Peace

Written by Richard Bausch

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38858-2 (0-307-38858-1)

Italy, near Cassino, in the terrible winter of 1944. An icy rain, continuing unabated for days. Guided by a seventy-year-old Italian man in rope-soled shoes, three American soldiers are sent on a reconnaissance mission up the side of a steep hill that they discover, before very long, to be a mountain... Read more >

The Selected Stories of Richard Bausch

Written by Richard Bausch

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 23, 1996
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-64017-2 (0-679-64017-7)

Richard Bausch is a master of the short story—and this selection brings together ten pieces which perfectly showcase his incisive wit, perception, and artistry. "He brings to life characters and situations as vivid and compelling as any in contemporary literature."—Michael Dorris, The Washington Post Book World. Read more >

Something Is Out There
Stories
Written by Richard Bausch

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27914-9 (0-307-27914-6)

Winner of the 2012 Rea Award for the Short Story

In these eleven unforgettable stories, Richard Bausch plumbs the depths of familial and marital estrangement, the gulfs between friends and lovers, the fragility and impermanence of love—and manages to find something quite surprising: human hope.

Bausch’s assured style, signature grace, and penetrating wit... Read more >

Believers
A novella and stories
Written by Charles Baxter

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 29, 1998
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77653-6 (0-679-77653-2)

With his five previous books of fiction, Charles Baxter established himself as a contemporary literary master, in the traditions of Raymond Carver, William Maxwell, and Alice Munro. This radiant new collection--seven short stories and one novella--confirms Baxter's ability to revel in the surfaces of seemingly ordinary lives while uncovering their bedrock... Read more >

The Feast of Love
A Novel
Written by Charles Baxter

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 1, 2001
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70910-4 (0-375-70910-X)

From “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune), here is a superb new novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people.

The Feast of Love is just that—a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined Midsummer Night’s... Read more >

First Light

Written by Charles Baxter

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-94851-9 (0-307-94851-X)

Hugh Welch has cared for his little sister Dorsey ever since they were children, when Dorsey looked at him as though he were a god. But when Dorsey returns to their small Michigan hometown with a successful career as an astrophysicist and a happy family life, Hugh, who has a long... Read more >

Gryphon
New and Selected Stories
Written by Charles Baxter

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-73952-0 (0-307-73952-X)

Winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story

Ever since the publication of his first story collection in 1984, Charles Baxter has slowly gained a reputation as one of America’s finest short story writers. Gryphon brings together sixteen classics with seven new stories, giving us the most complete portrait of... Read more >

Gryphon
New and Selected Stories
Written by Charles Baxter

Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-37921-4 (0-307-37921-3)

Ever since the publication of The Harmony of the World in 1984, Charles Baxter has slowly gained a reputation as one of America’s finest short-story writers. Each subsequent collection—Through the Safety Net, A Relative Stranger, and Believers—was further confirmation of his mastery: his gift for capturing the immediate moment, for revealing... Read more >

Harmony of the World
Stories
Written by Charles Baxter

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 11, 1997
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77651-2 (0-679-77651-6)

In these ten stories, Charles Baxter shows his genius in making his characters' everyday sufferings--and occasional fragile joys--seem utterly unprecedented, even as he reminds us, gently and with a sly comic twist, that everything they feel is only the collateral damage of being human. Whether he is writing about the players... Read more >

The Soul Thief

Written by Charles Baxter

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3440-6 (1-4000-3440-X)

Here is an extraordinary new novel from one of our most admired and acclaimed writers, a creator of "stunning, never predictable, glimmering fiction, full of mischief and insight” (Los Angeles Times).

During Nathaniel Mason’s first few months as a graduate student in upstate New York, he is drawn into a tangle... Read more >

Through the Safety Net
stories
Written by Charles Baxter

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 29, 1998
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77649-9 (0-679-77649-4)

Baxter dives into the undercurrents of middle-class American life in these eleven arresting, often mesmerizing stories. Whether they know it or not, Baxter's characters are floating above an abyss of unruly desire, inexplicable dread, unforeseen tragedy, and sudden moments of grace.

