November's Featured Fiction Titles:
	All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson Published by Putnam, hardcover Regular Price: $24.95 Our Price: $19.96 The return of Idoru's Colin Laney, the man whose special sensitivities about people and events let him predict certain aspects of the future. Down and out in Tokyo, he is drawn back to the United States for the millenium.		Amsterdam by Ian McEwan Published by Anchor, paperback Regular Price: $12.95 Our Price: $10.36 Wickedly comic Booker Prize-winning national bestseller, now in paperback.
	The Best American Short Stories 1999 edited by Katrina Kenison and Amy Tan Published by Houghton Mifflin, paperback Regular Price: $13.00 Our Price: $10.40 This series annually presents the finest works chosen by a best-selling author. Amy Tan was drawn to fiction that satisfied her appetitie for magic and mystery. - fantasy and truth coexist in new works by Rick Bass, Annie Proulx, Lorrie Moore, Alice Munro, Junot Diaz, Pam Houston, and several new writers.		The Charterhouse at Parma by Stendahl Published by Modern Library, hardcover Regular Price: $17.50 Our Price: $14.00 New translation and interpretation of Stendahl's tragic tale, by Richard Howard and with original illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Stendahl's powers of description come through as we follow the adventures of reckless, heroic Fabrizio del Dongo - running off to join Napoleon at Waterloo, becoming embroiled in the courts of Italian city-states, falling in love with the unobtainable Clela.
	Cracks by Sheila Kohler Published by Zoland, hardcover Regular Price: $21.00 Our Price: $16.80 "Cracks is a richly atmospheric exploration of the dreamy eroticism of adolescent girls in high summer...sultry and elegant, it is delicately decadent, it is permeated with heat and languor, and it is alive with currents of passion." - Patrick McGrath		Death in Summer by William Trevor Published by Penguin, paperback Regular Price: $12.95 Our Price: $10.36 An orderly life thrown into disastrous disarray, a youg man is widowed and faced with raising a baby alone. Sympathetic to the sadness and damage at the hearts of people's lives.
	A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee Published by Riverhead, hardcover Regular Price: $23.95 Our Price: $19.16 A Japanese man of Korean birth, careful to conform in order to survive in decorous suburban New York, and the price he pays for doing so. By the author of Native Speaker.		I Married A Communist by Philip Roth Published by Vintage, paperback Regular Price: $13.00 Our Price: $10.36 The rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who starts out digging ditches in 1930s Newark, becomes a bog 1940s radio star, marries a memoir-writing movie star, and is consequently destroyed both as a performer and a man in the McCarthy witchhunt of the 1950's. A brilliant portrait of the treacherous post-war epoch.
	Like Never Before by Ehud Havazelet Published by Anchor, paperback Regular Price: $12.95 Our Price: $10.36 At the center of a Jewish family's hopes and conflicts is middle-aged David Birnbaum, himself at the crossroads of Orthodoxy and assimilation, past and future, youth and old age. Sensitive and funny chronicle of three generations of family straining to hold together.		The Love of A Good Woman: Stories by Alice Munro Published by Vintage, paperback Regular Price: $13.00 Our Price: $10.40 In the riveting title story, a selfless nurse tending a dying patient discovers the social utility of lies. In another, a stroke victim exposes his deepest secret to a young bride, putting his finger in the fault lines of her marriage. Confirmss Munro's reputation as one of our finest living writers.
	The Pagoda Published by Harcourt, paperback Regular Price: $12.00 Our Price: $9.60 An exploration of hidden identity, set in turn-of-the-century Jamaica. "Saturated with kaleidoscopic, erotic description and driven by a keen wareness of race and class, this lush historical work opens a door to an exotic, imagnary world." - Publishers Weekly		Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies: A Novella and Other Stories by Ken Kalfus Published by Milkweed, hardcover Regular Price: $22.00 Our Price: $17.60 Kalfus plucks individual lives from the stew of a century of Russian history, and serves them up in tales that range from hair-raising to hilarious.
	The Tale of the Unknown Island by Jose Saramago Published by Harcourt, hardcover Regular Price: $16.00 Our Price: $12.80 From the 1998 Nobel laureate, a love story, a fable worthy of Swift or Voltaire.		Yosl Rakover Talks to God by Zvi Kolitz Published by Pantheon, hardcover Regular Price: $14.00 Our Price: $11.20 A dying Jew's last words to God - a text that is regarded as the greatest piece of writing to have emerged from the Holocaust - the story of how it came to be written, and the afterlife of both the author and his creation.

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