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  • THE KILLING OF KAREN SILKWOOD
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    THE KILLING OF KAREN SILKWOOD
    RICHARD RASHKE
    For this edition, Rashke has added a preface and three short chapters that explore what has been released and learned about the Silkwood case since the book's original publication. Karen Silkwood, an employee of the Kerr-McGee plutonium processing plant, was killed in a car crash on her way to deliver important documents to a newspaper reporter in 1974. Silkwood was a union act...

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  • AS FIGS IN AUTUMN A MEMOIR
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    AS FIGS IN AUTUMN A MEMOIR
    BEN BASTOMSKI
    In his final college semester, Ben awakens to read on his computer screen of the death of his classmate and childhood friend Avi. Avi’s death is sudden and senseless, killed by a drunk driver on his way back to his dorm. Here begins Ben’s story of coming to terms with loss and finding his way to adulthood. In the fall of 2010, with his new degree in Moral Philosophy, Ben boards...

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  • THE MONSOON WAR: A NOVEL
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    THE MONSOON WAR: A NOVEL
    BINA SHAH
    In an unnamed Middle Eastern country, government leaders maintain a stranglehold over women’s lives and freedoms. But in a neglected southern province, a secret female resistance movement has been forming for years. Now, the Hamiyat are preparing for battle, as they plan a daring attack on the perpetrators of the central regime. Bina Shah’s widely acclaimed feminist dystopia Be...

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  • THIRD GIRL FROM THE LEFT A MEMOIR
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    THIRD GIRL FROM THE LEFT A MEMOIR
    CHRISTINE BARKER
    As a middle child in a large military family, Christine just wants to dance. Her parents support her dreams, even if they seem beyond their comprehension. At 20, determined and talented, Christine heads across the country from Santa Fe to New York City and, in a made for-Hollywood story, is chosen for the London cast of A Chorus Line. While unwilling to fully cut ties with the ...

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  • LEAVING EASTERN PARKWAY A NOVEL
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    LEAVING EASTERN PARKWAY A NOVEL
    MATTHEW DAUB
    Brooklyn’s Hasidic community of Lubavitchers is turned upside down when family tragedy strikes and everyday life changes forever in the life of Zev Altshul.   He is first placed into the care of the closed and close-knit community where he grew up, but soon realizes he can’t stay. His saving grace is handball; it’s his gift from God, and the one thing he can rely on as he is sh...

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  • A STORM IN THE STARS
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    A STORM IN THE STARS
    DON ZANCANELLA
    In London, early in the nineteenth century, five-year-old Mary Godwin, daughter of philosopher William Godwin, plays with her sister Fanny, mourns her deceased mother, and marvels as a hot air balloon lands not far from the Thames. Nearby, in Sussex, eleven-year-old Percy Shelley entertains his three sisters by telling them stories and performing tricks with chemicals and fire....

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  • MAYBE IT'S ME ESSAYS
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    MAYBE IT'S ME ESSAYS
    EILEEN POLLACK
    Eileen is too smart for the third grade, but when she gets a chance to be skipped ahead, she fails the test. The clownish school psychologist tries to gain her trust with an offer of Oreos, but she refuses. After all, he is a stranger and might try to poison her! This is the start of the author’s love-hate relationship with the rules as they were laid out for a girl in the 1960...

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  • THE UNKNOWN WOMAN OF THE SEINE A NOVEL
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    THE UNKNOWN WOMAN OF THE SEINE A NOVEL
    BROOKS HANSEN
    In the late autumn of 1889, the body of an unknown woman appeared on the banks of the Seine River in Paris. It was taken to the city morgue behind Notre Dame and put on display for a month, according to protocol. The eerie beauty of the young woman’s expression attracted crowds but no claimant, and so, before the body was dispatched, a mold was taken of the face, yielding a mas...

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  • IN THE FIELD A NOVEL
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    IN THE FIELD A NOVEL
    RACHEL PASTAN
    In 1923, having persuaded her resistant mother to send her to college, Kate Croft falls in love with science. Painfully rebuffed by a girl she longs for, and in flight from her own confusing sexuality, Kate finds refuge in the calm rationality of biology: its vision of a deeply interconnected world, and the promise that the new field of genetics can explain the way people are. ...

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  • BLACKMAILER'S GUIDE TO LOVE A NOVEL
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    BLACKMAILER'S GUIDE TO LOVE A NOVEL
    MARIAN THURM
    One of the many well-educated Ivy League graduates with literary ambitions who flock to New York City every year, 25-year-old Melissa Fleischer has the great fortune to work as the assistant to Austin Bloch, an editor responsible for refining and publishing the work of some of America’s most esteemed writers. But after she begins working at this prestigious magazine in the late...

