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Vendor: Willa Cather
A Lost Lady
First published in 1923, A Lost Lady is one of Willa Cather's classic novels about life on the Great Plains. It harks back to Nebraska's early history and contrasts those days with an unsentimental portrait of the materialistic world that supplanted the frontier. In...- $75.00
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Vendor: Ray Robinson
Electricity
Ray Robinson's visceral, ambitious debut novel Electricity is a tour de force portrayal of a heroine you will not soon forget. Thirty-year-old Lily O'Connor lives with epilepsy, uncontrollable surges of electricity that leave her in a constant state of edginess. Prickly, up-front-honest and down-to-earth...- $14.00
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Vendor: Peter Nathaniel Malae
What We Are
A New York Times Editors' Choice and a blazing and authentic new literary voice, Peter Nathaniel Malae's raw and powerful, bullet-fast debut novel looks at contemporary America through the eyes of one disillusioned son. What We Are follows twenty-eight-year-old Samoan-American Paul Tusifale as he...- $14.95
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Vendor: Nick McDonell
An Expensive Education
Mike Teak has a classic Harvard profile. He's a twenty-five-year-old scholar/athlete from an upper-class family who was recruited by his godfather to work for a U.S. intelligence agency. On a covert mission in a Somali village, he delivers cash and cell phones to Hatashil,...- $14.00
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Vendor: Romesh Gunesekera
Heaven's Edge
Following the Booker-nominated Reef and the acclaimed book The Sandglass, Romesh Gunesekera's third novel, Heaven's Edge, is a spellbinding modern odyssey written with terrific emotional force. In search of a dream, Marc leaves London for the land of his patrimony and family secrets--an island...- $13.00
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Vendor: Robert Chalmers
Who's Who in Hell
Who's Who in Hell is a compelling, uproarious, and achingly moving story about what happens when our plans for life meet its plans for us. Written with a keen eye and enormous heart that call to mind David Schickler, Nick Hornby, and early Roddy...- $13.00
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Vendor: Stewart O'Nan
Everyday People
Stewart O'Nan's critically acclaimed novel Everyday People brings together the stories of the people of an African-American Pittsburgh neighborhood during one fateful week in the early fall of 1998. Vibrant, poignant, and brilliantly rendered, Everyday People is a lush, dramatic portrait that vividly captures...- $13.00
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Vendor: Leslie Stella
Fat Bald Jeff
Addie Prewitt is a copy editor for the National Association of Libraries. When her boss, the repulsive Coddles, heaps another new project on her department -- with no additional remuneration naturally -- she decides she's had enough. She spends her days battling with her...- $12.00
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Vendor: John L'Heureux
A Woman Run Mad
John L'Heureux is a consummate stylist and entertainer, and in A Woman Run Mad he delivers a novel that is part comedy of manners and part psychosexual thriller. Blocked writer, accidental scholar, inattentive husband, all J. J. Quinn wants is peace, and he has...- $13.00
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Vendor: Penelope Lively
The Road to Lichfield
In The Road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively explores the nature of history and memory as it is embodied in the life of a forty-year-old woman, Anne Linton, who unexpectedly learns that her father had a mistress. With this new knowledge, Linton must now examine...- $16.00
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Vendor: John O'Brien
Stripper Lessons
John O'Brien's books have established him as a writer who communicated the voice of the loner with blistering realness and unmistakable force. Stripper Lessons is perhaps O'Brien's most interior and intense novel, a powerful story of one man's obsessive search to belong. Here is...- $14.95
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Vendor: Tim Parks
The Shear
In the hallucinatory light and heat of a Mediterranean island, a geologist arrives to inspect a granite quarry where a worker has been killed in suspicious circumstances. Briefed in advance to write a damning report, he brings along his young mistress and pushes his...- $11.00
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Vendor: Will Self
Liver
In this collection of four linked stories, newly reissued by Grove, Will Self takes aim at the disease and decay that target the largest of human organs: the liver. Set in locales as toxic as a London drinking club and mundane as a clinic...- $16.00
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Vendor: Will Self
Shark
May 4th, 1970. A week earlier President Nixon has ordered American ground forces into Cambodia to pursue the Vietcong. By the end of the day four students will be shot dead by the National Guards in the grounds of Kent State University. On the...- $16.00
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Vendor: Yan Lianke
Lenin's Kisses
A mystifying climatic incongruity begins the award-winning novel Lenin's Kisses--an absurdist, tragicomic masterpiece set in modern day China. Nestled deep within the Balou mountains, spared from the government's watchful eye, the harmonious people of Liven had enough food and leisure to be fully content....- $18.00
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Vendor: Chuck Logan
Homefront
Reunited with estranged husband and undercover cop Phil Broker, Nina Pryce takes an extended medical leave from the army to recover from the injuries-physical and psychological-she sustained at the hands of a vicious psychopath. The Broker/Pryce household relocates to a remote resort town of...- $23.98
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Vendor: Patrick McGrath
Asylum
