Beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons thinks the hallowed halls of Dupont University are all about learning. But she soon discovers, to her mounting dismay, that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, sex, sports and kegs trump academic ambitions.

With his celebrated eye for telling detail, Tom Wolfe immortalizes college life in the 21st century. I Am Charlotte Simmons is the latest triumph of Americas master social novelist.

I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

WOLFE, Tom.

Literary

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When last seen in Turow's The Burden of Proof, Sonia Klonsky was a prosecutor in Kindle County Courthouse with a failing marriage, an infant daughter, and a single mastectomy. She becomes the narrator here. Now she is a Superior Court Judge presiding over the murder trial of one Nile Eddgar, who is accused of arranging the murder of his ghetto-activist mother. The story is told in two parallel narratives, one regarding the current trial and the other taking the reader through the 1960s. Many of the minor characters in The Laws of Our Fathers also appear in Turow's other novels, which are all set in fictional, Midwestern Kindle County.

The Laws of Our Fathers

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

TUROW,SCOTT

Thrillers & Suspense

IN TOUCH.

Biographies & Memoirs

Miller, Jeffrey, Editor

Arts & Literature

Specimen days

CUNNINGHAM, Michael

BORNE- HB

Science Fiction & Fantasy

JEFF VANDERMEER

Science Fiction

A powerful social satire which outraged the authorities of the author's native Peru, where 1000 copies were publicly burned.

The Time of the Hero

mario-vargas-llosa

The chief: Field Marshal Lord Wavell, Commander-in-Chief and Viceroy, 1939-1947

Engineering & Transportation

LEWIN, Ronald

Engineering

"One of the most important and courageous voices in Chinese literature." --Gao Xingjian, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature From the highly acclaimed Ma Jian comes a satirical and powerfully written novel--excerpted in The New Yorker--about the absurdities and cruelties of life in post-Tianamen China.  Two men, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor, meet for dinner every week. During the course of one drunken evening, the writer recounts the stories he would write, had he the courage: a young man buys an old kiln from an art school and opens a private crematorium, delighting in his ability to harass the corpses of police officers and Party secretaries while swooning to banned Western music; a heartbroken actress performs a public suicide by stepping into the jaws of a wild tiger, watched nonchalantly by her ex-lover. He is inspired by extraordinary characters, their lives pulled and pummeled by fate and politics, as if they were balls of dough in the hands of an all-powerful noodle maker.  Ma Jian's masterpiece allows us a humorous yet profound glimpse of those struggling to survive under a system that dictates their every move.

The Noodle Maker

Ma; Drew Jian

Contemporary

Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who "wants better" for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes his assistant. But there are complications: Frank, whose reaction to Jews is ambivalent, falls in love with Helen Bober; at the same time he begins to steal from the store.Like Malamud's best stories, this novel unerringly evokes an immigrant world of cramped circumstances and great expectations. Malamud defined the immigrant experience in a way that has proven vital for several generations of writers.

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MALAMUD, BERNARD

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Christ stopped at Eboli (King Penguin)

Politics & Social Sciences

Levi, Carlo

Social Sciences

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