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  • PLEASURE PALACE
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    PLEASURE PALACE
    MARIAN THURM
    At the age of 25, Marian Thurm began publishing short stories in The New Yorker, and her work has been compared to the short fiction of Lorrie Moore, Ann Beattie, and Amy Bloom. Known for her uncanny sense of the absurd along with her empathy for her characters, Thurm’s acclaimed work has been chosen for The Best American Short Stories and numerous other anthologies. This volum...

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  • THE FRANKLIN AVENUE ROOKERY FOR WAYWARD BABIES AND OTHER STORIES
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    THE FRANKLIN AVENUE ROOKERY FOR WAYWARD BABIES AND OTHER STORIES
    LAURA NEWMAN
    These ten stories are irresistible because their author is both fearless and ambitious. Newman switches points of view effortlessly, brings us to far-flung regions of the world, and has an uncanny, authentic grasp of cultures. We travel from Varanasi to Tijuana, from Rome to Lhasa, to New Orleans, Valdez, Barcelona and the Isle of Skye. The characters are just as diverse: Maggi...

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  • THE BODY OUTSIDE THE KREMLIN A NOVEL
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    THE BODY OUTSIDE THE KREMLIN A NOVEL
    JAMES L. MAY
    Solovetsky occupies the island site of a former monastery in the White Sea. Here, hundreds of miles from civilization and with a skeleton crew of secret-policemen in charge, some prisoners are consigned to all kinds of forced labor while others sit at comfortable desks in administrative or cultural positions. With the brutal winter fast approaching, Tolya Bogomolov, a young mat...

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  • IN THE SHADOW OF THE BRIDGE: A MEMOIR
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    IN THE SHADOW OF THE BRIDGE: A MEMOIR
    JOSEPH CALDWELL
    The bohemian, free-spirited existence that blessed many of Manhattan’s gifted artists and writers in the nineteen fifties and sixties has, with current skyrocketing rents and the high-income requirements of basic living, been nearly extinguished. And only for the likes of an astute observer such as Joseph Caldwell, perhaps be almost forgotten. In his charming, brutally candid m...

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  • WORDS AND WORLDS
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    WORDS AND WORLDS
    ALISON LURIE
    In this candid and bluntly humorous collection of essays on a wide range of topics, Lurie begins with a portrait of her life at Radcliffe during World War II when the smartest women in the country were treated like second-class citizens, the most scholarly among them expected to work in factories to support the war effort. She moves on to her unheralded, clumsy attempts and nea...

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  • LIMITS OF THE WORLD A NOVEL
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    LIMITS OF THE WORLD A NOVEL
    JENNIFER ACKER
    The Chandaria family—emigrants from the Indian-enclave of Nairobi—have managed to flourish in America. Premchand, the father, is a doctor who has worked doggedly to grow his practice and give his family security; his wife, Urmila, runs a business importing artisanal Kenyan crafts; and their son, Sunil, after quitting the pre-med track, has gotten accepted to a PhD program in ph...

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  • BEFORE SHE SLEEPS
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    BEFORE SHE SLEEPS
    BINA SHAH
    In modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of South West Asia, gender selection, war and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. The government uses terror and technology to control its people, and women must take multiple husbands to have children as quickly as possible. Yet there are women who resist, women who live in an underground collect...

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  • QUEEN FOR A DAY
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    QUEEN FOR A DAY
    MAXINE ROSALER
    We know by page one of Queen for a Day that Mimi Slavitt’s three-year-old son is autistic, but if we told her, she wouldn’t listen, because she doesn’t want to know—until at last Danny’s behavior becomes so strange even she can’t ignore it. After her son’s diagnosis Mimi finds herself in a world nearly as isolating as her son’s. It is a world she shares only with mothers like h...

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  • SHE READ TO US IN THELATE AFTERNOONS
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    SHE READ TO US IN THELATE AFTERNOONS
    KATHLEEN HILL
    Into the life of the author, a novel appears, as if by chance, and changes everything. As a child in a music class where a remarkable teacher watches over a classmate marked for tragedy, the author comes across Willa Cather’s novel, Lucy Gayheart, and is prepared by fiction for an actual death by drowning of someone near her. Later, recently married and living in a newly indepe...

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  • THE MAPMAKER'S DAUGHTER A NOVEL
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    THE MAPMAKER'S DAUGHTER A NOVEL
    KATHERINE NOURI HUGHES
    Narrating the spectacular story of her rise to the pinnacle of imperial power, Queen Mother Nurbanu, on her sickbed, is determined to understand how her bond with the greatest of all Ottoman sultans, Suleiman the Magnificent, shaped her destiny – not only as the wife of his successor but as the appointed enforcer of one of the Empire’s most crucial and shocking laws. Nurbanu sp...

