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Edwin Mullhouse
The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2011
Price: $12.99
Edwin Mullhouse, a novelist at 10, is mysteriously dead at 11. As a memorial, Edwin's bestfriend, Jeffrey Cartwright, decides that the life of this great American writer must be told. He follows Edwin's development from his preverbal first noises through his love for comic books to the fulfillment of his literary... Read more >
The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2011
Price: $12.99
Edwin Mullhouse, a novelist at 10, is mysteriously dead at 11. As a memorial, Edwin's bestfriend, Jeffrey Cartwright, decides that the life of this great American writer must be told. He follows Edwin's development from his preverbal first noises through his love for comic books to the fulfillment of his literary... Read more >
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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Written by Aimee Bender
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 19, 2011
Price: $15.00
Written by Aimee Bender
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 19, 2011
Price: $15.00
On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the slice. To her horror, she finds that her cheerful mother tastes of despair. Soon, she’s privy to the secret...
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The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors
A Novel
Written by Michele Young-Stone
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $15.00
When lightning strikes, lives are changed.
BECCA
On a sunny day in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, eight-year-old Becca Burke was struck by lightning. No one believed her—not her philandering father or her drunk, love-sick mother—not even when her watch kept losing time and a spooky halo of light appeared overhead in photographs. Becca... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Michele Young-Stone
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $15.00
When lightning strikes, lives are changed.
BECCA
On a sunny day in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, eight-year-old Becca Burke was struck by lightning. No one believed her—not her philandering father or her drunk, love-sick mother—not even when her watch kept losing time and a spooky halo of light appeared overhead in photographs. Becca... Read more >
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eBook.
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The November Criminals
A novel
Written by Sam Munson
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $15.00
A novel
Written by Sam Munson
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $15.00
A dark and hilarious pot-infused novel of teenage maladjustment from a compelling new voice in American fiction.
For a high school senior Addison Schacht has a lot of preoccupations, like selling drugs to his classmates, getting into college, and his complicated relationship with his best friend (NOT his girlfriend) Digger. And he's...
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Blind Sight
A Novel
Written by Meg Howrey
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $24.95
This spellbinding story introduces the unforgettable seventeen-year-old narrator, Luke Prescott, who has been brought up in a bohemian matriarchy by his divorced New Age mother, a religious grandmother, and two precocious half-sisters. Having spent a short lifetime swinging agreeably between the poles of Eastern mysticism and New England Puritanism, Luke is... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Meg Howrey
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $24.95
This spellbinding story introduces the unforgettable seventeen-year-old narrator, Luke Prescott, who has been brought up in a bohemian matriarchy by his divorced New Age mother, a religious grandmother, and two precocious half-sisters. Having spent a short lifetime swinging agreeably between the poles of Eastern mysticism and New England Puritanism, Luke is... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Blind Sight
A Novel
Written by Meg Howrey
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $11.99
This spellbinding story introduces the unforgettable seventeen-year-old narrator, Luke Prescott, who has been brought up in a bohemian matriarchy by his divorced New Age mother, a religious grandmother, and two precocious half-sisters. Having spent a short lifetime swinging agreeably between the poles of Eastern mysticism and New England Puritanism, Luke is... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Meg Howrey
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $11.99
This spellbinding story introduces the unforgettable seventeen-year-old narrator, Luke Prescott, who has been brought up in a bohemian matriarchy by his divorced New Age mother, a religious grandmother, and two precocious half-sisters. Having spent a short lifetime swinging agreeably between the poles of Eastern mysticism and New England Puritanism, Luke is... Read more >
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Walking to Gatlinburg
A Novel
Written by Howard Frank Mosher
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $15.00
A stunning and lyrical Civil War thriller, Walking to Gatlinburg is a spellbinding story of survival, wilderness adventure, mystery, and love in the time of war.
Morgan Kinneson is both hunter and hunted. The sharp-shooting 17-year-old from Kingdom County, Vermont, is determined to track down his brother Pilgrim, a doctor who has... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Howard Frank Mosher
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $15.00
A stunning and lyrical Civil War thriller, Walking to Gatlinburg is a spellbinding story of survival, wilderness adventure, mystery, and love in the time of war.
Morgan Kinneson is both hunter and hunted. The sharp-shooting 17-year-old from Kingdom County, Vermont, is determined to track down his brother Pilgrim, a doctor who has... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Mr. Chartwell
A Novel
Written by Rebecca Hunt
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $12.99
July 1964. Chartwell House, Kent: Winston Churchill wakes at dawn. There’s a dark, mute “presence” in the room that focuses on him with rapt concentration.
It’s Mr. Chartwell.
Soon after, in London, Esther Hammerhans, a librarian at the House of Commons, goes to answer the door to her new lodger. Through the... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Rebecca Hunt
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $12.99
July 1964. Chartwell House, Kent: Winston Churchill wakes at dawn. There’s a dark, mute “presence” in the room that focuses on him with rapt concentration.
