The Book Company: New Products - General

Beirut Fragments (A War Memoir)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 19:03:20 +0000

A new edition of the widely acclaimed account of the civilian experience of fifteen years of war in Beirut- "a profound, heartbreaking book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), "an impassioned cry against indifference" (New York Times Book Review), "a work ringing with truth and insight" (Arab Book W..

Price: $17.95

Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 18:41:54 +0000

Trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he was known for his modern polychrome decoration and setback skyscrapers.

Price: $60.00

Churchill (A Pictorial History of His Life and Times)

Thu, 28 Jul 2016 22:21:07 +0000

Sir Winston Churchill, voted the greatest Briton of all time, died 50 years ago on January 24th 1965. Born on November 30th 1874, he entered Parliament in 1900 and dominated political life for over half a century until his retirement in 1955. His leadership of the British people in the Second W..

Price: $19.95

True Blue (Police Stories by Those Who Have Lived Them)

Mon, 25 Jul 2016 17:19:02 +0000

After September 11, 2001, Las Vegas Police Sergeant Randy Sutton began soliciting writing from law enforcement officers-his goal being to bridge the gap between the police and those they serve, with a book that offers a broad and thoughtful look at the many facets of police life. Hundreds of..

Price: $6.99

My Father's Fortune (A Life)

Mon, 25 Jul 2016 17:10:02 +0000

For the first time, Michael Frayn, the "master of what is seriously funny,"* turns his humor and narrative genius on his own family's story, to re-create the world that made him who he is

Whether he is deliriously funny or philosophically profound, as a novelist and a playwright M..

Price: $25.00

Rub Out the Words LP (The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1959-1974)

Sat, 16 Jul 2016 10:01:36 +0000

“Burroughs’s voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.”
—Joan Didion

“Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.”
—Jack Kerouac

Carefully edited from more than 1000 ..

Price: $36.99

Rub Out the Words (The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1959-1974)

Sat, 16 Jul 2016 08:50:42 +0000

“Burroughs’s voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.”
—Joan Didion

“Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.”
—Jack Kerouac

Carefully edited from more than 1000 ..

Price: $35.00

Shakespeare (The World as Stage)

Sat, 16 Jul 2016 08:45:44 +0000

William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle ..

Price: $13.99

Autobiography of a Face

Sat, 16 Jul 2016 01:29:38 +0000

"I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. ..

Price: $14.99