The Da Vinci Code
A Novel
Written by Dan Brown

Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: March 18, 2003
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-50420-1 (0-385-50420-9)

Winner, 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction

The Da Vinci Code is not only ‘popular’, compelling, and contemporary story-telling at its very best—it is also a highly original and provocative work ideal for a wide variety of classroom discussions.

Deftly woven into this original story are highly controversial... Read more >

The Lost Symbol

Written by Dan Brown

Format: Paperback, 656 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $9.99
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7914-8 (1-4000-7914-4)

In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling—a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths . . . all under... Read more >

Nice Big American Baby

Written by Judy Budnitz

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72686-6 (0-375-72686-1)

A blazingly original, profoundly moving new work of fiction by a writer whose world—and imagination—knows no boundaries. “I don’t know what planet Judy Budnitz comes from,” said Newsweek on the publication of her fiction debut, Flying Leap, “but I’m happy to have her. Tremendous . . . funny, dark, adventurous, slanted... Read more >

Dogfight, A Love Story

Written by Matt Burgess

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47643-2 (0-307-47643-X)

What Jonathan Lethem did for Brooklyn, Matt Burgess does for Queens in this exuberant and brilliant debut novel about a young drug dealer having a very bad weekend.

Alfredo Batista has some worries. Okay, a lot of worries. His older brother, Jose—sorry, Tariq—is returning from a stretch in prison after an... Read more >

Girls
A Novel
Written by Frederick Busch

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: March 24, 1998
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-449-91263-8 (0-449-91263-9)

In the unrelenting cold and bitter winter of upstate New York, Jack and his wife, Fanny, are trying to cope with the desperate sorrow they feel over the death of their young daughter. The loss forms a chasm in their relationship as Jack, a sardonic Vietnam vet, looks for a way... Read more >

Kindred

Written by Octavia Butler

Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: February 1, 2009
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-8310-9 (0-8070-8310-0)

Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn... Read more >

Kindred

Written by Octavia Butler

Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: February 1, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-8369-7 (0-8070-8369-0)

Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn... Read more >

Bloodchild and Other Stories

Written by Octavia E. Butler

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-58322-698-8 (1-58322-698-2)

A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes “Bloodchild,” winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and “Speech Sounds,” winner of the Hugo Award. Appearing in print for the first time, “Amnesty” is a story of a woman... Read more >

Fledgling
A Novel
Written by Octavia E. Butler

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-690-2 (1-58322-690-7)

Fledgling, Octavia Butler’s first new novel in seven years, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she... Read more >

Three by Cain
Serenade, Love's Lovely Counterfeit, The Butterfly
Written by James M. Cain

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 14, 1989
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72323-3 (0-679-72323-4)

All three books are written with an enduring view of the dark corners of the American psyche. Cain hammered high art out of the crude matter of betrayal, bloodshed, and perversity. Read more >

A Strong West Wind
A Memoir
Written by Gail Caldwell

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7256-6 (0-8129-7256-2)

In this exquisitely rendered memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. A Strong West Wind begins in the 1950s in the wilds of the Texas Panhandle–a place of... Read more >

Ecotopia

Written by Ernest Callenbach

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: March 1, 1990
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-34847-7 (0-553-34847-7)

By "the newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley and Orwell" (Los Angeles Times), Ecotopia is a utopian novel for the new century. The nation formed by seceding states Washington, Oregon and California has achieved the perfect balance between humans and the environment. Now, after 20 years, that nation, Ecotopia, welcomes its... Read more >

72 Hour Hold

Written by Bebe Moore Campbell

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 11, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3361-4 (1-4000-3361-6)

In this novel of family and redemption, a mother struggles to save her eighteen-year-old daughter from the devastating consequences of mental illness by forcing her to deal with her bipolar disorder. Acclaimed author Bebe Moore Campbell draws on her own powerful emotions and African-American roots to create her finest work to... Read more >

Fist Stick Knife Gun
A Personal History of Violence
Written by Geoffrey Canada

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: September 28, 2010
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-4461-2 (0-8070-4461-X)

A new edition, including the story of the founding of the Harlem Children’s Zone

Long before the avalanche of praise for his work–from Oprah Winfrey, from President Bill Clinton, from both First Lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama–long before he became known as a hero to television and film viewers... Read more >

The Death of Che Guevara

Written by Jay Cantor

Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71383-5 (0-375-71383-2)

In his critically acclaimed epic first novel, Jay Cantor, author of Krazy Kat and Great Neck, draws on history, myth, and his own prodigious imagination to take on the life and death of revolutionary icon Che Guevara.