From our most celebrated writer of the psychological thriller comes this nerve-wracking yet eerily beautiful work of erotic obsession and madness. In the summer of 1959, Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting-a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. Beautiful...- $22.95
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Vendor: Joyce Carol Oates
The Barrens
In this gripping psychological thriller, Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times best-selling author and one of the most versatile and original voices in contemporary American fiction, delivers a startling, complex tale of a serial killer and the people that his ghastly crimes touch --...- $21.99
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Vendor: Carolyn Parkhurst
The Nobodies Album
Bestselling novelist Octavia Frost has just completed her latest book, a revolutionary novel in which she has rewritten the last chapters of all her previous books and removed clues about her personal life concealed within, especially the horrific tragedy that once befell her family....- $15.00
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Vendor: Susan Palwick
Flying in Place
Once in a while, a first novel arrives like a bolt of lightning, commanding attention with an explosion of power, grace, and light. Flying in Place is such a book. As unflinching as The Lovely Bones, as startling as Beloved, it is a work...- $14.99
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Vendor: Christopher Rice
Light Before Day
In West Hollywood, journalist Adam Murphy is abruptly fired while chasing a career-making story. A Marine pilot is killed when his helicopter spirals into the Pacific Ocean -- and Adam suspects the death was not accidental. Battling his own demons in a city of...- $7.99
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Vendor: Christopher Rice
The Snow Garden
In the darkening chill of winter, three Atherton University freshmen are being mysteriously drawn together by fate, and a compulsion they cannot comprehend. Though they come from vastly differing backgrounds, the college holds the promise of a better life for each of them --...- $9.99
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Vendor: Nicola Monaghan
The Killing Jar
In her stunning debut, Nicola Monaghan lays bare the gritty underbelly of life in Nottingham, England. Very early on, Kerrie-Ann begins to dream of the world beyond the rough council estate where she lives. Her father is nowhere to be found, her mother is...- $19.99
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Vendor: Guillermo Arriaga
A Sweet Scent of Death
From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed screenwriter of Amores perros, 21 Grams, and Babel, A Sweet Scent of Death is Guillermo Arriaga's tale of deception, passion, and violence fused together by the tragic killing of a young girl in a small Mexican village. Early one...- $13.00
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Vendor: Shira Nayman
Listener the
Shira Nayman's riveting and haunting first novel of madness and passion is set in a psychiatric hospital just after World War II. Two years after the end of World War II, a mysterious figure, Bertram Reiner, appears at Shadowbrook, a private asylum whose elegant...- $19.99
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Vendor: Viken Berberian
Cyclist
The controversial novel about food, love, and terrorism. Somewhere in the Middle East, an aspiring terrorist has been entrusted with a mission that will reverberate around the world: to deliver a bomb to a hotel in Beirut, where the detonation will destroy hundreds of...- $13.99
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Vendor: Mitch Albom
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
From the author of the number one New York Times bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie comes this long-awaited follow-up. Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside...- $20.00
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Vendor: Roddy Doyle
Smile
From the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, a bold, haunting novel about the uncertainty of memory and how we contend with the past. "It's his bravest novel yet; it's also, by far, his best." -- npr.org "The closest...- $16.00
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Vendor: Elisabeth Noreb臘k
Tell Me You're Mine
In this riveting domestic suspense debut, a woman's life shatters when she meets a girl she believes is the daughter she lost years ago--and she finds that reclaiming the life she lost might cost her the life she has. Tell Me You're Mine is...- $16.00
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Vendor: Jay Chirino
The Flawed Ones: A Story of Mental Illness, Addiction and Love
After leaving behind a trail of drug-addled destruction, Jay finds himself confined to the walls of a psychiatric hospital, forced for the first time to confront his darkest demons. He is met with the torture of reliving painful memories without anything to blur them,...- $11.99
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Vendor: Toinen
Toinen's Lovsangare
Read Everything I write, poor spelling, Grammar and all with a Fine English Accent. (Oxford or Better). If Book is covered in plastic, (and this is all important), PLEASE remove slowly to prevent B.S. from falling out. To achieve optimum results, read with the...- $9.99
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Vendor: Onision
This Is Why I Hate You
Within these pages wait violent fights, disease, death, controversy, sexuality, tragedy and crime. This journal documents a hateful young man's path to darkness. Many events that occur are based on real events. You will find many moments from the authors own life sewn into...- $9.99
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Vendor: Bill Myers
Fire of Heaven
Book Three in the Fire of Heaven Trilogy Suspense aficionados need to keep their calendars wide open for the release of Fire of Heaven--because once they start reading Bill Myers's thrilling story of Revelation's two witnesses, they won't be putting it down In this...- $14.99
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Vendor: Keith Farrell
The Line