It’s Mr. Chartwell.
Soon after, in London, Esther Hammerhans, a librarian at the House of Commons, goes to answer the door to her new lodger. Through the... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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Mr. Chartwell
A Novel
Written by Rebecca Hunt
Read by Susan Duerden
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $17.50
July 1964. Chartwell House, Kent: Winston Churchill wakes at dawn. There’s a dark, mute “presence” in the room that focuses on him with rapt concentration.
It’s Mr. Chartwell.
Soon after, in London, Esther Hammerhans, a librarian at the House of Commons, goes to answer the door to her new lodger. Through the... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Rebecca Hunt
Read by Susan Duerden
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $17.50
July 1964. Chartwell House, Kent: Winston Churchill wakes at dawn. There’s a dark, mute “presence” in the room that focuses on him with rapt concentration.
It’s Mr. Chartwell.
Soon after, in London, Esther Hammerhans, a librarian at the House of Commons, goes to answer the door to her new lodger. Through the... Read more >
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I
The Pox Party
Written by M.T. Anderson
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Price: $12.00
"Anderson’s imaginative and highly intelligent exploration of . . . the ambiguous history of America’s origins will leave readers impatient for the sequel." – The New York Times Book Review
Young Octavian is being raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers – but it is only after... Read more >
The Pox Party
Written by M.T. Anderson
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Price: $12.00
"Anderson’s imaginative and highly intelligent exploration of . . . the ambiguous history of America’s origins will leave readers impatient for the sequel." – The New York Times Book Review
Young Octavian is being raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers – but it is only after... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
The Ages of Lulu
A Novel
Written by Almudena Grandes
Translated by Sonia Soto
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $13.95
At just fifteen years old, Lulu, a "round, hungry little girl," finds that her erotic cravings are already powerfully established when she is seduced by a family friend, Pablo, twelve years her senior. This initial encounter incites the violent power play that drives an adult Lulu through a series of increasingly... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Almudena Grandes
Translated by Sonia Soto
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $13.95
At just fifteen years old, Lulu, a "round, hungry little girl," finds that her erotic cravings are already powerfully established when she is seduced by a family friend, Pablo, twelve years her senior. This initial encounter incites the violent power play that drives an adult Lulu through a series of increasingly... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Losing Graceland
A Novel
Written by Micah Nathan
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.00
An irreverent tale about a recent college grad, a mysterious old man who may be Elvis, and a perilous road trip that could lead to the old man’s final comeback.
When Ben Fish responds to an ad that reads “Driver Needed Seven Days Excellent Pay No Druggies, Drunks, or Felons,&rdquo... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Micah Nathan
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.00
An irreverent tale about a recent college grad, a mysterious old man who may be Elvis, and a perilous road trip that could lead to the old man’s final comeback.
When Ben Fish responds to an ad that reads “Driver Needed Seven Days Excellent Pay No Druggies, Drunks, or Felons,&rdquo... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Losing Graceland
A Novel
Written by Micah Nathan
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.99
An irreverent tale about a recent college grad, a mysterious old man who may be Elvis, and a perilous road trip that could lead to the old man’s final comeback.
When Ben Fish responds to an ad that reads “Driver Needed Seven Days Excellent Pay No Druggies, Drunks, or Felons,&rdquo... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Micah Nathan
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.99
An irreverent tale about a recent college grad, a mysterious old man who may be Elvis, and a perilous road trip that could lead to the old man’s final comeback.
When Ben Fish responds to an ad that reads “Driver Needed Seven Days Excellent Pay No Druggies, Drunks, or Felons,&rdquo... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Mr. Toppit
Written by Charles Elton
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2010
Price: $15.95
When Arthur Hayman, an unsuccessful screenwriter turned children’s book author, is accidentally hit by a cement truck in London, his dying moments are spent with a passing American tourist, Laurie Clow, who is fated to bring posthumous fame to his obscure series, The Hayseed Chronicles, and the enigmatic and sinister Mr... Read more >
Written by Charles Elton
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2010
Price: $15.95
When Arthur Hayman, an unsuccessful screenwriter turned children’s book author, is accidentally hit by a cement truck in London, his dying moments are spent with a passing American tourist, Laurie Clow, who is fated to bring posthumous fame to his obscure series, The Hayseed Chronicles, and the enigmatic and sinister Mr... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Mr. Toppit
Written by Charles Elton
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 9, 2010
Price: $11.99
When Arthur Hayman, an unsuccessful screenwriter turned children’s book author, is accidentally hit by a cement truck in London, his dying moments are spent with a passing American tourist, Laurie Clow, who is fated to bring posthumous fame to his obscure series, The Hayseed Chronicles, and the enigmatic and sinister Mr... Read more >
Written by Charles Elton
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 9, 2010
Price: $11.99
When Arthur Hayman, an unsuccessful screenwriter turned children’s book author, is accidentally hit by a cement truck in London, his dying moments are spent with a passing American tourist, Laurie Clow, who is fated to bring posthumous fame to his obscure series, The Hayseed Chronicles, and the enigmatic and sinister Mr... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Christmas with Tucker
Written by Greg Kincaid
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $15.99
The touching prequel to the bestselling novel A Dog Named Christmas
The sleeper hit of 2008, A Dog Named Christmas became a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie a year later, seen by more than twelve million people in the United States alone. Now, in Christmas with Tucker, Greg Kincaid brings back one... Read more >
Written by Greg Kincaid
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $15.99
The touching prequel to the bestselling novel A Dog Named Christmas
The sleeper hit of 2008, A Dog Named Christmas became a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie a year later, seen by more than twelve million people in the United States alone. Now, in Christmas with Tucker, Greg Kincaid brings back one... Read more >
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eBook.
