Still Life with Books is a novel of a doomed love affair, by young English author Simon Lane. Is is set in Paris. Lane's voice is fresh and hilarious, as welcome an addition to the postmodern landscape as Jay McInerny or Martin Amis.

Still Life With Books: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Lane, Simon

British & Irish

Bridgeworks

Lost in Cyberspace: Essays and Far-Fetched Tales, by Val Schaffner, ranges with zest and wit over our face into the 21st Century, when virtual reality and artificial intelligence are as real to analysts of the global village as politica and poverty.

Lost in Cyberspace: Essays and Far Fetched Tales

Computers & Technology

Henderson, Bill

Schaffner, Val

Computer Science

The Bride Wore Red chronicles an extended Indian family and its intercultural marriages in the United States. It's about a universal immigrant experience: loyalty to heritage versus a desire to assimilate. A Barnes &amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers selection.

The Bride Wore Red: Tales of a Cross-Cultural Family

Sethi, Robbie Clipper

United States

Prison friendship, betrayal tale, by ex-inmate. Wonderful bounce, goofiness...So much talent. ―The Washington Post

Zip Six: A Novel

Gantos, Jack

Humor & Satire

Set against the devastation of post-World War II Europe, Sunrise Shows Late is a love story about a young Polish Underground veteran, Manya who flees anti-Jewish violence in her country for a displaced-persons camp om Germany where she must make an anguished choice.

Sunrise Shows Late: A Novel

Mekler, Eva

A gutsy woman's tale of marrying the Chief Mate of a mammoth containership and sailing the seas with today's modern mariners.

Fair Seafarer: A Honeymoon Adventure with the Merchant Marine

Biographies & Memoirs

Allen, Nancy

Community & Culture

The Farm She Was: A Novel

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. A Barnes &amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. A story of love and loss, and the evolution of farm life as the 20th century unfolded, narrated by a feisty farm woman as she reflects on her life.

Mohin, Ann

The coupling of art and commerce. It is the story of a writer, an Englishman named Fear, who lives in Paris, burdoned by debt.

Fear: A Novel

Jimmy Dolan returns to his Connecticut hometown to seek the driver who killed his father in a hit-and run accident--and, as he confronts the secrets of his own past, he becomes entwined in a cat's cradle of guilt, betrayal and revenge.

The Road to the Island: A Novel

Hazuka, Tom

Ending the War on Drugs: A Solution for America

A conservative Republican examines how and why America is losing the war against illegal drugs―and presents a case for carefully controlled legalization.

Eldredge, Dirk Chase

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