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A rich variety of authors, artists and photographers visit Strand throughout the year, presenting and discussing their work, answering questions, and signing their books. Now when you can't make an event, you can order signed copies from nearly every author that comes to visit!

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Mike's Election Guide

Mike's Election Guide 2008 by Michael Moore

This hilarious and informative guide is Michael Moore's (filmmaker of Fahrenheit 9/11 & Bowling for Columbine; author of Dude, Where's My Country?) effort to make sense of the 2008 race for the White House... (Save 25%) more...

Man in the Dark

Man In the Dark by Paul Auster

Recovering from a car crash in his daughter's home in Vermont, 72-year-old August Brill is unable to sleep, lying in bed, telling himself stories, struggling to push away thoughts about things he'd prefer... more...

Yesterday's Weather

Yesterday's Weather: Stories by Anne Enright

Winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize, Anne Enright's novel The Gathering went on to become a national bestseller acclaimed for its electrifying prose. Now, in "Yesterday's Weather," Enright presents a series... (Save 25%) more...

How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken

How Beautiful It is and How Easily It Can Be Broken: Essays by Daniel Mendelsohn

Whether on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new novel or revisiting a classic work of literature, David Mendelsohn's judgments over the past fifteen years have provoked and dazzled with their deep... (Save 25%) more...

The Age of the Warrior

Age of the Warrior: Selected Essays by Robert Fisk

It is more apparent than ever today that journalists who report on their subjects in a subversive manner are putting themselves in danger. This can certainly be said of the Middle East conflict, though... (Save 25%) more...

Traffic

Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt

For anyone who has ever sat in traffic and wondered how a road could get so impossibly backed up, or felt rage bubble to the surface when another driver narrowly misses hitting you on the highway, Tom... (Save 25%) more...

Alfred and Emily

Alfred & Emily by Doris Lessing

Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing offers a moving meditation on parents and children, war and memory, as she explores the lives of her parents, two individuals irrevocably damaged by the Great War. Alfred,... (Save 25%) more...

The Wrecking Crew

Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule by Thomas Frank

The Conservative revolution promised small government and low taxes. Instead, a decade of Republican congressional control led to government by corporate contract. This system of doing business has become... (Save 25%) more...

The Night of the Gun

Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life: His Own by David Carr

In this searingly honest and darkly comic memoir acclaimed journalist David Carr guides readers through his more than checkered past, as he attempts to unfurl his own history. "The Night of the Gun" begins... (Save 25%) more...

Tompkins Square Park

Tompkins Square Park by (Photography) Q. Sakamaki; (Essay) Bill Weinberg

Summer 1988/ Tompkins Square Park, which long served as a makeshift home for the homeless and a center for social unrest, erupted in violence when the New York Police and hundreds of rioters clashed over... (Save 20%) more...

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami; (Translator) Philip Gabriel

For award-winning author Haruki Murakami running is more than just a way of keeping in shape; it's a way of staying sharp and--like many of his characters--taking a journey and testing the limits. In "What... (Save 25%) more...

Little Nemo

Little Nemo In Slumberland: Many More Splendid Sundays! by Winsor McCay; (Editor) Peter Maresca

(Little Nemo Centennial Celebration, Volume 2). In 2005, the publication of Little Nemo in Slumberland - So Many Splendid Sundays - marked the centennial of Winsor McCay's supreme graphic achievement.... (Save 20%) more...

The End of Food

End of Food by Paul Roberts

The seasonless system of food production which has developed over the last century is close to breaking. The shift away from local production has been accompanied by loosening standards of sustainability,... (Save 25%) more...

This Land Is Their Land

This Land is Their Land: Report from a Divided Nation by Barbara Ehrenreich

Here they are, according to Ehrenreich, - the worst years of our lives: the 2000s. A time in which members of the moneyed elite can buy congressfolk while membes of the working class can barely afford... (Save 25%) more...

Real World

Real World by Natsuo Kirino; (Translation From The Japanese) Philip Gabriel

This stunning new work of the contemporary Japanese noirist Natsuo Kirino depicts a crowded residential suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, where four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a... (Save 25%) more...

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YOUR Favorite Books

In celebration of Strand's 80th Anniversary, we are proud to present the top 80 books, as chosen by you, our customers.

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A Ticketed Event with Sir Salman Rushdie

September 17
7:00PM - 8:30PMYou are invited to attend a special reading and reception with Sir Salman Rushdie. Click through for more information and to purchase your ticket.

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Chuck Palahniuk and Amy Hempel Event is SOLD OUT

August 30
1:00PM - 2:30PMTickets for this event are sold out. Click here for more information, and to
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Introducing StrandTV

Can't make an event? Watch it live! Click here for more information and to view archived events.

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David Hockney Tote, "A Bag Full of Books"

David Hockney is considered by many people to be one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. During a visit to the Strand in the 1970s, he was asked to draw his self-portrait, and now that image can be yours!

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Moleskines at the Strand!

Check out the convenient size and slick design. The legendary notebook of Hemingway, Picasso, and Chatwin.

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