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Christmas with Tucker
Written by Greg Kincaid
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $9.99
The touching prequel to the bestselling novel A Dog Named Christmas
The sleeper hit of 2008, A Dog Named Christmas became a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie a year later, seen by more than twelve million people in the United States alone. Now, in Christmas with Tucker, Greg Kincaid brings back one... Read more >
Written by Greg Kincaid
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $9.99
The touching prequel to the bestselling novel A Dog Named Christmas
The sleeper hit of 2008, A Dog Named Christmas became a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie a year later, seen by more than twelve million people in the United States alone. Now, in Christmas with Tucker, Greg Kincaid brings back one... Read more >
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hardcover.
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The Invisible Circus
Written by Jennifer Egan
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2010
Price: $11.99
In Jennifer Egan’s highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O’Connor, age eighteen. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in... Read more >
Written by Jennifer Egan
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2010
Price: $11.99
In Jennifer Egan’s highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O’Connor, age eighteen. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in... Read more >
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Dogfight, A Love Story
A Novel
Written by Matt Burgess
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $11.99
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 >
A Novel
Written by Matt Burgess
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $11.99
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 >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Richard Yates
Written by Tao Lin
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $14.95
In a startling change of direction, cult favorite Tao Lin presents a dark and brooding tale of illicit love that is his most sophisticated and mesmerizing writing yet.
Richard Yates is named after real-life writer Richard Yates, but it has nothing to do with him. Instead, it tracks the... Read more >
Written by Tao Lin
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $14.95
In a startling change of direction, cult favorite Tao Lin presents a dark and brooding tale of illicit love that is his most sophisticated and mesmerizing writing yet.
Richard Yates is named after real-life writer Richard Yates, but it has nothing to do with him. Instead, it tracks the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Richard Yates
Written by Tao Lin
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $14.95
In a startling change of direction, cult favorite Tao Lin presents a dark and brooding tale of illicit love that is his most sophisticated and mesmerizing writing yet.
Richard Yates is named after real-life writer Richard Yates, but it has nothing to do with him. Instead, it tracks the rise... Read more >
Written by Tao Lin
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $14.95
In a startling change of direction, cult favorite Tao Lin presents a dark and brooding tale of illicit love that is his most sophisticated and mesmerizing writing yet.
Richard Yates is named after real-life writer Richard Yates, but it has nothing to do with him. Instead, it tracks the rise... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Martin Dressler
The Tale of an American Dreamer
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2010
Price: $11.99
Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous Martin's vision becomes bolder... Read more >
The Tale of an American Dreamer
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2010
Price: $11.99
Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous Martin's vision becomes bolder... Read more >
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Bearers of the Black Staff
Legends of Shannara
Written by Terry Brooks
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $7.99
Legends of Shannara
Written by Terry Brooks
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $7.99
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Terry Brooks's The Measure of the Magic.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Five hundred years have passed since the devastating demon-led war tore apart the United States and nearly exterminated humankind. Those who escaped the carnage were led to sanctuary in an idyllic valley, its borders warded by...
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The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove
Written by Susan Gregg Gilmore
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 17, 2010
Price: $3.99
Nobody in Nashville has a bigger name to live up to than Bezellia Grove. As a Grove, she belongs to one of city’s most prominent families and is expected to embrace her position in high society. That means speaking fluent French, dancing at cotillions with boys from other important families, and... Read more >
Written by Susan Gregg Gilmore
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 17, 2010
Price: $3.99
Nobody in Nashville has a bigger name to live up to than Bezellia Grove. As a Grove, she belongs to one of city’s most prominent families and is expected to embrace her position in high society. That means speaking fluent French, dancing at cotillions with boys from other important families, and... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Crossing
Border Trilogy (2)
Written by Cormac McCarthy
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2010
Price: $11.99
Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only by its breadth of experience and depth of thought.
In the bootheel of New Mexico hard on the frontier, Billy and Boyd Parham are just boys in the years before the Second... Read more >
Border Trilogy (2)
Written by Cormac McCarthy
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2010
Price: $11.99
Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only by its breadth of experience and depth of thought.
In the bootheel of New Mexico hard on the frontier, Billy and Boyd Parham are just boys in the years before the Second... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
