Because the Night
A botched liquor store heist leaves three grisly dead. A hero cop is missing. Nobody could see a pattern in these two stray bits of information–no one except...
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Vintage Books was founded in 1954. Its publishing list spans influential works of world literature to cutting edge contemporary fiction and distinguished non-fiction. It is today’s foremost trade paperback publisher. Read more
Blood on the Moon
Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can’t stand music, or any loud sounds. He’s got a beautiful wife, but he can’t get enough of other women. And...
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Brown's Requiem
Beneath the slick, glittering surface of L.A., an underworld of depravity and wickedness reins. Fritz Brown is a part-time private eye and full-time repo-man...
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Clandestine
In James Ellroy's riveting second novel, an ambitious beat cop is hot on the trail of a serial killer who frequents L.A. dive bars and preys on the fallen women he finds...
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The Glass Hotel
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:THE NEW YORKER • NPR • TIME • THE WASHINGTON POST• ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • AND MORE!“The perfect novel. . . . Freshly...
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Hollywood Nocturnes
Dig it. A famous musician-cum-draft dodger is plotting the perfect celebrity snatch–his own. An ex-con raging on revenge in High Darktown becomes a cop's worst nightmare....
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Suicide Hill
Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins is the most brilliant homicide detective in the Los Angeles Police Department and one of its most troubled. In his obsessive mission...
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This Is Shakespeare
An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard’s inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing—not resolving—the ambiguities of the plays and their...
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We Ride Upon Sticks
2021 ALEX AWARD WINNERONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:NPR • TIME • BOOK RIOT • LITHUB • KIRKUS REVIEWSIn...
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When My Time Comes
COMING SOON TO PBSIn When My Times Comes, Diane Rehm—renowned radio host and one of the most trusted voices in the nation—candidly and compassionately addresses...
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1774
From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book tracing the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from the Boston Tea Party...
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American Poison
A sweeping examination of how American racism has broken the country's social compact, eroded America's common goods, and damaged the lives of every American--and a heartfelt look at how these deep wounds might...
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Think, Write, Speak
A rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, edited by Nabokov experts Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy.“I...
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The Spirit of Music
Grammy Award winner Victor Wooten's inspiring parable of the importance of music and the threats that it faces in today's world. We may not realize it...
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The System
From the bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, comes an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status...
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The Wapshot Chronicle
Winner of the National Book Award, The Wapshot Chronicle is John Cheever’s classic novel about one eccentric New England family. The Wapshots have called the...
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The Wapshot Scandal
The Wapshots return in the sequel to John Cheever’s National Book Award–winning novel, The Wapshot Chronicle. In this darkly comic yet deeply compassionate...
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The Cheffe
From the celebrated French writer Marie NDiaye--Prix Goncourt-winning author of Three Strong Women--comes the story of the Cheffe: a woman who lives in the single-minded...
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Fifty-Two Stories
From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov: a lavish volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction...
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Weather
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation—one of the New York...
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The Resisters
The time: not so long from now. The place: AutoAmerica, a country surveilled by one “Aunt Nettie,” a Big Brother that is part artificial intelligence, part internet,...
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Still Here, Still There
A powerful coda to Richard Bausch’s “brilliant” (The New York Times Book Review) World War II novel, Peace, the basis for the film Recon. ...
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Brother & Sister
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWhen they were kids in the suburbs of Los Angeles in the 1950s, Diane Keaton and her younger brother, Randy, were best...
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The Great Gatsby
For generations of enthralled readers, the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby has come to embody all the glamour and decadence of the Roaring Twenties. To F. Scott Fitzgerald’s...
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