Books from Carroll & Graf Publishers
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Book Row: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade
By Marvin Mondlin, Roy MeadorRising rents, street crime, urban redevelopment, television-the reasons are many for the demise of Book Row, but in this volume, based on interviews with dozens upon dozens of the book people who bought, sold, and collected there, it lives ...
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No Bliss Like this: Five Centuries of Love Poetry by Women
By Jill HollisThe work of women poets is often overlooked in anthologies, and collections of love poetry are no exception. This delightful and highly original collection shows that on the subject of...
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The Mammoth Book of Men O'war
By Mike AshleyAnthologizing the very best tales of war at sea, this unique assembly of stories includes contributions by Patrick O'Brian, C. S. Forester, Kenneth Bulmer, Richard Butler, and many others. Original.
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Just One More Thing
By Peter FalkThe Academy Award-nominated actor best known for his work on the television show "Columbo" humorously relates stories from his past, covering his early attempts at employment, the loss of his right eye, and his Hollywood and Broadway ...
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Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison
By T. J. ParsellSince life behind bars is so often exploited by television and movie re-enactments, the real story has yet to be told. Fish is the first breakout story to do that.
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McCartney
By Christopher SandfordThis book remains a celebratory feast for millions of fans, capturing the glorious rush of the best songs and revealing the untold stories behind them.
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100 Great Detectives, Or, The Detective Directory
By Maxim JakubowskiOne hundred essays celebrate fiction's greatest detectives.
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Prisoners of the North: Portraits of Five Arctic Immortals
By Pierre BertonIn Prisoners of the North, Pierre Berton depicts five extraordinary characters who were in thrall to the Artic's forbidding landscapes: a mining tycoon; an explorer; a titled lady; a backwoods eccentric; and a best-selling poet.
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Slim Chance
By Peter HeltonThis book, as the title suggests, offers a creative way to explain select works of the church fathers for Protestants whose religious traditions have long forgotten them.
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Male Sexual Awareness: Increasing Sexual Pleasure
By Barry W. McCarthyConfronting the myths of rigid male roles and unrealistic performance demands, Barry McCarthy offers support and teaches flexibility and a pleasure-oriented approach to intimacy. Illustrated.
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Cogan's Trade
By George V. HigginsA gritty novel of the Boston underworld traces the life and crimes of Jackie Cogan, a mob enforcer who has his hands full carrying out the mafia's dirty work. Reprint.
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Compulsion
By Meyer LevinThe basis of the award-winning film starring Orson Welles, Compulsion gives a shocking fictionalized account of the Leopold-Loeb murder case--in which two young graduates of the University of Chicago kidnapped and killed a child for the ...
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The Coachman Rat
By David Henry WilsonWilson refashions the psychological roots of the old tales and develops them into a provocative adult fable for our times--a meditation on man's ability to learn and to tolerate, enlivened...
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Great Novels of George Eliot
By George EliotGreat Novels of George Eliot
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The Girl with the Long Green Heart
By Lawrence BlockJohnny Hayden and his partner had the perfect scam - offer a guy a fraction of what he paid for a piece of worthless Canadian land and make it seem like it's only part of a much bigger parcel being assembled.
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Mammoth Book of Oddities
By Avalon Publishing Group, Frank O'NeilMammoth Book of Oddities
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Mad Mouse
By Chris GrabensteinA sequel to Tilt-A-Whirl finds young part-time cop Danny Boyle and his beach buddies targeted by a vengeful madman and assisted by honor-bound officer John Ceepak, who helps Danny negotiate high-stakes challenges that threaten everyone and ...
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The Return of the Black Widowers
By Isaac AsimovPresents a collection of "Black Widower" mysteries penned by the award-winning science fiction writer.
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The Black City
By George SandA starkly realistic novel from nineteenth-century France captures the struggles of the working class through the eyes of a young metal worker who finds himself caught up in the labor unrest of the period as he idealistically attempts to ...