Graham's Picks

The Wanderer By Peter Van den Ende Cover Image
$21.99
ISBN: 9781646140176
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Published: Levine Querido - October 6th, 2020

Sublime illustrations tell the story of a paper boat's strange and wondrous journey.


The Story of Trees: And How They Changed the World By Kevin Hobbs, David West Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9781786275226
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Published: Laurence King Publishing - February 18th, 2020

One hundred trees, elegantly illustrated, in the order they appeared on earth, starting with the gingko from 270 million years ago, featuring intriguing facts on the role each tree has played in human life. If you loved Around The World In 80 Trees, this is your next book!


The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name By Brian C. Muraresku, Graham Hancock (Contributions by), Graham Hancock (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Brian C. Muraresku, Graham Hancock (Contributions by), Graham Hancock (Foreword by)
$32.50
ISBN: 9781250207142
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Published: St. Martin's Press - September 29th, 2020

Fascinating look at the use of psychedleics in ancient Mediterranean religion.


Skunk and Badger (Skunk and Badger 1) By Amy Timberlake, Jon Klassen (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Amy Timberlake, Jon Klassen (Illustrator)
$18.95
ISBN: 9781643750057
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Published: Algonquin Young Readers - September 15th, 2020

The charming, yet thought-provoking, story of Skunk and Badger, delightfully illustrated by Jon Klassen.


Around the World in 80 Trees By Jonathan Drori Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781786276063
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Published: Laurence King Publishing - August 11th, 2020

Did you know that for over a thousand years, the books of Europe were written with ink from the galls of oak trees? This is only one of the fascinating facts found in this beautifully illustrated book.


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Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening By Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda (Artist) Cover Image
By Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda (Artist)
$9.99
ISBN: 9781632157096
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Published: Image Comics - July 26th, 2016

Intricate illustrations in the story of Maika Halfwolf and her struggle to survive in a world ravaged by the war between humans and Arcanics.


The Mapmaker's War: Keeper of Tales Trilogy: Book One (The Keeper of Tales Trilogy #1) By Ronlyn Domingue Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9781451688894
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Published: Washington Square Press - March 18th, 2014

Lyrical, dense novel of myth and psychological realism. First of a trilogy.


The Silence of the Girls: A Novel By Pat Barker Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780525564102
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Published: Anchor - August 27th, 2019

The Iliad, from the women's point of view. A much-needed corrective!


Nimona: A Netflix Film By ND Stevenson, ND Stevenson (Illustrator) Cover Image
By ND Stevenson, ND Stevenson (Illustrator)
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062278227
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Published: Quill Tree Books - May 12th, 2015

Poignant, quirky graphic novel epic from the showrunner of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.


Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales By Greer Gilman Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781618731050
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Published: Small Beer Press - April 21st, 2015

A mythopoetic weaving of the village, the harvest, the travelling players, the stars, and the fates, in language as singular as Shakespeare or Joyce. 


Wise Child By Monica Furlong Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9781635618136
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Published: Echo Point Books & Media - August 29th, 2019

Wise Child learns the ways of the seasons, and a little magic, from Juniper, sometime in the Dark Ages, somewhere in the British Isles. A young reader classic.


The Wake: A Novel By Paul Kingsnorth Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781555977177
Availability: Special Order
Published: Graywolf Press - September 1st, 2015

The Norman conquest from the point of view of the conquered, told in the author's researched-but-invented hybrid of Old and Middle English. 


My Struggle: Book 1 By Karl Ove Knausgaard, Don Bartlett (Translated by) Cover Image
By Karl Ove Knausgaard, Don Bartlett (Translated by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780374534141
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - May 28th, 2013

Why read volume one of a 3,600 page diary? Because the author's meticulous accounts of making coffee, hiding beer in the snow, and cleaning house are strangely fascinating. The In Search Of Lost Time of our troubled moment.


Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) By Marcel Proust, Lydia Davis (Translated by), Lydia Davis (Introduction by), Lydia Davis (Notes by), Christopher Prendergast (Editor) Cover Image
By Marcel Proust, Lydia Davis (Translated by), Lydia Davis (Introduction by), Lydia Davis (Notes by), Christopher Prendergast (Editor)
$20.00
ISBN: 9780142437964
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Published: Penguin Classics - November 30th, 2004

The two paths of the narrator's childhood, the way by Swann's place throbbing with hawthorn blossoms and the Guermantes way of water lilies undulating in the stream. Marcel's first efforts to grasp the secret knowledge hovering just out of reach, or beneath the surface. The Karl Ove Knausgaard of the early 20th century.


Watchmen (2019 Edition) By Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons (Illustrator)
$24.99
ISBN: 9781779501127
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Published: DC Comics - May 20th, 2019

Dave Gibbons' hyper-detailed art and Alan Moore's layered storytelling deconstruct the superhero genre.


House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest By Craig Childs Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780316067546
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Published: Back Bay Books - July 3rd, 2008

Nature writer Craig Childs tracks the cultures of the Southwest through time and space, in search of the Anasazi.


My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One By Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781609450786
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Published: Europa Editions - September 25th, 2012

Funny, sad,and captivating - a great read about friendship, books, shoes, and growing up.


The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke: Bilingual Edition By Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell (Translated by), Stephen Mitchell (Editor), Robert Hass (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell (Translated by), Stephen Mitchell (Editor), Robert Hass (Introduction by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780679722014
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Published: Vintage - March 13th, 1989

These translations capture Rilke's metaphysical longing and lyrical praise.


Rimbaud Complete (Modern Library Classics) By Arthur Rimbaud, Wyatt Mason (Translated by), Wyatt Mason (Editor), Wyatt Mason (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Arthur Rimbaud, Wyatt Mason (Translated by), Wyatt Mason (Editor), Wyatt Mason (Introduction by)
$19.00
ISBN: 9780375757709
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Published: Modern Library - January 14th, 2003

Dense with imagery, sensuous, cinematic.The father of modern poetry? If only!


The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (Myths) By Margaret Atwood Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781841957982
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Canongate Us - October 1st, 2006

The Odyssey, from Penelope's point of view. If you loved The Handmaid's Tale, you must read this deconstruction of archaic patriarchy.


Moby Dick or, The Whale By Herman Melville, Barry Moser (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Herman Melville, Barry Moser (Illustrator)
$29.95
ISBN: 9780520045484
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Published: University of California Press - August 16th, 1983

The only novel which will teach you about whaling and provide an investigation into the concept of white. Sublime illustrations by Barry Moser. Elegant type face.


The Slow Regard of Silent Things (Kingkiller Chronicle) By Patrick Rothfuss Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9780756410438
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Published: DAW - October 28th, 2014

From the world of The Name of the Wind, a stand-alone story to ease the wait for book three of the trilogy.


Paris Trance: A Romance By Geoff Dyer Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780312429447
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Published: Picador - March 30th, 2010

No particular place to go in Paris except fall in love. Funny, sad novel about youth and friendship.Everything Geoff Dyer touches turns to ink.


The Master and Margarita: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) By Mikhail Bulgakov, Richard Pevear (Translated by), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translated by), Boris Fishman (Foreword by), Christopher Conn Askew (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Mikhail Bulgakov, Richard Pevear (Translated by), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translated by), Boris Fishman (Foreword by), Christopher Conn Askew (Illustrator)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780143108276
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Published: Penguin Classics - May 3rd, 2016

Between the flying, the nakedness, and a talking cat who plays chess, this surreal masterpiece of Russian literature has it all. (Plus: Daniel Radcliffe's favorite book!)


Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence By Geoff Dyer Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780312429461
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Published: Picador - November 10th, 2009

Hilarious now matter how many times you read it. Probably the funniest book about D. H. Lawrence ever written.


Narcissus and Goldmund: A Novel By Hermann Hesse, Ursule Molinaro (Translated by) Cover Image
By Hermann Hesse, Ursule Molinaro (Translated by)
$20.00
ISBN: 9780312421670
Availability: Backordered
Published: Picador - February 1st, 2003

Narcissus stays in the monastery while Goldmund ventures out into the world. The life of the artist in the Middle Ages.