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Angry Black White Boy
A Novel
Written by Adam Mansbach
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $12.95
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5487-9 (1-4000-5487-7)
**Currently taught in courses at over thirty colleges and universities nationwide**
From the acclaimed author of Shackling Water comes the first great race novel of the twenty-first century, an incendiary and ruthlessly funny satire about violence, pop culture, and American identity.
Macon Detornay is a suburban white boy possessed and politicized by black...Read more >
A Novel
Written by Adam Mansbach
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $12.95
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5487-9 (1-4000-5487-7)
**Currently taught in courses at over thirty colleges and universities nationwide**
From the acclaimed author of Shackling Water comes the first great race novel of the twenty-first century, an incendiary and ruthlessly funny satire about violence, pop culture, and American identity.
Macon Detornay is a suburban white boy possessed and politicized by black...
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Bombingham
Written by Anthony Grooms
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2002
Price: $13.95
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
ISBN: 978-0-345-45293-1 (0-345-45293-3)
From the war-torn rice fields of Vietnam to the riot-filled streets of Birmingham, Alabama, Bombingham is the affecting story of a middle-class black family shattered by its personal chaos. As young African-American Walter Burke struggles to make sense of his presence in Vietnam, he wonders if the victory of the civil...Read more >
Written by Anthony Grooms
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2002
Price: $13.95
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
ISBN: 978-0-345-45293-1 (0-345-45293-3)
From the war-torn rice fields of Vietnam to the riot-filled streets of Birmingham, Alabama, Bombingham is the affecting story of a middle-class black family shattered by its personal chaos. As young African-American Walter Burke struggles to make sense of his presence in Vietnam, he wonders if the victory of the civil...
Bordering Fires
The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicana and Chicano Literature
Written by Cristina Garcia
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7718-2 (1-4000-7718-4)
As the descendants of Mexican immigrants have settled throughout the United States, a great literature has emerged, but its correspondances with the literature of Mexico have gone largely unobserved. In Bordering Fires, the first anthology to combine writing from both sides of the Mexican-U.S. border, Cristina García presents a richly diverse...Read more >
The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicana and Chicano Literature
Written by Cristina Garcia
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7718-2 (1-4000-7718-4)
As the descendants of Mexican immigrants have settled throughout the United States, a great literature has emerged, but its correspondances with the literature of Mexico have gone largely unobserved. In Bordering Fires, the first anthology to combine writing from both sides of the Mexican-U.S. border, Cristina García presents a richly diverse...
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Brothers
A Novel
Written by Da Chen
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9729-6 (1-4000-9729-0)
At the height of China’s Cultural Revolution a powerful general fathered two sons. Tan was born to the general’s wife and into a life of comfort and luxury. His half brother, Shento, was born to the general’s mistress, who threw herself off a cliff in the mountains of Balan only moments...Read more >
A Novel
Written by Da Chen
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9729-6 (1-4000-9729-0)
At the height of China’s Cultural Revolution a powerful general fathered two sons. Tan was born to the general’s wife and into a life of comfort and luxury. His half brother, Shento, was born to the general’s mistress, who threw herself off a cliff in the mountains of Balan only moments...
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Butcher's Crossing
Written by John Williams
Introduction by Michelle Latiolais
Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $14.95
Publisher: NYRB Classics
ISBN: 978-1-59017-198-1 (1-59017-198-5)
It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher's Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to...Read more >
Written by John Williams
Introduction by Michelle Latiolais
Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $14.95
Publisher: NYRB Classics
ISBN: 978-1-59017-198-1 (1-59017-198-5)
It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher's Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Written by Mark Haddon
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 18, 2004
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3271-6 (1-4000-3271-7)
Narrated by a fifteen-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions.
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up...Read more >
Written by Mark Haddon
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 18, 2004
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3271-6 (1-4000-3271-7)
Narrated by a fifteen-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions.
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up...
The Exception
A Novel
Written by Christian Jungersen
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $26.00
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
ISBN: 978-0-385-51629-7 (0-385-51629-0)
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A Novel
Written by Christian Jungersen
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $26.00
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
ISBN: 978-0-385-51629-7 (0-385-51629-0)
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Into the Forest
A Novel
Written by Jean Hegland
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1998
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-553-37961-7 (0-553-37961-5)
Selected for 2010-2011 Common Reading Program at Santa Rosa Junior College (Santa Rosa, California)
Into the Forest follows two young sisters struggling to make sense of their world when their near-future society collapses. In their isolation, they find that the basic necessities of survival must be cherished, and that they must find...Read more >
A Novel
Written by Jean Hegland
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1998
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-553-37961-7 (0-553-37961-5)
Selected for 2010-2011 Common Reading Program at Santa Rosa Junior College (Santa Rosa, California)
Into the Forest follows two young sisters struggling to make sense of their world when their near-future society collapses. In their isolation, they find that the basic necessities of survival must be cherished, and that they must find...
