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The Annotated Pride and Prejudice
Written by Jane Austen
Edited by David M. Shapard
Anchor | Trade Paperback | March 2007
$16.95/21.95(Canada) | 978-0-307-27810-4 (0-307-27810-7)
This first-ever fully annotated edition of one of the most beloved novels in the world is a sheer delight for Jane Austen fans. Here is the complete text of Pride and Prejudice with more than 2,300 annotations on facing pages, including:
• Explanations of historical context
Rules of etiquette, class differences, the position... > Read more
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The Stolen Child
Written by Keith Donohue
Anchor | Trade Paperback | May 2007
$13.95/17.95(Canada) | 978-1-4000-9653-4 (1-4000-9653-7)
“I am a changeling–a word that describes within its own name what we are bound and intended to do. We kidnap a human child and replace him or her with one of our own. . . .”
The double story of Henry Day begins in 1949, when he is kidnapped at age... > Read more
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Written by Jamie Ford
Ballantine Books | Trade Paperback | October 2009
$15.00/18.95(Canada) | 978-0-345-50534-7 (0-345-50534-4)
In the opening pages of Jamie Ford’s stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible... > Read more
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Color of the Sea
Written by John Hamamura
Anchor | Trade Paperback | November 2007
$13.95/17.95(Canada) | 978-0-307-38607-6 (0-307-38607-4)
Raised in Japan and Hawaii, Sam Hamada has been trained in the ways of the samurai. After graduation Sam strikes out for California and falls in love for the first time, with a beautiful young woman named Keiko. But then the Japanese attack Peal Harbor, igniting the war and making Sam... > Read more
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Baking Cakes in Kigali
Written by Gaile Parkin
Delacorte Press | Hardcover | August 2009
$24.00/(Canada) | 978-0-385-34343-5 (0-385-34343-4)
This gloriously written tale—set in modern-day Rwanda—introduces Angel Tungaraza—mother, cake baker, keeper of secrets—a woman living on the edge of chaos, finding ways to transform lives, weave magic, and create hope amid the madness swirling all around her.
In Kigali, Angel runs a bustling business: baking cakes for all occasions—cakes filled with... > Read more
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Written by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Dial Press Trade Paperback | Trade Paperback | May 2009
$14.00/16.50(Canada) | 978-0-385-34100-4 (0-385-34100-8)
Selected for SaratogaReads! 2009-10
A Library Journal Best Book of 2008
January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a... > Read more
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The Good Thief
Written by Hannah Tinti
Dial Press Trade Paperback | Trade Paperback | August 2009
$15.00/18.95(Canada) | 978-0-385-33746-5 (0-385-33746-9)
Winner, ALA Alex Award 2009
Winner, John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize 2008
New York Times Notable Book of 2008
Washington Post Best Books of 2008
San Francisco Chronicle, 50 Best Fiction & Poetry of 2008
Kirkus, Best Fiction of 2008 list
Richly imagined, gothically spooky, and replete with the ingenious storytelling ability of a born novelist... > Read more
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Sweeping Up Glass
Written by Carolyn Wall
Delta | Trade Paperback | August 2009
$14.00/16.50(Canada) | 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
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