Creating the Worlds of Star Wars: 365 Days

by John Knoll

The single most comprehensive collection of Star Wars images - hundreds of which have never been seen before - Creating ...

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Chronicles: Art & Design

by Daniel Falconer, Alan Lee and Ra Vincent

This book is incredible.  Truly spectacular, in the purest sense of the word:  just look inside, flip to any ...

The New Brazil: Regional Imperialism and the New Democracy

by Raúl Zibechi

Zibechi examines Brazil's neoliberal capitalism and the inequity and oppression that have flourished as a result ...

Journey to the End of Islam

by Michael Muhammad Knight

Michael Muhammad Knight is a young American Muslim who draws on both the liberation theologies of the Nation of Islam ...

Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate

by George Lakoff

Don't Think of an Elephant! is the definitive handbook for understanding what happened in the 2004 election and ...

The People's Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan

by Eric Laursen

This is a massive book. Laursen gives a detailed history of Social Security and the threats it has faced since the ...

Windows on the Workplace: Technology, Jobs, and the Organization of Office Work

by Joan Greenbaum

Joan Greenbaum tells the story of changes in management policies, work organization, and the design of office ...

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

by Barbara Ehrenreich

In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich, inspired by the then-recent welfare reforms and curious about the life of those that those ...

Labor's Civil War in California: The NUHW Healthcare Workers' Rebellion

by Cal Winslow

Labor's Civil War in California documents how the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) became corrupted as ...

Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman

by Cathy Wilkerson

Cathy Wilkerson was a member of the radical left-wing group called the Weather Underground, which wanted to overthrow ...

After Diana: Irreverent Elegies

by Mandy Merck

The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, was met by the deepest mourning of the twentieth century. Two and a half billion ...

Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father

by Richard Rodriguez

This collection of essays are some of Richard Rodriguez's musings on his soul. He muses over five centuries of the ...

100 Voices: An Oral History of Ayn Rand

by Scott McConnell

This book follows the life of Ayn Rand, the literary and philosophical giant who wrote books such as The Fountainhead, ...

In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack Rant and Rave

by Tom Magliozzi and Ray Magliozzi

This book is exactly what it sounds like:  a book full of written rants and musings from Car Talk's hosts, Tom and ...

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World

A.J. Jacobs assigned himself the seemingly impossible task of reading through all of the Encyclopedia Britannica ...

Colored People: A Memoir

by Henry Louis Gates and Jr

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has written a compelling memoir of his life growing up in Piedmont, West Virginia during the ...

The Year of Magical Thinking

by Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking is a record of Joan Didion's life in the year after her husband's death. This is an ...

Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

by Portia de Rossi

In this searing, unflinchingly honest New York Times bestseller, actress Portia de Rossi shares the truth of ...

Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World

by Claire Harman

This biography not only looks at Jane Austen's life; it also examines her lasting influence within and outside the ...

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4

by Sue Townsend

In his secret diary, British teen Adrian Mole excruciatingly details every morsel of his turbulent adolescence. Mixed ...

Paradise

by Toni Morrison

“They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.” So begins Toni ...

The Known World

by Edward P. Jones

The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of ...

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

by Mohsin Hamid

This is the astonishing and riveting tale of a man’s journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, it ...

The French Lieutenant's Woman

by John Fowles

The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel that explores the fraught relationship of ...

The Chieu Hoi Saloon

by Michael Harris

This book focuses on the life of fictional Harry Hudson, a Vietnam vet trying to escape the violences of his past. The ...

Sensation

by Nick Mamatas

This intriguing new novel follows Julia Hernandez, a woman who left her husband, shot a real-estate developer out to ...

Mammoths of the Great Plains

by Eleanor Arnason

Ever since A Woman of the Iron People won the first Tiptree Award in 1991, Eleanor Arnason has been celebrated as ...

Geek Mafia: Mile Zero

by Rick Dakan

This is book two in the Geek Mafia series, and it follows the lives of Paul and Chloe, two scam artists living in Key ...

19 Varieties of Gazelles: Poems of the Middle East

by Naomi Shihab Nye

Fowzi, who beats everyone at dominoes; Ibtisam, who wanted to be a doctor; Abu Mahmoud, who knows every eggplant and ...

The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

by Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens always sought the substance of poetry in the relations between imagination and the world of reality. ...