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Peace Like a River

by Leif Enger

A “reminder of why we read fiction to begin with” (San Francisco Chronicle), Peace Like a River is Leif Enger’s extraordinary debut novel—a heroic quest, a tragedy, a love story,…

Howard Hawks

by Todd McCarthy

“Spectacular . . . McCarthy’s thick, rich biography . . . chronicles in vivid detail how perhaps the last great popular artist in the movies worked.” –Los Angeles Times Book…

Holidays in Heck, by P.J. O’Rourke

by P. J. O'Rourke

The follow-up to the classic Holidays in Hell, P. J. O’Rourke’s Holidays in Heck is the slightly less hazardous, slightly more mature, but still very funny collection of his classic…

The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad

by Roger Boylan

“Boylan’s narrative resembles Joyce at his comically prolix best, with a similar appetite for vernacular nuance and pop allusion.” –The Village Voice…

Where We Have Hope

by Andrew Meldrum

“Gripping . . . Meldrum provides names, faces and photographs of the players involved. . . . His firsthand experience of the horrors adds a chilling authenticity to this account.”…

The Shrine at Altamira

by John L'Heureux

‘mesmerizing . . . a powerful and affecting story about love’s most anguished and disturbing permutations.” –Timothy Hunter, Cleveland Plain Dealer…

Sexing the Millennium

by Linda Grant

“Grant is passionate yet blessedly free of rhetoric and gush. And how welcome is her evocation of the [sexual revolution’s] optimism–even its loopy na’vet” –at a time when AIDS stamps…

Miracle of the Rose

by Jean Genet

“Genet can use a brutal phraseology that makes prison life specific and immediate. Yet through his singular sensibility, these elements are transmuted into something fragile, rare, beautiful.” –The New York…

Leisureville

by Andrew D. Blechman

“Engaging . . . [Blechman] confronts the troubling trend toward isolation and escapism.” —Publishers Weekly…

Brandenburg Gate

by Henry Porter

…has as many twists as a mountain road but is never confusing. Readers will root for the protagonist as he struggles to free his brother’s family.” —Library Journal (starred review)…