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Half of a Yellow Sun
Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $14.95
With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor... Read more >
Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $14.95
With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Purple Hibiscus
A Novel
Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $14.95
Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family compound. Her wealthy Catholic father, under whose shadow Kambili lives, while generous and politically active in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home.
When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's father... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $14.95
Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family compound. Her wealthy Catholic father, under whose shadow Kambili lives, while generous and politically active in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home.
When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's father... Read more >
Alias Grace
A Novel
Written by Margaret Atwood
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: October 13, 1997
Price: $15.95
Grace Marks, imprisoned-perhaps wrongly-for a vicious murder, is brought by an early expert in mental illness nearer to the moment she insists she has forgotten. Atwood's most disturbing and satisfying work since The Handmaid's Tale, this captivating new novel set in the 1840s explores the complex relationships between the entitled classes... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Margaret Atwood
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: October 13, 1997
Price: $15.95
Grace Marks, imprisoned-perhaps wrongly-for a vicious murder, is brought by an early expert in mental illness nearer to the moment she insists she has forgotten. Atwood's most disturbing and satisfying work since The Handmaid's Tale, this captivating new novel set in the 1840s explores the complex relationships between the entitled classes... Read more >
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The Blind Assassin
A Novel
Written by Margaret Atwood
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2001
Price: $15.00
The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: “Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.” They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister’s death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Margaret Atwood
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2001
Price: $15.00
The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: “Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.” They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister’s death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as... Read more >
Oryx and Crake
Written by Margaret Atwood
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: March 30, 2004
Price: $14.95
With the same stunning blend of prophecy and social satire she brought to her classic The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood gives us a keenly prescient novel about the future of humanity—and its present.
Humanity here equals Snowman, and in Snowman’s recollections Atwood re-creates a time much like our own, when a... Read more >
Written by Margaret Atwood
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: March 30, 2004
Price: $14.95
With the same stunning blend of prophecy and social satire she brought to her classic The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood gives us a keenly prescient novel about the future of humanity—and its present.
Humanity here equals Snowman, and in Snowman’s recollections Atwood re-creates a time much like our own, when a... Read more >
The Leper's Companions
A Novel
Written by Julia Blackburn
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $12.00
In this fascinatingly imaginative novel, Julia Blackburn has decimated all the rules, creating a magical tale that is part fable, part allegory, part present, part past, and wholly genuine and poetic.
The unnamed protagonist has recently lost someone she loved, and her solution is to abandon the present, and the overwhelming... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Julia Blackburn
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $12.00
In this fascinatingly imaginative novel, Julia Blackburn has decimated all the rules, creating a magical tale that is part fable, part allegory, part present, part past, and wholly genuine and poetic.
The unnamed protagonist has recently lost someone she loved, and her solution is to abandon the present, and the overwhelming... Read more >
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Written by Xiaolu Guo
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $15.00
Language and love collide in this inventive novel of a young Chinese woman's journey to the West and her attempts to understand the language, and the man, she adores.
Zhuang—or “Z,” to tongue-tied foreigners—has come to London to study English, but finds herself adrift, trapped in a cycle of cultural gaffes and... Read more >
Written by Xiaolu Guo
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $15.00
Language and love collide in this inventive novel of a young Chinese woman's journey to the West and her attempts to understand the language, and the man, she adores.
Zhuang—or “Z,” to tongue-tied foreigners—has come to London to study English, but finds herself adrift, trapped in a cycle of cultural gaffes and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Property
Written by Valerie Martin
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $14.00
Valerie Martin’s Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery’s venomous effects on the owner and the owned. The year is 1828, the setting a Louisiana sugar plantation where Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband. In particular his relationship with her... Read more >
Written by Valerie Martin
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $14.00
Valerie Martin’s Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery’s venomous effects on the owner and the owned. The year is 1828, the setting a Louisiana sugar plantation where Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband. In particular his relationship with her... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
I Was Amelia Earhart
Written by Jane Mendelsohn
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: March 4, 1997
Price: $12.95
In this brilliantly imagined novel, Amelia Earhart tells us what happened after she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared off the coast of New Guinea one glorious, windy day in 1937. And she tells us about herself.
There is her love affair with flying (“The sky is flesh”) . . . .
There... Read more >
Written by Jane Mendelsohn
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: March 4, 1997
Price: $12.95
In this brilliantly imagined novel, Amelia Earhart tells us what happened after she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared off the coast of New Guinea one glorious, windy day in 1937. And she tells us about herself.
There is her love affair with flying (“The sky is flesh”) . . . .
There... Read more >
Fugitive Pieces
A Novel
Written by Anne Michaels
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 26, 1998
Price: $14.95
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the Lannan Literary Fiction Award
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award
Winner of the Harold U. Ribalow Prize for English Language Fiction on a Jewish Theme (administered by Hadassah Magazine)
In 1940, Jakob Beer, a seven-year-old boy, bursts from the mud of a war-torn... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Anne Michaels
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 26, 1998
Price: $14.95
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the Lannan Literary Fiction Award
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award
Winner of the Harold U. Ribalow Prize for English Language Fiction on a Jewish Theme (administered by Hadassah Magazine)
In 1940, Jakob Beer, a seven-year-old boy, bursts from the mud of a war-torn... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Accidental
Written by Ali Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $13.95
The Accidental is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance during a family’s summer holiday transforms four variously unhappy people. Each of the Smarts—parents Eve and Michael, son Magnus, and the youngest, daughter Astrid—encounter Amber in his or her own solipsistic way, but somehow her... Read more >
Written by Ali Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $13.95
The Accidental is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance during a family’s summer holiday transforms four variously unhappy people. Each of the Smarts—parents Eve and Michael, son Magnus, and the youngest, daughter Astrid—encounter Amber in his or her own solipsistic way, but somehow her... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Hotel World
Written by Ali Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2002
Price: $13.95
Hotel World marks the American debut of an audaciously talented new novelist.
Sara Wilby, a hotel chambermaid, falls to her death in the dumbwaiter yet lingers in the world to remember things she never knew. Lise, the disgruntled receptionist, invites the homeless Else into the hotel, and together with Penny, a distracted... Read more >
Written by Ali Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2002
Price: $13.95
Hotel World marks the American debut of an audaciously talented new novelist.
Sara Wilby, a hotel chambermaid, falls to her death in the dumbwaiter yet lingers in the world to remember things she never knew. Lise, the disgruntled receptionist, invites the homeless Else into the hotel, and together with Penny, a distracted... Read more >
White Teeth
A Novel
Written by Zadie Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $14.95
Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith’s voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own.
At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Zadie Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $14.95
Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith’s voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own.
At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Amy and Isabelle
A novel
Written by Elizabeth Strout
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2000
Price: $15.00
In her stunning first novel, Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother--and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets.
In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old daughter, a fierce mix of love and loathing exchanged... Read more >
A novel
Written by Elizabeth Strout
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2000
Price: $15.00
In her stunning first novel, Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother--and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets.
In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old daughter, a fierce mix of love and loathing exchanged... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Little Friend
Written by Donna Tartt
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2003
Price: $15.95
Bestselling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil.
The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved... Read more >
Written by Donna Tartt
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2003
Price: $15.95
Bestselling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil.
The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved... Read more >
The Flying Troutmans
Written by Miriam Toews
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $18.50
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Written by Miriam Toews
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $18.50
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