Sceptre: Hodder & Stoughton General Division, 2011. Paperback. The Sayles might not have been the only Jewish atheist communist family in Liverpool, but Alexei knew from an early age that they were one of the more eccentric. Born on the day egg rationing came to an end, Alexei was the... More about Stalin Ate My Homework

London, United Kingdom: FABER & FABER, 2017. Paperback. The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age. In The Secret Life: Three True Stories, Andrew... More about The Secret Life : Three True Stories

London, United Kingdom: Penguin Books Ltd, 2012. -. -. Paperback. The phenomenal international bestseller - 2 million copies sold - that will change the way you make decisions 'A lifetime's worth of wisdom' Steven D. Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics 'There have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality... More about Thinking, Fast and Slow

-: Back Bay Books, 1998. -. -. Paperback. In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean... More about A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments [First edition]

New York, United States: Henry Holt & Company Inc, 1970. Hardback. Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject is perceived... More about Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee : An Indian History of the American West

Vintage Books: Random House USA Inc, 2002. Paperback. National Bestseller In these coolly observant essays, Joan Didion looks at the American political process and at "that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life." Through the deconstruction of the sound bites and photo... More about Political Fictions

New York, United States: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2008. Paperback. The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, decades after its first publication, the essential portrait of America--particularly California--in the sixties. It focuses on such subjects... More about Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Vintage Books: Random House USA Inc, 2004. Paperback. In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state's ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic's often... More about Where I Was From

New York, United States: Random House USA Inc, 2007. -. First edition. First printing. Paperback. From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that... More about Year of Magical Thinking

London, United Kingdom: GRANTA BOOKS, 2018. -. First edition, first printing. Hardback. Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to describe, but hard to explore. Yet in... More about The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath

VINTAGE, 2017. -. English. Illustrations, unspecified. Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An explosive exposé that lays out the story behind the Steele Dossier, including Russia's decades-in-the-making political game to upend American democracy and the Trump administration's ties to Moscow. "Harding...presents a powerful case for Russian interference, and Trump campaign... More about Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win

Boston, MA, United States: Beacon Press, 2011. -. -. Paperback. Dr. King's best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city's streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.... More about Why We Can't Wait

United Kingdom: Penguin Books Ltd, 2005. -. Brand new book. Paperback. In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties... More about Protestant Ethic and Other Writings