The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death

Author	Jack Vance
ISBN	0671831526

I did not like this book much the first time I read it, but after reading it a second time while visualizing its characters as puppets, I found I liked it much more.

This book—particularly the first three stories—irritated me. I found its wizards to be contemptible creatures, morally...

Author	Jorge Luis Borges
ISBN	0140286802

Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the first time in English, all of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through...

Author	Esther Forbes
ISBN	0440442508

Probably the greatest book ever written, by both man and child, woman and other writing entity, Johnny Tremain tells the story of a young genius who becomes a silversmith and burns the crappin' hell out of his hand. He's always embarrassed by his sort of melty hand and keeps it in his pockets or in his mother's...

Author	William Ritter
ISBN	1616203544

I've found very little about private detective R. F. Jackaby to be standard in the time I've known him. Working as his assistant tends to call for a somewhat flexible relationship with reality . . .

In 1892, New Fiddleham, New England, things are never quite what they seem, especially when Abigail...

Author	Robert A. Heinlein
ISBN	1416520937

Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man, and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. What he hadn't expected was that when the apocalypse came, a thermonuclear blast would tear apart the fabric of time and hurl...

Author	Annie Proulx
ISBN	0684852225

Short-story collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes.

Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in these tales of loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Each of the portraits...

Author

Iain M. Banks

Prologue

Stars were barely visible through the tiny oval. The reader looked up from his novel, blinked. Checked his watch -- still hours to go. His wife sat slumped next to him, still asleep. Some people could sleep on planes. Some people couldn't.

"What are you reading?" asked the...

Author	Louis Sachar
ISBN	0747571775

If you want to see exactly what rests at the center of someone’s soul, don’t bother reading a 200-page biography on them; ask them what was the first book ever to make an impression on them that lasted into their adulthood. For some it might be some garbage about a brat named Ramona and her ginger-kid...

Author	D.H. Lawrence
ISBN	0375753737

"She was a brazen hussy."

"She wasn't. And she was pretty, wasn't she?"

"I didn't look ... And tell your girls, my son, that when they're running after you, they're not to come and ask your mother for you - tell them that - brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes"

The marriage...

Author

Philip K. Dick

Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick’s classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is and the world as it actually is. The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn’t know that. He thinks it’s 1959. He also thinks that he served in World War II, that he lives in a quiet...

Author

Gabrielle Hamilton

Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional journey through the many kitchens Hamilton has inhabited through the years: the rural...

Author	Edna O'Brien
ISBN	0452263948

“Delicious...whollv original...sensitive as a harp string...captures the vigilance of childhood and reproduces, eerily intact, its heightened sensations.”
—Newsday

From the acclaimed author of Country Girl: A Memoir
Kate and Baba are two ambitious Irish country girls...

Author	Philip K. Dick
ISBN	1400030072

In the years following World War III, a new and powerful faith has arisen from a scorched and poisoned Earth, a faith that embraces the architect of world wide devastation. The Servants of Wrath have deified Carlton Lufteufel and re-christened him the Deus Irae. In the small community of Charlottesville,...

Author

Colette

Reading Colette's short novel Chéri, felt like munching on a box of fancy Belgian truffles, and in this case washed down with a bottle of fine vintage French wine, everything is all very French and all very luxurious. On it's first publication in 1920 both Marcel Proust and André Gide deemed it as a masterpiece,...

Author	Andy Lane
ISBN	0426203887

I’m glad I decided to re-read this one. It’s an impressive debut from two writers who’d go on to stamp their mark on Doctor Who fiction, an impressive New Adventure and – most remarkably – an impressive sci-fi novel in its own right.

There’s a real confidence about this one and, with...

Author	Benjamin Percy
ISBN	1455528242

A MINNESOTA BOOK AWARDS FINALIST IN NOVEL & SHORT STORY
In Benjamin Percy's new thriller, a post-apocalyptic reimagining of the Lewis and Clark saga, a super flu and nuclear fallout have made a husk of the world we know. A few humans carry on, living in outposts such as the Sanctuary-the remains...

Author	Lori Roy
ISBN	1524741965

"This electrifying novel...[is] a gripping mystery with a timely, unnerving message--you won't be able to look away."
--People, "Book of the Week"

"A book so good you can't look away."
--O Magazine, "Best Books of Summer"

Two-time Edgar Award-winning author Lori Roy...

Author	Betsy Wyeth
ISBN	0395322219

I have been an admirer of Wyeth's work and student of his methods. Ms Wyeth's book is filled with prestudy materials and brisk, almost gnomic commentaries. The pictures do most of the work, and that's fitting. Accounts of Wyeth fairly haunting the Olsons' homestead are part of the Wyeth lore. What's...