John Clellon Holmes

Archie Shepp

This novel vibrates to the beat of Jazz. Edgar Pool, kown as the Horn, is the hero, a man who is a legend because of the way he blows a tenor saxophone. But he is about to be outplayed.


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Finally outplayed in a jam session, Edgar Pool, a tenor saxophonist known as the Horn, looks back on his long career as a jazz musician

The Horn

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Patricia Highsmith

Tom Ripley wants to be like Dickie Greenleaf---exactly like him. Ripley stops at nothing---certainly not only one murder---to accomplish his goal.


In order to convince his son to come home, Herbert Greenleaf, a rich shipbuilder, sends Tom Ripley to Italy, but is unaware of his son's friend's criminal activities

The Talented Mr Ripley

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Richard E. Crabbe

Seven former Confederate soldiers turned saboteurs have worked for years to destroy the newly opened Brooklyn Bridge. In exactly five minutes, it will fall unless Sergeant Detective Tom Braddock can stop it.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

"Suspension" is a riveting historical thriller filled with fascinating details of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, chosen as one of the year's best by the "San Francisco Chronicle."

Suspension

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Mark Helprin

Freddy and Fredericka of the British royal family and heirs to the throne because they caused public relations disasters, are sent on a tour through a strange and barbarous land---in this case, America.

A New York Times bestseller by Mark Helprin, author of Winter's Tale, which is now a major motion picture starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Russell Crowe, William Hurt, and Jennifer Connelly “Freddy and Fredericka is a vast, sprawling book of Homeric proportions and design in which Helprin exploits to the fullest his powers of invention as well as a lesser known talent for comedy.” —Bookreporter.com Mark Helprin’s legions of devoted readers cherish his timeless novels and short stories, which are uplifting in their conviction of the goodness and resilience of the human spirit. Freddy and Fredericka—a brilliantly refashioned fairy tale and a magnificently funny farce—only seems like a radical departure of form, for behind the laughter, Helprin speaks of leaps of faith and second chances, courage and the primacy of love. Helprin’s latest work, an extraordinarily funny allegory about a most peculiar British royal family, is immensely mocking of contemporary monarchy and yet deeply sympathetic to the individuals caught in its lonely absurdities.

Freddy and Fredericka

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Joseph Heller

More than 3 decades after Catch-22, Closing Time revisits Yosserian, Milo Minderbinder, Chaplain Tappman, and others, facing not only the end of a century, but the approaching close of their lives.

The Sequel to Catch-22

A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic Catch-22. In Closing Time, Joseph Heller returns to the characters of Catch-22, now coming to the end of their lives and the century, as is the entire generation that fought in World War II: Yossarian and Milo Minderbinder, the chaplain, and such newcomers as little Sammy Singer and giant Lew, all linked, in an uneasy peace and old age, fighting not the Germans this time, but The End. Closing Time deftly satirizes the realities and the myths of America in the half century since WWII: the absurdity of our politics, the decline of our society and our great cities, the greed and hypocrisy of our business and culture -- with the same ferocious humor as Catch-22. Closing Time is outrageously funny and totally serious, and as brilliant and successful as Catch-22 itself, a fun-house mirror that captures, at once grotesquely and accurately, the truth about ourselves.

Closing Time

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Kathryn Harrison

As a child, Ann Rogers ess her photographer father's model. His daring pictures of her stunned the world. And they secretly, tragically shaped her life.


In luminous, provocative prose, Harrison tells the harrowing story of a woman poised on the edge of a psychological nightmare. As a child, Ann was her photographer father's muse, and his controversial photographs of her shocked the world. Now, years later, a museum retrospective causes her controlled existence to unravel.

Exposure

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The daughter of a poor Spanish silk grower and the neice of a French king are born on the same day.       
Though their lives barely touch, their twin destinies spiral inexorably toward disaster.

