Michael's Picks

Michael is co-owner of Split Rock Books. He leads the history book club and is the only person here who reads sports books. He also reads a lot of great graphic novels, literary fiction, cultural studies/current affairs. (Biography by Heidi)

The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud Cover Image

The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud (Paperback)

By Kuniko Tsurita, Ryan Holmberg (Translated by)
$29.95
ISBN: 9781770463981
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Drawn and Quarterly - July 7th, 2020
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Wendy, Master of Art (Paperback)

By Walter Scott
$24.95
ISBN: 9781770463998
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Published: Drawn and Quarterly - June 16th, 2020
The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation Cover Image

The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation (Paperback)

By Brenda Wineapple
$20.00
ISBN: 9780812987911
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - May 19th, 2020
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Michael Kohlhaas (Paperback)

By Heinrich von Kleist, Michael Hofmann (Translated by)
$14.95
ISBN: 9780811228343
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Published: New Directions - March 31st, 2020
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The Corner That Held Them (Paperback)

By Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (Introduction by)
$17.95
ISBN: 9781681373874
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Published: NYRB Classics - September 10th, 2019
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K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches (Paperback)

By Tyler Kepner
$16.95
ISBN: 9781101970850
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Published: Anchor - March 3rd, 2020
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Ghost Wall: A Novel (Paperback)

By Sarah Moss
$16.00
ISBN: 9781250234957
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Published: Picador - December 31st, 2019
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The Man Without Talent (Paperback)

By YOSHIHARU TSUGE, Ryan Holmberg (Translated by)
$24.95
ISBN: 9781681374437
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Published: New York Review Comics - January 28th, 2020
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World Cover Image

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Paperback)

By Anand Giridharadas
$17.00
ISBN: 9781101972670
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Published: Vintage - October 1st, 2019
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The Long Ships (Paperback)

By Frans G. Bengtsson, Michael Chabon (Introduction by), Michael Meyer (Translated by)
$18.95
ISBN: 9781590173466
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Published: NYRB Classics - July 6th, 2010
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A Journal of the Plague Year (Modern Library Classics) (Paperback)

By Daniel Defoe, Jason Goodwin (Introduction by)
$11.00
ISBN: 9780375757891
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Published: Modern Library - November 13th, 2001
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Hardcover)

By Robert Macfarlane
$27.95
ISBN: 9780393242140
Availability: Available to Order - shipping times vary
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - June 4th, 2019
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That Time of Year (Hardcover)

By Marie Ndiaye, Jordan Stump (Translator)
$19.95
ISBN: 9781931883917
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Published: Two Lines Press - September 8th, 2020
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From #Blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation (Paperback)

By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
$17.95
ISBN: 9781608465620
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Published: Haymarket Books - February 23rd, 2016
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Telephone: A Novel (Paperback)

By Percival Everett
$16.00
ISBN: 9781644450222
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Published: Graywolf Press - May 5th, 2020
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us Cover Image

No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us (Paperback)

By Rachel Louise Snyder
$18.00
ISBN: 9781635570984
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - June 9th, 2020
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Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil (Paperback)

By Susan Neiman
$20.00
ISBN: 9781250750112
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Published: Picador - September 8th, 2020
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Please Don't Step On My JNCO Jeans (Paperback)

By Noah Van Sciver
$14.99
ISBN: 9781683963752
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Published: Fantagraphics - November 3rd, 2020
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Vesper Flights (Hardcover)

By Helen MacDonald
$27.00
ISBN: 9780802128812
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Published: Grove Press - August 25th, 2020
The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War Cover Image

The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War (Hardcover)

By David Nasaw
$35.00
Difficult to find
ISBN: 9781594206733
Published: Penguin Press - September 15th, 2020
This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving Cover Image

This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving (Paperback)

By David J. Silverman
$20.00
ISBN: 9781632869258
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - October 13th, 2020
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One Story (Hardcover)

By Gipi
$22.99
Difficult to find
ISBN: 9781683963196
Published: Fantagraphics - July 28th, 2020