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 On Beauty (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9780143037743Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 09/01/2006 "On Beauty" is the story of an interracial family living in the university town of Wellington, Massachusetts, whose misadventures in the culture wars on both sides of the Atlantic serve to skewer everything from family life to political correctness to the combustive collision between the personal and the political.  The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9780143037149Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 06/01/2006 In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins, he immediately recognizes that one of them has Down Syndrome and makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and to keep her birth a secret. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child as her own.  Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons (Mass Market Paperback)$7.99 ISBN-13: 9780345475695Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Fawcett, 03/01/2005 Holding on through forty eventful years, there's Faith, a lonely mother of twins who harbors a terrible secret that has condemned her to living a lie; big, beautiful Audrey, the resident sex queen who knows that with good posture and an attitude you can get away with anything; Merit, the shy doctor's wife with the face of an angel and the private hell of an abusive husband; Kari, a wise woman with a wonderful laugh who knows the greatest gifts appear after life's fiercest storms; and finally, Slip, a tiny spitfire of a woman who isn't afraid to look trouble straight in the eye.
 The Blind Assassin (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9780385720953Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Anchor, 08/01/2001 "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura's story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel.  Bel Canto (Paperback)$13.95 ISBN-13: 9780060838720Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Harper Perennial, 08/01/2005 Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gunwielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage.
 $15.95 ISBN-13: 9780060899226Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Harper Perennial, 01/01/2007 The updated edition of the wickedly funny and insightful bestseller filled with "25 years of sex, drugs, bad behavior, and haute cuisine," now includes three new chapters about the author's adventures since the book was originally published.  A Thousand Splendid Suns (Paperback)$16.00 ISBN-13: 9781594483851Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Riverhead Trade, 11/01/2008 Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation.  March (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9780143036661Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 02/01/2006 From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic "Little Women," Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man. Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs.  The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint (Paperback)$14.95 ISBN-13: 9780375719189Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Vintage, 05/01/2002 "If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this:
when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head. As formative
events go, nothing else comes close." With these words Edgar Mint, half-Apache and mostly orphaned, makes his unshakable claim on our attention.  The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9780142001745Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 01/01/2003 "The Secret Life of Bees" tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the town's fiercest racists, Lily decides they should both escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's past.  $14.95 ISBN-13: 9780312199432Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: St. Martin's Griffin, 02/01/1999 "One Thousand White Women" is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial "Brides for Indians" program, launched by the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, is intended to help assimilate the Indians into the white man's world. Toward that end May and her friends embark upon the adventure of their lifetime. Jim Fergus has so vividly depicted the American West that it is as if these diaries are a capsule in time.
 $15.99 ISBN-13: 9780316346627Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Back Bay Books, 01/01/2002 The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.  Motherless Brooklyn (Paperback)$14.95 ISBN-13: 9780375724831Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Vintage, 10/01/2000 Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency.
 In Her Shoes (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9780743418201Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Washington Square Press, 07/01/2003 Meet Rose Feller, a thirty-year-old high-powered attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. Meet Rose's sister, Maggie. Twenty-eight years old and drop-dead gorgeous. These two women, who claim to have nothing in common but a childhood tragedy, DNA, and the same size feet, are about to learn that they're more alike than they'd ever imagined.  $14.00 ISBN-13: 9780743211239Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Simon & Schuster, 04/01/2002 "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio" introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the 1950s and 1960s. Evelyn's winning ways defied the church, her alcoholic husband, and antiquated views of housewives. To her, flouting convention was a small price to pay when it came to raising her six sons and four daughters.
 The Kite Runner (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9781594480003Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Riverhead Trade, 01/01/2003 Privileged young narrator Amir comes of age during the last peaceful days of the monarchy in Afghanistan, then must endure revolution, invasion and a country's long struggle to triumph over violent forces.
 The Omnivore's Dilemma (Paperback)$16.00 ISBN-13: 9780143038580Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 09/01/2007 What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result is a sweeping, surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped our evolution, and of the profound implications our food choices have for the health of our species and the future of our planet.
 $16.00 ISBN-13: 9780060745905Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Harper Paperbacks, 03/01/2004 When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil?  Enrique's Journey (Paperback)$16.00 ISBN-13: 9780812971781Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 02/01/2007 When Enrique is five years old, his mother, Lourdes, too poor to feed her children, leaves Honduras to work in the United States. The move allows her to send money back home to Enrique so he can eat better and go to school past the third grade.