Dwight Evans is a state trooper with a grave medical prognosis and the lone law enforcement for the small town of Colebrook, Connecticut. When his niece, a recovering heroin addict, falls in love with a local pot dealer, he is drawn into the underworld...- $16.00
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Vendor: Alice Mattison
Men Giving Money, Women Yelling: Intersecting Stories
Men Giving Money, Women Yelling is Alice Mattisons latest collection in which the characters lives are told in tales that overlap or echo one another. At the center of the stories is Denny Ring, a young man nobody quite knows. Other characters include John...- $15.99
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Vendor: Salman Rushdie
Fury
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "Salman Rushdie's great grasp of the human tragicomedy- its dimensions, its absurdities and horrors-has made him one of the most intelligent fiction writers in the English language."--Gail Caldwell, The Boston Globe "Fury is a profoundly, ecstatically affirmative work...- $17.00
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Vendor: Andre Dubus
Selected Stories of Andre Dubus
A breaved father stalks his son's killer. A woman cries alone by her television screen. A devout teenager wrestles with his faith and sexuality. Here, in these twenty-three stories, Andre Dubus turns fiction into an act of compassion. For readers new to Dubus, this...- $17.00
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Vendor: Steven Millhauser
Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright
A parody of a literary biography starring a 10-year-old novelist who is mysteriously dead at 11--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler.As a memorial, Edwin Mullhouse's best friend, Jeffrey Cartwright, decides that the life of this great American writer must be told. He...- $20.00
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Vendor: Jeanette Winterson
Art & Lies
One of the most audacious and provocative writers on either side of the Atlantic now gives readers a dazzling, arousing, and wise improvisation on art, Eros, language, and identity. "A series of intense, artful musings that are exhilarating and visionary. . . . Unsettling...- $14.95
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Vendor: Andrew Vachss
Hard Candy
In this mercilessly compelling thriller, Burke--the private eye, sting artist, and occasional hit man who metes out a cruelly ingenious vengeance on those who victimize children--is up against a soft-spoken messiah, who may be rescuing runaways or recruiting them for his own hideous purposes....- $15.95
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Vendor: Andrew Vachss
Down in the Zero
Andrew Vachss has reinvented detective fiction for an age in which guilty secrets are obsolete and murder isn't even worth a news headline. And in the person of his haunted, hell-ridden private eye Burke, Vachss has given us a new kind of hero: a...- $17.00
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Vendor: Mark Salzman
The Soloist
As a child, Renne showed promise of becoming one of the world's greatest cellists. Now, years later, his life suddenly is altered by two events: he becomes a juror in a murder trial for the brutal killing of a Buddhist monk, and he takes...- $16.00
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Vendor: Ian McEwan
The Comfort of Strangers
A vacationing English couple find more than they bargained for, in this inventive and unsettling novel from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement. Visiting an unnamed city, Mary and Colin attract the interest of Robert, a charismatic older man with a...- $15.95
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Vendor: Alice Munro
The Moons of Jupiter
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013 In these piercingly lovely and endlessly surprising stories by one of the most acclaimed current practitioners of the art of fiction, many things happen: there are betrayals and reconciliations, love affairs consummated and mourned. But the...- $16.00
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Vendor: Catherine Gildiner
Seduction
During her decade in prison, Kate Fitzgerald has learned a few things: absorb yourself in your own world, never make eye contact with your fellow inmates, and the last person you can trust is your prison psychiatrist. When Kate's psychiatrist, Dr. Gardonne, offers her...- $21.99
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Vendor: Emily Listfield
Waiting to Surface
Based on the author's own experiences a "heartrending" (People) and haunting story about a magazine editor and mother whose life is changed by a phone call revealing that her husband has vanished without a trace. On a steamy August morning, Sarah Larkin drops her...- $20.99
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Vendor: V. C. Andrews
Secrets in the Shadows
Everyone says her mother was crazy. Is she doomed to repeat the past? Up in the attic, that's where Alice's mother used to escape to...and it's where, so Alice has been told, she plotted the murder of her own stepfather. Now, years later, with...- $9.99
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Vendor: Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
"The Brothers Karamazov" is Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky's last novel, considered one of his four masterpieces together with "Crime and Punishment" (1866), "The Idiot" (1869), and "Demons" (1871). Set in 19th-century Russia, this philosophical novel explores the questions of God, morality, and free will...- $34.99
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Vendor: Rudy Apodaca
Pursuit
Attorney John Garcia, caught up in the web of his profession's demands, feels trapped and is seeking a way out. Two independent events change his life-he undertakes the criminal defense of a young Chicano, and he's being pursued by persons who mean to harm...- $21.95
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Vendor: Jerry S. Jones
The Sugarbush
Author: Jerry S. JonesISBN-10: 1403355215ISBN-13: 9781403355218Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/2002Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.28h x 5.90w x 0.73d- $15.95
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