Francisca de Luarac, the daughter of a poor Spanish silk grower, is a dreamer of fabulous dreams. Marie Louise de Bourbon, the niece of Louis XIV, dances in slippers of fine Spanish silk in the French Court of the Sun King and imagines her own enchanted future. Born on the same day--in an age when superstition, repression, and the Inquisition reign--the lives of these two young women unfold in tandem, barely touching. Each hoards the memory of her adored lost mother like an amulet. Francica's obsession with her lover, a Catholick priest, will shaper her fate. Marie Loouise is yoked by political expediency to the mad, imptoent Carlos II of Spain. But even as their twin destinies spiral inexorably toward disaster, both Queen and commoner cultivate a dangerous, secret life dedicated to resistance, transcendence, and love. Written in gorgeous prose that has the sheen of silk, Kathryn Harrison's POISON vividlyreminds us of the persistence of desire, the passion that exists between mothers and daughters, and the sorcery of dreams.

Poison

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Elizabeth Hand

In the Victorian Age, a mysterious and irrisistible woman becomes entwined in the lives of several artists, both as a muse and as the object of all-consuming obsession.

In the Victorian Age, a mysterious and irresistible woman becomes entwined in the lives of several artists, both as a muse and as the object of all-consuming obsession. Radborne Comstock, one of the early twentieth century's most brilliant young painters, is helpless under her dangerous spell. In modern-day London, journalist Daniel Rowlands meets a beguiling woman who holds the secret to invaluable -- and lost -- Pre-Raphaelite paintings, while wealthy dilettante-actor Valentine Comstock is consumed by enigmatic visions. Swirling between eras and continents, Mortal Love is the intense tale of unforgettable characters caught in a whirlwind of art, love, and intrigue that will take your breath away.

Mortal Love

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The author writes a novel of startling literary impersonation, telling the biography of a Japanese Geisha in her own words.


Memoirs of a Geisha

John Galsworthy

A monumental chronicle of the moneyed Forsytes, a family whose values are constantly at war with its passions.
This edition contains the three original novels, The Man of Property, In Chancery, and To Let, and their connecting interludes,
Indian Summer of a Forsyte and Awakening.

The Forsyte Sagais John Galsworthy's monumental chronicle of the lives of the moneyed Forsytes, a family whose values are constantly at war with its passions. The story of Soames Forsyte's marriage to the beautiful and rebellious Irene, and its effects upon the whole Forsyte clan,The Forsyte Sagais a brilliant social satire of the acquisitive sensibilities of a comfort-bound class in its final glory. Galsworthy spares none of his characters, revealing their weaknesses and shortcomings as clearly as he does the tenacity and perseverance that define the strongest members of the Forsyte family.This edition contains the three original novels --The Man of Property, In Chancery,andTo Let-- and their connecting interludes,Indian Summer of a ForsyteandAwakening.

The Forsyte Saga

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William Gaddis

A satire and mockery of the legal profession, it's minions, and it's dupes, and extended to include a wide spectrum of contemporary American culture.

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A dazzling fourth novel by the author ofThe Recognitions, Carpenter's Gothic, and JR uses his considerable powers of observation and satirical sensibilities to take on the American legal system.

Frolic of His Own

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Alan Furst

In 1939, a Polish intelligence officer disrupts the German Army in his country and in Paris and Ukraine, always one step ahead of death.

"September, 1939. The opening days of World War II. The invading German Wehrmacht blazes a trail of destruction across Poland. Warsaw is surrounded. France and Britain declare war, but do nothing to help. And a Polish resistance movement takes shape under the shadow of occupation, enlisting those willing to risk death in a David-and-Goliath struggle for a nation's survival. Among them is Captain Alexander de Milja, an officer in the Polish military intelligence service, a cartographer who now must learn a dangerous new role; spymaster in the anti-Nazi underground. Beginning with a daring operation to smuggle the Polish National Gold Reserve to the government in exile, he slips into the shadowy and treacherous front lines of espionage that span occupied Europe; he moves through Poland, France, and the Ukraine, changing identities and staying one step ahead of capture. In Warsaw, he engineers a subversive campaign to strengthen the people's will to resist. In Paris, he poses as a Russian poet, then as a Slovakian coal merchant, drinking champagne in black-market bistros with Nazis while uncovering information about German battle plans. And a love affair with a woman of the French Resistance leads him to make the greatest decision of his life. In the Polish Officer, Alan Furst returns to the shadowy, clandestine arena of World War II spycraft, and the result is a gripping, panoramic espionage novel in the tradition of Graham Greene and John le Carré. The Polish Officer, like Furst's acclaimed Night Soldiers and Dark Star, has a haunting authenticity that brings the era to vital life. His story, brilliantly and colorfully cast, is written with a keen awareness of the nuances of national character, individual psychology, and the weight of history. It evokes the turmoil of a world gone mad, and the courageous heroism of ordinary men and women during the darkest hours of our time. Literate, sophisticated, and utterly convincing, it is by far Furst's best work to date."--Book jacket flap.

