A Way From Home
A Novel
Written by Nancy Clark

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 11, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7871-4 (1-4000-7871-7)

It is 1992, and the Lowe family is living in a centuries-old castle in Prague. Alden Lowe works at the Czech Ministry of Finance and his wife Becky advises women entrepreneurs. With their daugher Julie, they appear a fortunate American family, but after twenty years with Alden, Becky shocks the family... Read more >

Love Among the Ruins
A Novel
Written by Robert Clark

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 13, 2002
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3030-9 (1-4000-3030-7)

When William Lowry writes to Emily Byrne–I don’t know if you know that you know me–the seventeen-year-old hardly suspects that his life, along with the rest of America, is about to change forever. But the day Emily receives the letter and composes a response–I know who you are. In fact, I... Read more >

Girls in White Dresses

Written by Jennifer Close

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-74369-5 (0-307-74369-1)

Isabella, Mary, and Lauren feel like everyone they know is getting married. On Sunday after Sunday, at bridal shower after bridal shower, they coo over toasters, collect ribbons and wrapping paper, eat minuscule sandwiches and cakes. They wear pastel dresses and drink champagne by the case, but amid the celebration these... Read more >

Girls in White Dresses

Written by Jennifer Close

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-59685-7 (0-307-59685-0)

Wickedly hilarious and utterly recognizable, Girls in White Dresses tells the story of three women grappling with heartbreak and career change, family pressure and new love—all while suffering through an endless round of weddings and bridal showers.

Isabella, Mary, and Lauren feel like everyone they know is getting married. On Sunday after... Read more >

The Smart One

Written by Jennifer Close

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-59686-4 (0-307-59686-9)

With her best-selling debut, Girls in White Dresses (An “irresistible, pitch-perfect first novel” —Marie Claire), Jennifer Close captured friendship in those what-on-earth-am-I-going-to-do-with-my-life years of early adulthood. Now, with her sparkling new novel of parenthood and sibling rivalry, Close turns her gimlet eye to the only thing messier than friendship: family.

Weezy... Read more >

America Noir
Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Postwar Era
Written by David Cochran

Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: June 22, 2010
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-218-8 (1-58834-218-2)

In America Noir David Cochran details how ten writers and filmmakers challenged the social pieties prevalent during the Cold War, such as the superiority of the American democracy, the benevolence of free enterprise, and the sanctity of the suburban family. Rod Sterling’s The Twilight Zone featured victims of vast, faceless, bureaucratic... Read more >

Inspired Sleep
A Novel
Written by Robert Cohen

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 22, 2002
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71887-8 (0-375-71887-7)

Award-winning author of the acclaimed novels The Organ Builder and The Here and Now, Robert Cohen presents a wildly entertaining work of fiction that is also a provocative indictment of our over-medicated society.

Ian Ogelvie and Bonnie Saks are drawn together by an experimental drug–he as researcher, she as test subject... Read more >

Teaching Stories
An Anthology on the Power of Learning and Literature
Written by Robert Coles

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7169-9 (0-8129-7169-8)

In this remarkable anthology, some of the world’s greatest writers provide a master class on the transformative power of learning and literature. Culled from a course developed by Pulitzer Prize—winning author Robert Coles for the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Teaching Stories is an invaluable collection in which novelists, essayists, and... Read more >

Happy All the Time

Written by Laurie Colwin

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 23, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47440-7 (0-307-47440-2)

Guido and Vincent are childhood best friends—third cousins, really—living in Cambridge and dreaming about their futures. Guido plans to write poetry while Vincent feels confident he will win a Nobel prize for physics. When Guido spots Holly while exiting a museum, he can immediately sense that she will difficult, quirky, and... Read more >

Crumbtown

Written by Joe Connelly

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71297-5 (0-375-71297-6)

From the acclaimed author of Bringing Out the Dead (“A knock-down spectacular first novel” —GQ), a darkly comic, wildly imaginative, unstoppable new novel.

Crumbtown is disaster zone as neighborhood, crisscrossed by streets called Lemmings, Felony, Sodden; rapidly losing its edges to the river; inhabited by people who know firsthand that “there’s... Read more >

The Great Santini
A Novel
Written by Pat Conroy

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: March 26, 2002
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38155-9 (0-553-38155-5)

Step into the powerhouse life of Bull Meecham. He’s all Marine-fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife—beautiful, southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel. Without her cool head, her kids would be in real trouble.

