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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Oscar Hijuelos
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It's 1949. Two young Cuban musicians make their way up from Havana to the grand stage of New York. It is the era of the mambo, and Castillo brothers, workers by day, become by night stars of the dance halls, where their orchestra plays the lush, sensuous, pulsing music that earns |
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Rabbit At Rest
John Updike
Format: Print book
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In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals; an |
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A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A thousand acres, a piece of land of almost mythic proportions. Upon this fertile, nourishing earth, Jane Smiley has set her rich, breathtakingly dramatic novel of an American family whose wealth cannot stay the hand of tragedy. It is the intense, compelling story of a father and his daughters,... |
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Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Robert Olen Butler
Format: Hardcover
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A collection of stories by the author of The Deuce, Wabash, The Alleys of Eden, and On Distant Ground features tales of the residents of Saigon as they face love, loss, despair, and more. |
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The Shipping News
Annie Proulx
Format: Print book
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An unsuccessful newspaperman, his aunt, and his two young daughters experience delicately evoked changes in a poignant novel set in a Newfoundland fishing town. By the author of Postcards. |
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The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields
Format: Hardcover
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From her birth in rural Manitoba, to her journey with her father to southern Indiana, to her years as a wife, mother, and widow, to her old age, Daisy Stone Goodwill struggles to find a place for herself in her own life. 15,000 first printing. |
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Independence Day: Bascombe Trilogy
Richard Ford - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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In this visionary sequel to The Sportswriter, Ford deepens his portrait of one of the most indelible characters in recent American fiction. In the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, Frank Bascombe now sells real estate, as he masters the high-wire act of "normalcy".... |
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Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Steven Millhauser
Format: Book
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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 |
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American Pastoral
Philip Roth
Format: Print book
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American Pastoral is the story of a fortunate American's rise and fall - of a strong, confident master of social equilibrium overwhelmed by the forces of social disorder. Seymour "Swede" Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the pr |
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The Hours: A Novel (Picador Modern Classics, 1)
Michael Cunningham - Picador
Format: Paperback
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that became a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws... |
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Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback
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Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American... |
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel
Michael Chabon - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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With this brilliant novel, the bestselling author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys gives us an exhilarating triumph of language and invention, a stunning novel in which the tragicomic adventures of a couple of boy geniuses reveal much about what happened to America in the middle... |
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Empire Falls
Richard Russo - Vintage Contemporaries
Format: Paperback
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With Empire Falls Richard Russo cements his reputation as one of America's most compelling and compassionate storytellers. Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him there?... |
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Middlesex: A Novel
Jeffrey Eugenides - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides--the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl.In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school... |
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The Known World
Edward P Jones - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor -- William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation... |
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Gilead: A Novel
Marilynne Robinson - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction 2004 National Book Critics Circle Winner In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Amess life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young... |
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March: A Novel
Geraldine Brooks - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize--a powerful love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War, from the author of The Secret Chord.. From Louisa May Alcotts beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled... |
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark.... |
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of:The Pulitzer PrizeThe National Book Critics Circle AwardThe Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardThe Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel PrizeA Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the YearOne of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York... |
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Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * THE EMMY AWARD-WINNING HBO MINISERIES STARRING FRANCES MCDORMAND, RICHARD JENKINS, AND BILL MURRAYIn a voice more powerful and compassionate than ever before, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout binds together thirteen rich, luminous... |
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Tinkers
Paul Harding - Bellevue Literary Press
Format: Paperback
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An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall off in great chunks, showering him with a lifetime of debris newspaper clippings, old photographs, wool jackets,... |
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