Denis Johnson's long-awaited Vietnam novel is as labyrinthine and mysterious as the tunnels of Cu Chi. Johnson follows dozens of characters, including the wayward Houston brothers (who appeared as would-be bank robbers in Johnson's nearly perfect first novel, ANGELS), a cadre of PsyOp (Psychological... Read more

$2.00 - $44.00

A young European girl, unaware of the Nazi threat, has her life transformed by a red-haired magician who challenges the complacency of her village. "Turns the hidden world of Eastern European Jews during the 1940s into a world of wonders, then transcends the Holocaust with magical optimism"... Read more

$3.28 - $14.99

Abyssinia Jackson, born in an Oklahoma cotton field in the wake of a tornado, is the pride and joy of her family, church, and community until a series of natural disasters and personal attacks threaten to break her spirit, but Mother Barker and her lessons in folk medicine help Abby survive. ... Read more

$4.81 - $7.99

Billy Lynch is an alcoholic. At his death, his large Irish Catholic family in Queens tells stories about him--his loyalty, his wacky side, his sad past--trying to understand the roots of his destructive drinking. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. ... Read more

$9.45 - $10.08

The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Heres a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land. ... Read more

$5.24 - $10.85

William T. Vollmann turns his attention to Central Europe, setting this 800-page novel in 1941, when the German army was moving into Russia, where it would soon meet major defeats. Vollmann incorporates not only actual events but real people (they include K?the Kollwitz, Shostakovich, and the German... Read more

$12.00 - $160.00

Shy, quiet 13-year-old Ratchet Clark, used to life with her neurotic mother, spends an unusual summer in rural Maine with her elderly, eccentric twin great-aunts Tilly and Penpen. Though the aunts are "as different as chalk and cheese," they share an obsession with death, curse like sailor... Read more

$2.14 - $12.48

This, the definitive collection of Meredith's life work, contains poems chosen by Meredith from Love Letter from an Impossible Land, Ships and Other Figures, the Open Sea, and etc. Several new poems are included. ... Read more

$5.00 - $58.00

This is the only collection of Dugan's poetry in print, chronicling a 40-year career and its shifting concerns. Here Alan Dugan adds to his body of work with nearly three dozen new poems. Eloquent, blunt, funny, or bitter, the poet, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Prix de Rome, comments on... Read more

$4.00 - $30.00

Richard and Sara Everton, a middle-aged couple devoted to each other and, perhaps, foolhardy, move from California to a small village in Mexico to reopen an abandoned copper mine. As foreigners in an alien environment, they must learn to cope with the villagers' exaggerated respect, their own disori... Read more

$4.64 - $10.20

The dazzling novel, written in 1961, that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback edition. "A brilliant novel. . . . . Percy touches the rim of so many human mysteries"--"Harper's". ... Read more

$8.00 - $36.00

This book--about work and what it means--won the National Book Award in 1991. ... Read more

$10.00 - $11.00

Virgil's Homeric epic was not quite completed when he died suddenly in 19 B.C. However, against Virgil's expressed wishes, the emperor Augustus decreed that it be published. It traces the journey of Aeneas to Italy after the Trojan War, where (according to Homer) he was instrumental in the founding ... Read more

$13.00 - $15.00

"Tell me how to live so many lives at once ..."Fowzi, who beats everyone at dominoes; Ibtisam, who wanted to be a doctor; Abu Mahmoud, who knows every eggplant and peach in his West Bank garden; mysterious Uncle Mohammed, who moved to the mountain; a girl in a red sweater dangling a book b... Read more

$.25 - $7.99

Williams's five-volume saga, which takes as its subject the supremely ordinary industrial city of Peterson, New Jersey, expresses the poet's complex--and not always optimistic--view of American life in the mid-20th century. ... Read more

$10.00 - $29.00

Joe Allston is a retired literary agent whose parents and only son are dead, and who feels that he has been a mere spectator through life. Than a postcard from a friend causes him to return to the journals of a trip he took to his mother's birthplace to search for his roots; memories of that journey... Read more

$10.00 - $10.00

A collection of bittersweet love poems reflects the author's personal experiences. ... Read more

$15.00 - $15.00

Examines the destructive impact of journalists, anthropologists, and scientists on the Yamomami Indians, one of the Amazon basin's oldest tribes, whose internecine warfare was triggered by repeated visits by the world's leading anthropologists and by the Atomic Energy Commission's plans to use the ... Read more

$9.00 - $13.00

Hoping to make her adored Papa proud of her and make her white classmates notice her "Magic Mind" and not her black skin, Lena vows to win the Bible-quoting contest. Winning does not bring Lena what she expected. Instead of honor, violence and death erupt and strike the one she loves most ... Read more

$3.94 - $6.50

The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe ... Read more

$11.00 - $13.00