Ben is the oldest, a born athlete... Read more >

The Lords of Discipline
A Novel
Written by Pat Conroy

Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: March 26, 2002
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38156-6 (0-553-38156-3)

In this powerful, mesmerizing, and highly acclaimed bestseller, PAT CONROY sweeps us into the turbulent world of four young men–friends, cadets, and blood brothers–and their days of hazing, heartbreak, pride, betrayal, and, ultimately, humanity.

We go deeply into the heart of the novel’s hero, Will McLean, a rebellious outsider with his... Read more >

South of Broad

Written by Pat Conroy

Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-41305-3 (0-385-41305-X)

The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship.

Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, South of Broad gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. Leopold Bloom... Read more >

Daughters of the Revolution

Written by Carolyn Cooke

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-74146-2 (0-307-74146-X)

In 1968, a clerical mistake threatens the prestigious but cash-strapped Goode School in the small New England town of Cape Wilde. After a century of all-male, old-boy education, the school accidentally admits its first female student: Carole Faust, a brilliant, outspoken, fifteen-year-old black girl whose arrival will have both an immediate... Read more >

Daughters of the Revolution

Written by Carolyn Cooke

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: June 7, 2011
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-59473-0 (0-307-59473-4)

From the O. Henry Award–winning author of the story collection The Bostons—a New York Times Notable Book, Los Angeles Times Book of the Year and winner of the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers—an exquisite first novel set at a disintegrating New England prep school.

It’s 1968. The prestigious but cash-strapped Goode School... Read more >

Life Is Short But Wide

Written by J. California Cooper

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: March 24, 2009
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-51134-6 (0-385-51134-5)

Beloved writer J. California Cooper has won a legion of loyal fans and much critical acclaim for her powerful storytelling gifts. In language both spare and direct yet wondrously lyrical, Life is Short But Wide is an irresistible story of family that proves no matter who you are or what you... Read more >

The Matter Is Life

Written by J. California Cooper

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 13, 1992
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-41174-5 (0-385-41174-X)

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A Piece of Mine
Stories
Written by J. California Cooper

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 1, 1991
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-42087-7 (0-385-42087-0)

Back in print after more than five years, this is the extraordinary first short story collection by the author of Family.

"In its strong folk flavor, Cooper's work reminds us of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston...It is a delight to read."
--Alice Walker

"The label 'short' story is a woefully inadequate description... Read more >

Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime
Stories
Written by J. California Cooper

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 1, 1996
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-46788-9 (0-385-46788-5)

This fifth collection of stories from J. California Cooper revolves around themes of romance, heartbreak, struggle, and faith. Read more >

Some People, Some Other Place

Written by J. California Cooper

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49683-4 (0-385-49683-4)

For generations Eula Too’s family has been making a journey North, year after year, step by painful step; and she’s determined to be the one to make it all the way to Chicago. In and out of school, taking care of her fourteen brothers and sisters, she can see no way... Read more >

The Beaufort Diaries

Written by T Cooper
Illustrated by Alex Petrowsky

Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-935554-07-3 (1-935554-07-7)

It may sound like a familiar story -- boy goes to Hollywood, boy befriends big star, boy gets almost as famous as the big star, boy finds fame tricky -- but T Cooper’s first graphic novel is subversively different. For one thing, the “boy” is a polar bear. For another thing... Read more >

The Pesthouse

Written by Jim Crace

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27895-1 (0-307-27895-6)

Once the safest, most prosperous place on earth, the United States has become sparsely populated and chaotically unstable. Across the country, families have traveled toward the one hope left: passage on a ship to Europe. As Franklin Lopez makes his way towards the ocean, he finds Margaret, a sick woman shunned... Read more >

Mary and O'Neil
A Novel in Stories
Written by Justin Cronin

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 29, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33359-7 (0-385-33359-5)

**2002 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for First Fiction**

Justin Cronin’s poignant debut traces the lives of Mary Olson and O’Neil Burke, two vulnerable young teachers who rediscover in each other a world alive with promise and hope. From the formative experiences of their early adulthood to marriage, parenthood, and beyond, this novel in... Read more >

The Passage: A Novel

Written by Justin Cronin

Format: Trade Paperback, 800 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: May 17, 2011
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-50497-5 (0-345-50497-6)

This paperback edition includes:

* A sneak preview of The Twelve, coming in 2012
* A revealing interview with author Justin Cronin

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY TIME MAGAZINE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post • Esquire • U.S. News &... Read more >

The Post-War Dream

Written by Mitch Cullin

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7823-3 (1-4000-7823-7)

Sixty-eight-year-old Hollis and his wife Debra have settled into their golden years in a gated community outside of Tucson, Arizona. Although they are devoted to each other, events that took place decades earlier, when Hollis fought in the Korean War, have left him with a deep-seated trauma — and with a... Read more >