The Marchesa

Literature & Fiction

Hornby, Simonetta Agnello

Genre Fiction

Text Publishing

Today's converging energy, environmental, economic &amp; political stresses could case a breakdown of national &amp; global order. In this book, Thomas Homer-Dixon shows how to choose a better route into the future. Drawing on an array of disciplines, Homer-Dixon's acute insights are imaginative &amp; controversial.

The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization

Business & Money

Homer-Dixon, Thomas

Economics

Bookmarked Club Pick. New York Times bestseller. "Spellbinding...A page-turniong adventure that will keep you reading well past bedtime." - the Boston Globe

The Gargoyle

Andrew Davidson

Literary

Exploring the ethics of philanthropy and the implications of a demanding morality for what we know of human nature - its drive towards self-interest, its limited capacity for altruism - this title exposes the vagaries of our thought processes and interactions.

The Life you Can Save : acting now to End World Poverty

Singer, Peter

Eucalyptus

Murray Bail

The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth

Science & Math

TIM FLANNERY

Nature & Ecology

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Review An outstanding debut story collection, Z.Z. Packer's Drinking Coffee Elsewhere has attracted as much book-world buzz as a triple espresso. Yet, surprisingly, there are no gimmicks in these eight stories. Their combination of tenderness, humor, and apt, unexpected detail set them apart. In the title story (published in the New Yorker's summer 2000 Debut Fiction issue), a Yale freshman is sent to a psychotherapist who tries to get her--black, bright, motherless, possibly lesbian--to stop "pretending," when she is sure that "pretending" is what got her this far. "Speaking in Tongues" describes the adventures of an Alabama church girl of 14 who takes a bus to Atlanta to try to find the mother who gave her up. Looking around the Montgomery Greyhound station, she wonders if it has changed much since the Reverend King's days. She "tried to imagine where the 'Colored' and 'Whites Only' signs would have hung, then realized she didn't have to. All five blacks waited in one area, all three whites in another." Packer's prose is wielded like a kitchen knife, so familiar to her hand that she could use it with her eyes shut. This is a debut not to miss. --Regina Marler --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

ZZ Packer

Short Stories & Anthologies

In the Evil Day

History

PETER TEMPLE

Europe

Where Three Roads Meet

In the latest retelling of the world’s greatest stories in the Myth series from Canongate, the highly regarded novelist Salley Vickers brings to life the Western world’s most widely known myth, Oedipus, through a shrewdly told exploration of the seminal story in conversation between Freud and Tiresias. It is 1938 and Sigmund Freud, suffering from the debilitating effects of cancer, has been permitted by the Nazis to leave Vienna. He seeks refuge in England, taking up residence in the house in Hampstead in which he will die fifteen months later. But his last months are made vivid by the arrival of a stranger who comes and goes according to Freud’s state of health. Who is the mysterious visitor and why has he come to tell the famed proponent of the Oedipus complex his strangely familiar story? Set partly in prewar London and partly in ancient Greece, Where Three Roads Meet is as brilliantly compelling as it is thoughtful. Former psychoanalyst and acclaimed novelist Salley Vickers revisits a crime committed long ago that still has disturbing reverberations for us all today.

VICKERS, Salley

Contemporary

In his new novel, John Ajvide Lindqvist does for zombies what his previous novel, Let the Right One In, did for vampires. Across Stockholm the power grid has gone crazy. In the morgue and in cemeteries, the recently deceased are waking up. One grandfather is alight with hope that his grandson will be returned, but one husband is aghast at what his adored wife has become. A horror novel that transcends its genre by showing what the return of the dead might really mean to those who loved them.

Handling the Undead

Lindqvist, John Ajvide

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