Bestsellers

A formidably ambitious debut. Zadie Smith's writing is full of good humor and prescient insight into the value of even the most disparate life experiences.

Illustrated with elephantine artwork and more than 100 photographs documenting Komar and Melamid's project, this book makes a wonderfully offbeat gift, and one of a very good cause.

New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the seventy-five-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its preeminent context with this collection of forty-four of its best stories from (so to speak) home.

David Remnick is the editor of The New Yorker. He began his career as a sportswriter for The Washington Post and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for Lenin's Tomb. He is also the author of Resurrection and The Devil Problem and Other True Stories, a collection of essays.

          Wetware by Rudy Rucker

         The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess

"Wildly and fantastically funny. . . . Here too is all the usual rich exuberance of Mr. Burgess's vocabulary, his love of quotations and literary allusions. . . . A remarkable and brilliantly imagined novel, vital and inventive." (Times Literary Supplement)

Hits, Alternative, Today's rock

          The Wallflowers - Breach

Wallflowers' third album evokes the specter of the titans of classic rock: Jackson Browne, the Eagles, and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers.

Tom Waits - Night on Earth [Soundtrack]

Tom Waits - Mule Variations
The beautifully rumpled teller of tales both strange and sublime returns with his first new album in six years. Though some songs teeter on the edge of breakdown, there isn't a wasted note or lyric to be found. And who else can come up with titles -- from "Chocolate Jesus" to "Eyeball Kid" to "Filipino Box Spring Hog"--that evoke such vivid imagery?

The Wallflowers - Bringing Down the Horse

Rick Wakeman - Return to the Center of the Earth
Thirty over-the-top tracks by the famed former keyboardist of Yes. This is a reprise to Wakeman's early '70's opus Journey to the Center of the Earth, which made him a solo star (however brief). Includes accompaniment by a full orchestra from London.

                                     George Winston - Plains [With extra tracks]

They had to prove that they did not need all of those overdubs, orchestration, tape tricks, or even each other. And they did it! This is one of the finest albums of all
time. From the satirical "Back in the USSR" to the tender "Julia", The White Album is a timeless masterpiece that will allow future generations to discover and explore The Beatles.

            Wiseguys - The Antidote
If Fatboy Slim became the fourth Beastie Boy, the result would sound something like the Wiseguys' album The Antidote. Reassembling old-school beats into of-the-moment club jumpers, the sound is a surefire formula for packed dance floors.

Classic rock

                            THE WHO

Who's Next [Original Recording Remastered]

One of the best Rock albums of the Seventies - if not all time. Listen at it making windmill air guitars... 

Quadrophenia [Original Recording Remastered]

A shining talisman in Rocks canon. "Tommy can you hear me?"

"San Francisco Bay Blues", "Sittin' on Top of the World", "I Can't Stand the Rain", "Sweet Temptation", "Stranger Blues"... 18 Tracks

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