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  • 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

    Charles C. Mann

    Paperback (Alfred A. Knopf, March 15, 2005)
    1491 New Revelations of Americas Before Columbus

  • Couples

    John Updike

    Hardcover (Alfred A. Knopf, March 12, 1968)
    The provocative novel about sex in suburbia, striking in its complete sexual frankness and rightly praised as an artful, seductive, savagely graphic portrayal of love, marriage and adultery in America.

  • Hiroshima / John Hersey

    John Hersey

    Hardcover (Alfred A. Knopf, Aug. 16, 1946)
    Hiroshima is a 1946 book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey. It tells the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It regarded as one of the earliest examples of the New Journalism, in which the story-telling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reporting.

  • Loose Woman

    Sandra Cisneros, Ralfka Gonzales

    Hardcover (Alfred A. Knopf, April 26, 1994)
    A candid, sexy and wonderfully mood-strewn collection of poetry that celebrates the female aspects of love, from the reflective to the overtly erotic. "Poignant, sexy. . . lyrical, passionate. . . cool and delicate. . . hot as a chili pepper."--Boston Globe.

  • The Crooked Timber Of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas

    Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy

    Hardcover (Alfred A. Knopf, March 27, 1991)
    Essays explore ideas that transform societies, including social and political questions such as nationalism, European unity, fascism, relativism, and cultural history

  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai

    Dai Sijie

    Hardcover (Alfred A. Knopf, Jan. 1, 2002)
    A story of the young Chinese sent into the country to be "re-educated by ignorant farmers. and how they manage to hold on to some of the skills and people they love.

  • His Dark Materials First Edition Set

    Philip Pullman

    Hardcover (Alfred A. Knopf, Jan. 1, 1995)
    Complete set of Knopf First American Editions. Volumes 2 and 3 are true First Editions preceding the UK release by about one month. All have first edition statement with full numberlines.

  • Mastering the Art of French Cooking

    Julia Child, Simone Beck, Louisette Bertholle

    Paperback (Alfred A. Knopf, Aug. 16, 1986)
    Wonderfuil and thorough French cooking cookbooks by the master chef-- Julia Child. Two books in this listing!

  • James and the Giant Peach illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert

    Roald Dahl

    Hardcover (Alfred A. Knopf, Aug. 16, 1961)
    hardcover with dust jacket

  • The Prophet Kahlil Gibran

    Kahlil Gibran

    Unknown Binding (Alfred A. Knopf, March 15, 1971)
    The Prophet Kahlil Gibran

  • Lasher

    Anne Rice

    Hardcover (ALFRED A KNOPF, March 15, 1980)
    "SEDUCTIVE MAGIC...SPELLBINDING...Rice stages her scenes in a wide variety of times and locales, tapping deeply into the richest veins of mythology and history." --San Francisco Chronicle "STEAMY...FAST-PACED AND HUGELY ENGROSSING...Rice's title character--a seductive, evil, highly sexual and ultimately tragic creature--is fascinating." --The Miami Herald "BEHIND ALL THE VELVET DRAPES AND GOSSAMER WINDING SHEETS, THIS IS AN OLD-FASHIONED FAMILY SAGA....Rice's descriptive writing is so opulent it almost begs to be read by candlelight." --The Washington Post Book World "RICE SEES THINGS ON A GRAND SCALE...There is a wide-screen historical sweep to the tale as it moves from one generation of witches to the other." --The Boston Globe "EROTIC...EERIE...HORRIFYING...A tight tale of the occult in present-day New Orleans...Anne Rice is a spellbinding novelist.... LASHER quenches." --Denver Post

  • Holding Up the Universe

    Jennifer Niven

    Paperback (Alfred a Knopf, Oct. 4, 2016)
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