A drunken graduate student hurtles cheerfully through a snowstorm to rescue... Read more >

In the Land of No Right Angles

Written by Daphne Beal

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38806-3 (0-307-38806-9)

Alex , a twenty-year-old American student, is spending the year in Nepal, backpacking and photographing. As a favor to Will – her American friend – she uses one of her Himalayan treks to seek out Maya, a young Nepali woman desperate to flee her traditional family to find work in Kathmandu... Read more >

Another You

Written by Ann Beattie

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73464-2 (0-679-73464-3)

To her latest novel, Beattie brings the same documentary accuracy and Chekhovian wit and tenderness that have made her one of the most acclaimed portraitists of contemporary American life. Marshall Lockard, a professor at the local college, is contemplating adultery, unaware that his wife is already committing it. Read more >

Burning House

Written by Ann Beattie

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 29, 1995
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76500-4 (0-679-76500-X)

The now-classic, utterly unique voice of Ann Beattie is so dry it throws off sparks, her eye endowed with the emotional equivalent of X-ray vision. Her characters are young men and women discovering what it means to be a grown-up in a country that promised them they’d stay young forever. And... Read more >

Distortions

Written by Ann Beattie

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 2, 1991
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73235-8 (0-679-73235-7)

Haunting and disturbingly powerful, these stories established Ann Beattie as the most celebrated new voice in American fiction and an absolute master of the short-story form. Beattie captures perfectly the profound longings that came to define an entire generation with insight, compassion, and humor.

"Magnificant, a pleasure, a significant literary debut." --The... Read more >

Park City
New and Selected Stories
Written by Ann Beattie

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 29, 1999
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-78133-2 (0-679-78133-1)

For more than twenty-five years, Ann Beattie's short fiction has held a mirror up to America, portraying its awkwardly welded families, its loosely coupled couples, and much-uprooted children with acuity, humor, and compassion. This triumphant collection includes thirty-six of the finest stories of her career including eight new pieces that have... Read more >

Picturing Will

Written by Ann Beattie

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 2, 1991
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73194-8 (0-679-73194-6)

Picturing Will, the widely acclaimed new novel by Ann Beattie, unravels the complexities of a postmodern family. There's Will, a curious five-year-old who listens to the heartbeat of a plant through his toy stethoscope; Jody, his mother, a photographer poised on the threshold of celebrity; Mel, Jody’s perfect—perhaps too perfect—lover; and... Read more >

Secrets & Surprises

Written by Ann Beattie

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73193-1 (0-679-73193-8)

These fifteen stories by Ann Beattie garnered universal critical acclaim on their first publication, earning Beattie the reputation as the most celebrated new voice in American fiction. Today these stories — "A Vintage Thunderbird;" "The Lawn Party, " " La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans," to name a few — seem... Read more >

What Was Mine
& Other Stories
Written by Ann Beattie

Format: Trade Paperback, 252 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 16, 1992
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73903-6 (0-679-73903-3)

A collection of short fiction, twelve works in all, including two never-before-published novellas. Here are disconnected marriages and uneasy reunions, nostalgic reminiscences and sudden epiphanies--a remarkable and moving collage of contemporary lives. Read more >

Tuff
A Novel
Written by Paul Beatty

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 21, 2001
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72111-0 (0-385-72111-0)

As fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays, Tuff shows off all of the amazing skill that Paul Beatty showed off in his first novel, The White Boy Shuffle.

Weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston “Tuffy” Foshay, is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams... Read more >

About Schmidt

Written by Louis Begley

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: September 8, 1997
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-449-91116-7 (0-449-91116-0)

Proud, traditional, and impeccably organized, Albert Schmidt is a button-down lawyer of the old school.  Now, after years of careful management, his life is slowly unraveling.  His beloved wife has recently died.  He stumbles--or is being pushed--into early retirement.  And his daughter, his only child, is planning to marry a man Schmidt cannot approve of... Read more >

Schmidt Delivered

Written by Louis Begley

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: October 30, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-44083-9 (0-345-44083-8)

The follow-up to About Schmidt, Begley revisits his antihero - triumphantly back from the brink-to give us a winning story of how virtue may be rewarded.

Reading guide included.

“A richly nuanced concoction, cut by a lethally dry wit, about the way we live now as reflected in the distorting funhouse mirror... Read more >

Schmidt Steps Back

Written by Louis Begley

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-70065-0 (0-307-70065-8)

When we last saw Albert Schmidt Esq. (“Schmidtie” to all near and dear), he had been expelled from paradise: his love Carrie, the Puerto Rican waitress forty years his junior, had taken up with a blond giant nearer her age and possibly the father of her baby—assuming it isn’t Schmidt. Meanwhile... Read more >

The O'Briens

Written by Peter Behrens

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-74438-8 (0-307-74438-8)

The O’Briens is an unforgettable saga of love, loss, and change spanning half a century in the lives of a restless patriarch and his splendid, tragic, ambitious clan.

In Joe O’Brien—backwoods boy, railroad magnate, brooding soul—Peter Behrens gives us a fiercely compelling man who exchanges isolation and poverty in the Canadian... Read more >

The O'Briens

Written by Peter Behrens

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-37993-1 (0-307-37993-0)

An unforgettable saga of love, loss, and exhilarating change spanning half a century in the lives of a restless family, from the author of the acclaimed novel The Law of Dreams.

The O’Briens is a family story unlike any told before, a tale that pours straight from the heart of a splendid... Read more >