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Pre Order Your Signed Copies

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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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer; Annie Barrows

Set in January of 1946, this story follows writer Juliet Ashton as she struggles to find her next subject to write about. She receives a letter from a resident of Guernsey, the small island that had been... (Save 25%) more...

Click

Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why It Matters by Bill Tancer

This behind-the-scenes look into the massive database of online intelligence reveals the naked truth about how we use the Web, mavigate to sites, and search for information - and what all of that says... (Save 25%) more...

The World in Six Songs

World In Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel J. Levitin

In an engrossing follow-up to "This is Your Brain on Music" author Daniel J. Levitin delves deeper into the psychology of how humans respond to music. Music developed as a social tool and is linked in... (Save 25%) more...

The Angel of Grozny

Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War by Asne Seierstad; (Translation). Nadia Christensen

Asne Seiersdtad, a foreign correspondent in Moscow at the time of the Russian invasion of Chechnya in the first days of 1994, traveled regularly to Chechnya to report on the war, describing its effects... (Save 25%) more...

America and the World

America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy by Zbigniew Brzezinski; Brent Scowcroft

The authoras are two of the most respected figures in American foreign policy - both former National Security Advisors under markedly differemt administrations. Here,they dissect, in spontaneous and unscripted... (Save 25%) more...

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... (Save 25%) 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...

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...

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...

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...

Home

Home by Marilynne Robinson

Hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled by the luminous, tender voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson's Pultizer Prize-winning novel. HOME is an entirely independent, deeply affecting... (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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An Evening with Stephen Shore

September 9
7:00PM - 8:30PMAt the age of 17, Stephen Shore was a regular at Andy Warhol's Factory. By the age of 23 he became the first living photographer to have a one-man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Stephen Shore will discuss his work with the Strand audience and sign copies of his books.

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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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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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