Lourdes promises Enrique she will return quickly. But she struggles in America. Years pass. He begs for his mother to come back. Without her, he becomes lonely and troubled. When she calls, Lourdes tells him to be patient. Enrique despairs of ever seeing her again. After eleven years apart, he decides he will go find her.  The 19th Wife (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9780812974157Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 06/01/2009 It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of her family's polygamous history is revealed, including how both she and her mother became plural wives.  Pope Joan (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9780307452368Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Three Rivers Press, 06/01/2009 For a thousand years her existence has been denied. She is the legend that will not die-Pope Joan, the ninth-century woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to become the only female ever to sit on the throne of St. Peter. Now in this riveting novel, Donna Woolfolk Cross paints a sweeping portrait of an unforgettable heroine who struggles against restrictions her soul cannot accept.  The Book of Joe (Paperback)$14.00 ISBN-13: 9780385338103Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Delta, 01/01/2005 Right after high school, Joe Goffman left sleepy Bush Falls, Connecticut and never looked back. Then he wrote a novel savaging everything in town, a novel that became a national bestseller and a huge hit movie. Fifteen years later, Joe is struggling to avoid the sophomore slump with his next novel when he gets a call: his father's had a stroke, so it's back to Bush Falls for the town's most famous pariah.
 $13.00 ISBN-13: 9780307276827Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Vintage, 04/01/2008 With her disarming, intimate, and dry sense of humor, Ephron shares her ups and downs in this bestselling look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.  $13.99 ISBN-13: 9780061673986Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Harper Paperbacks, 09/01/2009 "Alex & Me" tells the story of a delightful and mischievous parrot that rocked the scientific establishment. Yet his real story can't be found in any science journal--chronicling a relationship, with its affection, jealousy, and lifelong rewards. 8-page photo insert.  $14.00 ISBN-13: 9780385341004Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback, 05/01/2009 In 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 society as extraordinary as its name.  $15.00 ISBN-13: 9780743250627Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Simon & Schuster, 10/01/2005 33,000 PAGES
44 MILLION WORDS
10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY
1 OBSESSED MAN
Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), "The Know-It-All" chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" from A to Z.
 Three Cups of Tea (Paperback)$16.00 ISBN-13: 9780143038252Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 02/01/2007 Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan's treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools especially for girls that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth.  The Dive From Clausen's Pier (Paperback)$14.95 ISBN-13: 9780375727139Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Vintage, 04/01/2003 At the age of twenty-three Carrie Bell has spent her entire life in Wisconsin, with the same best friend and the same dependable, easygoing, high school sweetheart. Now to her dismay she has begun to find this life suffocating and is considering leaving it-and Mike-behind. But when Mike is paralyzed in a diving accident, leaving seems unforgivable and yet more necessary than ever.  $15.00 ISBN-13: 9781594481925Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Riverhead Trade, 01/01/2006 With a new Introduction to this touching homage to his mother, the author paints a portrait of growing up in a black neighborhood as the child of an interracial marriage. Although raised an Orthodox Jew in the South, McBride's mother abandoned her heritage, moved to Harlem, and married a black man.
 $14.99 ISBN-13: 9780380813810Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Harper Paperbacks, 02/01/2003 Everyone knows about the immaculate conception and the crucifixion. But what happened to Jesus between the manger and the Sermon on the Mount? In this hilarious and bold new novel, the acclaimed author Moore shares the greatest story never told: the life of Christ as seen by his boyhood pal, Biff.  The Thirteenth Tale (Paperback)$16.00 ISBN-13: 9780743298032Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Washington Square Press, 10/01/2007 Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchanting stories, has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate lives for herself. Now old and ailing, she is ready to reveal the truth about her extraordinary existence and the violent and tragic past she has kept secret for so long. Calling on Margaret Lea, a young biographer troubled by her own painful history, Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good.  The Book Thief (Paperback)$11.99 ISBN-13: 9780375842207Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 09/01/2007 Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist-books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.
This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.  A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Paperback)$12.00 ISBN-13: 9780374531263Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 08/01/2008 This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.
