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BLACK POWER by WRIGHT RICHARD A
$30.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Originally published in 1954, Richard Wrightâ²s Black Power is an extraordinary nonfiction work by one of Americaâ²s premier literary giants of the twentieth century. An impassioned chronicle of the authorâ²s trip to Africaâ²s Gold Coast before it became the free nation of Ghana, it speaks eloquentl ...Show more
City of Refuge by Tom Piazza
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
In the heat of late summer, two New Orleans families--one black and one white--confront a storm that will change the course of their lives. SJ Williams, a carpenter and widower, lives and works in the Lower Ninth Ward community where he was born and raised. Across town, Craig Donaldson, a Midwestern tr ...Show more
DEVIL SENT THE RAIN MUSIC AND WRITING IN by PIAZZA TOM
$27.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Tom Piazza's sharp intelligence, insight, and passion fuel this new collection of writings on music, literature, New Orleans, and America itself in desperate times. For his first book since his award-winning novel City of Refuge and his stunning and influential post-Katrina polemic Why New Orleans Mat ...Show more
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
$25.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost h ...Show more
Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy
$20.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Rebecca is young, lost, and beautiful. A gifted artist, she seeks solace and inspiration in the Mediterranean heat of Athens--trying to understand who she is and how she can love without fear. George has come to Athens to learn ancient languages after growing up in New England boarding schools and Ivy ...Show more
Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. : Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
The Sleeper Hit of the Summer... Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audrey -- dainty, immaculate -- is anything but true to life. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961. The first complet ...Show more
Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
"Joyce Maynard is in top-notch form with Labor Day. Simply a novel you cannot miss." -Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Keeping Faith "Maynard has created an ensemble of characters that will sneak into your heart, and warm it while it breaks." -St. Petersburg Time ...Show more
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
They are Microserfs--six code-crunching computer whizzes who spend upward of sixteen hours a day "coding" and eating "flat" foods (food which, like Kraft singles, can be passed underneath closed doors) as they fearfully scan company e-mail to learn whether the great Bill is going to "flame" one of them ...Show more
Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley
$32.00 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
An inspired gathering of religious writings that reveals the "divine reality" common to all faiths, collected by Aldous Huxley "The Perennial Philosophy," Aldous Huxley writes, "may be found among the traditional lore of peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a pla ...Show more
Prime Green : Remembering the Sixties by Robert Stone
$19.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
A memoir of America's most turbulent, whimsical decade, in the words of the man who experienced it all... From the New York City of Kline and De Kooning to the jazz era of New Orleans's French Quarter to Ken Kesey's psychedelic California, Prime Green explores the 1960s in all its weird, innocent, f ...Show more
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
$37.50 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
A "New York Times" Notable Book Winner of the Kiriyama Book Prize In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and gr ...Show more
Summer Of Naked by Jessica Anya Blau
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Blau presents this passionate and poignant debut novel of one girl's coming of age in 1970s Southern California, replete with stoners, hippies, surfers, and OP shorts.