The Polish Officer

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Ariana Franklin

Adelia Aquilar invstigates her second murder for King Henry II when his mistress is poisoned.

Ordered by Henry II to establish the possible role of Eleanor of Aquitaine in the poisoning death of Henry's mistress, a reluctant Adelia Aguilar joins forces with her infant daughter's father, the Bishop of St. Albans, during an investigation within the labyrinth-walled tower of the victim's home. By the author of Mistress of the Art of Death. Reprint.

The Serpent's Tale

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King Henry II of England summons Adelia, an expert in the science of deduction and the art of death. Her task: to prove the innocence of a small community of the murder of four children. The one man willing to work with her may be an ally or a suspect.





Sent to medieval Cambridge in order to exonerate Jewish prisoners who have been accused of murdering four children, University of Salerno medical expert Adelia discovers that the killer may be a former crusader.

Mistress of the Art of Death

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Meet Bridget Jones---a 30-something Singleton who is certain she could:
a) lose 7 pounds
b) stop smoking
c) develop inner Poise.

Bridget Jones's Diary

Sebastian Faulks

In the 1870s, two ambitious boys from different backgrounds became pioneering psychiatrists to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being human.

What is it to be human? This question, as in Birdsong, is at the heart of Human Traces. The story begins in Brittany where a young, poor boy somehow passes his medical exams and goes to Paris, where he attends the lectures of Charcot, the Parisian neurologist who set the world on its head in the 1870s. With a friend, he sets up a clinic in the mysterious mountain district of Carinthia in south-east Austria. If The Girl at the Lion d'Or was a simple three-movement symphony, Birdsong an opera, Charlotte Gray a complex four-movement symphony and On Green Dolphin Street a concerto, then Human Traces is a Wagnerian grand opera.

Human Traces

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Forward by John, Patrick, and Gregory Hemingway. Every short story the author wrote.

The Finca Vigia Edition

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

A love affair between a reserved Englishwoman and an American reporter that plays out between the jazz clubs of Greenwich Village to the smoke-filled rooms of the Kennedy campaign.


A Novel

The bestselling author of Birdsong and Charlotte Gray delivers an enthralling, vibrantly evocative novel set in America in 1960, when the country stood poised between the paranoia of the Cold War and the ebullience of the New Frontier.

Faulks' heroine is Mary Van der Linden, a pretty, reserved Englishwoman whose husband, Charlie, is posted to the British embassy in Washington. One night at a cocktail party Mary meets Frank Renzo, a reporter who has covered stories from the fall of Dienbienphu to the Emmett Till murder trial in Mississippi. Slowly, reluctantly, they fall in love. Their ensuing affair, in all its desperate elation, plays out against a backdrop that ranges from the jazz clubs of Greenwich Village to the smoke-filled rooms of the Kennedy campaign. A romance in the grand tradition that is also a neon-lit portrait of America at its apogee, On Green Dolphin Street is Sebastian Faulks at the peak of his powers.

On Green Dolphin Street

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Jeffrey Eugenides

The story of 3 generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, a guilty family secret, and the genetic history that turns Callie into Cal.

Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s. By the author of The Virgin Suicides.Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

Middlesex

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Jennifer Egan

 After a car accident, Charlotte is still beautiful but unrecognizable. Her story interweaves with  other casualties of our infatuation with image.

Stripped of her image and identity after a devastating car accident and the resulting reconstructive surgery, Charlotte Swenson, a jaded model, struggles to rebuild her life in a culture obsessed with surface appearance.

Look at Me

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Lawrence Durrell

A continuation of a romantic quadrangle of obsession, lust, and betrayal.