What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop?  The Glass Castle: A Memoir (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9780743247542Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Scribner, 01/01/2006 Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. What is so astonishing about Jeannette Walls is not just that she had the guts and tenacity and intelligence to get out, but that she describes her parents with such deep affection and generosity. Hers is a story of triumph against all odds, but also a tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that despite its profound flaws gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.  The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9780375725609Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Vintage, 02/01/2004 The story of two men's obsessions with the Chicago World's Fair, one its architect, the other a murderer. "The Devil in the White City" draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others.  The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Paperback)$13.95 ISBN-13: 9781400034772Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Anchor, 02/01/2003 This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith's widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to "help people with problems in their lives." Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witchdoctors.  $14.95 ISBN-13: 9780375755194Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 09/01/2002 These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may start with irony and end with lyric transformation; they may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end in the infinite. Possessed of a unique voice that is at once plain and melodic, Billy Collins has managed to enrich American poetry while greatly widening the circle of its audience.  Waiting for Teddy Williams (Paperback)$13.00 ISBN-13: 9780618619030Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability Published: Mariner Books, 08/01/2005 Howard Frank Mosher returns to Kingdom Common, Vermont, to spin a touching coming-of-age tale in an America that has almost disappeared. From this remote village, noted for its fervent devotion to the Red Sox, comes Ethan "E.A." Allen, a young man with a chance to change baseball history. Homeschooled, fatherless, and living on the wrong side of the tracks, E.A. is haunted by a dark mystery in his family's past until a drifter named Teddy arrives in his life, determined to teach E.A. everything he knows about baseball.  The Time Traveler's Wife (Paperback)$14.95 ISBN-13: 9780156029438Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Mariner Books, 07/01/2004 A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant.
 Green Grass Grace (Paperback)$13.00 ISBN-13: 9780743223119Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Touchstone, 03/01/2003 Henry "Hank" Toohey, a thirteen-year-old altar boy, is an incessant smart-ass with a deep love of life...and other four-letter words. But with his foul mouth comes a heart of gold, and he's going to need it to get through the last weekend of summer 1984.  Missing Mom (Paperback)$14.95 ISBN-13: 9780060816223Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Harper Perennial, 09/01/2006 Nikki Eaton, single, thirty-one, sexually liberated, and economically self-supporting, has never particularly thought of herself as a daughter. Yet, following the unexpected loss of her mother, she undergoes a remarkable transformation during a tumultuous year that brings stunning horror, sorrow, illumination, wisdom, and even from an unexpected source a nurturing love.  Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters (Paperback)$14.00 ISBN-13: 9780385722438Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Anchor, 09/01/2002 Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop, South Carolina. Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island's Council.
 The World Without Us (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9780312427900Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Picador, 08/01/2008 If human beings disappeared instantaneously from the Earth, what would happen? How would the planet reclaim its surface? What creatures would emerge from the dark and swarm? How would our treasured structures--our tunnels, our bridges, our homes, our monuments--survive the unmitigated impact of a planet without our intervention? In his revelatory, bestselling account, Alan Weisman draws on every field of science to present an environmental assessment like no other, the most affecting portrait yet of humankind's place on this planet.  $14.95 ISBN-13: 9780767904148Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Broadway, 05/01/2002 Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, "Close to Shore" brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history.
 My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)$16.00 ISBN-13: 9780743454537Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Washington Square Press, 02/01/2005 Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate -- a life and a role that she has never challenged...until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister -- and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves.  $14.00 ISBN-13: 9781400032716Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Vintage, 05/01/2004 Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.
This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years.  Celestial Navigation (Mass Market Paperback)$5.99 ISBN-13: 9780804108881Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability Published: Ivy Books, 04/01/1993 Thirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling has never left home. He lives on the top floor of a Baltimore row house where he creates collages of little people snipped from wrapping paper. His elderly mother putters in the rooms below, until her death. And it is then that Jeremy is forced to take in Mary Tell and her child as boarders. Mary is unaware of how much courage it takes Jaremy to look her in the eye. For Jeremy, like one of his paper creations, is fragile and easily torn--especially when he's falling in love....  Empire Falls (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9780375726408Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Vintage, 04/01/2002 In this droll, unsentimental, and occasionally hilarious bestselling novel, Russo tells the story of a big-hearted man who becomes the unlikely hero of a small town with a glorious past but a dubious future.
