and making it strong."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
18. The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range
By: Robert Adams
3.27
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Originally published in 1974, Robert Adams' The New Westsignaled a paradigm shift in the photograph… read more
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19. Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids
By: Andrei Tarkovsky , None
3.83
Format: 35 pages, Paperback
"Tarkovsky often reflected on the way that time flies and wanted to stop it, even with these quick … read more
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20. The Liars' Club
By: Mary Karr
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family. I… read more
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"A pool game mixes ritual with geometry."-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
"Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild..."-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
"A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it."-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
"Then the game became guessing where the storm would hit, or, in local parlance, “go in,"-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
21. A Light in the Attic
By: Shel Silverstein
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Last night while I lay thinking here Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear And pranced and partied all… read more
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22. This Boy's Life
By: Tobias Wolff
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff… read more
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23. If You Ask Me
By: Betty White
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Hardcover
It-girl Betty White delivers a hilarious, slyly profound take on love, life, celebrity, and everyth… read more
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24. Is This Anything?
By: Jerry Seinfeld
3.72
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The first book in twenty-five years from Jerry Seinfeld features his best work across five decades … read more
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25. Be Here Now
By: Ram Dass
4.33
Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition
The enhanced edition of Be Here Now Two guided video meditations, 30 minutes in length * Twenty mi… read more
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"Be here now."-Ram Dass, Be Here Now
"Be here, now!"-Ram Dass, Be Here Now
"As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down th…"-Ram Dass, Be Here Now
26. Wim Wenders: Written In The West
By: Wim Wenders
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
In preparation for shooting the film Paris, Texas in late 1983, director Wim Wenders traveled the W… read more
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27. Martin Parr: Life's a Beach
By: Martin Parr
4.25
Format: 123 pages, Hardcover
Following on the heels of Martin Parr's limited-edition, album-style publication Life's a Beach , A… read more
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28. Araki by Araki
By: Nobuyoshi Araki
4.53
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
Decades’ worth of images have been distilled down to 568 pages of photographs in this ultimate retr… read more
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29. Nobuyoshi Araki: The Banquet: Books on Books No. 15
By: Ivan Vartanian
3.91
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
First published in Japan in 1993, Nobuyoshi Araki’s The Banquet ( Shokuji ) offers a moving tribute… read more
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30. Irish Summers
By: Harry Gruyaert
3.64
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
"The guy from Flanders that I am and the guy from Flanders that Harry is and always will be — despi… read more
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31. Jeff Wall
By: Peter Galassi
4.45
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
Over the past three decades, Vancouver artist Jeff Wall's large color transparencies have won inter… read more
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