Alexandria Quartet 3

The intrigues of Justine and Balthazar multiply and deepen in the third volume of the Alexandria Quartet, giving us a novel of labyrinthine intricacy and mesmerizing beauty. In the first two novels of this profoundly innovative masterpiece, Lawrence Durrell explored two sides of a romantic quadrangle involving several inhabitants of prewar Alexandria. Now that geometry is seen from a startling new angle—through the clinical eye of a British diplomat, for whom love is only another form of statecraft. Like its predecessors, Mountolive is a novel of vertiginous disclosures, in which the betrayer and the betrayed share secret alliances and an adulterous marriage turns out to be a vehicle for the explosive passions of the modern Middle East. “Durrell is almost without peer in conveying atmosphere and mood. Even if his Alexandria never existed on this earth, it is now as real as Hawthorne’s Rome, Proust’s Paris, Loti’s Constantinople. . . . Mountolive is dazzlingly cohesive, beautifully controlled from beginning to end.”—Saturday Review “A work of splendid craft and troubling veracity.”—The New York Times “Mountolive has vivid imagery and scenes of ghastly hilarity. . . . Readers will be sharply aware that they are encountering an acute intelligence pursuing a grand design.”—TIME

Mountolive

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Balthazar, an Egyptian psychiatrist, analyzes an Irish schoolteacher and finds his sexual obsession with two women more complex and sinister than neurosis.

The Alexandria Quartet 2

The dazzling second volume of The Alexandria Quartet—an enthralling and deeply disturbing work of gorgeous surfaces and endless deceptions. In Alexandra, in the years before the Second World War, an exiled Irish schoolteacher seeks to unravel his sexual obsession with two women: the tubercular café dancer, Melissa, and Justine, the alluring Jewish wife of a wealthy Coptic Christian. What emerges in his sessions with the psychiatrist Balthazar, however, is something far more complex—and unfathomably more sinister—than neurosis. Lawrence Durrell’s kaleidoscopic narrative ushers us into a world in which no perception is reliable—and love itself is always an act of treachery. “Durrell is one of the very best novelists of our time. . . . He has a sensuous, vigorous style that I have not found equaled by any other novelist today. . . . A spontaneous, resourceful new beauty that any sensitive reader will almost certainly love.”—The New York Book Review “It is difficult to sum up Balthazar; it will not be contained. It spills or slips away like smoke. The sheer writing is superb. . . . A wonderful book, a book to read many times.”—The Houston Post

Balthasar

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Andre Dubus

Hank and Jack are best friends since high school. Hank married Edith and Jack married Terry. But Hank and Edith's adultery didn't begin or end with Jack and Terry.

Three Novellas

In these three stories--two of which form the basis of the award-winning film We Don't Live Here Anymore--literary master Andre Dubus traces the lives of two couples who married too young, and who are intricately entwined by love and friendship, jealousy and understanding. Hank and Jack have been best friends since high school. Hank married Edith, the prettiest girl Jack had ever seen, and Jack married Terry, whom he thinks he may no longer love. But Hank and Edith's adultery didn't begin or end with Jack and Terry. Moving, perceptive, rendered in clear-eyed prose, We Don't Live Here Anymore maps with preternatural insight the often separate lands of love and marriage.

We Don't Live Here Anymore

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Leo Suther, in the summer of 1967, lives the coming-of-age story of a boy who must decide between desire, ambition, and duty.

With House of Sand and Fog, his National Book Award-nominated novel, Andre Dubus III demonstrated his mastery of the complexities of character and desire. In this earlier novel he captures a roiling time in American history and the coming-of-age of a boy who must decide between desire, ambition, and duty.

In the summer of 1967, Leo Suther has one more year of high school to finish and a lot more to learn. He's in love with the beautiful Allie Donovan who introduces him to her father, Chick -- a construction foreman and avowed Communist. Soon Leo finds himself in the midst of a consuming love affair and an intense testing of his political values. Chick's passionate views challenge Leo's perspective on the escalating Vietnam conflict and on just where he stands in relation to the new people in his life. Throughout his -- and the nation's -- unforgettable "summer of love," Leo is learning the language of the blues, which seem to speak to the mourning he feels for his dead mother, his occasionally distant father, and the youth which is fast giving way to manhood.

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