White Walls
Collected Stories
Written by Tatyana Tolstaya
Contribution by Antonina Bouis
Translated by Jamey Gambrell

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: April 17, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-197-4 (1-59017-197-7)

The wonderful verve, unflagging verbal invention, and wicked charm that Tatyana Tolstaya brings to the short story have earned her a devoted audience all over the world. Edna O’Brien has called her “an enchantress.” Anita Desai has spoken of her work’s “richness and ardent life.” Stemming from a Russian tradition of... Read more >

Vietnamerica
A Family's Journey
Written by GB Tran

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Villard
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-50872-0 (0-345-50872-6)

A TIME Magazine Top Ten Graphic Memoir of All Time
A 2011 School Library Journal "Best Adult Book 4 Teens"
A 2011 Library Journal Best Graphic Novel

Selected for common reading at Davidson College

A superb new graphic memoir in which an inspired artist/storyteller reveals the road that brought his family to where they are... Read more >

My Father's Tears
And Other Stories
Written by John Updike

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: May 25, 2010
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-51380-9 (0-345-51380-0)

A 2009 Booklist Editor’s Choice Selection

John Updike’s first collection of new short fiction since 2000 finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel.

“Personal Archaeology” considers life as a sequence of half-buried layers, and “The... Read more >

The Castle in Transylvania

Written by Jules Verne
Translated by Charlotte Mandell

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-935554-08-0 (1-935554-08-5)

This long-forgotten work of Jules Verne, the master of science fiction, is one of his few writings about the supernatural. This eerie gothic story set in a forgotten valley in the mountains of Transylvania, where demons and vampires menace the populace, pits a young stranger against the forces of evil and... Read more >

Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview
And Other Conversations
Written by Kurt Vonnegut

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: December 16, 2011
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-61219-090-7 (1-61219-090-1)

One of the great American iconoclasts holds forth on politics, war, books and writers, and his personal life in a series of interviews, including his last–for US Airways Magazine.

During his long career Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays, and essays. In this new anthology of conversations with Vonnegut–which... Read more >

Sweeping Up Glass

Written by Carolyn Wall

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-34303-9 (0-385-34303-5)

Destined to be a classic, Sweeping Up Glass is a tough and tender novel of love, race, and justice, and a ferocious, unflinching look at the power of family.

Olivia Harker Cross owns a strip of mountain in Pope County, Kentucky, a land where whites and blacks eke out a living in... Read more >

These Demented Lands

Written by Alan Warner

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 17, 1998
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49146-4 (0-385-49146-8)

Hard on the heels of his critically acclaimed first novel, Morvern Callar, comes Alan Warner's second novel, "a classic like his first one." (Independent on Sunday). An air-crash investigator haunts a remote island gathering debris from fallen planes. A desperate young woman arrives and makes her way to the Drome Hotel... Read more >

Frostbite
A Werewolf Tale
Written by David Wellington

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-46083-7 (0-307-46083-5)

Deep in the uninhabited forests of Canada's Northwest territories, a young woman named Chey is on a quest;
she has vowed to seek revenge on the werewolf who killed her father. But to her horror, Chey herself is bitten
and infected with the curse. As she reluctantly accepts her new existence as a... Read more >

The Age of Innocence

Written by Edith Wharton

Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: January 1, 1996
Price: $5.95
ISBN: 978-0-553-21450-5 (0-553-21450-0)

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The Custom of the Country

Written by Edith Wharton

Format: Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: April 1, 1991
Price: $5.95
ISBN: 978-0-553-21393-5 (0-553-21393-8)

With the publication of this controversial novel, Wharton leveled her most biting critique at the limitations that her society placed upon the ambitious woman. Undine Spragg, the book's central character, is a magnificent antiheroine, viciously and precisely rendered. She is boundlessly ambitious and ready to ruthlessly sell herself to whatever man... Read more >

The House of Mirth

Written by Edith Wharton

Format: Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: February 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
ISBN: 978-0-553-21320-1 (0-553-21320-2)

A literary sensation when it was published in 1905, The House of Mirth quickly established Edith Wharton as the most important American woman of letters in the twentieth century. The first American novel to provide a devastatingly accurate portrait of New York's aristocracy, it is the story of the beautiful and... Read more >

Self-Reliance
The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson as Inspiration for Daily Living
Edited by Richard Whelan

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: November 5, 1991
Price: $13.99
ISBN: 978-0-517-58512-2 (0-517-58512-X)

In this beautifully distilled version of Emerson's principal spiritual essays, Whelan makes the down-to-earth wisdom of Emerson accessible to contemporary readers. Emerson reminds us of the traditional virtues that have, to our immeasurable loss, become all too rare. If anything can restore these virtues to our lives and to the conscience... Read more >

Martyrs' Crossing

Written by Amy Wilentz

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: January 2, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-44983-2 (0-345-44983-5)

From journalist Amy Wilentz, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Prize for nonfiction and the Winning Writers Award, and a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, this poignant first novel is a powerful story of the complexities of life amid the crisis in the Middle East. Set against the backdrop... Read more >

Butcher's Crossing

Written by John Williams
Introduction by Michelle Latiolais

Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $14.95
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 >

Mrs. Somebody Somebody
Fiction
Written by Tracy Winn

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: June 8, 2010
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-8145-2 (0-8129-8145-6)

In this astonishing debut, Tracy Winn poignantly chronicles the souls who inhabit the troubled mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, playing out their struggles and hopes over the course of the twentieth century. Through a stunning variety of voices, Winn paints a deep and permeating portrait of the town and its people... Read more >