The Salinger Contract

Author	Emily Nussbaum
ISBN	0525508961

From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize–winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.

From her creation of the first “Approval Matrix” in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize–winning...

Author	Jo Walton
ISBN	1886778825

A very unique fantasy novel by Jo Walton — a winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the World Fantasy award.
From the introduction by Sharyn November: "Lifelode is what one might call domestic fantasy, set in a quiet farming community—but it's also about politics, God and...

Author	Taylor Brown
ISBN	1250077974

Fallen Land is Taylor Brown's debut novel set in the final year of the Civil War, as a young couple on horseback flees a dangerous band of marauders who seek a bounty reward.

Callum, a seasoned horse thief at fifteen years old, came to America from his native Ireland as an orphan. Ava, her father...

Author	Jim C. Hines
ISBN	0756408164

Isaac Vainio’s life was almost perfect. He should have known it couldn’t last.

Living and working as a part-time librarian in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Isaac had finally earned the magical research position he dreamed of with Die Zwelf Portenære, better known as the Porters. He...

Author	Yasmina Reza
ISBN	0571190146

Friendship and Honesty

Think of your oldest, closest friends: the shared experiences and interests that your friendship is rooted in, and the unspoken understanding, support, and private jokes that nurture it. These friends are the background of your life, but the foreground,...

Author	Denise Mina
ISBN	0316069337

When a notorious millionaire banker hangs himself, his death attracts no sympathy. But the legacy of a lifetime of selfishness is widespread, and the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his family.

Meanwhile, in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow, a young woman is found savagely...

Author

Hervé Commère

Trois garçons pleins d'avenir roulent à flanc de falaise.
C'est la nuit du 12 juillet 1998, celle d'I will survive. Ce que la chanson ne dit pas, c'est à quel prix.

Les Ateliers Cybelle emploient la quasi-totalité des femmes de Vrainville, Normandie. Ils sont le poumon économique...

Author	Donna Leon
ISBN	0802118968

Donna Leon's eighteen novels have won her countless fans, heaps of critical acclaim, and a place among the top ranks of international crime writers. Through the warm-hearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Leon's best-selling books have explored Venice in all its aspects:...

Author	Megan Abbott
ISBN	1416599096

By the author of Dare Me and The End of Everything

In October 1931, a station agent found two large trunks abandoned in Los Angeles' Southern Pacific Station. What he found inside ignited one of the most scandalous tabloid sensations of the decade.

Inspired by this notorious true crime,...