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Coop: A Family, a Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg
Michael Perry. In over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and a baby due any minute, the acclaimed author of Truck: A Love Story gives us a humorous, heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country. Last seen sleeping off his wedding night in the back of a 1951 International Harvester pickup, Michael Perry is now living in a rickety Wisconsin farmhouse.
Paperback. Harper Perennial.
006124044
Price: $14.99
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CROSSING MANDELBAUM GATE
Kai Bird '73. Pulitzer Prize winner Kai Bird’s fascinating memoir of his early years spent in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon provides an original and illuminating perspective into the Arab-Israeli conflict. Weeks before the Suez War of 1956, four-year-old Kai Bird, son of a garrulous, charming American Foreign Service officer, moved to Jerusalem with his family. They settled in a small house, where young Kai could hear church bells and the Muslim call to prayer and watch as donkeys and camels competed with cars for space on the narrow streets. "Crossing Mandelbaum Gate" is his compelling personal history of growing up an American in the midst of three major wars and three turbulent decades in the Middle East.
141654440
Reg. Price: $30.00
Sale Price: $25.50
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darkacre: poems
Gregory Hewett, Associate Professor of English. Through exploring the infrastructure of civilization, the body’s intimate topography, and the cultural terrain of Italian opera, Greg Hewett excavates the fields where humanity has erected its monuments, fought its battles, and sowed the seeds of both redemption and ruin.

"for everyman’s a remainderman
every boundary evidence
every terminus implication
and every acre dark".

Greg Hewett’s three previous collections have received a Publishing Triangle Award, two Minnesota Book Award nominations, and an IndieBound Poetry Top Ten recommendation.
156689245
Price: $16.00
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Fever Dream
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child ('79). At the old family manse in Louisiana, Special Agent Pendergast is putting to rest long-ignored possessions reminiscent of his wife Helen's tragic death, only to make a stunning-and dreadful-discovery. Helen had been mauled by an unusually large and vicious lion while they were big game hunting in Africa. But now, Pendergast learns that her rifle-her only protection from the beast-had been deliberately loaded with blanks. Who could have wanted Helen dead... and why?
Hardcover. Grand Central Publishing.
044655496
Price: $26.99
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From the Inside Out: Letters to Young Men and Other Writings
Deborah Appleman, Hollis L. Caswell Professor of Educational Studies. This anthology of creative writing is a collection by incarcerated writers, many of whom are serving life sentences. Inspired by the desire to reach out to young men who may be in danger of incarceration themselves, the men offer, in the first section of the book, heartfelt letters written to their younger selves, their sons, their nephews, and associates still on the street. The second section of the book includes selections from each writer's portfolio, ranging from short stories and memoir kernels to a wide variety of poetry. The final section of the book includes colored illustrations from two of the writers who are also artists.
144999652
Price: $20.00
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Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War
T.J. Stiles '86. T.J. Stiles '86. In a lucid reexamination of one of the nation's most notorious outlaws, independent historian Stiles argues that Jesse James (1847-1882), like his fellow "bushwhackers," had a political agenda and that this made him more terrorist than bandit, and more significant than we credit. Stiles's painstaking research has produced a compelling book that recreates, sometimes graphically, the ruthlessness that prevailed in Missouri, where neighbor fought neighbor and nobody was safe. He also offers a critical understanding of how deep-seated hatred breeds self-righteous fanatics, who can justify violence against anyone deemed an enemy.
037570558
Price: $17.00
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Long Trek Home: 4,000 Miles by Boot, Raft and Ski
Erin McKittrick. In June 2007, Erin McKittrick and her husband, Hig, embarked on a 4,000-mile expedition from Seattle to the Aleutian Islands, traveling solely by human power. This is the story of their unprecedented trek along the northwestern edge of the Pacific Ocean—a year-long journey through some of the most rugged terrain in the world— and their encounters with rain, wind, blizzards, bears, and their own emotional and spiritual demons.
159485093
Price: $18.95
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Manhood for Amateurs
Michael Chabon. A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon. In these insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays, one of our most brilliant and humane writers presents his autobiography and his vision of life in the way so many of us experience our own lives: as a series of reflections, regrets, and reexaminations, each sparked by an encounter, in the present, that holds some legacy of the past.
Paperback. Harper Perennial.
006149019
Price: $14.99
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THE FIRST TYCOON: THE EPIC LIFE OF CORNELIUS VANDERBILT
T. J. Stiles '86. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt is an American icon. Humbly born on Staten Island during George Washington’s presidency, he rose from boatman to builder of the nation’s largest fleet of steamships to lord of a railroad empire. As T. J. Stiles elegantly argues, Vanderbilt did more than perhaps any other individual to create the economic world we live.
037541542
Price: $37.50
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The Wilderness Warrior
Douglas Brinkley. In this groundbreaking epic biography, Douglas Brinkley draws on never-before-published materials to examine the life and achievements of our "naturalist president." By setting aside more than 230 million acres of wild America for posterity between 1901 and 1909, Theodore Roosevelt made conservation a universal endeavor. This crusade for the American wilderness was perhaps the greatest U.S. presidential initiative between the Civil War and World War I.
Paperback. Harper Perennial.
006056531
Price: $19.99
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