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MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood Staff Pick In the powerful finale to her too-close-for-comfort dystopian/apocalyptic trilogy (following the mind-blowingly awesome Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood), Atwood leaves us with an epic tale filled with survival, humor, and — ultimately... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.57 Sale - Hardcover
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Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem Publisher Comments A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers — an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals. At the center of Jonathan Lethem’s superb new novel stand two extraordinary women. Rose Zimmer, the aptly... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.57 Sale - Hardcover
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The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of Schindler's List comes the epic, unforgettable story of two sisters whose lives are transformed by the cataclysm of the First World War. In 1915, Naomi and Sally Durance, two spirited Australian sisters, join the war effort... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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The Stockholm Octavo by Karen Engelmann Publisher Comments Life is close to perfect for Emil Larsson, a self-satisfied bureaucrat in the Office of Customs and Excise in 1791 Stockholm. He is a true man of the Town — a drinker, card player, and contented bachelor — until one evening when Mrs. Sofia... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon Publisher Comments Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet. It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $20.27 Sale - Hardcover
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The Residue Years by Mitchell Jackson Publisher Comments Fresh out of a treatment program and back home, Rhonda tries to stay clean and to get her kids back. Her youngest two have been living with their father, across town and in another world. Champ, her eldest, has been holding it down in the neighborhood... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $18.20 Sale - Hardcover
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The Round House (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich Staff Pick Exploring themes of crime, justice, and revenge, Erdrich spins a tale of the brutal rape of a Native American woman who lives on a reservation in North Dakota. When 13-year-old Joe's mother is raped and very nearly murdered, he watches as his family... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Returned by Jason Mott Publisher Comments "Jacob was time out of sync, time more perfect than it had been. He was life the way it was supposed to be all those years ago. That's what all the Returned were." Harold and Lucille Hargrave's lives have been both joyful and sorrowful in the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson Publisher Comments Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy and 2312, has, on many occasions, imagined our future. Now, in Shaman, he brings our past to life as never before. There is Thorn, a... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Infatuations by Javier Marias Publisher Comments From the award-winning Spanish writer Javier Marías comes an extraordinary new book that has been a literary sensation around the world: an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder that we come to understand — or... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Good Lord Bird by James McBride Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The Color of Water and Song Yet Sung comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade — and who must pass as a girl to survive. Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan Publisher Comments A Winner of the Alex Award, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Babayaga by Toby Barlow Publisher Comments By the author of Sharp Teeth, a novel of love, spies, and witches in 1950s Paris — and a cop turned into a flea. Will is a young American ad executive in Paris. Except his agency is a front for the CIA. It's 1959 and the cold war is going strong... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Sweet Thunder Signed Edition by Ivan Doig Publisher Comments A beloved character brings the power of the press to 1920s Butte, Montana, in this latest from the best storyteller of the West In the winter of 1920, a quirky bequest draws Morrie Morgan back to Butte, Montana, from a year-long honeymoon with his bride,... (read more) Available October 7, 2013 Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri Publisher Comments Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Namesake comes an extraordinary new novel, set in both India and America, that expands the scope and range of one of our most dazzling storytellers: a... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge by Peter Orner Publisher Comments The long-awaited second collection of stories from a writer whose first was hailed as "one of the best story collections of the last decade" (Kevin Brockmeier). In Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, Peter Orner zeroes in on the strange ways our memories... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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The Color Master: Stories by Aimee Bender Staff Pick With this new collection, Amy Bender reminds us why she is a master of the odd and surprising. I'd recommend The Color Master to anyone looking for a book that will thrill and linger and maybe wig you out a little. Her growing canon of stories is like an... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Hardcover
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My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays by Davy Rothbart Publisher Comments Named a Best Book of the Year by Vanity Fair, Chicago Tribune, The Huffington Post, and NPR In My Heart Is an Idiot, Davy Rothbart is looking for love in all the wrong places. Constantly. He falls helplessly in love with pretty much every girl he meets... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Necessary Errors by Caleb Crain Staff Pick Set in 1990, this remarkable first novel follows Jacob Putnam, a recent Harvard graduate, through a year teaching English in Prague. While most of his friends have moved on to graduate school or more traditional jobs, Jacob spends the year trying on a... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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All the Land to Hold Us by Rick Bass Publisher Comments A strange and powerful landscape summons strange and powerful happenings. Rick Bass brings a lyrical lushness to the harsh backdrop of West Texas in his masterfully crafted fourth novel. All the Land to Hold Us is a sweeping tale of those who live on the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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