Fiction

The Metaphysical Touch by Sylvia Brownrigg
"Brownrigg wonderfully captures the ghostly dance of presence and absence that can characterize digital relationships."--Erik Davis, The Village Voice
$15.00 pb   

The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch
"...a sublimely dark work of almost unbearable beauty."--The Wall Street Journal
$14.00   

The Prayer of the Bone by Paul Bryers
"An elegant and unearthly literary mystery."--New York Times Book Review
$13.95 pb   

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Yate's first novel that became an instant classic upon its release in 1961. It remains the definitive portrayal of the lost promises and break-up of the American dream.
$14.00 pb   

Non-Fiction

The Immaculate Invasion Bob Shacochis
"A bitter, funny, engrossing adventure between the mysteries of and comedy of the American military machine and the infinite suffering of Haiti." -- San Francisco Chronicle
$14.95 pb   

I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years by Bill Bryson
"A cross between de Tocqueville and Dave Barry, Bryson writes about today' America in a way that's both trenchantly observant and pound-on-the-floor, snort-root-beer-out-of-your-nose-funny." -- San Francisco Examiner
$14.00 pb   

A Unit of Water A Unit of Time by Douglas Whynott
Six months after being diagnosed with cancer, Joel White, son of the legendary writer E.B. White, began designing the W-76, a wooden sailboat--his final masterpiece. This book offers a poignant depiction of a genius at work even as he faces his own mortality.
$13.95 pb   

Time Love Memory:A Great Biologist and His Search for the Origins of Behavior by Jonathan Weiner
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Beak of the Finch, the story of a biologist's search for the foundations of behavior.
$14.00 pb   

Young Readers

Holes by Louis Sachar
The author of the Wayside School series brings us "a dazzling blend of social commentary, tall tale, and magic realism." -- Publishers' Weekly starred review
$5.99 pb   

First Test by Tamora Pierce
The first girl to train for the knighthood encounters a traininng master who doesn't think girls should be knights. But Kel is not someone to underestimate....
$4.99 pb   

Summer Reading is Killing Me by Jon Scieszka
Trapped in Hoboken while villains from children's classics run amok, the Time Warp Trio must find the book before the Headless Horseman, Long John Silver, and a dastardly Mr. (Teddy) Bear do away with the heroes of their stories. Will the guys make it in time?
$4.99 pb   

Imani All Mine and All-Bright Court by Connie Porter

"With authority and grace" (Essence) Imani All Mine tells the story of Tasha, a fourteen-year-old unwed mother of a baby girl. The name she gives her daughter (Imani means "faith") is a sign of her determination and fundamental trust despite the odds against her.
$12.00 pb   

Set in a colorfully painted but crumbling housing project in Buffalo, NY, All-Bright Court traces two decades in the lives of the project's residents. Porter illuminates the dignity, faith, and humor that enable people to endure a world bound by devastating reality.
$12.00 pb   

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