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  • ONE OF THESE THINGS FIRST
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    ONE OF THESE THINGS FIRST
    STEVEN GAINES
    One of These Things First is a wry and poignant reminiscence of a 15 year old gay Jewish boy in Brooklyn in the early sixties, and his unexpected trajectory from a life behind a rack of dresses in his grandmother’s bra and girdle store, to Manhattan’s fabled Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, a fashionable Charenton for wealthy neurotics and Ivy League alcoholics, whose famous a...

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  • THE LANGUAGE OF HOUSES
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    THE LANGUAGE OF HOUSES
    ALISON LURIE
    In 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie published The Language of Clothes, a meditation on costume and fashion as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology. Amusing, enlightening and full of literary allusion, the book was highly praised and widely anthologized. Now Lurie has returned with a companion book, The Language of Houses, a lucid, p...

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  • THE HOUSE ON MOON LAKE
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    THE HOUSE ON MOON LAKE
    FRANCESCA DURANTI
    Fabrizio Garrone is an impoverished but aristocratic translator who has been living a life of quiet desperation in Milan. He feels underappreciated and tormented by a persistent sense of having been cheated by life. But when he reads about a lost Viennese novel — The House on Moon Lake — in the journals of a late esteemed literary critic, he dreams that this project will put hi...

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  • ESCAPE FROM SOBIBOR
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    ESCAPE FROM SOBIBOR
    RICHARD RASHKE
    This true story of a revolt at a Nazi death camp, newly updated, is “a memorable and moving saga, full of anger and anguish, a reminder never to forget” (San Francisco Chronicle). On October 14, 1943, six hundred Jews imprisoned in Sobibor, a secret Nazi death camp in eastern Poland, revolted. They killed a dozen SS officers and guards, trampled the barbed wire fences, and race...

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  • USEFUL ENEMIES
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    USEFUL ENEMIES
    RICHARD RASHKE
    John “Iwan” Demjanjuk was at the center of one of history’s most complex war crimes trials. But why did it take almost sixty years for the United States to bring him to justice as a Nazi collaborator? The answer lies in the annals of the Cold War, when fear and paranoia drove American politicians and the U.S. military to recruit “useful” Nazi war criminals to work for the Unite...

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  • THE HALLELUJAH SIDE
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    THE HALLELUJAH SIDE
    RHODA HUFFEY
    "It had been a Second Coming sky all day, which meant they might be in heaven by this evening." So begins the uproarious and tender tale of Roxanne Fish, daughter of Sister Zelda Fish and Pastor Winston Fish of the First Assembly of God Church of Ames, Iowa, who believe fervently in the imminent return of Jesus to take the Christians up to heaven. The Fishes’ older daughter, Co...

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  • MODERN ART A NOVEL
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    MODERN ART A NOVEL
    EVELYN TOYNTON
    Belle Prokoff is the last of a famous generation of painters for whom art was a secular religion—worth any amount of struggle and sacrifice for its promise of redemption. She is also the widow of Clay Madden, who revolutionized American art, became a near-mythic figure, and died in a drunken car crash. Blunt, fierce, and scornful of the world’s hypocrisy, Belle has passionately...

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  • THE GIRLS
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    THE GIRLS
    HELEN YGLESIAS
    These days the news is full of reports about the graying of America, yet it’s rare that old people appear in contemporary fiction except as stock characters: the indulgent grandmother, the wicked witch. In her first novel in a dozen years, the acclaimed author of How She Died and Sweetsir gives us four grand old ladies, sisters, each unique and indelibly real, in a poignant and...

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  • 31 PARADISO A NOVEL
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    31 PARADISO A NOVEL
    RHODA HUFFEY
    When Francine Ephesians Didwell loses the love of her life, she is forced to reconnect with her estranged family. She's led two lives up until now, one with her evangelical charismatic family, and another of emancipated rebellion with her lover. Bereaved, Francine relocates to 1990s Venice Beach to start life over. She struggles to make a living doing massages and managing her ...

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  • THE RABBI IN THE ATTIC
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    THE RABBI IN THE ATTIC
    EILEEN POLLACK
    In an age of minimalists, Eileen Pollack is a writer of rare generosity. The women and men in The Rabbi in the Attic are complex, vivid people to whom something happens. Their stories take place in small towns in the Catskills, a laboratory of mutant mice in nowhere Tennessee, the backwoods of New Hampshire, the “City of Five Smells” in America’s heartland—worlds rendered with ...

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