National Book Award, Nonfiction, 2010 It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.  Patti Smith would evolve as a po...

Just Kids

"Smith reads excerpts from her memoirs, Just Kids and M Train, in her signature deadpan tone, interspersed with folksy comic banter and personal stories from her life as a cutting-edge urban punk artist. The emotionality deepens when narrative segues...

Patti Smith at the Minetta Lane

From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as "a road map to my li...

M Train

Riveting, elegant, and humorous, New York Times best seller Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.  Following a run of new year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herse...

Year of the Monkey

From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels - a fast, tight, darkly lyrical stand-alone novel that has at its center the perfectly sympathetic antihero: an Oslo contract killer who draws us into an unexpected meditation on deat...

Blood on Snow

National Book Award, Nonfiction, 2010 Patti Smith’s evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe  A prelude to fame, Just Kids recounts the friendship of two young artists--Pat...

A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic - its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring.  How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our cult...

Devotion

Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer.When you ‘fix’ people for a living, terminally, it’s hard to get close to anyone. Now he’s finally met the woman of his dreams.  But there are two problems. She’s his boss’ wife. And Olav’s just been hired to kill her. From the best-selling author of BAFTA-nominated Headhunters comes Jo Nesbo’s Blood on Snow.

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