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Half of a Yellow Sun

Women's Prize for Fiction 2007

di Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria...

The Devil All the Time

di Donald Ray Pollock

After You've Gone

di Alice Adams

Adams's new collection of 14 short stories exhibits many of the strengths and weaknesses of earlier efforts (i.e., Return Trips , LJ 8/85). That she is a fine wordsmith capable of insightful comment on the joys...

Poetry of the Universe

di Robert Osserman

From The Heart

di Lee Miller

Easter Island

di John Dos Passos

The San Francisco Experience

di Harold Gilliam

The Cross

di Sigrid Undset

The acknowledged masterpiece of the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter has never been out of print in this country since its first publication in 1927. Its story of a...

Littlejohn

di Howard Owen

Now available in paperback, comes a successful and beautifully-written novel about a decent North Carolina farmer haunted by errors and redeemed by faith. Painstakingly honest, Littlejohn is "a character as...

Blind Sight

di Meg Howrey

This spellbinding story introduces the unforgettable seventeen-year-old narrator, Luke Prescott, who has been brought up in a bohemian matriarchy by his divorced New Age mother, a religious grandmother, and...

Lightning Man

di Kenneth Silverman

In this brilliantly conceived and written biography, Pulitzer Prize–winning Kenneth Silverman gives us the long and amazing life of the man eulogized by the New York Herald in 1872 as “perhaps the most illustrious...

Israel and Europe

di Howard M. Sachar

"A remarkable feat--clear, compelling and accessible--. Critical background for any appreciation of the Jewish state."--The New York Times Book Review

With his characteristic grace and lucidity, Howard M. Sachar,...

Carioca Fletch

Fletch #7

di Gregory Mcdonald

Carioca Fletch

Fletch's trip to Brazil wasn’t exactly planned. But it’s Carnival time in Rio and he has plenty of money, thanks to a little arrangement made stateside. And it took him no time to hook up with...

The Beforelife

di Franz Wright

In this stunning collection, Franz Wright chronicles the journey back from a place of isolation and wordlessness. After a period when it seemed certain he would never write poetry again, he speaks with bracing...

Beauty's Daughter, Monster, The Gimmick

di Dael Orlandersmith

The sheer exuberance of language that pours forth in Dael Orlandersmith's plays has dazzled critics and audiences alike. In these three pieces, the award-winning writer and performer celebrates the power of...

The Portugal Story

di John Dos Passos

The Men Who Made the Nation

di John Dos Passos

Living a Year of Kaddish

di Ari Goldman

Ari Goldman's exploration of the emotional and spiritual aspects of spending a year in mourning for his father will resonate with anyone who has lost a loved one, as he describes how this year affected him as...

Conversations with Woody Allen

di Eric Lax

From the author of the best-selling biography Woody Allen—the most informative, revealing, and entertaining conversations from his thirty-six years of interviewing the great comedian and filmmaker.

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Claire Marvel

di John Burnham Schwartz

A young man and woman meet, love each other, and are consumed. It's a story as old as romance itself, but in this enthralling novel John Burnham Schwartz tells it with heart-stopping new immediacy. In the middle...