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The American Home Front: 1941-1942

by Alistair Cooke

“Revealing portrait. . . . A vivid, endlessly interesting view of the home front.” —Kirkus Reviews…

The Dress Lodger

by Sheri Holman

“Holman seduces you. Her prose, tart, racy and somber, will sing in your soul a long while.” —Frank McCourt, author of Angela’s Ashes…

Fat Bald Jeff

by Leslie Stella

‘Stella provides a lot of freshly imagined fun. . . . There are so many funny lines and scenes that even librarians may like it. As for the lumpen–they’ll love…

I Want to Show You More

by Jamie Quatro

“Passionate, sensuous, savagely intense, and remarkable . . . Moves between carnality and spirit like some franker, modernized Flannery O’Connor . . . Quatro has a poet’s compound eye ….

On a Wave

by Thad Ziolkowski

“More than an account of a sport mastered. It’s a sharp, self-conscious portrait of the artist as a young grommet.” –The New Yorker…

Our Lady of the Flowers

by Jean Genet

“Elegiac elegance, alternately muted, languorous, vituperative, tender, glamorous, bitchy, lush, mockingly feminine, “high camp,” overripe, vigorous, rigorous, exalted. . . . A remarkable achievement.” –The New York Times Book Review…

The Retreat

by Patrick Rambaud

“In The Retreat, a novel much praised for its level of historical detail, French writer Patrick Rambaud locates little grandeur in the ghastly carnage of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. ….

The Journal Keeper

by Phyllis Theroux

“I loved this singularly honest and graceful book. The Journal Keeper reminds us that there is no such thing as an ordinary moment, and certainly no such thing as an…

Magnum

by Russell Miller

‘miller deftly conveys the excitement of being a photojournalist at a time when world events were unfolding at a furious pace . . . a cracking good story.” –Sarah Coleman,…

Mark Bowden, The Best Game Ever

by Mark Bowden

“Entertaining and informative narration . . . [Bowden] frames the picture with a wide lens, but then focuses on the roles and lives of a few key players.” —Publishers Weekly…