 Life of Pi: Student Edition (Paperback)$8.99 ISBN-13: 9780156030205Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Mariner Books, 05/01/2004 The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes.
The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea.
 About Alice (Hardcover)$14.95 ISBN-13: 9781400066155Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Random House, 12/01/2006 Though it deals with devastating loss, About Alice is also a love story, chronicling a romance that began at a Manhattan party when Calvin Trillin desperately tried to impress a young woman who "seemed to glow."
"You have never again been as funny as you were that night," Alice would say, twenty or thirty years later.
"You mean I peaked in December of 1963?"
"I'm afraid so."
But he never quit trying to impress her. In his writing, she was sometimes his subject and always his muse. The dedication of the first book he published after her death read, "I wrote this for Alice. Actually, I wrote everything for Alice."
In that spirit, Calvin Trillin has, with "About Alice," created a gift to the wife he adored and to his readers.
 The Shadow of the Wind (Paperback)$16.00 ISBN-13: 9780143034902Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 02/01/2005 "A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept," begins Carlos Ruiz Zafan's astounding novel of postwar Barcelona. But more than four years after its initial paperback publication, the secret is out-the novel remains a favorite of booksellers and readers alike.
 The Dante Club (Mass Market Paperback)$7.99 ISBN-13: 9780345490384Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Ballantine Books, 06/01/2006 Boston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dante's Inferno. Only an elite group of America's first Dante scholars--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T. Fields--can solve the mystery. With the police baffled, more lives endangered, and Dante's literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find the killer.
 The Soloist (Movie Tie-In) (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9780425226001Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Berkley Trade, 10/01/2008 This is the true story of journalist Steve Lopez's discovery of Nathaniel Ayers, a former classical bass student at Julliard, playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles' Skid Row. Deeply affected by the beauty of Ayers's music, Lopez took it upon himself to change the prodigy's life-only to find that their relationship has had a profound change on his own life.  Run (Paperback)$14.95 ISBN-13: 9780061340642Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Harper Perennial, 08/01/2008 Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving, possessive, and ambitious father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see his sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard cares about is his ability to keep his children--all his children--safe.  Lying Awake (Paperback)$14.00 ISBN-13: 9780375706066Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Vintage, 10/01/2001 Sister John's cloistered life of peace and prayer has been electrified by ever more frequent visions of God's radiance, leading her toward a deep religious ecstasy. Her life and writings have become examples of devotion. Yet her visions are accompanied by shattering headaches that compel Sister John to seek medical help. When her doctor tells her an illness may be responsible for her gift, Sister John faces a wrenching choice: to risk her intimate glimpses of the divine in favor of a cure, or to continue her visions with the knowledge that they might be false-and might even cost her her life.  The Human Stain (Paperback)$16.00 ISBN-13: 9780375726347Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Vintage, 05/01/2001 It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished even his most virulent accuser.  $17.00 ISBN-13: 9780312421007Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Picador, 09/01/2002 The true-life stories in this unique collection provide "a window into the American mind and heart" ("The Daily News"). One hundred and eighty voices - male and female, young and old, from all walks of life and all over the country - talk intimately to the reader. Combining great humor and pathos this remarkable selection of stories from the thousands submitted to NPR's "Weekend All Things Considered" National Story Project gives the reader a glimpse of America's soul in all its diversity.  Water for Elephants (Paperback)$13.95 ISBN-13: 9781565125605Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 05/01/2007 As a young man, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. It was the early part of the great Depression, and for Jacob, now ninety, the circus world he remembers was both his salvation and a living hell. A veterinary student just shy of a degree, he was put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It was there that he met Marlena, the beautiful equestrian star married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. And he met Rosie, an untrainable elephant who was the great gray hope for this third-rate traveling show. The bond that grew among this unlikely trio was one of love and trust, and, ultimately, it was their only hope for survival.  Skinny Dip (Mass Market Paperback)$7.99 ISBN-13: 9780446615129Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Grand Central Publishing, 05/01/2006 Chaz Perrone night be the only marine scientist in the world who doesn't know which way the Gulf Stream runs, but he's out to make a killing--by doctoring water samples for a ruthless agribusiness tycoon illegally dumping fertilizer into the endangered Everglades. When Chaz suspects that his wife Joey is on to his scam, he pushes her overboard from a cruise liner. Unfortunately for Chaz, she doesn't die in the plunge.  Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9780812968064Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 02/01/2006 The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a silk fan on which she's painted a poem in nu shu, a unique language that Chinese women created in order to communicate in secret, away from the influence of men. As the years pass, Lily and Snow Flower send messages on fans, compose stories on handkerchiefs, reaching out of isolation to share their hopes, dreams, and accomplishments. Together, they endure the agony of foot-binding, and reflect upon their arranged marriages, shared loneliness, and the joys and tragedies of motherhood.  Once Upon a Day (Paperback)$14.00 ISBN-13: 9780743492782Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Washington Square Press, 05/01/2007 Nineteen years ago, a famous filmmaker disappeared from Los Angeles, taking his two children, Dorothea and Jimmy, to a desolate corner of New Mexico. There he raised them in complete isolation without television, computer, radio -- not even a newspaper. Now, at twenty-three, Dorothea leaves in search of her missing brother -- and ventures into the outside world for the first time.  The Last Town on Earth (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9780812975925Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 07/01/2007 Deep in the mist-shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest is a small mill town called Commonwealth, conceived as a haven for workers weary of exploitation. For Philip Worthy, the adopted son of the town's founder, it is a haven in another sense-as the first place in his life he's had a loving family to call his own.
