Author: James Howard Kunstler
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Keywords: first, century, twenty, catastrophes, surviving, converging, emergency
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-04-10
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0871138883
ISBN-13: 9780871138880

With his classics of social commentary The Geography of Nowhere and Home from Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler has established himself as one of the great commentators on American space and place. Now, with The Long Emergency, he offers a shocking vision of a post-oil future. As a result of artificially cheap fossil-fuel energy, we have developed global models of industry, commerce, food production, and finance over the last 200 years. But the oil age, which peaked in 1970, is at an end. The depletion of nonrenewable fossil fuels is about to radically change life as we know it, and much sooner

Author: Mark Bowden
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Keywords: heroes, rogues, beasts, tyrants, work, among, road
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2004-09-08
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 087113876X
ISBN-13: 9780871138767

From the #1 New York Times best seller Black Hawk Down to the acclaimed Killing Pablo, Mark Bowden has been praised for his unique, novelistic ability to put his reader in the heat of the story. Road Work collects Bowden’s award-winning nonfiction, from his breakout stories for The Philadelphia Inquirer to his most recent high-profile pieces in The Atlantic. Road Work takes us everywhere from a small town in Rhode Island where one of the largest cocaine rings in history is uncovered, to the Luangwa Valley in Zambia where a bold team of antipoachers fights to save the fate of the black r

Author: Roberta Pianaro
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Keywords: cookbook, brunetti
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2010-05-04
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0802119476
ISBN-13: 9780802119476

Among their many pleasures, Donna Leon’s Commissario Guido Brunetti novels have long been celebrated for their mouth-watering descriptions of food. Multicourse lunches at home with Paola and the children, snacks grabbed at a bar with a glass of wine or two, a quick sandwich during a busy day, or a working lunch at a neighborhood trattoria in the course of an investigation have all delighted Brunetti, as well as Leon’s readers and reviewers. And then there’s the coffee, the pastries, the wine, and the grappa. In Brunetti’s Cookbook, Donna Leon’s best friend and favorite cook brings to

Author: Patricia Highsmith
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Keywords: patricia, highsmith, forgery, tremor
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1994-01-14
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0871132583
ISBN-13: 9780871132581

An American writer is sent to Tunisia to gather material for a movie, but when his producer fails to show up, he stays on and works instead on a novel. Intimations of violence soon cast deep shodows, and he finds himself an accomplice to murder.

Author: Patricia Highsmith
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Keywords: patricia, highsmith, walk
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1994-01-18
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0871132591
ISBN-13: 9780871132598

The honeymoon is over, and the bride is dead. The grieving husband convinces the police in Rome of his innocence, but has no such luck with his father-in-law, who shoots him at point-blank range and leaves him for dead.

Author: Martha Gellhorn
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Keywords: ground, view
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1994-02-06
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0871132125
ISBN-13: 9780871132123

Presented for the first time aregs from the tinderboxes across the political horizons of Castro’s Cuba, the chambers of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and a small Mississippi town during the height of the civil rights movement. Atlantic Monthly Press.

Author: Jeffrey Lent
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Keywords: novel, grace, peculiar
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-08-10
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0871139650
ISBN-13: 9780871139658

An unforgettable tale of love, family secrets, and the hold of the past in a family of New England artists, A Peculiar Grace is the latest triumph from the author of In the Fall, hailed by The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times as one of the best books of the year. Hewitt Pearce lives alone in his family home, producing custom ironwork and safeguarding a small collection of art his late father left behind. When Jessica, a troubled young vagabond, washes up in his backwoods one morning, Hewitt’s hermetic existence is challenged. As he gradually uncovers Jessica’s secrets and r