In his now famous progress through modern times, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the scion of a... Read more >

Great Neck

Written by Jay Cantor

Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71339-2 (0-375-71339-5)

From the much-praised author of Krazy Kat and The Death of Che Guevara, the tumultuous story of a group of friends growing up idealistic, radical, and romantic in the sixties and seventies.

We enter their lives in 1960 as a sixth-grade class of Great Neck kids—most of them Jewish—learns for the first... Read more >

Krazy Kat

Written by Jay Cantor

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71382-8 (0-375-71382-4)

Krazy Kat adores Ignatz Mouse. She sees the bricks he hurls at her head as tokens of love, and each day Ignatz arranges a cunningly different method of delivery for his missile. But when Ignatz and Krazy witness the mega-brick explosion in the desert, Krazy becomes depressed, and refuses to perform... Read more >

Everything
A Novel
Written by Kevin Canty

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-53330-0 (0-385-53330-6)

On the fifth of July, RL and June go down to the river with a bottle of Johnnie Walker Red to commemorate Taylor’s fiftieth and last birthday. Taylor was RL’s boyhood friend and June’s husband, but after eleven years, June, a childless hospice worker, finally declares she’s “nobody’s widow anymore.” Anxious... Read more >

Into the Great Wide Open

Written by Kevin Canty

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 30, 1997
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-77652-9 (0-679-77652-4)

Building on the success of A Stranger in This World, the widely praised collection of stories that was one of the most exciting literary debuts of recent years, Kevin Canty has written a blistering, unforgettable first novel. Set in the sprawl of suburbia, with its shattered families and hollow lives, Into... Read more >

Nine Below Zero

Written by Kevin Canty

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70799-5 (0-375-70799-9)

From the acclaimed author of A Stranger in this World and Into the Great Wide Open comes a novel that explores reckless love and penetrates the unrelenting winter landscape of the American West.

Marvin Deernose, a Native American carpenter and recovering alcoholic, has just returned to his Montana hometown with hopes of... Read more >

A Stranger in This World
Stories
Written by Kevin Canty

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 8, 1995
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76394-9 (0-679-76394-5)

In the tradition of the works of Raymond Carver and Richard Ford, this fiction debut shines with verbal brilliance. Disturbing yet compellingly readable, the stories in this collection explore the gap between disappointment and hope, between life as it could be and life as it is. Read more >

Where the Money Went

Written by Kevin Canty

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 10, 2010
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38921-3 (0-307-38921-9)

In these nine surprising stories about love and the desertion of love, a father contemplates his bank balance amid receipts for ski vacations; a real-estate agent tries to sell a house while his small son bites other children; and a widower, resigned to television for company, discovers the pleasures of life... Read more >

Winslow in Love

Written by Kevin Canty

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7855-4 (1-4000-7855-5)

Richard Winslow is in a rut. His marriage is over and he is alone, teaching poetry as a visiting professor in Montana and continuing to avoid actually writing himself. He drinks to oblivion every night.

At this freezing college, in the dead of winter, Winslow meets Erika, one of his poetry students... Read more >

Answered Prayers

Written by Truman Capote

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 29, 1994
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75182-3 (0-679-75182-3)

Although Truman Capote’s last novel was unfinished at the time of his death, its surviving portions offer a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time.

As it follows the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes, Answered Prayers careens from a louche bar... Read more >

Breakfast at Tiffany's
A Short Novel and Three Stories
Written by Truman Capote

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: January 13, 1994
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-60085-5 (0-679-60085-X)

Contains:

Breakfast at Tiffany's
House of Flowers
A Diamond Guitar
A Christmas Memory Read more >