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Lay that Trumpet in Our Hands
Written by Susan Carol McCarthy
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2003
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 978-0-553-38103-0 (0-553-38103-2)
Awards & Honors:
*2003 Chautauqua South Fiction Award
*2003 San Diego Magazine's Book Award for Fiction
*2002 Deadly Pleasures' Best U.S. First Novel
ONE BOOK, ONE COMMUNITY READS:
•Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 2009 Freshman Year Read
•Montcalm County, MI 2008 One Book, One County Read
•Michigan State University 2007 Freshmen Year Read
•City...Read more >
Written by Susan Carol McCarthy
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2003
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 978-0-553-38103-0 (0-553-38103-2)
Awards & Honors:
*2003 Chautauqua South Fiction Award
*2003 San Diego Magazine's Book Award for Fiction
*2002 Deadly Pleasures' Best U.S. First Novel
ONE BOOK, ONE COMMUNITY READS:
•Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 2009 Freshman Year Read
•Montcalm County, MI 2008 One Book, One County Read
•Michigan State University 2007 Freshmen Year Read
•City...
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A Lesson Before Dying
A Novel
Written by Ernest J. Gaines
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 28, 1997
Price: $13.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-375-70270-9 (0-375-70270-9)
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
A Lesson Before Dying, set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, is about the bond forged between two men--Jefferson, convicted of murder and sentenced to die; and Grant Wiggins, a college graduate returning to his hometown to teach...Read more >
A Novel
Written by Ernest J. Gaines
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 28, 1997
Price: $13.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-375-70270-9 (0-375-70270-9)
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
A Lesson Before Dying, set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, is about the bond forged between two men--Jefferson, convicted of murder and sentenced to die; and Grant Wiggins, a college graduate returning to his hometown to teach...
Never Let Me Go
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7877-6 (1-4000-7877-6)
From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.
As a child, Kathy—now thirty-one years old—lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where...Read more >
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7877-6 (1-4000-7877-6)
From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.
As a child, Kathy—now thirty-one years old—lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where...
The Palace Thief
Stories
Written by Ethan Canin
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2006
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7617-5 (0-8129-7617-7)
“Extraordinary for its craft and emotional effect . . . [Ethan Canin is] a writer of enormous talent and charm.”
–The Washington Post
“Character is destiny,” wrote Heraclitus–and in this collection of four unforgettable stories, we meet people struggling to understand themselves and the unexpected turns their lives have taken.
In “Accountant,” a quintessential...Read more >
Stories
Written by Ethan Canin
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2006
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7617-5 (0-8129-7617-7)
“Extraordinary for its craft and emotional effect . . . [Ethan Canin is] a writer of enormous talent and charm.”
–The Washington Post
“Character is destiny,” wrote Heraclitus–and in this collection of four unforgettable stories, we meet people struggling to understand themselves and the unexpected turns their lives have taken.
In “Accountant,” a quintessential...
The Road
Written by Cormac McCarthy
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2007
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-307-38789-9 (0-307-38789-5)
The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their...Read more >
Written by Cormac McCarthy
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2007
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-307-38789-9 (0-307-38789-5)
The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their...
Snow
Written by Orhan Pamuk
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: July 19, 2005
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-375-70686-8 (0-375-70686-0)
Dread, yearning, identity, intrigue, the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism—these are the elements that Orhan Pamuk anneals in this masterful, disquieting novel. An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of...Read more >
Written by Orhan Pamuk
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: July 19, 2005
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-375-70686-8 (0-375-70686-0)
Dread, yearning, identity, intrigue, the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism—these are the elements that Orhan Pamuk anneals in this masterful, disquieting novel. An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of...
The Stolen Child
Written by Keith Donohue
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9653-4 (1-4000-9653-7)
“I am a changeling–a word that describes within its own name what we are bound and intended to do. We kidnap a human child and replace him or her with one of our own. . . .”
The double story of Henry Day begins in 1949, when he is kidnapped at age...Read more >
Written by Keith Donohue
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9653-4 (1-4000-9653-7)
“I am a changeling–a word that describes within its own name what we are bound and intended to do. We kidnap a human child and replace him or her with one of our own. . . .”
The double story of Henry Day begins in 1949, when he is kidnapped at age...
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Suite Francaise
Written by Irene Nemirovsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9627-5 (1-4000-9627-8)
Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940, Suite Française tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without...Read more >
Written by Irene Nemirovsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9627-5 (1-4000-9627-8)
Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940, Suite Française tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without...
When the Emperor Was Divine
Written by Julie Otsuka
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-0-385-72181-3 (0-385-72181-1)
Julie Otsuka’s commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination—both physical and emotional—of a generation of Japanese Americans. In five chapters, each flawlessly executed from a different point...Read more >
Written by Julie Otsuka
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-0-385-72181-3 (0-385-72181-1)
Julie Otsuka’s commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination—both physical and emotional—of a generation of Japanese Americans. In five chapters, each flawlessly executed from a different point...
