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  • The Oranging of America

    by Max Apple ...
    It was my fascination itself with the English language that made me a writer," Apple wrote in an essay for the New York Times Book Review. Its endless suggestiveness has carried me through many a plot, entertained me when nothing else could." Growing up in a Yiddish-speaking family, Apple writes a prose that is remarkably attuned to America's cultural and linguistic With the 1976 publication of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

    by L. Frank Baum, Max Apple ...
    Taking the beloved symbol of merriment out of his conventional trappings and into the world of imaginative folklore, Baum gives Santa Claus an exciting life that evokes all the charm, warmth, and fantasy that made his Oz stories American classics. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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  • The Propheteers

    by Max Apple ...
    Howard Johnson and Walt Disney are determined to acquire land near Orlando, Florida from Margery Post Merriweather, heiress of the family cereal fortune.“Reading this book is like peeling an artichoke. The outer leaves are big belly laughs at tried-and-true themes such as boosterism and oversanitized motels, but as we get below the surface we come upon ever smaller and more delicate morsels of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Free Agents

    by Max Apple ...
    “Shows just how well comedy and criticism can mix with understanding. The story parodies the form and language”--Bookforum ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Roommates

    by Max Apple ...
    From the author of The Oranging of America comes this inspiring true story about an American family. Rocky takes over a family, at the age of 103, and shows them how to survive.“In the end, it is Apple's affecting writing about his deepest loss that carries this book.”—Kirkus Reviews ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Zip

    A Novel of the Left and the Right

    by Max Apple ...
    So what's a nice Jewish boy like Ira Goldstein doing managing a flashy Puerto Rican boxer named Jésus? What is his mother doing in the arms of Solomon, the scrap-metal king of Detroit? And what, for toppers, is J. Edgar Hoover doing in a chair suspended over a boxing ring in Havana, Cuba? Charge it all to zip—that elusive form of human energy that makes hearts leap, cash flow, ideologies tremble, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories

    by Max Apple ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
    This is the first collection to appear in twenty years from one of America's best short story writers. His thirteen stories are marvelous—funny, heartbreaking, and wise by turns, and on occasion all three at once.Praise for The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories:"Thank you, Mr. Apple! There's an art to writing a sad story that's also fun to read... Many of Apple's stories are heartbreaking, but ... Read more

    $21.29 USD

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    by The Moth, Adam Gopnik ...
    From the hit podcast and radio show, a collection of soul-bearing stories from The Moth's archives.A wedding toast hone horribly awry. A rapper's obsession with a Sarah McLachlan song. A death-defying stunt in a bullring. The fight to save Mother Teresa's life. These are the spellbinding tales from The Moth's storytellers.Inspired by friends telling stories on a porch, The Moth was born in small ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 700 Sundays

    by Billy Crystal ...
    From award-winning actor Billy Crystal, a moving memoir about fathers and sons, based on his one-man Broadway show.To support his family, Billy Crystal's father, Jack, worked two jobs, having only one day a week to spend with his family. *700 Hundred Sundays—*referring sadly to the time shared by an adoring father and his devoted son—is a heartfelt, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir about ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Old Neighborhood

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    by Avery Corman ...
    A Madison Avenue adman returns to the Bronx of his youth in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Kramer vs. Kramer: "Charming" ( The New York Times).Growing up in the Bronx in the 1940s, Steven Robbins was raised on egg creams, baseball stats, and the camaraderie that kept his melting-pot Bronx neighborhood humming during World War II. Robbins aspired to escape his humble roots, and ... Read more

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  • We Are Still Married

    Stories and Letters

    by Garrison Keillor ...
    “Garrison Keillor made it possible, after twenty years of black humor…to be both funny and nice, hip and winsome, scathing and loving, all in the flick of a single many-barbed quip——The Washington Post Book World“Keillor’s literary style is as flexible and assured as his vocal delivery. It can slip from mood to mood so subtly and quickly you’re never quite sure where you are…. [His] writing has ... Read more

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  • The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

    by Tom Wolfe ...
    "An excellent book by a genius," said Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., of this now classic exploration of the 1960s from the founder of new journalism."This is a book that will be a sharp pleasure to reread years from now, when it will bring back, like a falcon in the sky of memory, a whole world that is currently jetting and jazzing its way somewhere or other."--NewsweekIn his first book, The Kandy-Kolored ... Read more

    $12.99 USD