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8 Featured Titles
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Americanah
Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27108-2 (0-307-27108-0)
From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the countries they come to call home.
As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and... Read more >
Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27108-2 (0-307-27108-0)
From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the countries they come to call home.
As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
World War Z
An Oral History of the Zombie War
Written by Max Brooks
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-34661-2 (0-307-34661-7)
Selected for Common Reading at Florida Southern College, St. Edward's University and University of Houston-Victoria
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the world, from decimated cities to the most... Read more >
An Oral History of the Zombie War
Written by Max Brooks
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-34661-2 (0-307-34661-7)
Selected for Common Reading at Florida Southern College, St. Edward's University and University of Houston-Victoria
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the world, from decimated cities to the most... Read more >
The Divine Comedy
Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Written by Dante Alighieri
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8041-6912-7 (0-8041-6912-8)
The complete Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) in one volume from Vintage Classics. The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wickstead translation, with full notes.
Dante’s Divine Comedy relates the allegorical tale of the poet’s journey through the three realms of the dead. Accompanied through the Inferno and Purgatory... Read more >
Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Written by Dante Alighieri
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8041-6912-7 (0-8041-6912-8)
The complete Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) in one volume from Vintage Classics. The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wickstead translation, with full notes.
Dante’s Divine Comedy relates the allegorical tale of the poet’s journey through the three realms of the dead. Accompanied through the Inferno and Purgatory... Read more >
The Dog Stars
Written by Peter Heller
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-95047-5 (0-307-95047-6)
A San Francisco Chronicle and Atlantic Monthly Best Book of the Year
Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting... Read more >
Written by Peter Heller
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-95047-5 (0-307-95047-6)
A San Francisco Chronicle and Atlantic Monthly Best Book of the Year
Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting... Read more >
Skinned
Selected Poems
Written by Antjie Krog
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-463-3 (1-60980-463-5)
One of South Africa’s greatest living poets selects from her most recent poems and also from the poems and the themes that best represent her from across her long career.
Part One of Skinned contains poems about writing, family and love poems. The poems in second part were chosen from a volume featuring... Read more >
Selected Poems
Written by Antjie Krog
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-463-3 (1-60980-463-5)
One of South Africa’s greatest living poets selects from her most recent poems and also from the poems and the themes that best represent her from across her long career.
Part One of Skinned contains poems about writing, family and love poems. The poems in second part were chosen from a volume featuring... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
A Novel
Written by Anthony Marra
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Hogarth
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-7704-3640-7 (0-7704-3640-4)
In a nearly abandoned hospital in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa, her neighbor Akhmed, who rescues her after her father's disappearance, and Sonja, the doctor tending to her, ruminate on their pasts and confront the tragedy and hope that mark them and their war-ravaged land. Anthony Marra is a Stegner Fellow, Iowa MFA... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Anthony Marra
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Hogarth
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-7704-3640-7 (0-7704-3640-4)
In a nearly abandoned hospital in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa, her neighbor Akhmed, who rescues her after her father's disappearance, and Sonja, the doctor tending to her, ruminate on their pasts and confront the tragedy and hope that mark them and their war-ravaged land. Anthony Marra is a Stegner Fellow, Iowa MFA... Read more >
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Montaro Caine
A Novel
Written by Sidney Poitier
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-53111-5 (0-385-53111-7)
A baby is born with a coin in her hand. An orphan crafts a mysterious wooden object. The CEO of a large corporation finds himself under extraordinary pressure at work and at home. And on a remote hilltop on a Caribbean island, a medicine man seems to understand the meaning of... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Sidney Poitier
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-53111-5 (0-385-53111-7)
A baby is born with a coin in her hand. An orphan crafts a mysterious wooden object. The CEO of a large corporation finds himself under extraordinary pressure at work and at home. And on a remote hilltop on a Caribbean island, a medicine man seems to understand the meaning of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Sorry Please Thank You
Stories
Written by Charles Yu
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-94846-5 (0-307-94846-3)
The author of the widely praised debut novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe returns with a hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly original collection of short stories.
A big-box store employee is confronted by a zombie during the graveyard shift, a problem that pales in comparison to his inability to... Read more >
Stories
Written by Charles Yu
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-94846-5 (0-307-94846-3)
The author of the widely praised debut novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe returns with a hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly original collection of short stories.
A big-box store employee is confronted by a zombie during the graveyard shift, a problem that pales in comparison to his inability to... Read more >
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