And yet, the ideals that define this outpost are being threatened from all sides.  The Little Friend (Paperback)$15.95 ISBN-13: 9781400031696Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Vintage, 10/01/2003 The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother's Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents' yard. Twelve years later Robin's murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin's sister Harriet--unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town's rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family's history of loss.  I Am Charlotte Simmons (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9780312424442Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Picador, 08/01/2005 Our story unfolds at fictional Dupont University: those Olympian halls of scholarship housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition . . . Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, sex, cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time.  Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Paperback)$13.00 ISBN-13: 9780385722209Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Anchor, 10/01/2002 The story of two hapless city boys exiled to a remote mountain village for re-education during China's infamous Cultural Revolution. There the two friends meet the daughter of the local tailor and discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation. As they flirt with the seamstress and secretly devour these banned works, the two friends find transit from their grim surroundings to worlds they never imagined.
 $15.00 ISBN-13: 9781416549017Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Free Press, 01/01/2006 "Born on a Blue Day" is a journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today -- guided by the owner himself. Daniel Tammet is virtually unique among people who have severe autistic disorders in that he is capable of living a fully independent life and able to explain what is happening inside his head.
He sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures, and he can perform extraordinary calculations in his head. He can learn to speak new languages fluently, from scratch, in a week. In 2004, he memorized and recited more than 22,000 digits of pi, setting a record. He has savant syndrome, an extremely rare condition that gives him the most unimaginable mental powers, much like those portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the film "Rain Man."  Cold Rock River (Paperback)$16.95 ISBN-13: 9781581826685Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Cumberland House Publishing, 10/01/2008 In 1963 rural Georgia, with the Vietnam War cranking up, pregnant seventeen-year-old Adie Jenkins discovers the diary of pregnant seventeen-year-old Tempe Jordan, a slave girl, begun as the Civil War was winding down. Adie is haunted by the memory of her dead sister; Tempe is overcome with grief over the sale of her three children sired by her master. Adie - married to Buck, her baby's skirt-chasing father - is unprepared for marriage and motherhood. She spends her days with her new baby, Grace Annie. Buck spends his with the conniving daughter of the man he works for.  People of the Book (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9780143115007Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 01/01/2009 Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famous Sarajevo Haggadah, which was rescued during the Bosnian war. When Hanna discovers a series of tiny artifacts in the book's ancient binding, she begins to unlock its mysteries.
Show Less  Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (Paperback)$14.00 ISBN-13: 9780805088380Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Holt Paperbacks, 06/01/2008 Funny, poignant, and passionate, this revelatory firsthand account of life in low-wage America--the story of Barbara Ehrenreich's attempts to eke out a living while working as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart associate--has become an essential part of the nation's political discourse.
 About a Boy (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9781573227339Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Riverhead Trade, 05/01/1999 If the fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women (who would not ordinarily look twice at Will) were willing to date him, then Will had it made. Inventing a son got him into a single parents support group, but rather than a fabulous new sex life, he found someone else's very real son -- a twelve-year-old with a lot to teach Will about being a grown up.
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